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James Dean (No. 2) m. Ist, Sarah Packer June 2, 1697, and m. for his second wife Mrs. Jerusha (Saxton) Palmer (No. 24), Pal- mer family, Dec. 29, 1735. He d. Oct. 22, 1747.
CHILDREN:
13 JAMES, b. March 19, 1698.
14 SARAH, b. April 23, 1699. 15 FRANCIS, b. July 2, 1701.
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16 CHRISTOPHER, b. April 9, 1702.
17 ELIZABETH, b. Oct. 5, 1703, m. William Dean Dec. 25, 1735.
18 JABEZ, b. Feb. 16, 1705.
19 JOHN, b. April 14, 1707.
20 BENAJAH, b. March 6, 1710.
21 DAVID, b. April 30, d. Sept. 24, 1711.
22 SARAH, b. Dec. 20, 1712.
23 THANKFUL, b. Jan. 13, 1714.
John Dean (No. 19) of Stonington m. Martha Black of Groton, Oct. 17, 1750, by Ebenezer Rossiter.
CHILDREN:
24 JAMES, b. Sept. 9, 1751.
25 JOHN, b. Jan. 14, 1753.
26 SARAH, b. Oct. 13, 1754, and d. May 8, 1766.
27 CHRISTOPHER, b. Jan. 26, 1756.
28 WELTHIAN, b. June 17, 1757, m. Amos Gallup (No. 101), that family.
29 MARTHA, b. Nov. 24, 1758.
30 THANKFUL, b. July 26, 1760, m. Nathan Denison (No. 306), that family ..
31 JABEZ, b. Jan. 2, 1762.
32 PRUDENCE, b. Dec. 29, 1763, d. young.
33 PHANNEE, b. Sept. 6, 1765.
34 JESSE, b. June 13, 1769.
James Dean (No. 24) m. Prudence Brown (No. 286), that fam- ily, Sept. 9, 1796, both of Stonington ; she d. July 22, 1799. CHILDREN:
35 PRUDENCE B., b. June 3, 1799, m. Judge Asa Fish (No. 46), that family ...
Jesse Dean (No. 34) and Nancy Denison (No. 342), that fam -. ily, both of Stonington, were m. Dec. 6, 1801. CHILDREN:
36 JESSE, Jr., b. Oct. 22, 1802, never married.
37 NANCY, b. Oct. 2, 1803, m. Mr. Ezra Chesebrough (No. 379), that family .. 38 FANNY, b. Nov. 23, 1806, m. Elias Gallup of Groton Sept. 28, 1828.
DENISON FAMILY.
The Denison family of New England was originally from Bishop's Stratford, Hertford shier, England. From the old Parish Register there, Stratford is spelled Stortford, and Denison is spelled in various ways, viz. : Denyson, Dennyson, Denizen, Den- izon.
I. JOHN DENYSON, living at Stortford in 1567, d. there of plague, and was buried Dec. 4, 1582. He m. Agnes who, after his death, m. May 3, 1584, John Gace, for by his will proved in 1602, he mentions George, Edward and William Deny- son, children of my wife, also Elizabeth Crouch, a daughter of my wife.
CHILDREN OF JOHN AND AGNES DENYSON.
2 LUCE, bapt. 1567, buried at Stortford Dec. 9, 1582.
3 WILLIAM, bapt. at Stortford Feb. 3, 1571.
4 EDWARD, bapt. at Stortford April 6, 1575.
5 MARY, bapt. at Stortford April 28, 1577. -
6 ELIZABETH, bapt. at Stortford Aug. 23, 1579.
7 GEORGE, bapt. at Stortford March 17, 1582.
William Denison (No. 3) m. Margaret (Chandler) Monck at Stortford, Eng., Nov. 7, 1603. He was very well seated in Stort- ford or Stratford, but hearing of the then famous transplantation to New England, unsettled himself and recalling his son Daniel from Cambridge, removed himself and family in the year 1631 to New England, and brought over with him his son Daniel, then aged about 19 years, and two younger brothers, Edward and George, leaving his oldest son, John, who had also been bred at Cambridge and was then a minister, married, with a good portion, and who lived about Pelham or in Hartford shier, not far from Stratford, where they were all born. He was Vicar of Standon, County Herts, 1660 to 1670. William Denison brought with him into New England a very good estate and settled himself at Rox- bury, Mass., and there lived till Jan. 25, 1653, when he died, having buried his wife about 8 years before, viz., 1645.
