Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity, Vol. II, Part 56

Author: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 732


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DENNY FAMILY. The emigrant ancestor of Parkman Tyler Denny, of Leicester, Massachusetts, was Daniel Denny, who came from England in


1715 and settled at Leicester, Massachusetts, in 1717. But the family has been traced in England, as shown in the Denny Genealogy written by Mr. Denny's father, the late Christopher C. Denny. The family has been settled at Combs, Suffolk county, England, since 1439 and perhaps earlier. The first record shows John Denny holding lands, tenements, etc. there in that year. He was succeeded in this estate in 1450 by his son, William Denny. Robert Denny succeeded to the estate in 1473 and was prob- ably the son of William and grandson of John Denny, first-named. From 1473 to 1590 this prop- erty was owned and undoubtedly occupied by the descendants of Robert Denny. The Robert Denny, whom the records show to be in possession in 1590, is the first of an unbroken line down to the present.


(I) Robert Denny, descendant of John Denny, of Combs, Suffolk county, England, witnessed a document 1590. His sons were: Edmund, married Joan -, buried at Combs, May II, 1609; Robert, married Margaret - -, was buried February I, 1624, and his wife was buried February 7, 1609, had three children.


(II) Edmund Denny, son of Robert Denny (1),


was probably born at Combs. He married


. Joan - -. He was buried at Combs, May II, 1609. His children were: Edmund, baptized at Combs, 1575, married Agnes Castard, of Battysford, May, 1601 ; Joan, married - Wade, had three children. (III) Edmund Denny, son of Edmund Denny (2), was baptized at Combs, 1575. He married Agnes Castard, of Battysford, May, 1601. He had one son: Edmund, buried March 31, 1681, married Dorothy Moore.


(IV) Edmund Denny, son of Edmund Denny (3), was born probably at Combs, buried March 31. 1681. He married Dorothy Moore, of Rattles- den, in 1627. She died October, 1637. He married ( second) Susan Syer. He had one child by the first wife and five by the second. They were: Edmund Denny, died 1707: Thomas, buried No- vember 22, 1717, imarried Grace Cook; John, died unmarried 1684 or 5; Samuel, buried October 7, 1727, married Amy -, who died in 1733, had a daughter who died young; Susannah married Ralph Waller ; Deborah, married Thomas Granger, of Ipswich, and died about 1685, a worsted weaver by trade.


(V) Thomas Denny, son of Edmund Denny (4), was buried at Combs, November 22, 1717. He mar- ried Grace Cook about 1686. She was born March, 1655, and was buried December 19, 1741. Their children were: 1. Edmund, died December 18, 1731, married Muriel -, who died December 6, 1731, had four children. 2. Thomas, buried at Combs, February 17, 1772, married Rachel -, who was buried June 10, 1719; married (second) Sarah -, who was buried at Combs. November 26. 1747, had six children. 3. Samuel, born 1689, landed in America, July 20, 1717, died June 2, 1772, mar- ried Mrs. Sarah Robinson, 1719, who died Octo- ber 17, 1750; married (second) Rachel Loring, of North Yarmouth, Maine, August 15, 1751. She was born at Hull, Massachusetts, October 26, 1717, died July 5. 1752. 4. Daniel, born November 30, 1694, died April 16, 1760. 5. Sarah. married William Green. of Battisford, England: married (second) Mr. Pierson. (Mrs. Grace Denny, her mother, re- sided many years with her at Haughley, at Milden- hall and at Old Newton in England, and letters which have been preserved show great love and esteem for her son-in-law and daughter). 6. Deborah, born 1690, died June 1, 1766: came to America in 1717 with her brother Samuel, lived at Leicester with her brother Daniel until mar-


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ried. October 20, 1719, to Rev. Thomas Prince, pastor of the Old South Church. Boston.


