William Denison

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• Alternate death: 25 Jan 1653, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts

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He was a maltster and a merchant. Emigrated 1631 on the Lyon, along with the Rev. John Eliot, later "apostle to the Indians," said to have been William Denison's children's tutor. With his son Edward, William Denison was among the supporters of Mrs. Hutchinson who were disarmed along with the Rev. John Wheelwright.

William married Margaret Chandler on 7 Nov 1603 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. Margaret (daughter of Tobias Chandler and Joan Momford) was born on 13 Oct 1577 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England; was christened on 13 Oct 1577 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England; died on 3 Feb 1646 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Arrived in New England in 1631. In his autobiographical sketch written for his grandchildren, published in the The New England Historical and Genealogical Register in April 1892, he very specifically points out that the date of his baptism and of his marriage to Patience Dudley were exactly twenty years apart.

Daniel married Patience Dudley on 18 Oct 1632 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Patience (daughter of Thomas Dudley, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Dorothy Yorke) was born about 1612; died on 8 Feb 1690 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 28 Apr 1668, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts

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With his father, he was among those disarmed along with the Rev. John Wheelwright.

Edward married Elizabeth Weld on 30 Mar 1641 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Joseph Weld and Elizabeth Wise) was born before 22 Feb 1626; was christened on 22 Feb 1626 in All Saints, Sudbury, Suffolk, England; died on 5 Feb 1717 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Emigrated in 1631 with his parents and brothers. Settled at Roxbury, Massachusetts. Married Bridget Thompson, 1641. She died two years later, whereupon he returned to England to take up arms for Parliament. Was injured and (possibly) captured and escaped, a sequence of events that somehow resulted in him returning to Massachusetts in 1645 with a second wife, Ann Borodell. Removed to New London, 1651; served on the New London war committees in 1653 and 1654, when the Dutch threatened war. Removed to Stonington, 1654. Two decades later, we find him as captain of the New London County forces in King Philip's War, where he fought in and survived the Great Swamp Fight in Rhode Island, 19 Dec 1675. In 1676 he is "Provo-Marshall" of New London, pursuing remnants of the Narragansett and Wampanaug. He captured Chief Canonchet and worked with Pequot chiefs to "control the remnant of their tribe."

"We would premise, that William Denison, came to Roxbury, Mass., in company with Rev. John Eliot, in 1631, bringing with him his wife and three sons, Daniel, Edward and George. The last named married in 1640, Bridget Thompson, supposed to have been a sister of Rev. William Thompson, of Braintree. His wife died in 1643. Mr. Denison visited his native country the same year, 'and engaged in the civil conflict with which the kingdom was convulsed.' On his return to this country, about two years afterwards, he brought with him his second wife, Ann, daughter of John Borrowdale, or Borrodel, of Cork, Ireland. Mr. D. emigrated to Connecticut as early as 1651, and in 1654 settled in what is now Stonington, to which the name of Southerton was given in 1658, when the territory was annexed to the County of Suffolk, Mass. He filled acceptably many offices of public trust, and was particularly distinguished as a leader in King Philip's war. He died at Hartford, Oct. 23d, 1694, during the session of the General Court, and was there buried. His age, according to the inscription on his grave stone, was 76." [Introduction to "Will of George Denison,--1693", New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 13, 1859, p. 73.]

"My Brother George buried his first Wife in the year 1643, went to England, was a soldier there about a year, was at the Battle of York or Marston Moor where he did good service, was afterward taken prisoner, but got free, and having married a second Wife, he returned to New England the year before our Mother died, and not long afterward removed himself to New London, near whereunto at Stonington he now liveth." ["Autobiography of Major-General Daniel Denison." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 46:127, April 1892.]

Along with TNH ancestors William Chesebrough, Walter Palmer, and Thomas Stanton, he was one of the founders of Stonington, Connecticut.

George married Bridget Thompson in Mar 1640 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Bridget (daughter of John Tompson and Alice Freeman) was born before 10 Sep 1622 in Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England; was christened on 10 Sep 1622 in Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, England; died in Aug 1643 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was buried in Aug 1643 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

George married Ann Borodell about 1645 in England. Ann (daughter of John Borodell) was born about 1615; died on 26 Sep 1712 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; was buried in Elm Grove Cemetery, Mystic, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptised: 19 Dec 1650, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Margaret married Daniel Mason before 8 Feb 1674. Daniel (son of John Mason and Anne Peck) was born in Apr 1652 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 28 Jan 1737 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Said in some sources to have died 30 Sep 1677 in Roxbury, but her will was dated 8 Oct 1715 in Stonington.

