Dennes

Abt 1631 - 1707  (~ 76 years)

• Name	Dennes
  Alternate birth	Abt 1625  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1631	England   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Mar 1707	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut   [1, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Person ID	I11037	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	9 Mar 2022

  
  

  Family	Richard Sperry,   b. 1606, Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England d. 1698, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut (Age 92 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1648	New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut   [2, 7, 8]
  Children	+ 1. Esther Sperry,   b. 16 Sep 1654, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut d. 1707, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut (Age 52 years) + 2. Nathaniel Sperry,   b. 13 Aug 1656, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut d. 1735, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut (Age 78 years) + 3. Daniel Sperry,   b. 7 Jul 1665, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut d. 24 Apr 1750, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F6244	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Jan 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Dennis. It has been persistently asserted over the years that Richard Sperry's wife Dennes was the daughter of the affluent London merchant Stephen Goodyear who emigrated to New Haven in or before 1638. In 1646 Goodyear's wife embarked back to England and was lost at sea. Goodyear himself returned to London in 1656 and died shortly thereafter. It appears to be actually the case that Sperry's passage to New England was paid by Goodyear, that Goodyear had a house built for Sperry on the Connecticut lands that Goodyear had purchased, and that Sperry farmed those lands for Goodyear and later acquired them in his own right. Certainly all of this makes sense if Sperry was the man who married "the boss's daughter", as W. M. Bollenbach puts it in The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson (citation details below). Unfortunately no record exists to confirm this, and no "Dennes" or variant thereof has ever been found listed among the documented offspring of Stephen Goodyear.

  
  

• Sources

  [S4170] Ancestry of Jabez Perkins, 1766-1836, of New Haven, CT., Ashe/Wilkes Co., NC, Grayson Co., VA, Bureau/Putnam Co., IL, and Knox/Whitley Co., KY. by Steven C. Perkins. 1989-2000. [S662] The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson, 1899-1986: Memoirs, and Bollenbach Genealogy by W. M. Bollenbach, Jr. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 2003. [S185] Families of Ancient New Haven, originally published as New Haven Genealogical Magazine, vols. I-VIII, compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus. Rome, New York: Clarence D. Smith, 1923-1932., year only. [S662] The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson, 1899-1986: Memoirs, and Bollenbach Genealogy by W. M. Bollenbach, Jr. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 2003., year and place only. [S727] Spooner Saga: Judah Paddock Spooner and His Wife Deborah Douglas of Connecticut and Vermont and Their Descendants by Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes. Boston: 1997., year only. [S4176] Evans Family Web Page by David R. Evans. 2016. [S4170] Ancestry of Jabez Perkins, 1766-1836, of New Haven, CT., Ashe/Wilkes Co., NC, Grayson Co., VA, Bureau/Putnam Co., IL, and Knox/Whitley Co., KY. by Steven C. Perkins. 1989-2000., says "1644 (?)". [S4176] Evans Family Web Page by David R. Evans. 2016., says "~1647".