CHILDREN OF WILLIAM AND MARGARET DENISON.
8 JOHN, bapt. at Stratford April 7, 1605, educated at Cambridge and be- came a minister, m.
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9 WILLIAM, bapt. at Stratford Oct. 5, 1606, and at about the age of 18 years must needs go a soldier into Holland in the year 1624, at the famous siege of Breda, when it was taken by Spinola and Count Mansfield, who had an army out of England to raise the siege, but the army miscarried and this William was never heard of again.
10 GEORGE, bapt. at Stratford Oct. 15, 1609, buried there 1615.
11 DANIEL, bapt. at Stratford Oct. 18, 1612, graduated at Cambridge Uni- versity and went to New England in 1631.
12 SARAH, bapt. 1615, and buried at Stratford 1615.
13 EDWARD, bapt. at Stratford Nov. 3, 1616, went to New England in 1631. 14 GEORGE, bapt. at Stratford Dec. 10, 1620, went to New England in 1631.
Edward Denison (No. 4) m. in the year 1631, removed himself and family into Ireland, where he died and left a son, called John Denison, who was a soldier and major of a regiment in the time of the wars, and Deputy Governor of Cork. He was living in Dublin in the year 1670.
EDWARD DENISON'S CHILDREN WERE:
15 ANNE, bapt. Feb. 19, 1603.
16 SUSAN, bapt. Nov. 24, 1605.
17 ELIZABETH, bapt. Sept. 18, 1608, buried Aug. 30, 1615.
18 JOHN, bapt. Sept. 13, 1612.
George Denison (No. 7) m. Constance, daughter of William Glascock, Esq., and widow of Gooch.
THEIR CHILDREN:
19 GEORGE, said to have been living at Stortford in 1672, and m. Mary They had two children, who both d. young. He d. Dec. 9, 1678, and Mary d. March 22, 1678.
Daniel Denison (No. II) came with his father to New Eng- land in 1631.
The following is from the New England Historical and Genea- logical Register of April, 1892, written by himself :
"I was the eldest of the three brothers that was brought to New England, and the next year after our arrival (viz.) in the year 1632, on the 18th day of October, on which day twenty years before I was bapt. at Stratford, and seven years before I was admitted into the University of Cambridge, I married Patience, the second daughter of Thomas Dudley, who was a principal un- dertaker of the Plantation of Massachusetts, and one of those first comers in the year 1630 that brought over the patent and set- tled the government. He came over Deputy Governor, and was afterwards at divers times Governor. Thomas Dudley then lived at Cambridge, but afterwards removed to Ipswich, where he stayed one year, settling himself at Roxbury, where he d. July 30,
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1653, and his wife d. about 10 years before, the latter end of De- cember, 1643.
"For myself, after I was married to Patience Dudley, I lived about 2 years at Cambridge, and in the year 1635 I removed to Ipswich, where we lived together without children till Jan. 16, 1640, when my son John was born, and two years and quarter after, Elizabeth was born, April 10, 1642; about nine years after another daughter, Mary, was born, and three years after Deborah, our last, was born.
CHILDREN OF DANIEL AND PATIENCE DENISON:
20 JOHN, b. Jan. 16, 1640.
21 ELIZABETH, b. April 1, 1642, m. 1660, John Rogers, having five children.
22 MARY, b. 1651, d. young.
23 DEBORAH, b. 1654, d. young.
Edward Denison (No. 13) was married about the beginning of the year 1641, and lived the rest of his days at Roxbury in the same house his father built, lived and died in. Edward m. March 20, 1641, Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Weld. He departed this life in April, 1669, and left but one son, William, and five daugh- ters, of all his large family.
CHILDREN OF EDWARD AND ELIZABETH DENISON:
24 ELIZABETH, b. Aug. 8, 1642.
25 JOHN, b. May 14, 1644, d. young.
26 EDWARD, who d. Oct. 6, 1646.
27 JEREMIAH, b. Dec. 6, 1647, d. young.
28 JOSEPH, bapt. April 8, 1649, d. young,
29 MARGARET, bapt. Dec. 19, 1650, m. Daniel Mason (No. 8), that family.
30 MARY, bapt. March 27, 1654.
31 HANNAH, bapt. Sept. 16, 1655.
32 SARAH, bapt. Dec. 6, 1657.
33 DEBORAH, bapt. Sept. 13, 1660, d. young.
34 Baby, b. and d. June 2, 1664.
35 WILLIAM, b. Sept. 18, 1664.
36 DEBORAH, b. Oct. 30, 1666, d. young.
Edward Denison d. April 26, 1668, and his widow d. Feb. 5, 1717.
