Box 2

Includes published portrait drawing. Elisha was trained as a watchmaker, tried his hand on stage, and in 1832 turned to dentistry. He was a founder of the American Society of Dental Surgeons AND THE Philadelphia College of Dental Surgeons, among other achievements.

Photocopies: Dictionary of American Biography, an excerpt from his brother Edward Townsend Memoirs; John Kirk Townsend by Witmer Stone, Cassinia: Proceedings of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club; extract from Audubon and Xanus (1992)

John Townsend family letters at the National Academy of Science, Philadelphia

Title pages

Typed copy of obituary in The Progress (Darby, Pennsylvania)

Typed manuscript by granddaughter Elizabeth S. Hoadley

Annual Report of the Inspectors of the State Penitentiary for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to the Senate and House of Representatives.

Journey by steamboat to New York to attend Yearly Meeting, with details of the meetings. He and Priscilla stayed with Hannah Corlies. Mention in particular of sermons of George Truman and approval of memoranda to Congress regarding abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. Their journey continued Upstate, visiting Friends and Meeting. Priscilla spoke. Mention of Lydia and Lucretia Mott, the case of Harvey Fink, and efforts to avoid products of enslaved workers.

Journey with wife Priscilla Townsend through Pennsylvania Canal and west to Pittsburgh and Ohio. Attended Indiana Yearly Meeting. Daniel Quimby urged that Friends should not mingle with other denominations in the cause of abolition.

Photocopies and transcripts. Charles Townsend (1706-1776) was the grandfather of Charles Townsend (1773-1859) who married Priscilla Kirk. His Will was executed by Benjamin Chew.