(VI) Daniel Denny, son of Thomas Denny (5). was born at Combs, England, November 30, 1694. He died at Leicester, Massachusetts, April 16. 1760. He left England June, 1715, and arrived at Boston in New England, September 12, 1715. He settled at Leicester. Massachusetts, March, 1717, and married Rebecca Jones, of Worcester, Massa- chusetts, December, 1722. She died December 20, 1740, aged forty years. Their children were: I. Infant. 2. Thomas, born March 19, 1725, in Leices- ter, Massachusetts, died October 23, 1774; married Tabitha Cutler, of Grafton, Massachusetts, June 25, 1752; she died August 8. 1753, and he married (second), October 21, 1755. Mrs. Mary Storrs, of Pomfret. Connecticut, had four children; was mem- ber of provincial congress, representative in the gen- eral court, colonel of militia. 3. Mary, born April 22, 1727, died August 8. 1822; married Nathan Sargent, February 12, 1751, had seven children. 4. Rebecca, born at Leicester. April 10, 1729, died about 1826; married John Lynde, February 4. 1755; he died July 10, 1756, and she married (second) Asa Stowers, 1761, had seven children. 5. Samuel, born May 20, 1731. 6. Sarah, born at Leicester, May 5, 1733, died September 27, 1801; married Thomas Sargent, January, 1778. married (second) Hon. Seth Washburn, April 30, 1788, no descend- ants. 7. Daniel, born October, 1736, scalded to death November 17, 1742. 8. Isaac, born August, 1739. died 1743.


(VII) Samuel Denny, son of Daniel Denny (6), was born at Leicester, Massachusetts, May 20, 1731. He died September 20, 1817. He married Elizabeth Henshaw, September 29, 1757. She was born Sep- tember 27, 1737, died December 7, 1787. He held a prominent position in the colony. He was lieuten- ant-colonel of a regiment that marched to Lexing- tôn on the call of April 19, 1775. In February, 1776, .he was elected colonel of the first regiment in the county of Worcester and in November was stationed with the army at Tarrytown, New York. He rep- resented Leicester in the general court in 1778, and was a member of the convention called to act upon the national constitution in January, 1788. He lived on Moose Hill in the northwest part of the town. Elizabeth Henshaw, wife of Samuel Denny, was the tenth child of Daniel and Elizabeth (Bass) Henshaw, who came to Leicester from Boston in 1748. He settled on a farm in the east part of the town which he inherited from his father, Joshua Henshaw. He was often called upon to act as ar- bitrator or referee in legal cases, and was invaria- bly the moderator at town meetings. Elizabeth was a descendant through her mother of Samuel Bass, who came to Boston in 1640, and of John Alden of the "Mayflower," whose daughter married John Bass, son of the emigrant, Samuel Bass.


Joshua Henshaw, father of Mrs. Samuel Denny, was born in England, 1638. His father, Joshua, was born in England in 1610, was a wealthy and in- fluential member of parliament, opposed to the king. He took an active part in the struggle against Charles 1 and while fighting in the army of Crom- well at the battle of Edgehill was killed October 23, 1642. His widow died in 1643, and the stew- ard of the estate sent the two sons to Boston in 1648, reporting them dead for the purpose of claim- ing the estate himself. Joshua Henshaw, when an old man, attempted to recover the stolen estate of his father and died in London in 1719 when it seemed certain that a decision was about to be ren- dered in his favor, in the suit he brought against Joshua, son of Peter Ambrose, the embezzling stew-


ard. His death followed a dinner to which he was invited by Ambrose for the pretended purpose of adjusting the differences. The property was never recovered by the rightful owners.