George Denison (No. 14) m. about 1640 Bridget Thompson, b. Sept. 11, 1622 (No. 4), Thompson family; she was daughter of John Thompson and wife Alice, gentleman of Preston, of Northamptonshire, Eng. She d. 1643. They had two children.
37 SARAH, b. March 20, 1641, m. Thomas Stanton (No. 2), that family.
38 HANNAH, b. May 20, 1643, m. Nathaniel Chesebrough, 1659 (No. 9), that family. She m. 2d, Joseph Saxton July 15, 1680.
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DENISON FAMILY.
This Capt. George Denison having buried his wife in the year 1643, went back to England the same year, where, as we learn from a letter of his brother, Maj. Gen. Daniel Denison, published in the April number of the New England Historical and Genea- logical Register of 1892, in which he says: "My brother George was a soldier there above a year, was at the battle of York, or Marston Moor, where he did good service, and was afterwards taken prisoner, but got free and married a second wife, Miss Ann Borodell, and with her returned to New England in the year 1645, and took up his abode again in Roxbury, Mass., where he continued to live until 1651, when he came with his family to Connecticut and located himself at New London, Conn., where he resided until 1654, when he came to Stonington with his fam- ily to live, and remained there until his death, which took place at Hartford, Conn., Oct. 24, 1694." We learn from the records of Massachusetts and Connecticut that Capt. George Denison was not only distinguished as a civilian, but became the most dis- tinguished soldier of Connecticut in her early settlement, except Maj. John Mason. His military services are on record in our Colonial archives where his eminence is recognized and portrayed. Also, you will find his name in the History of New London and Stonington, where his services are acknowledged and described in full. There is no date of the marriage of Capt. George Denison and Ann Borodell, but he was doubtless married in England. Pending their courtship an agreement was made between them, which was afterwards ratified and confirmed at Hartford, Conn., May 3, 1662, as follows: "This witnesseth that I, George Deni- son, of Southertown, in Connecticut jurisdiction in New Eng- land, for and in consideration of a jointure due unto my now wife, Ann Borodell Denison, upon marriage and upon my former en- gagement, in consideration of the sum of three hundred pounds by me received of Mr. John Borodell, which he freely gave to my wife, his sister, Ann Borodell Denison, and I have had the use and improvement of and for, and in consideration of conjugal and dearer affection moving me, thereunto." This jointure agree- ment may be seen on the First Book of Connecticut State Rec- ords, in Hartford, Conn., page 274. This recorded instrument is proof positive of the marriage of Capt. George Denison and wife, Ann Borodell, to say nothing of the births of their children and
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his will in his own handwriting bequeathing to them his entire property.
CHILDREN OF CAPT. GEORGE DENISON AND ANN BORODELL. 39 JOHN B., b. July 14, 1646.
40 ANN, b. May 20, 1649, m. Gershom Palmer. See Palmer family (No. 12).
41 BORODELL, b. in 1651, m. Samuel Stanton. See Stanton family (No. 11). 42 GEORGE, b. in 1653.
43 WILLIAM, b. in 1655, m. widow Sarah Prentice (No. 10), of Stanton family.
44 MARGARET, b. in 1657, m. James Brown, Jr.
45 MARY, b. in 1659, d. March 10, 1671.
NOTE .- Capt. George Denison (No. 14) was captain of New London County forces in King Philip's war, with Capt. John Mason, Jr., under Maj. Robert Treat, in the great swamp fight Dec. 19, 1675. Also served the next year in command of the forces raised by him as Provo-Marshal, who pursued the remnant of the Narragansett and Wampanaug Indians, and succeeded in de- feating them and capturing the Indian Chief Canonchet, who was brought to Stonington, and on his refusal to make peace with the English, was shot. He assisted as magistrate to enable the Pequot chiefs designated by the English to control the remnants of the Pequots. He was assistant and deputy from Stonington to the General Court for fifteen sessions.
