A tridition related in the towns of Oxford (Derby), Hadda m and Killingworth, Connecticut, by descendants of Richard, was that he was impressed into the British Navy from the Isle of Man, and that later after some years' service on the American Coast, was put ashore at Savannah, Georgia, to die of Yellow Fever. But recovered and married his nurse. With her he went to Charleston, South Carolina, and s tarted a grocery business. Later to escape a threatened bombardment by a Spanish man-o-war, he and others provisioning a small vessel from his store, sailed for the North and landed on the shore of Connecticut, settling at Guilford in 1686.
. . . In the southeast part of Branford there is a swamp, and at the beach a cave in the rocks, which have long been known as " Towner's Swamp" and "Towner's Cave." This grant made to him in Guilford apparently includes this swamp, and it is conjectured that for some reason he lived for a while in this cave, but he first settled on "Towner's Hill," and the following year built a house at a place three miles east known as "Short Rocks" and put down a well; and traces of the cellar wall of the house and of the well were still to be seen there, in 1910 and were identified by descendants of his living in Branford.
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Son of Thomas & Mary Page Towner. Husband of Mary Unknown & Deborah (Champion/Jones/Crane) Palmer. Father of Joseph, Sarah, John, Sr., Benjamin Sr., Samuel, Hannah, Mary, Richard, Jr., & Thankful Towner.
. . . In the southeast part of Branford there is a swamp, and at the beach a cave in the rocks, which have long been known as " Towner's Swamp" and "Towner's Cave." This grant made to him in Guilford apparently includes this swamp, and it is conjectured that for some reason he lived for a while in this cave, but he first settled on "Towner's Hill," and the following year built a house at a place three miles east known as "Short Rocks" and put down a well; and traces of the cellar wall of the house and of the well were still to be seen there, in 1910 and were identified by descendants of his living in Branford.
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Son of Thomas & Mary Page Towner. Husband of Mary Unknown & Deborah (Champion/Jones/Crane) Palmer. Father of Joseph, Sarah, John, Sr., Benjamin Sr., Samuel, Hannah, Mary, Richard, Jr., & Thankful Towner.
A tridition related in the towns of Oxford (Derby), Hadda m and Killingworth, Connecticut, by descendants of Richard, was that he was impressed into the British Navy from the Isle of Man, and that later after some years' service on the American Coast, was put ashore at Savannah, Georgia, to die of Yellow Fever. But recovered and married his nurse. With her he went to Charleston, South Carolina, and s tarted a grocery business. Later to escape a threatened bombardment by a Spanish man-o-war, he and others provisioning a small vessel from his store, sailed for the North and landed on the shore of Connecticut, settling at Guilford in 1686.
. . . In the southeast part of Branford there is a swamp, and at the beach a cave in the rocks, which have long been known as " Towner's Swamp" and "Towner's Cave." This grant made to him in Guilford apparently includes this swamp, and it is conjectured that for some reason he lived for a while in this cave, but he first settled on "Towner's Hill," and the following year built a house at a place three miles east known as "Short Rocks" and put down a well; and traces of the cellar wall of the house and of the well were still to be seen there, in 1910 and were identified by descendants of his living in Branford.
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Son of Thomas & Mary Page Towner. Husband of Mary Unknown & Deborah (Champion/Jones/Crane) Palmer. Father of Joseph, Sarah, John, Sr., Benjamin Sr., Samuel, Hannah, Mary, Richard, Jr., & Thankful Towner.
. . . In the southeast part of Branford there is a swamp, and at the beach a cave in the rocks, which have long been known as " Towner's Swamp" and "Towner's Cave." This grant made to him in Guilford apparently includes this swamp, and it is conjectured that for some reason he lived for a while in this cave, but he first settled on "Towner's Hill," and the following year built a house at a place three miles east known as "Short Rocks" and put down a well; and traces of the cellar wall of the house and of the well were still to be seen there, in 1910 and were identified by descendants of his living in Branford.
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Son of Thomas & Mary Page Towner. Husband of Mary Unknown & Deborah (Champion/Jones/Crane) Palmer. Father of Joseph, Sarah, John, Sr., Benjamin Sr., Samuel, Hannah, Mary, Richard, Jr., & Thankful Towner.
