Freelove Townsend^[1]

1674 - 1726  (51 years)

• Name	Freelove Townsend
  Born	29 Dec 1674	prob Rhode Island
  Gender	Female
  Died	Jul 1726
  Person ID	P2463	Robert Jackson
  Last Modified	5 Jul 2020

  
  

  Father	Thomas Townsend,   d. 1712, Rhode Island
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F10621	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Thomas Jones,   b. Abt 1665, Straubane, Ireland ,   d. 13 Dec 1713, Fort Neck, South Oyster Bay, Queens (now Nassau), New York  (Age ~ 48 years)
  Married	Abt 1695	Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York   [2, 3, 4]
  Children	1. Sarah Jones,   b. 1695,   d. 18 Aug 1696  (Age 1 years)  [natural]   2. David Jones,   b. 16 Sep 1699, Fort Neck, South Oyster Bay, Queens (now Nassau), New York ,   d. 11 Oct 1775, Fort Neck, South Oyster Bay, Queens (now Nassau), New York  (Age 76 years)  [natural]   3. Freelove Jones,   b. Abt 1700,   d. Bef 1768  (Age ~ 67 years)  [natural]   4. Thomas Jones,   b. Abt 1701,   d. 13 Nov 1741  (Age ~ 40 years)  [natural]   5. Sarah Jones,   b. 11 Mar 1703  [natural]   6. Margaret Jones,   b. 1706,   d. Bef 1768  (Age < 61 years)  [natural]   7. William Jones,   b. 25 Apr 1708, Oyster Bay, Queens (now Nassau) Co., New York ,   d. 29 Aug 1779  (Age 71 years)  [natural]   8. Elizabeth Jones,   b. 1710,   d. date unknown  [natural]
  Last Modified	5 Jul 2020
  Family ID	F3598	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Timothy Bagley,   d. date unknown
  Last Modified	5 Jul 2020
  Family ID	F3760	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Page 11 of the Book: "Thomas Jones, Fort Neck, Queens County, Long Island, 1695" At Warwick, Rhode Island, Thomas Jones "met and married Freelove Townsend, who was born December 29th, 1674. She was the daughter of Thomas Townsend, he being the second son of John Townsend, a prominent Quaker, who came to New Amersterdam early in the 17th century, about 1635, from Norwich, in Norfolk, England" Page 18 of the Book: "Thomas Jones, Fort Neck, Queens County, Long Island, 1695": "His widow, Freelove Jones,, intermarried with Major Timothy Bagley, he being a retired British ofificer, who had remained in the colony at the request of the General Assembly to assist in its defence. She died in July, 1726, and was interred by the side of her first husband, Thomas Jones, leaving issue by him of 7 children, 3 sons and 4 daughters: David, the first child, was only 14 years of age at the time of his father's demise. Thomas, the second son, was drowned when crossing Long Island Sound, from Oak Neck to Rye. He was unmarried. William was the third son. Freelove, first daughter, married Ezekiel Smith. Margaret married Jacob Smith. Sarah married Gerardus Clowes. Elizabeth married Jeremiah Mitchell. Note: The great Jones family in Munsey's Magazine of September, 1906. Thomas Jones is mentioned as of Welsh origin."

  
  

• Sources

  [S347985565] History of New York during the Revolutionary War: and of the leading events in the other colonies at that period, Thomas Jones and Edward F. De Lancey, New York, 1879, (http://books.google.com/books/about/History_of_New_York_during_the_revolutio.html?id=3X8FAAAAQAAJ). [S347985040] Book: A History of Long Island, Pelletreau, William S., A.M., (Lewis Publishing Company, NY and Chicago, 1903). [S347985617] Website of Jim Liptrap: Thomas Jones, (http://jliptrap.us/gen/index.htm). [S347984805] Book: The Jones Family of Long Island, Descendants of Major Thomas Jones & Allied Families, Jones, John Henry, (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?htx=BookList&dbid=10317).