The children of Samuel and Elizabeth Henshaw Denny were: I. Daniel, born August 6, 1758, died in Worcester, April, 1822; married Nancy Watson, had seven children. 2. Elizabeth, born March I, 1760, died November 18, 1846; married, November 28, 1782, Thomas Walter Ward, of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, who died August 20, 1835, aged sev- enty-seven; had ten children. 3. Samuel, born April 21, 1762, died March 21, 1832; married Desire Boyden, June 2, 1812. 4. David, born January 7, 1764, died July 11, 1821; married, February 6, 1791, Betsey Spooner, daughter of Governor Spooner, of Hartland, Vermont, lived in Hartland and died in Northfield, Vermont; had nine children. 5. Isaac, born November 27, 1765, died in Hardwick, Ver- mont, March 19, 1813, married Grace Tidd, May 16, 1793, who in 1818 married John Sargent and died in Leicester, April 16, 1859, aged eighty-five; had seven children. 6. William, born September 17, 1767, died in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, March 10, 1851; married, October 26, 1788, Patty Smith, of Spencer, who died February 15, 1797; married ( second), October 17, 1797, Ruth Swan, daughter of Reuben Swan (she died November 29, 1824, aged fifty-four; he married (third) Mrs. Betsey H. Upham; he had twelve children. 7. Sarah, born May 23, 1769, died at Burlington, New Jersey, March 31, 1856; married Stephen Harris, March 27, 1793, and moved to Norfolk, Virginia ; had nine children. 8. Thomas, born July 22, 1771, died in Barre, Massachusetts, August 23, 1856; mar- ried, November 18, 1798, Sally Swan, born January 26, 1771, died January 5, 1843; married (second) Mary Denny, his niece, of Worcester, born April I, 1801, died February 16, 1876; had ten children. His name was changed to Nathaniel Paine Denny. He studied under Nathaniel Paine, was admitted to the bar in 1800, practiced in Leicester, Norwich, Con- necticut, and Barre, Massachusetts, representative and senator in the general court of Massachusetts, was president of the Leicester Bank. 9. Polly, born August 21, 1773, died October. 1852; married, May I, 1798, Rev. John Miles, of Grafton, Massachusetts, born in Westminster, Massachusetts, November 3, 1765, graduated at Brown University, 1794, died at Shrewsbury, March 20, .1849. He had ten children. IO. Joseph, born April 2, 1777, died in Leicester, November 19, 1822.


(VIII) Joseph Denny, son of Samuel Denny (7), was born at Leicester, Massachusetts, April 2, 1777. He died in Leicester, November 19, 1822. He married a cousin, Phebe Henshaw, November 19, 1799. She was born December 4, 1777, daughter of Colonel William Henshaw, and died August II, 1815. He married (second) her sister Lucinda, March 28, 1816. His children were: I. Theodore Vernon, born February 21, 1800, died January 19, 1854; went to Indianapolis, 1821; married, March 30, 1823. Elizabeth Mclaughlin, had eleven children. 2. Catherine Henshaw, born July 28, ISO1, died in Milwaukee, March 31, 1877; married, January I, 1821, Otis Sprague, had four children. 3. Henry Augustus, born October 10, 1802, married. April 14, 1825, Eliza E. Sprague, resided in Worcester; died December 11, 1899, and buried in Leicester ; had ten children. 4. Joseph A., born May 13, 1804, died February 25, 1875, buried in Leicester. He mar- ried, April 30, 1829, Mary Davis, of Rutland, Massa- chusetts, had two children. 5. Lucinda Henshaw, born April. 3, 1806, married, June 3, 1839, Lucius Botsford, who died December 18, 1876, aged seven-


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ty-two; resided at Lisbon, Illinois, had four chil- dren ; she died January, 1898. 6. Christopher Columbus, born April 22, 1809, died October 18, 1810. 7. Phebe Swan, born December 12, 1810, died December 30, 1810. 8. Christopher Columbus, born January 10, 1813, married, October 10, 1837, Susan Brigham Rockwood. 9. Phebe Henshaw, born June 4, 1815, died July 22, 1877; married September 21. 1843, James Otis Kendall, of Ashby, Massachusetts, moved to Hartford, Wisconsin, had four children. IO. Sarah Healy, born February 11, 1817, died Oc- tober 4, 1838; married. September 21, 1837, Jacob Boon and lived in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she died, had one child. 11. Harriet Flint, born Decem- ber 13, 1818, married, June 14, 1842, Rev. Enoch Underwood, resided in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, where he was pastor of the Baptist church, had five children; she died February 14, 1904. 12. Elizabeth Henshaw, born April 12, 1821, married Hiram H. Wheelock, February 21, 1843, lived in Hartford, Wis- consin, and died April II, 1904.


