Member discounts are available. Jr. Better known as The Townsend Memorial. Published anonymously, but in fact compiled by James C. and Aurelia Winder Townsend, this early compilation includes genealogy and quotations from early documents, some of which are no longer extant. Recounts the history of the secret Culper Spy Ring during the Revolutionary War and how daring patriots gathered information, and using codes, invisible inks and hanging laundry, passed that information to General Washington. In war-torn New York in 1776, cannon and broadsides echo over Brooklyn as refugees clog the roads to Queens.
Fear is rampant as British soldiers round up rebel sympathizers.
But in spite of the danger, a young Quaker, Robert Townsend, enters the struggle for American Independence. An autobiography that also shows in detail how the Townsend family can be traced back to a Norman who came to England before 1100 A.D. and married the daughter of the Lord of Raynham.