Oyster Bay, NY
Three Townsend brothers John, Henry, and Richard arrived in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York in the mid-1600s. No parents or a place of birth have been identified.
Documentation
The Memorial of John, Henry, and Richard TOWNSEND, and their descendants, New York, 1865, W. A. Townsend, publisher, commonly known as the TM is a key publication for this family group. The Society is continually updating this work and drawing descendant lines down to the mid-19th century.
There is a substantial amount of information in various forms on this Townsend group – check the
DNA Information
This Townsend family remains the largest group in the DNA results and includes several other surnames that link up genetically, perhaps in the 1400s to 1500s.
The haplogroup is R-U152 [the old R1b1a2a1a1b3]. Information on this haplogroup can be found on Wikipedia. Some of the men tested claim or have proof of decendency from one or another of the three brothers, while others cannot document decendency from a specific brother. The ancestor name in bold indicates a documented ancestry back to the three brothers. In addition, the presence of mutations, that probably are shared as opposed to separately occurring, link some persons together.
