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             Husband: Joseph TOWNER (1 2 3 4 5)
                Born: 15 NOV 1749 in Oxford, New Haven, CT
          Christened: 17 ? 1750 in Oxford Congregational Church (6)
             Married: 17 MAY 1775 (51)
                Died: 27 APR 1806 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (7 8)
              Buried: in Jack's Hill Cemetery, Oxford, New Haven, CT (9)
              Father: Joseph TOWNER
              Mother: Abigail BISSELL
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Mary BRONSON (10 11)
                Born: 10 NOV 1754 (12)
                Died: 23 JUN 1822 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (13 14)
              Buried: 24 JUN 1822 in Jack's Hill Cemetery, Oxford, New Haven, CT (15 16 17)
              Father: Ebenezer BRONSON
              Mother: Deborah SANFORD
             Spouses:
Children
01               (F): Abigail TOWNER
          Christened: 12 MAY 1776 in Oxford Congregational Church (18)
                Died: 16 JAN 1794 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (19)
             Spouses: 
02               (F): Clarissa TOWNER (20)
                Born:
                Died: 19 OCT 1832 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (21 22 23 24)
             Spouses: Joseph OSBORN
03               (M): David TOWNER (25 26)
                Born: l 1780 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (27)
                Died: 04 JUL 1823 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (28 29 30)
             Spouses: Patty; Polly HURLBUT
04               (F): Amy TOWNER
                Born: l 1785 (31)
                Died: 27 APR 1802 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (32)
             Spouses: 
05               (F): Lois TOWNER
                Born: 1788 in Oxford, New Haven, CT
          Christened: 03 AUG 1788 in Oxford Congregational Church (33)
                Died: JUL 1819 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (34 35)
             Spouses: 
06               (M): Asahel TOWNER (36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43)
                Born: l 1795 (44)
                Died: 09 JUN 1860 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (45)
             Spouses: Abigail HURLBUT
07               (F): Avis TOWNER (46 47 48)
                Born: l 1801 (49)
                Died: 18 FEB 1868 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (50)
             Spouses: Morgan GRISWOLD

