This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Townsend Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YOC.2ACE/780.1.3 Message Board Post: This is a good source. As well, I have recently updated a book I had written about the Townsend family ofLockeport, tracing most lines back to the original family to arrive by 1790. This was Thomas and Abigail Townsend of Ragged Islands. Please contact me through email. There are also other cousins working on other branches which I could put you or any Townsend researcher in touch with. Feel free to email me.