This group is based in Massachusetts and Maine. Early genealogists thought they were related to Thomas of Lynn but recent searching in published historical records including town vital records in Massachusetts has separated these families.

Based on the research by Hugh Townsend and published in the Townsend Genealogical Journal in 2007, "...it is highly likely that my ancestor Daniel and Benjamin were brothers and that therefore the common earliest ancestor of the four persons above was Robert Townsend."

A website with Townsends in Maine information:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ctownsend/Maine2.htm

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