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             Husband: John TOWNER (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9)
                Born: 22 FEB 1750 in Derby, New Haven, CT (10)
             Married: 09 MAY 1774 in Woodbury, Litchfield, CT (54)
                Died: 07 FEB 1810 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (11 12)
              Father: John TOWNER
              Mother: Sarah WILDMAN
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Rachael BRONSON (13 14 15)
                Born: l 1743 (16)
          Christened: 21 JAN 1750 (17)
                Died: 1824 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (18 19)
              Father: Ebenezer BRONSON
              Mother: Deborah SANFORD
             Spouses:
Children
01               (M): Amos TOWNER (20 21)
                Born: l 1775 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (22)
                Died: 30 DEC 1852 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (23)
              Buried: in Southford Cemetery, Oxford, New Haven, CT (24 25)
             Spouses: 
02               (M): Simeon TOWNER (26 27 28 29 30 31)
                Born: l 1777 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (32)
                Died: 18 OCT 1856 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (33)
             Spouses: Polly GARRETT; Sally CAMP
03               (M): Enos TOWNER (34)
                Born: 1780 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (35)
                Died: 19 JAN 1819 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (36 37)
             Spouses: Lois
04               (F): Betsey TOWNER
                Born: 1782 in Oxford, New Haven, CT
                Died:
             Spouses: 
05               (M): Isaac TOWNER (38 39 40 41 42 43)
                Born: l 1784 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (44)
                Died: 07 MAR 1853 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (45)
             Spouses: Eunice JOHNSON; Clarinda
06               (M): John TOWNER
          Christened: 28 OCT 1787 in Oxford Congregational Church (46)
                Died: 21 APR 1798 in Oxford, New Haven, CT (47)
             Spouses: 
07               (F): Sarah TOWNER (48)
                Born: (49)
          Christened: 31 OCT 1790 in Oxford Congregational Church (50)
                Died: 11 MAR 1853 (51)
              Buried: in Southford Cemetery, Oxford, New Haven, CT (52 53)
             Spouses:

Footnotes

  1. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 70.
    ... chosen fence viewer ...
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/070.html.]
  2. Ibid., 305.
    Oxford Tax List, 1792.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/305.html.]
  3. J. L. Rockey, History of New Haven County, Connecticut, 534.
    The registered freemen in the town at the time of its incorporation in 1798 and the next ten years following were: ...
  4. 1790 Derby Census.
  5. 1800 Oxford Census.
  6. William Cothren, History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 505.
  7. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 8.
    Admissions to Church Fellowship ... John Towner and Rachel his wife, Aug. 26, 1781.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/008.html.]
  8. Ibid., 13.
    ... 1775.
    March 5th, John Towner & Rachel his Wife owned ye Covenant.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/013.html.]
  9. Ibid., 17.
    Baptisms ... 1777 ...
    June 15th Simeon Son to John Towner & Rachel his Wife.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/017.html.]
  10. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 303.
  11. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 54.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/054.html.]
  12. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 76.
  13. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 8.
    Admissions to Church Fellowship ... John Towner and Rachel his wife, Aug. 26, 1781.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/008.html.]
  14. Ibid., 13.
    ... 1775.
    March 5th, John Towner & Rachel his Wife owned ye Covenant.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/013.html.]
  15. Ibid., 17.
    Baptisms ... 1777 ...
    June 15th Simeon Son to John Towner & Rachel his Wife.
    [ (Oxford Congregational)
    http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/017.html.]
  16. Ibid., 79.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/079.html.]
  17. William Cothren, History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 505.
  18. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 79.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/079.html.]
  19. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 76.
  20. 1840 Oxford Census.
  21. 1850 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  22. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Southford Cemetery (Southford Cemetery), 27.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/sfcemscan27.html.]
  23. Ibid., 27.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/sfcemscan27.html.]
  24. Ibid., 27.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/sfcemscan27.html.]
  25. Southford Cemetery Photograph - Oxford CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem4466.html.]
  26. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 149.
    [Taxpayers of Oxford in 1802.]
  27. J. L. Rockey, History of New Haven County, Connecticut, 534.
    The registered freemen in the town at the time of its incorporation in 1798 and the next ten years following were: ...
  28. 1820 Oxford Census.
  29. 1840 Oxford Census.
  30. 1850 Oxford Census.
    Farmer.
  31. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 33, 76.
    ... of Oxford ...
  32. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Southford Cemetery (Southford Cemetery), 27.
  33. Ibid., 27.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/sfcemscan27.html.]
  34. Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850. (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000), 76.
  35. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Jack's Hill Cemetery, Oxford CT, 59.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/jhcemscan59.html.]
  36. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 77.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/077.html.]
  37. 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.]
  38. Norman Litchfield & Sabrina Connolly Hoyt, Ph.D., History of the Town of Oxford, Connecticut (1960), 113.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/Litchfield-Hoyt_History_of_Oxford/113.html.]
  39. Andrew Bell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Jack's Hill Cemetery, Oxford CT, 58.
    Wheeler, Birdsey G., son of Samuel & Phebe, died Feb. 18, 1838, age 30 yrs. 6 mos.
    Wheeler, Samuel, died Jan. 31, 1853, age 83 yrs.
    Wheeler, Phebe, wife of Samuel, died Apr. 16, 1848, age 73 yrs.
    Wheeler, Samuel, died Dec. 24, 1799, age 81 yrs.
    Wheeler, Abigail, wife of Samuel, died June 15, 1792, age 70 yrs.
    Cable, Orlando, died Dec. 18, 1856, age 58 yrs. 6 mos.
    Cable, Betsey, wife of Orlando, died Aug. 23, 1860, age 57 yrs.
    Washband, Sally Maria, died June 4, 1877, age 79 yrs. 7 mos.
    Wheeler, Agniss, daughter of Lieut. Samuel & Abigail, died Aug. 2, 1764, age 15 yrs.
    Towner, Eunice, wife of Isaac, died July 23, 1818, age 30 yrs.
    Wheeler, Deborah T., wife of Elisha, died May 18, 1857, age 88 yrs.
    Wheeler, Elisha, died June 12, 1836, age 65 yrs.
    Wheeler, James, died Apr. 3, 1805, age 26 yrs. 1 mos.
    Wheeler, Joseph, son of Robert & Ruth, died July 31, 1793, age 12 yrs.
    Wheeler, Ruth, wife of Robert, died May 25, 1788, age 44 yrs.
    Wheeler, Robert, died Apr. 17, 1782 age 36 yrs.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/jhcemscan58.html.]
  40. 1820 Oxford Census.
  41. 1840 Oxford Census.
  42. 1850 Oxford Census.
  43. Edited by Joseph Anderson, D. D., Town & City of Waterbury, Connecticut, From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five. (New Haven, The Price & Lee Company, 1896), Ap76.
  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. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 22.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/022.html.]
  47. Ibid., 51.
    [http://www.our-oxford.info/Books/sharpe/051.html.]
  48. 1850 Oxford Census.
  49. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Southford Cemetery (Southford Cemetery), 27.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/sfcemscan27.html.]
  50. W. C. Sharpe, History of Oxford (Seymour, CT, Record Print, 1885), 24.
  51. Charles Elwell, 1935 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Southford Cemetery (Southford Cemetery), 27.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/sfcemscan27.html.]
  52. Ibid., 27.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/sfcemscan27.html.]
  53. Southford Cemetery Photograph - Oxford CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem4476.html.]
  54. William Cothren, History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut (Produced in collaboration with the Genealogical Publishing Company, 2000), 505.

Revised: 10-Aug-08
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