About Towne : quarterly newsletter of the Towne Family Association, Inc
(Microfilm, Online Content)

Quarterly

Quarterly, published in March, June, September, and December.

Vol. 1 no. 1 (Jan/Mar 1981) -

Subtitle first appeared after vol. 3 (1983).

Editor: William Bradford Towne, Sr.; Arthur A. Towne, Jr.; Jean Warner; Shirley Drury Patterson; and Connie K. Purvis. Ann Tuohy, Eleanor Towne, et al. are editors for the indexes.

Published: Ashville, North Carolina; Rochester, New York.

Not yet available in PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) at this time. (3 Feb. 2006).

Includes a surname and subject index for most volumes.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Towne (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, and settled in Salem, Massachusetts in the 1600's. Main focus is on (but not limited to) the descendants of William Towne and his wife, Joanna Blessing, who emigrated from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England ca. 1635-1640, and settled in Salem, Massachusetts. They had eight children, Rebecca, John, Susan, Edmund, Jacob, Mary, Sarah, and Joseph, three of whom were involved in the Salem witch trials. Other Townes and related families also lived in Connecticut, Georgia, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Vermont in the 1700's. During the 1800's, some lived in Nova Scotia, Ontario, and New Brunswick (Canada), France, and in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Later descendants and relatives also lived in Alberta (Canada), England, Scotland, and in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Washington D.C., and elsewhere.

Also available on microfilm.

The Towne Family Association, Inc. was founded by William Bradford Towne, Sr. in 1980. Its headquarters is in Parma, Ohio. Membership and other information is available on their web site.

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