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Mercy Foster Towne

Birth
Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
1796 (aged 84–85)
Burial
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ELISHA TOWNE (Joseph, Joseph, William, John, William). b. at Topsfield, September 5, 1708.(VR) m. MERCY FOSTER (VR), of Boxford, June 11, 1738, and removed to Munson, now Milford, N.H., where he and his brother Israel purchased the Taylor Farm of three hundred acres for one thousand pounds, of wid. Abigail Taylor of Boston. Their children:

i JOSEPH. b. 1739. d. in infancy. (VR,*)
ii BARTHOLOMEW. b. April 8, 1741. (VR*)
iii THOMAS. b. February 8, 1743. (VR*)
iv MERCY. b. February 15, 1745. (VR*)
v SARAH. b. November 20, 1747 (VR*)
vi ELISHA. b. May 11, 1751.
vii SAMUEL. b. August 23, 1755.
viii MARY. b. 1755.
ix ELISHA b. March 9, 1760

REFERENCES;
THE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM TOWNE, Who Came To America On Or About 1630 And Settled In Salem, Mass., comiled by Edwin Eugene Towne (1900), page
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* Vital Records of Topsfiled to end of year 1849, starting page 100 "Elisha , Jr and Mercy


ELISHA TOWNE (Joseph, Joseph, William, John, William). b. at Topsfield, September 5, 1708.(VR) m. MERCY FOSTER (VR), of Boxford, June 11, 1738, and removed to Munson, now Milford, N.H., where he and his brother Israel purchased the Taylor Farm of three hundred acres for one thousand pounds, of wid. Abigail Taylor of Boston. Their children:

i JOSEPH. b. 1739. d. in infancy. (VR,*)
ii BARTHOLOMEW. b. April 8, 1741. (VR*)
iii THOMAS. b. February 8, 1743. (VR*)
iv MERCY. b. February 15, 1745. (VR*)
v SARAH. b. November 20, 1747 (VR*)
vi ELISHA. b. May 11, 1751.
vii SAMUEL. b. August 23, 1755.
viii MARY. b. 1755.
ix ELISHA b. March 9, 1760

REFERENCES;
THE DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM TOWNE, Who Came To America On Or About 1630 And Settled In Salem, Mass., comiled by Edwin Eugene Towne (1900), page
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* Vital Records of Topsfiled to end of year 1849, starting page 100 "Elisha , Jr and Mercy


Gravesite Details

Buried next to husband about 1/3 mile from house which overlooked Souhegan Valley



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