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chaplain to one of the new raised loyal battelions. His battalion was ordered 

 for Halifax, and he embarked here, with his wife and five children to join it. 

 A violent storm rose, soon after the fleet in which he sailed left Sandy Hook, 

 the fleet was dispersed, several of the ships perished, and poor Townsend has not 

 since been heard of. I greatly fear the vessel in which he went has shared the 

 same fate."** 



"Sleep on — sleep on — the glittering depths 

 Of Ocean's coral caves : — 

 Are thy bright urn — thy requiem 

 The music of its waves : — 

 The purple gems for ever burn 

 In fadeless beauty round thy urn ; 

 And pure and deep as infant love, 

 The blue sea rolls its waves above." — G-. D. Prentice. 



The names of the children, with the dates of their birth, as recorded 

 by Mr. Townsend himself, are as follows: " Epenetus, born 31st of 

 October, 1770; Lucy, born 3d of November, 1772; Micajah and John, 

 twins, born 28th of June, 1875." Mr. Townsend, when he removed to 

 Salem left a younger brother, Jotham, who continued at Oyster Bay, 

 and died in 1815. He left a son, Col. Micajah Townsend, now living 

 at Cedar Swamp, L. I. Micah, another brother, is the father of the 

 Rev. Micajah Townsend of Clarcenceville, Canada East. 



Previous to his embarkation, Mr. Townsend had deposited in the 

 hands of the Rev. Benj. Moore, (afterwards Bishop Moore) the library, 

 silver chalice and velvet cushion belonging to St. James' church desiring 

 him to keep them until called for. The latter, in 1785, informed Mr. 

 John Wallace and Ebenezer Lobdell, church-wardens of the parish : 

 " That the above mentioned articles were left with him for safe keep- 

 ing, and that St. James' church might have them by sending an order for 

 that purpose. The Rev. David Perry was accordingly deputed to re- 

 ceive them in the name of the vestry." " At a society meeting legally 

 warned and holden at the Independent School House," in Ridgefield, 

 "on the 1 8th day of April, 1803, voted — that the Society meeting desire 

 Dr. Perry to deliver to Epenetus Wallace and Joshua Purdy, Esq., of 

 North Salem, the Library of Books which are in his care, and which he 

 received of Dr. Moore of the city of New York, being those books which 

 were sent by the Missionary Society in England for the use of Mr. 

 Townsend." 3 



The Rev. Micajah Townsend, (son of Micah, youngest brother of the 

 Rev. Epenetus Townsend,) of Clarenceville, Canada East, in a letter ad- 



a The Rev. Dr. Inglis, the rector of Trinity church, N. Y., reports : •' That the state of the 

 clergy of New York is much the same; and with the aforementioned losses, is to be lamented 

 that of Mr. Townsend, missionary at Salem, who with all his family was lost in a ship which 

 sunk in its passage to Halifax. '' Society's abstracts for 177!). 



b Rec. of lirst Episcopal Soc, Ridgeiield, Conn., June, 1784, Liber I. 