(IX) Christopher Columbus Denny, son of Jo- seph Denny (8), was born at Leicester, Massachu- setts, January 10, 1813. He married, October 10, 1837, Susan Brigham Rockwood, daughter of Rev. Elisha Rockwood, of Swanzey, New Hampshire. She was born October 1, 1815, died May 12, 1843. He married (second), February 11, 1845, Anna Sophia Tyler, daughter of Deacon John E. Tyler. Mr. Danny was for years a partner in the well known firm of White & Denny, card clothing manu- facturers. Hle was always interested in the town and in national politics. He served the town of Leicester as selectman and in other offices and he represented his district in the general court. He was trustee of the Leicester Savings Bank, and a deacon of the First Congregational Church. He died July 8, 1895. The children of Christopher C. Denny were : I. Henry Rockwood, born February 22. 1839, married, December 8, 1863, Serena Arvena Soren- son, of Copenhagen, Denmark, resided in Carver, Minnesota, and 1905 in St. Paul. Was United States marshal for Minnesota. He had five children. 2. Theodore Addison, born August 21, 1846, died September 13, 1846. 3. Herbert Eugene, born May 21, 1849, died May 30, 1863. 4. Parkman Tyler, born December 20, 1851, married, November 22, 18SI, Cora Jennette Monroe, born April 18, 1858, died May 17, 1882; married (second), December 13, 1887. Grace L. McIntosh, of Mattapan, Massachusetts; she died January 9, 1890; married ( third), July 5, 1894, Cora B. Knight, daughter of Charles S. and Louisa A. Knight. Children: Ruth Parkman, and Park- man Knight Denny.


(X) Parkman Tyler Denny, son of Christopher C. Denny (9), was born in Leicester, Massachu- setts, December 20, 1851. He spent his boyhood in his native town and attended the district schools. He graduated from Leicester Academy and entered the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he was graduated in 1872. His first occupation was teach- ing. He accepted a position as instructor in mathe- matics and the sciences at the South Jersey Insti- tute, Bridgeton, New Jersey. The following year he returned to New England and studied architect- ure for two years in the office of Ware & Van Brunt, of Boston. For several years he followed the profession of an architect in Worcester. Later he entered the business of Bisco & Denny, card clothing manufacturers, at his old home in Leicester. In 1885 he was ap- pointed teller of the Leicester National Bank, and April 1, 1890, was elected cashier, a position that he filled with conspicuous ability until the bank was closed and its affairs wound up, partly because of


the law separating the places of business of savings banks and of national banks, partly because of the superior facilities at hand in the city of Worcester adjoining. The bank is at present in the course of liquidation in charge of Mr. Denny. The two banks, the savings and the national, had always been closely associated in Leicester. Mr. Denny was elected clerk of the Leicester Savings Bank at the same time that he went into the Leicester National Bank, as after- wards he was elected treasurer of the Leicester Sav- ings Bank, a position that he now fills to the utmost satisfaction of all connected with it. The Leicester Savings Bank is an institution of great value to the community and one in which the peo- ple of Leicester justly take


great pride. It has been well managed and has done its part well, not only in encouraging habits of frugal- ity and thrift among the wage earners, but in help- ing develop the resources of the community, and as- sisting citizens to acquire and pay for homes.


Mr. Denny was for several years town auditor. He is interested in local history and genealogy and gave his father valuable assistance in the prepara- tion of the Denny Genealogy, which is unique in many respects. It contains some of the most valu- able personal letters ever printed in a work of the kind, and Parkman T. Denny assisted in the copy- ing and preparation of this correspondence between the family of the emigrants in England and Amer- ica. He is a Republican in politics. He is a member of Morning Star Lodge of Free Masons, Worces- ter Royal Arch Chapter, Hiram Council and of Worcester County Commandery, Knights Templar.


