Capt. Daniel Denny

1694 - 1760  (65 years)

• Name	Daniel Denny  [1]
  Prefix	Capt.
  Birth	30 Nov 1694	Combs, Suffolk, England   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	13 Apr 1760	Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts   [3, 5]
  Alternate death	16 Apr 1760  [2, 4]
  Burial	Rawson Brook Burial Ground, Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts   [2]
  Person ID	I47723	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2026

  
  

  Father	Thomas Denny   d. Bef 22 Nov 1717
  Mother	Grace Cooke,   b. Mar 1655   d. Bef 19 Dec 1741 (Age < 86 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1686  [4, 6]
  Family ID	F27725	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	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   [5]
  Notes	Date of intention. C. C. Denny (citation details below) says they were married in December 1722.
  Children	+ 1. Col. Samuel Denny,   b. 20 May 1731, Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts d. 20 Sep 1817, Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 86 years)
  Family ID	F27684	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2026

  
  

• Notes

  His gravestone says he died 16 Apr 1760, while the published town records say 13 Apr 1760. Also, his gravestone says he was "born in the County of Essex in England", while if Genealogy of the Denny Family in England and America (citation details below) is correct, his family lived in Suffolk, not Essex. He left England in June 1715, arriving in Boston on 12 September of that year, and removed to Leicester in March 1717.

  
  

• Sources

  [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. [S9221] Find a Grave page for Capt Daniel Denny. [S4048] H. L. L. Denny, "Some Pedigrees of Denny, Le Denneys, Etc." Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute for Archaeology & History 19:322, 1927., year only. [S9223] Genealogy of the Denny Family in England and America by C. C. Denny. Leicester, Massachusetts, 1886. [S9222] Vital Records of Leicester, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1903. [S4048] H. L. L. Denny, "Some Pedigrees of Denny, Le Denneys, Etc." Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute for Archaeology & History 19:322, 1927.