The Town of New London granted Capt. George Denison 200 acres of land in the Pequot-se-pos valley at Mystic in 1652, upon which he subsequently built him a dwelling house (May 3, 1663, it was raised), wherein he and his family made their permanent, final home, known as the Oliver Denison house, and which stood a few feet west of the present residence of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Ford (1899). He d. Oct. 24, 1694, and his widow d. Sept. 26, 1712, aged 97, by the gravestone, which may be found in the Elm Grove Cemetery at Mystic.
NOTE .- One of the ancestors of Admiral George Dewey was a Stonington man, viz., Capt. George Denison (No. 14), the distinguished Indian warrior of Connecticut, who came to New England with his parents and settled in Rox- bury, Mass., where Capt. Denison was married to his first wife, Bridget Thompson, in 1640. Their daughter, Hannah, b. May 20, 1643, m. Nathaniel Chesebrough of Stonington in 1659. Her husband d. Nov. 22, 1678. She m. 2d, Capt. Joseph Saxton of Stonington, July 15, 1680; their daughter, Mercy Saxton, b. in 1686, married 1st, Isaac Bailey of Roxbury, Mass., Jan. 4, 1702. In 1707, Mr. and Mrs. Bailey moved with their family to Lebanon, Conn. Mr. Bailey died, date not preserved. His widow, Mrs. Mercy Bailey (nee Saxton) married 2d, William Dewey of Lebanon, great grandson of Thomas Dewey, the emigrant ancestor of the family, who came from Sandwich, England, soon after 1630, who settled first at Dorchester, Mass., but soon after migrated to Windsor, Conn., where he married Frances Clarke in 1635. Their son, Dea. Josiah Dewey, Sen., of Northampton, Mass., and Lebanon, Conn., b. at Windsor, Conn., Oct. 10, 1641, m. Hepzibah Lyman, Nov. 6, 1662; their son, Josiah Dewey, b.
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Dec. 24, 1666, m. Mehitable Miller, Jan. 15, 1691; their son, William Dewey, b. Jan., 1692, m. Mercey Bailey (nee Saxton), July 2, 1713; their son, Simeon Dewey, b. May 1, 1718, m. Anna Phelps, March 29, 1739; their son, William Dewey, b. Jan. 11, 1746, m. Rebecca Carrier, in 1768; their son, Capt. Simeon Dewey, b. Aug. 20, 1770, m. Prudence Yeomans, Feb. 27, 1794; their son, Dr. Julius Dewey, b. Aug. 28, 1801, m. Mary Perrin, June 9, 1825; their son, Ad- miral George Dewey, b. in 1837.
John Denison (No. 20) m. Martha, daughter of Dep. Gov. Sy- monds, Feb. 2, 1663, and lived at the farm at Ipswich the re- mainder of his days, he was married seven years and had three children.
46 JOHN, b. Sept. 22, 1665.
47 MARTHA, b. March 1, 1668, m. Matthew Whipple.
48 DANIEL, b. April 14, 1671.
John Denison (No. 20) was taken violently sick the first day, and died on the 9th day of Jan., 1670, aged not quite 31 years. "So early had he finished his course and done his work, and if his work had then to have been done (as he then said) he should have been miserable; but he had lived a Godly and exemplary life, being a constant seeker of God. His wife afterwards said he used to pray five times a day ; he was a dutiful child, a loving husband and father, a loving friend, a good man in all his ways and he departed most Christian-like and comfortable, to the un- speakable grief and loss of all his friends." . On the beginning of April, 1672, Mrs. Martha (Symonds) Denison m. for her second husband, Mr. Richard Martyn, and went to live at Portsmouth taking with them two children, Daniel and Martha, and leaving the son John with his grandparents.
John B. Denison (No. 39) m. Phebe, daughter of Robert Lay of Saybrook, Nov. 26, 1667. He served in the Colonial Indian war. She d. 1699, aged 49 yrs. He d. 1698.
