Townsend Cemetery (Mill Neck, New York)

USA / New York / Oyster Bay / Mill Neck, New York
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The old Townsend Cemetery, resting place of a number of early settlers of Oyster Bay. The graves of Henry and Richard Townsend are marked "H.T." and "R.T." with the dates. Here came George Fox, the Quaker preacher, who had just preached at Flushing. In the cemetery is the "massy rock (Council Rock) which supported him while he uttered the word of persuasion to an audience in the woods."
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Townsend
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Coordinates:   40°52'24"N   73°32'29"W

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  • Henry Townsend (one of the three "original" Townsend brothers - Henry, John and Richard) is indeed buried here, his brother Richard is not, having been interred somewhere in Lusum (now Jericho). The "RT" stone is instead that of Henry's 20-year old son, Robert, who died October 4, 1687. Both his headstone and foot stone are extant, whereas Henry's "HT" stone, documented in the nineteeth-century Peter Townsend manuscr ipt is not.
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