[3] Captain Thomas Townsend was in Rhode Island after the Dutch and English war, and engaged in trading.
Downs, a pirate, escape from jail, voted that said Townsend be brot (sic) to trial for said act.
In a deed dated July 1702 to his daughter Sarah, then wife of Abraham Underhill, he calls himself "now living in Tiverton, county of Bristol, Province of Mass."
[5] Captain Townsend married his first wife Sarah, daughter of Robert Coles and Mary Hawxhurst.
He is posthumously remembered as being "untiring energy and for many years took an active and leading part in the early matters of Oyster Bay, and in the settlement of the boundary disputes between the towns of Huntington and Oyster Bay, and in the dealings between his townspeople and the Indians the services of our trusty and beloved friend, Thos.