CHILDREN:
49 PHEBE, b. 1667, d. young.
50 JOHN, b. Jan. 1, 1669.
51 GEORGE, b. March 28, 1671.
52 ROBERT, b. Sept. 17, 1673.
53 WILLIAM, b. April 7, 1677.
54 DANIEL, b. March 28, 1680.
55 SAMUEL, b. Feb. 23, 1683, d. young.
56 ANN, b. Oct. 3, 1684, m. 1st Samuel Minor (No. 45); 2d, Edward Deni- son (No. 59), of Westerly, R. I.
57 SARAH, b. July 29, 1692, m. Isaac Williams (No. 156).
58 PHEBE, b., probably, between Ann and Sarah. Phebe Denison (No. 58) m. Ebenezer Billings. See that family (No. 22).
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George Denison (No. 42) m. Mercy Gorham, daughter of John Gorham, and wife Desire Howland, daughter of John Howland of the May Flower. John Gorham was son of Ralph Gorham of Plymouth, b. in England, baptized at Benefield, Northampton- shire, Jan. 28, 1621, and was captain in King Philip's war. Date of the m. of George Denison and Mercy Gorham is not known, but she d. Sept. 24, 1725, in the 67th year of her age, and he d. Dec. 27, 1711, in his 59th year.
CHILDREN:
59 EDWARD, bapt. in 1683.
60 JOSEPH, bapt. in 1683, m. Prudence Minor. See that family (No. 56).
61 MERCY, bapt. in 1683, m. Mordecai Dunbar.
62 SAMUEL, bapt. in 1686, m. Mrs. Mary Miner. See that family (No. 57). 63 ELIZABETH, bapt. in 1690, m. Christopher Champlin, Jr .
64 DESIRE, bapt. in 1693, m. John Williams. See that family (No. 156).
65 THANKFUL, bapt. in 1695, m. Thomas Stanton. See that family (No. 271). 66 GEORGE, bapt. in 1699.
Capt. William Denison (No. 43) m. Mrs. Sarah (Stanton) Prentice (No. 10), the widow of the second Thomas Prentice, and daughter of Thomas Stanton. William Denison d. March 2, 1715, and his wife d. Aug. 7, 1713. He served in King Philip's war.
CHILDREN:
67 WILLIAM, b. March 24, 1687.
68 SARAH, b. April 14, 1689, m. Benjamin Avery (No. 45), that family, and lived in Groton.
69 GEORGE, b. Feb. 28, 1692.
Rev. John Denison (No. 46), m. Elizabeth, dau. of Nathaniel Saltonstall of Ipswich, Mass.
CHILDREN:
70 RUTH, b. 1686, m. Joseph Kingsbury.
71 JOHN, b. 1688, m. Mary Leverett, 1719.
72 HANNAH, b. 1689, m. Nathaniel Kingsbury, 1710.
Rev. John Denison d. 1689, aged 24, and his widow m. Rev. Roland Cotton.
John Denison (No. 50) m. Ann (No. 19), daughter of Capt. John Mason, in 1690, and they lived in Saybrook, Conn., and d. there 1699.
CHILDREN:
73 JOHN, b. March 30, 1692, d. in 1732, unmarried.
74 DANIEL, b. Oct. 13, 1693, m. Mehitable Foster.
75 JAMES, b. Feb. 26, 1695, d. in 1717, unmarried.
76 ABIGAIL, b. Aug. 25, 1696, m. Dea. Ebenezer Pratt May 6, 1717.
77 JABEZ, b. Aug., 1698, m. Dorothy Cogswell.
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In March, 1701, Mrs. Ann (Mason) Denison m. Samuel Cogs- well, her first husband having d. in 1699.
George Denison (No. 51) settled in New London and m. in 1694 Mrs. Mary (Wetherell) Harris. George Denison d. Jan. 22, 1720. His wife d. Aug. 22, 17II.
CHILDREN:
78 GRACE, b. March 4, 1695, m. Edward Hallam.
79 PHEBE, b. March 16, 1697, m. Gibson Harris.
80 HANNAH, b. March 28, 1699, m. John Hough.
81 BORODELL, b. May 17, 1701, m. Jonathan Latimer.
82 DANIEL, b. June 27, 1703, m. Rachel Starr.
83 WETHERELL, b. Aug. 24, 1705, m. Lydia Moore.
84 ANN, b. Aug. 15, 1707, m. twice.
85 SARAH, b. June 20, 1710, m. William Douglass.
Robert Denison (No. 52) m. in 1696 Joanna Stanton (No. 266), that family. He settled in what is now known as Montville ; he d. in 1737.
