John Townsend is the author of The Lost Earl with Other Poems and Tales in Verse, by John Townsend Trowbridge., Lawrence's Adventures Among the Ice-cutters, Glass-makers, Coal-miners, Iron-men, and Ship-builders, A Memorial of John, Henry, and Richard Townsend, and Their Descendants, Memoirs of the Rev. John Townsend, Founder of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, and of the Congregational School, Memoirs of J. Townsend, Founder of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, etc.