Amanda Townsend1

F, b. circa 1822, d. before 1860
FatherSamuel Townsend b. 20 May 1799, d. 16 Oct 1873
MotherAsenath Badgley b. 12 Nov 1798, d. 24 Oct 1880
     Amanda was born circa 1822 in Cayuga County, New York. Amanda married Edward Crafts on 3 May 1842 in Livingston County, Michigan.2,3 Edward & Amanda had children: Joseph, Daniel, Samuel [1854] William. An "Amanda Crafts d. age 9 mos. b. Mich of Jackson Co. unknown township month of enumeration Jan. 1850 of lung inflamation" - she is quite possibly their daughter. Samuel is living with his grandparents, Samuel & Asenath Townsend, by 1860 and with Lois Dunn by 1870. On the 2nd of December 1844, they bought land in sections 13 and 14, Unadilla, in the western part of the southwest section. Amanda departed this life before 1860 in Jackson County, Michigan. She & her husband do not appear on the 1860 census & their son Samuel is living with his maternal grandparents.

Family

Edward Crafts b. c 1809

Citations

  1. [S419] Milton E. Charboneau, Early Land Owners and Settlers of Livingston County, Michigan 1828 to 1870's, page 178 - Edward Crafts, wife Amanda, buy land in sections 13 and 14, Unadilla, Wp-SW, Dec. 2, 1844, of Unadilla. No transfer?
  2. [S437] George L. Hamm, Livingston County Marriages, 1836-1850 V. 1, page 10 - Edward Crafts, 33, Unadilla, and Amanda Townsend, 20, same place, 3 May 1842, by John B. Vandoren, J. P. William S. Cool and Charles Cool, Unadilla, witnesses. 114.
  3. [S1324] Gertrude Mann, Christopher Townsend and some of his Descendants, pages 31-32.