CHILDREN:
86 ANN, b. in 1695, d. young.
87 ROBERT, b. in 1697; twice m .; d. in Nova Scotia.
88 JOHN, b. March 28, 1698, m. Patience Griswold.
89 JOANNA, b. in 1699, m. Thomas Morehouse.
90 MARY, b. -, d. young.
91 NATHANIEL, b. in 1702, d. in 1722.
92 ANDREW, b. in 1704, m. Mrs. Rebecca (Chesebrough) Turner (No. 54), Chesebrough family.
93 SARAH, b. in 1706, d. in 1714.
94 ANN, b. in 1707, m. James Fitch in 1725.
95 THOMAS, b. Oct. 20, 1709, m. Elizabeth Bailey.
96 LUCY, b. in 1711, m. Samuel Rogers.
97 ELIZABETH, b. in 1712, d. young.
98 ABIGAIL, b. in 1714, m. William Wattles.
99 GEORGE, b. in 1715, d. young.
William Denison (No. 53) m. in 1698 Mary (No. 43), dau. of the first John Avery of Groton. They lived in North Stonington, Conn., he d. there Jan. 30, 1730. His widow, being 52 years old, was m. Jan. 12, 1732, to Daniel Palmer (No. 23), who was 59 years old. She outlived him and d. in 1762, aged 82 yrs.
WILLIAM DENISON AND MARY'S CHILDREN:
102 MARY, b. in 1699, d. in 1699.
103 MARY, twin, b. in 1701.
104 PHEBE, twin, b. in 1701.
105 ANN, b. in 1703, m. John Denison (No. 126), in 1720, and was drowned in a well in 1721.
106 WILLIAM, b. in 1705.
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107 ABIGAIL, b. in 1708, m. Roger Billings. See Billings family (No. 18). 108 LUCY, b. in 1710, m. John Swan 2d. See Swan family (No. 21.) 109 AVERY, b. in 1712.
110 THANKFUL, b. in 1714, m. Joseph Billings. See Billings family (No. 33). 111 DESIRE, b. in 1716, m. John Stanton. See Stanton family (No. 116).
112 CHRISTOPHER, b. in 1719.
113 JOHN, b. Feb. 23, 1722, m. Martha Wheeler (No. 339), Wheeler family.
Daniel Denison (No. 54) m. Ist, Jan. I, 1703, Mary (No. 269), dau. of Robert and Joanna (Gardner) Stanton, and she was the mother of II children. She d. Sept. 2, 1724, in the 38th year of her age. She was b. Feb. 3, 1687, and m. when not sixteen years old. He m. 2d, Jane Cogswell of Long Island, Oct. 27, 1726; and 3d, Nov. 17, 1737, Mrs. Abigail (Fish) Eldredge, who out- lived him about 37 years, and d. June 17, 1784, aged 94 yrs. He d. Oct. 13, 1747, aged over 67 yrs. The children, all by the first wife, Mary Stanton, were :
CHILDREN:
114 MARY, b. Aug. 29, 1705, m. Nathan Smith.
115 DANIEL, b. Nov. 11, 1707, d. young.
116 BEEBE, b. Jan. 27, 1709, m. Sarah Avery (No. 88).
117 RACHEL, b. July 16, 1710.
118 ESTHER, b. March 22, 1712, m. Isaac Smith.
119 LUCY, b. Oct. 13, 1714, m. Jonas Prentice Nov. 29, 1733 (No. 17).
120 JOHN, b. May 21, 1716.
121 PRUDENCE, b. Jan. 27, 1718, m. William Denison. See Denison family (No. 158.)
122 DANIEL, b. March 22, 1720.
123 PHEBE, b. April 24, 1723, m. William Avery. See Avery family (No. 85). 124 SARAH, b. Aug. 25, 1724.
Edward Denison (No. 59) had two wives ; first, Mercy -, the mother of his children, living in 1715; the second wife was his cousin, Ann (No. 56), dau. of Capt. John Denison, and widow of Samuel Minor, to whom he was m. March 2, 1718. He was drowned Dec. 9, 1726.
CHILDREN:
125 EDWARD, b. in 1699, d. young.
126 JOHN, b. in 1701.
127 ELISHA, b. in 1703, d. young.
128 MARY, b. in 1705, m. Benjamin Billings. See Billings family (No. 30).
129 DESIRE, b. - -, m. Jabez Smith Nov. 11, 1730.
130 ABBY, b. -, and m. Andrew Galloway.
Joseph Denison (No. 60) m. Feb. 17, 1707, Prudence (No. 56), dau. of Dr. Joseph Minor. He d. Feb. 18, 1725. His wife d. May 26, 1726, in her 68th year. He lived and d. in Stonington.
