Townsend erected the same year a large dwelling house, which is still standing, and occupied at one time by the late Venerable Epenetus Wallace, M. D., who was born in 1766, and a god-son of the Rev. Epenetus Townsend, by whom he was baptized on Friday, April 10th, 1767. b The above mentioned house was the one which Mr. Townsend's father enabled him to build in 1769 and the sixty acres of land which lie had bought for him, all of which were taken possession of by the Continental Convention, 1776. Dr. Wallace's predecessors must have purchased the property from the executor of Micajah Townsend, father of Epenetus ; for in 1786, Jonathan Townsend, executor of the last will of Micajah Townsend (died 9th of November, 1781), late of Queens County, deceased, sold lands in this town to Nath. Brown and others. c Upon the 29th of September, 1769, he thus addresses the Society: --

MR. TOWNSEND TO THE SECRETARY. (Extract.)

"Salem, Province of New York, Sept. 29tii, 1769. Rev. Sir: -- "Having nothing of importance to acquaint the Society with in the spring, I deferred writing till now. I have constantly performed divine service equally in my three churches ^of Salem, Ridgefield and Ridgebury, in each of which places, people are zealous in their attendance ou public worship; and I have the pleasure to observe that through the divine blessing on my labors, each of those congregations is something increased. Since my arriving to the mission I have baptized in the year past, two adults and thirty infants, and have received between three or four communicants, but expect several more very soon. The fatigue which necessarily arises from a steady performance of my duty in these three places, I have hitherto, and I trust in God I shall for the future be enabled to undergo with cheerfulness ; though I expect it will in a little while be increased -- occasioned by the building of a new church in Salem, which, when it is finished, I propose, with the Society's leave, to officiate in sometimes.