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The Red Notebook is a collection of family records. It is hand-written by my paternal great-grandfather, Moses Joy Townsend, Jr.. His initials appear at various places throughout the text, and I have maintained those in the transcription. His daughter, my paternal grandmother, Zoa Townsend Fletcher, added small notes and corrections to various pages of the text over the years. I have included these without identifying notation so that the reading of the notebook will be easier. I have maintained the original spelling, punctuation, etc..The records in this book appear in the same order as in the original notebook, and bear the original headings. I have added a table of contents and a selected index to the original contents. This is a valuable reference for genealogists covering the area around Lancaster, Massachusetts, during the earliest era of American colonization. Debbie Barry Clarkston, Michigan March 8, 2012The Red NotebookFamily Records of Moses Joy Townsend, Jr., and Related FamiliesIncluding Aldrich, Andrews, Beaman, Butterworth, Clark, Comey, Fairbanks, Gollop, Hasey, Haskell, Hathaway, Hayward, Houghton, Joy, Kendall, Lovett, Newell, Prescott, Prince, Sawyer, Sprague, Stevens, Stodder, Taft, Thayer, Thornton, Tidd, Townsend, Tyler, Wheelock, Wilder, WillardOriginal Hand-written Notebook Pages ByMoses Joy Townsend, Jr.Corrections by His Daughter,Zoa Hathaway Townsend FletcherTranscribed by His Great-Granddaughter,Deborah Katharine Fletcher Barry