PARK FAMILY. Edward Park (1), of London, is believed to be the progenitor, through his various sons who settled in America, of most of the families of the name in this country. He was a cousin of Governor Winthrop, to whom he wrote from Lon- don, March 8, 1647. asking his aid and advice for his uncle, Henry Bright and son, Henry Parks .. about land ordered to himself by the court. It is not known that he lived in New England. It is be- lieved that the following immigrants were his sons : Thomas, who settled at Stonington, Connecticut, and has many descendants : Deacon William, of Rox- bury, who was very prominent; Samuel, called brother by Deacon William; Thomas, called brother by Deacon William; Richard, see forward.


(II) Richard Park, son of Edward Park (1). was the immigrant ancestor of Hervey Park, of Millbury, Massachusetts. He was an early settler in Cambridge, where he was a proprietor in 1636, and he was a proprietor in Cambridge Farms in 1642. His house was situate near the Cow Com- mon in Cambridge. In the division of lands in 1647 he had eleven acres in Cambridge Village, bounded on the west by land of Edward Jackson. The high- way to Dedham was cut through it in 1648. His old house was not torn down until 1800; it stood a few yards away from the spot now occupied by the Eliot Church. Previous to 1652 he owned a large tract of land in the northwest part of the village bounded on the west by the Fuller farm, north by the Charles river, east by the Dummer farm and south and east by the Mayhew farm ( Edward Jack- son's ), containing six hundred acres, which he proba- bly bought of Pastor Shepherd or his heirs. Park's will, dated August 12, 1665, was witnessed by Elder Wiswall and Captain Hugh Mason; he bequeathed to his only son Thomas his various lands and houses. In 1663 he was released from training on account of his age. He was on a committee to lay out highways in 1657 and he signed a petition to retain his connection with the Cambridge church.


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His wife's name was Sarah and besides their son Thomas they had a daughter who married Francis Whittemore.


(III) Thomas Park, son of Richard Park (2). was born in England in 1628. He settled in 1053 on the six hundred acre farm of his father and he inherited all his father's large estate. September 26, 1678, lie bought of his mother, who was th:11 living with her people at Duxbury, her life inter- est in his father's estate. His house was located near Bemis Mills on the Charles river. His estate was divided among his heirs 1693-94, and the land alone amounted to seven hundred and twenty-two acres. There was part of a corn mill on Smelt brook. His wife died February 3, 1691; he died August IT, 1690, aged sixty-two years. He married Abigail Dix, of Watertown, and their children were : Thomas, born November 2, 1654, died August 28, 1681; John, September 6, 1656; Abigail, March 3. 1658, married John Fiske, 1679; Edward, April &, 1661; Richard, December 21, 1663; Sarah, March 21, 1666, married John Knapp; Rebecca, April 13, 1668, married John Sanger, 1686; Jonathan, August 27, 1670, see forward; Elizabeth, August 28, 1679, mar- ried John Holland.


(IV) Jonathan Park, son of Thomas Park (3), was born August 27, 1670, at Newton, Massachu- setts. He settled on the homestead in Newton. He died January 23, 1719, and his will was proved Feb- ruary, 1719. He married ( first) Ann Spring, of Watertown, 1690; (second) Elizabeth -- , who died April 10, 1713, and (third), June, 1715, Hannah Kimball, of Watertown. His children were: Jon- athan, born March 30, 1695, see forward; Jonas, January 1, 1697 ; Lydia, Mindwell, Margery, Erinice, Hannah, died young. By his third wife: Hannah, February 25, 1718.


(V) Jonathan Park, son of Jonathan Park (4), was born in Newton, Massachusetts, March 30, 1695. He was executor of his father's estate. He removed to Sutton, Massachusetts, in 1730, when the town was in its infancy, and bought land there of Will- iam Dow in 1730. There is a mortgage on record dated February 8, 1734-35, to John Chandler, of Worcester, and Gershom Keyes, of Boston, dis- charged 1751. He deeded forty acres of land Feb- ruary 28, 1750, to his son Phineas. His will was made August 14, 1761, at Sutton, and mentions his children as given below: Jonathan, born August I, 1722, married Lucy - and had Caleb, Reuben, Samuel, Hannah Trask, Lucy Putnam, Nelly John- son, Betty Ruggles (married names of daughters) ; Sarah, born May 8, 1724, married - Putnam : Abi- gail, born at Newton, October 30, 1725, married Sibley ; Lucy, born at Newton, March 27, 1727, died 1730; Phineas, born in Newton, June 8, 1729, see forward; Lucy, born at Sutton, after 1730, mentioned in will; married - Sibley; Dorcas, married at Sutton, - Woodbury.