Footnotes

  1. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 98.
    £ 27.
    [1792 - Tax List - Oxford
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/098.html.]
  2. William Cothren, History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 505.
  3. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 76.
  4. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 8.
    Admissions to Church Fellowship ... Joseph Towner, Jr., and Mary, his wife, May 12, 1776.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/008.html.]
  5. Ibid., 17.
    The Congregational Church.
    BAPTISMS ...
    ... 1776 ...
    May 12th Abigail Daughter to Joseph Towner Jnr & Mary his Wife.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/017.html.]
  6. Ibid., 19.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/019.html.]
  7. Ibid., 53.
    [gives death date as 17 Apr 1806
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/053.html.]
  8. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Jack's Hill Cemetery, Oxford CT, 59.
    Towner, Joseph, died Apr. 27, 1806, age 57 yrs.
    Towner, Mary, relict of Joseph, died June 23, 1822, age 69 yrs.
    Towner, David, died July 4, 1823, age 43 yrs.
    Towner, Patty, wife of David, died July 29, 1814 age 30 yrs.
    Towner, William, son of David & Polly, died Aug. 2, 1817, age 1 yrs. 11 mos.
    Towner, Enos, son of David & Polly, died Aug. 10, 1823
    Towner, Enos, died Jan. 9, 1819, age 39 yrs.
    Towner, Louis, wife of Enos, died July 25, 1819, age 31 yrs.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/jhcemscan59.html.]
  9. Jack's Hill Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem4457.html.]
  10. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 8.
    Admissions to Church Fellowship ... Joseph Towner, Jr., and Mary, his wife, May 12, 1776.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/008.html.]
  11. Ibid., 17.
    The Congregational Church.
    BAPTISMS ...
    ... 1776 ...
    May 12th Abigail Daughter to Joseph Towner Jnr & Mary his Wife.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/017.html.]
  12. William Cothren, History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 505.
  13. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 78.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/078.html.]
  14. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Jack's Hill Cemetery, Oxford CT, 59.
    Towner, Joseph, died Apr. 27, 1806, age 57 yrs.
    Towner, Mary, relict of Joseph, died June 23, 1822, age 69 yrs.
    Towner, David, died July 4, 1823, age 43 yrs.
    Towner, Patty, wife of David, died July 29, 1814 age 30 yrs.
    Towner, William, son of David & Polly, died Aug. 2, 1817, age 1 yrs. 11 mos.
    Towner, Enos, son of David & Polly, died Aug. 10, 1823
    Towner, Enos, died Jan. 9, 1819, age 39 yrs.
    Towner, Louis, wife of Enos, died July 25, 1819, age 31 yrs.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/jhcemscan59.html.]
  15. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 76.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/076.html.]
  16. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 76.
  17. Jack's Hill Cemetery Photograph - Oxford, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem4458.html.]
  18. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 17.
    The Congregational Church.
    BAPTISMS ...
    ... 1776 ...
    May 12th Abigail Daughter to Joseph Towner Jnr & Mary his Wife.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/017.html.]
  19. Ibid., 50.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/050.html.]
  20. 1830 Oxford Census.
  21. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 75.
    Deaths ...
    Osborn, Henry, son of Thomas L. and Eunice, Sept. 20, 1828, aged 2.
    Ambrose, May 22, 1840, aged 55.
    Clarissa Towner, Wife of Joseph Osborn, Oct. 19, 1832, aged 54."
  22. Compiled By Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850, 76.
    Clarissa, w. Rev. Joseph OSBORN, d. Oct. 19, 1832, ae. 54 y.
  23. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Southford Cemetery (Southford Cemetery), 31.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/sfcemscan31.html.]
  24. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 60.
  25. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Southford Cemetery (Southford Cemetery), 29.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/sfcemscan29.html.]
  26. 1820 Oxford Census.
  27. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Jack's Hill Cemetery, Oxford CT, 59.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/jhcemscan59.html.]
  28. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 79.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/079.html.]
  29. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Jack's Hill Cemetery, Oxford CT, 59.
    Towner, Joseph, died Apr. 27, 1806, age 57 yrs.
    Towner, Mary, relict of Joseph, died June 23, 1822, age 69 yrs.
    Towner, David, died July 4, 1823, age 43 yrs.
    Towner, Patty, wife of David, died July 29, 1814 age 30 yrs.
    Towner, William, son of David & Polly, died Aug. 2, 1817, age 1 yrs. 11 mos.
    Towner, Enos, son of David & Polly, died Aug. 10, 1823
    Towner, Enos, died Jan. 9, 1819, age 39 yrs.
    Towner, Louis, wife of Enos, died July 25, 1819, age 31 yrs.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/jhcemscan59.html.]
  30. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 76.
  31. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 52.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/052.html.]
  32. Ibid., 52.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/052.html.]
  33. Ibid., 22.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/022.html.]
  34. Ibid., 78.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/078.html.]
  35. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 76.
  36. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 71.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/071.html.]
  37. 1820 Oxford Census.
  38. 1840 Oxford Census.
  39. 1850 Oxford Census.
    Axe Maker.
  40. 1860 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  41. Emma Lounsbury, Oxford - A Historical Sketch (Seymour Record, 1914).
    The next house above Mrs. Frasier's on the opposite side of the road, which has lately been Rev. Mr. Adams', Mr. Asal Towner lived, who did blacksmithing and made edge tools of good quality, scythes, axes, bush-axes, butcher knives and various other articles. There were so many of the name in that district that it was called Towner Town, but now not one of the name is left in town, though we have a few of their descendants here of other names.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/short-stories/lounsbury-sketch.html.]
  42. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 75, 76.
  43. Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), 12772.
    ... of Oxford ...
  44. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Southford Cemetery (Southford Cemetery), 29.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/sfcemscan29.html.]
  45. Ibid., 29.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/sfcemscan29.html.]
  46. 1850 Oxford Census.
  47. 1860 Oxford Census.
  48. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 45.
    GRISWOLD, Marvin, of Litchfield, m. Avis TOWNER, of Oxford, [ ], by Rev. Abraham Brown, Recorded Nov. 22, 1834.
  49. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Southford Cemetery (Southford Cemetery), 31.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/sfcemscan31.html.]
  50. Ibid., 31.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/sfcemscan31.html.]
  51. William Cothren, History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 505.

Revised: 20-Sep-08
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