Hannah married Nathaniel Chesebrough in 1659 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. Nathaniel (son of William Chesebrough and Ann Stevenson) was born before 25 Jan 1630; was christened on 25 Jan 1630 in St. Botolph's, Boston, Lincolnshire, England; died on 22 Nov 1678 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married Joseph Saxton on 15 Jul 1680 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. Joseph (son of Thomas Saxton and Ann Copp) was born on 9 May 1656 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts; was christened on 11 May 1656; died after 8 Jul 1715; was buried in Old Taugwonk Cemetery, Stonington, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He fought in King Philip's War.

William married Sarah Stanton in May 1686. Sarah (daughter of Thomas Stanton and Anna Lord) was born in 1655 in New London, New London, Connecticut; died on 7 Aug 1713. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ann married Deacon Gershom Palmer about 26 Nov 1667 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. Deacon (son of Walter Palmer and Rebecca Short) was born in 1644 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts; died on 27 Sep 1718 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; was buried on 30 Sep 1718 in Wequetequock Burial Ground, Stonington, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 16 Jul 1653, New London, New London, Connecticut

George married Mercy Gorham about 1677 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts. Mercy (daughter of Capt. John Gorham and Desire Howland) was born on 20 Jan 1658 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts; died on 24 Sep 1725 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Daniel married Dorothy Hobart on 9 Apr 1704. Dorothy (daughter of Rev. Jeremiah Hobart and Elizabeth Whiting) was born on 21 Aug 1679 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 11 Mar 1731. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sarah married Lt. William Gallup on 4 Jan 1687 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. William (son of Capt. John Gallup and Hannah Lake) was born in Apr 1658 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; died on 15 May 1731 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; was buried in White Hall Graveyard, Mystic, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Said by some to have died 4 Dec 1791 at Lebanon, Connecticut, aged 105. We doubt it.

Mercy Saxton (b. 1686) = William Dewey (1692-1759)
Elijah Dewey (b. 1728) = Abigail Martin
Martin Dewey (1757-1849) = Hannah Waterman (d. 1823)
Granville Dewey (1787-1840) = Harriet B. Freeman (1799-1872)
George Martin Dewey (1832-1897) = Emma Bingham (1837-1910)
George Martin Dewey (1869-1927) = Annie Thomas
Thomas Edmund Dewey (1902-1971) -- governor of New York 1943-54; Republican nominee for President in 1944 and 1948

Mercy Saxton (b. 1686) = William Dewey (1692-1759)
Simeon Dewey (1718-1751) = Anna Phelps (1719-1807)
William Dewey (1746-1813) = Rebecca Carrier (1747-1837)
Simeon Dewey (1770-1863) = Prudence Yeomans (1772-1844)
Julius Yemans Dewey (1801-1877) = Mary Polly Perrin (1799-1843)
Admiral George A. Dewey (1837-1917)

Mercy married Isaac Bayley on 4 Jun 1702 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut. Isaac (son of Rev. James Bayley and Mary Carr) was born on 2 Oct 1681 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 23 Aug 1711 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut; was buried in Old Cemetery, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mercy married William Dewey on 2 Jul 1713. William was born in Jan 1692 in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; died on 10 Nov 1759 in Albany, Albany, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1669
• Alternate birth: 8 Sep 1670, Stonington, New London, Connecticut

Notes:

"The Breed Family" (citation details below) says they were married 8 June 1691, but Buys (citations details below) gives the date and place we show, citing the records of the First Congregational Church (the "Road Church") in Stonington.

Mercy married John Breed on 11 Apr 1689 in First Congregational Church, Stonington, New London, Connecticut. John (son of Allen Breed and Mary) was born on 18 Jan 1663 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts; died in 1751. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Prudence Minor on 17 Feb 1707. Prudence (daughter of Joseph Minor and Mary Avery) was born before 6 May 1688 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; was christened on 6 May 1688 in Stonington Congregational Church, Stonington, New London, Connecticut; died on 17 May 1726. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 23 Nov 1749, Charlestown, Washington, Rhode Island

Elizabeth married Christopher Champlin on 5 Dec 1705 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. Christopher (son of Christopher Champlin) was born on 26 Sep 1684 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island; died on 23 Oct 1734 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]