Col. Samuel Denny

1731 - 1817  (86 years)

• Name	Samuel Denny  [1, 2, 3]
  Prefix	Col.
  Birth	20 May 1731	Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts   [4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	20 Sep 1817	Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts   [4, 5]
  Burial	Rawson Brook Burial Ground, Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts   [4]
  Person ID	I47695	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	2 Jul 2026

  
  

  Father	Capt. Daniel Denny,   b. 30 Nov 1694, Combs, Suffolk, England d. 13 Apr 1760, Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 65 years)
  Mother	Rebecca Jones,   b. Abt 1700, of Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts d. 20 Dec 1740, Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 40 years)
  Marriage	Aft 10 Nov 1722	Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts   [6]
  Notes	Date of intention. C. C. Denny (citation details below) says they were married in December 1722.
  Family ID	F27684	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elisabeth Henshaw,   b. 27 Sep 1737, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 7 Dec 1787, Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 50 years)
  Marriage	29 Sep 1757	Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts   [5, 7]
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Denny,   b. 1 Mar 1760, Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts d. 18 Nov 1846, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 86 years)
  Family ID	F27669	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2026

  
  

• Notes

  "Samuel served as a lieutenant colonel in Colonel William Henshaw's Regiment and appears on a list of staff officers who marched from Leicester on the alarm of 19 April 1775 with service of 10 1/2 days. He also served as a colonel in the 1s Worcester County Regiment and appears on a list of officers of Massachusetts militia; he was commissioned 2 February 1776. Colonel Samuel Denny signed a list of officers chosen by companies in his regiment dated at Lancaster, 28 March 1776. He served as a colonel in the First Worcester County regiment, Brig. Gen. Jonathan Warner's brigade, and appears on a general return of officers for equipments made by Adj. Gen. Peleg Wadsworth, dated 5 July 1779. He was also colonel in the 2d Regiment raised for three months and ordered to march to Claverack, New York, engaged 21 October 1779 and discharged 26 November 1779, with service of one month and fourteen days, travel included." [Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S2717] Massachusetts births and christenings, 1639-1915, on familysearch.org. [S742] The William Ward Genealogy: The History of the Descendants of William Ward of Sudbury, Mass., 1638-1925 by Charles Martyn. New York: Artemas Ward of the Seventh Generation, 1925. [S637] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden by Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999. [S9210] Find a Grave page for Col Samuel Denny. [S9212] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 16, Part 4, Family of John Alden, Fifth Generation Descendants of His Daughter, Ruth (Alden) Bass by Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2015. [S9222] Vital Records of Leicester, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1903. [S9211] Find a Grave page for Elizabeth Henshaw Denny.