John Townsend Family History from The History of Chester County by Futhey and 
Cope (1881); Chester County, PA

Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Sandra Ferguson
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  A John Townsend, son of William and Mary, of Buckleberry, Berkshire,
England, was born in 1684, married Martha Wooderson in 1710, and came to the
Concord MM in 1715, and he was a member of the Chester MM by 1720.  He was a
weaver by trade and bought a tract of 800 acres in East Bradford, where he
settled.  He died in 1766 and  his wife in 1767, both buried at Birmingham.
Their children were Wm
1711-1792 unmarried; Mary 1713-1792 m. Henry Woodward; Joseph 1715-1759 m.
Lydia Reynolds; John 1716-1803 m. Joanna England; Hanna m. Nathan Sharples
and Charles Ryant; Martha 1721-1748; Richard 1727-1738; Esther 1727-1728-9.
     John Jr received  portion of his father's land...left 5 children
Francis,  Benjamin,  Esther, Joseph,  and Elizabeth.
               Francis married Rachel Talbot, 1762 and had children;
Joseph,Samuel. Lydia, John, Benjamin, Hannah, Jacob, Isaac, Talbot, Rachel.
     In 1786, Francis and his brother Benjamin and their families  moved to
the Redstone
settlement, in the western part of  PA.  The meeting was called the
Westlake MM,
in Washington Co, PA, originated in 1785....John and Benjamin were early
members...this area adjoined portions of (W)Va, in the northern panhandle
area (Wheeling).. in 1786 Benjamin and his wife Jamima, with children Benj.
Mary and Martha rocf from the Concord MM (PA).  Francis and children Benj,
Jacob, Isaac, ? did the same. ( There are many notations of the Townsends
in the Westlake MM records.)