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Richard Townley

Field	Value
name	Richard Townley
office1	Member of the East New Jersey Provincial Council
term_start1	October 20, 1686
term_end1	1692
office2	Member of the New York Provincial Council
term_start2	1692
term_end2	1692
office3	Member of the New York Provincial Council
term_start3	1697
term_end3	1697
office4	Member of the New Jersey Provincial Council for the Eastern Division
term_start4	November 29, 1705
term_end4	April 1711 (Died)
birth_place	England
death_date	April 1711
spouse	Elizabeth Smith - Carteret
children	Charles Townley, Effingham Townley
residence	Elizabethtown

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Colonel Richard Townley (died 1711) was born in England probably at Astlam (Astleham) Manor in Littleton (formerly in Middlesex, today in Surrey). He was the eighth son of Nicholas Townley of Littleton and Joanne White.

He emigrated to Virginia in the suite of Lord Effingham, Governor of Virginia in 1683. He settled in the Elizabethtown, New Jersey area and married his 2nd wife, Elizabeth Carteret (née. Smith), widow of the first governor of New Jersey Philip Carteret in 1685.

Townley was one of the East New Jersey Provincial Council during the administration of deputy governor Lord Neill Campbell in 1686. In 1692 and 1697 he was a member of the New York Provincial Council but was accused by New York Governor Lord Bellomont of attending neither.

At the time of his death in April 1711, Richard Townley was Presiding Judge of the Court of Quarter Sessions for Essex County. He left two sons, Charles and Effingham.

References

The Victoria history of the county of Middlesex Vol 2 p. 401-406 [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22216 Extract at British History Online] Accessed 2010
[http://jrm.phys.ksu.edu/genealogy/needham/d0002/I2515.html Kansas State University] Accessed 2010
''New Jersey Colonial Documents, Archives of the State of New Jersey, First Series, Vol. III''; Daily Advertiser Publishing House, Newark, New Jersey, 1881. p. 115
[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njmorris/passaicvalley/townley.htm ancestry.com] Accessed 2010

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