(VI) Phineas Park, son of Jonathan Park (5), was born in Newton, Massachusetts, June 8, 1729. He came to Sutton with the family when he was a child in arms. He deeded land to Reuben Park, his cousin, October 21, 1771, and bought land of him near the line between Sutton and Worcester, March 31, 1772. He left no will and there is little on record about him. His wife was Ruth, born 1725, who died at Millbury, December 13, 1821, aged ninety- five years, eight months. Their children were : Moses, see forward; Aaron, owned land in common with Moses and Joshua, divided 1781 ; Joshua.


(V11) Moses Park, son of Phineas Park (6), was born in Sutton, Massachusetts, 1750, died Jan- uary 13, 1841, at Millbury, aged ninety-two years. Moses, Aaron and Joshua Park bought of John


Todd and John Todd, Jr., April, 1779, land in Sut- ton and held it in common until March 16, 1781, when a deed of partition was executed by the broth - ers. Moses lived and died in Sutton. He made his will there March 1, 1832, and it was hiled in 1842, the year of his death. lle married Lydia - and their children were: John, had the real estate of his father and paid the legacies to his brothers and sisters ; he died 1854; Moses, Jr; Aaron, born 1781, died 1840; Hervey ( spelled with the "a" in will), see forward; Lucy, married Smith ; Lydia, married - Barber, left three children.


(VIII) Hervey Park, son of Moses Park (7), was born in Sutton, Massachusetts, about 1790. He lived at Millbury and Sutton. He was an expert machinist and was employed many years in the old armory at Millbury, making gunstocks for the United States government. Ile married Joanna Robbins. Their child was: Hervey, born at Millbury, Octo- ber 12, 1831, see forward.


(IX) Hervey Park, Jr., son of Hervey Park (8), was born in Millbury, Massachusetts, October 12, 1831. He was educated in the common schools there and became a farmer. He was progressive and re- sourceful. He kept pace with new methods and ma- chinery for the farm and acquired a comfortable competence. He was active in political affairs, a Re- publican of some prominence, and served the town of Millbury as assessor for a number of years, render- ing efficient and valuable service. He was a member of the Millbury Lodge of Free Masons. He attended the Baptist church. He died at the homestead, No- vember 26, 1900. Mr. Park married Amanda Guild, daughter of Samuel Guild, of Augusta. Maine. She died before her father. Their children were: Mary Lydia, whose home is in Worcester; Ada Eliza, re- sides on the homestead; Edwin Hervey, resides on farm, married Nellie Lovell and had three children ; Alice Amanda, married Walter Howe and has three children: Lucy, died young : Charles William, re- sides in East Aurora, New York, administrator of father's estate: imarried Mary Bunker and they have four children.


CHARLES F. SOULE. The great-great-grand- father of Charles F. Soule, of Millbury, Massachu- setts, came from Canada and settled in Wales, Mas- sachusetts, before the revolution. He had a brother who came at the same time and settled in Buffalo, New York.


(II) Anson Soule was born at Wales, Massa- chusetts. He settled in his native town and was a farmer. He was a man of considerable prominence in his day.


(III) William Soule, son of Anson Soule (2), was born at Wales, Massachusetts. He was raised on the old homestead, educated in the public schools of Wales and became a farmer. He followed the life of a farmer.


(IV) Anson Soule, son of William Soule (3), was born at Wales, Massachusetts, on the old home- stead in 1831, and is now living in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. He was educated there in the con- mon schools and learned the trade of shoemaker. After making shoes for several years he returned to the farm and farming became his life occupation. He has been an active Republican. He is possessed of the confidence and friendship of the entire com- munity in which he has lived so many years. He married Susan Heath, who was the mother of five children: Marana, Laura, Charles F., Pearline and Henry. He married ( second) Juliette Bliss.




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