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CHILDREN:
131 JOSEPH, b. Sept. 24, 1707.
132 PRUDENCE, b. Nov. 28, 1709, m. Benjamin Sprague Jan. 20, 1726.
133 BORODELL, b. Feb. 14, 1712, m. Ezekiel Turner.
134 AMOS, b. Feb. 18, 1714.
135 NATHAN, b. Feb. 20, 1716.
136 ELIZABETH, b. Feb. 15, 1720, m. Samuel Minor. See that family (No. 73). 137 JOANNA, b. Jan. 28, 1718, m. Henry Hewitt. See Hewitt family (No. 14). 138 THANKFUL, bapt. April 7, 1723, m. Elisha Williams (No. 51). See that family.
139 ANNA, b. May 3, 1724, m. Amos Allen in 1739.
Samuel Denison (No. 62) m. Mrs. Mary (Lay) Minor, the widow of Christopher Minor (No. 57), Minor family, whom she m. March 9, 1704, and her maiden name was Lay. They lived in Stonington till July 4, 1716. when he bought a homestead on Oyster River, in Saybrook, Conn., and immediately occupied it. His first four children were b. in Stonington ; the others in Say- brook.
CHILDREN:
140 SARAH, b. Jan. 6, 1710, m. William Babcock.
141 SAMUEL, b. Oct. 23, 1711.
142 MERCY, b. in 1713, m. Nathaniel Chapman.
143 ELIZABETH, bapt. June 6, 1714.
144 JOANNA, b. Dec. 13, 1716, m. Moses Tyler.
145 MARY, twin, b. Jan. 6, 1718.
146 GEORGE, twin, b. Jan. 6, 1718.
147 CHRISTOPHER, b. 1720.
148 GIDEON, b. in 1724, m. Elizabeth in 1752. 149 STEPHEN, b. Feb. 6, 1725. ,
George Denison (No. 66) m. Ist, Sarah Miner (No. 81), Sept. 28, 1721. She was dau. of Dr. Joseph and Sarah (Tracey) Miner. She d. Sept. 27, 1724, in the 25th year of her age. He was m. 2d, to Joanna Hinckley (No. 21), May 10, 1727. She was dau. of Samuel and Martha (Lathrop) Hinckley. He lived on his fath- er's farm at Westerly, R. I., and d. Jan. 16, 1737.
CHILDREN:
150 JOSEPH b. Jan. 26, 1723.
151 MARY, b. Sept. 24, 1724.
152 ELIJAH, b. July 6, 1728, d. young.
153 GEORGE, b. April 14, 1730, d. young.
154 SARAH, b. Sept. 7, 1733, m. Ezra Keeney.
William Denison (No. 67) m. Mercy Gallup (No. 35) May 10, 1710. They lived in Stonington, Conn. He d. Feb. 24, 1724, aged 37 ; she d. March 2, 1724, aged 35.
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HISTORY OF STONINGTON.
CHILDREN:
155 MERCY, b. June 25, 1711, m. Hubbard Burrows (No. 14), Burrows family.
156 SARAH, b. July 2, 1713, m. Elisha Niles.
157 ESTHER, b. Feb. 6, 1715, m. Jonathan Wheeler. See that family (No. 21). 158 WILLIAM, b. Dec. 9, 1716.
159 HANNAH, b. April 19, 1719, d. 1721.
160 BENADAM, b. Feb. 6, 1721.
161 JONATHAN, b. May 12, 1722, m. Martha Williams (No. 448) that family; no children.
162 NATHAN, b. Feb. 11, 1724.
George Denison (No. 69) m. Lucy Gallup (No. 39), Gallup fam- ily, June 6, 1717. They lived on the old homestead farm in Ston- ington.
CHILDREN:
163 ANN, b. Aug. 16, 1718, d. young.
164 Daughter, b. and d. in Sept., 1720.
165 LUCY, b. Oct. 13, 1721, d. young.
166 MARY, b. Nov. 27, 1723, d. young.
167 GEORGE, b. July 3, 1725.
168 WILLIAM, b. June 14, 1727.
169 MERCY, b. Feb. 24, 1729, m. Elisha Gallup. See that family (No. 90).
170 ESTHER, b. Sept. 16, 1732, d. in 1754.
171 SAMUEL, b. Feb. 18, 1735, d. Sept. 10, 1754.
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