Bpt ‘Townsend, Eliza, first c. of William Townsend, husbandman (yr of two sons of John & Jane Townsend, of Salcombe) & Eliza his wife (est. d. of John & Joanna Payton)’. A footnote adds: Below this entry is the following note: “This child was baptzd. on the day appointed for public Thanksgiving for the restoration of the great Blessing of Peace after a war of 9 years’ continuance with France.”124