Notes for George Denison: . Captain George DENISON born Dec 1620 in Bishop's Stratford, Hertfordshire, England and was christened 10 Dec 1620 in Bishop's Stratford, Hertfordshire, England. He died 23 Oct 1694 in Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut and was buried in Old Center Church Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut. George was christened 10 Dec 1620 in Bishop's, Stratford, Hertfordshire, England.pa DENISON GENEALOGY, by Denison, Peck, Jacobus, ge 1 George's bro. Gen. Danl Denison wrote in 1672 "My two brothers, Edward and George had all the estate of my father left between them, being both married long before my father's death: my Brother George buried his first Wife in the year 1643, went into England was a souldier there above 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. The tradition that George served in Cromwell's army is thus verified. The story is also told that he was wounded and was nursed at the home of John Borodell, a cordwainer, (leather merchant) of Cork, by his dau Ann who he married for his second wife. During 15 sessions George was Deputy for New London or Stonington at the CT General Ct., and he died at Hartford, while discharging this duty. His gravestone, which was cut by an illustrious craftsman, James Stanclift, Sr., is in the yard of the old Center Church, Hartford. ELDRED AND ASSOCIATED FAMILIES, Researched by: Catherine Matson & Clarice McNiven, Compiled by: Carol & Susan Matson, pp. 56.
George came to New England in 1633 on the "Lion". After the death of his wife Bridget, he returned to England and joined Cromwell's army. The story is told that he was wounded and was nursed at the home of John Borodell, a cordwainer (leather merchant) of Cork, Ireland, and later married his daughter, Ann. His first appearance after his return with Ann was in 1651 principally as a Guarantee of New London, CT. He had been in Roxbury, MA where he had a house lot given him on his settling there. He was a Capt. in 1647 in Roxbury and a Freeman in 1648. He was called a "young soldier lately come out of the wars in England". He was called a bold and distinguishing leader. He served as Deputy to the Connecticut General Court from New London CT, Sept. 1653 to May 1654 and Feb. 1657. He served from Stonington CT Oct 1671, Oct 1674, 1678, 1682, 1683, and to the time of his death. When George was first mentioned in CT records he is called "Captain", based upon his service and commissioned in England. He served on the War Commission for New London in 1653, when war threatened with the Dutch. Although only 56, he served as Capt. in King Phillip's war in 1676 in command of the New London Troops and 2nd in command of the Conn. Army under Robert Treat. He was appointed Provost Marshall in 1677. NEED TO GET PAGE 57. Researching this line is Munson Hinman at topbari@pacbell.net Sources: Montville; Park Society Newsletter, 1978, #3; Potter-Richardson Memorial; Coe; The Great Migration Begins, v1, p523; Magna Carta Sureties 163-11; AF. Montville Capt. George Denison, born 1618 in England, came to New England about 1631 with his father and two brothers and settled at Roxbury, Mass. He married Bridget Thompson of Stonington in 1640 and had two daughters. After her death in 1643, he returned to England "and engaged in the civil war"--side not stated. In Ireland he married Anne Bordil, daughter of John Brodil. They had seven children: John, George, William, Anne, Margaret, Brodil and Mary. The daughters by Bridget Thompson were Sarah, born 20 March 1641, who married a Stanton, and Hannah, born 20 May 1643, who married a Saxton. He was the first representative from Stonington in the General Assembly at Hartford. He died 23 Oct. 1694, age 76, while attending the assembly at Hartford. Memorial: George Denison, 1618-1694, son of William and Margaret (Chandler) Denison of Roxbury. Migration: George Denison, baptized 10 Dec. 1620 at Bishop's Stratford, Hertfordshire. Married (1) Bridget Thompson March 1640 in Roxbury, and (2) Ann Borodell about 1645 in England. [Article on his father, William, and his family begins on page 521.] Sureties: Capt. George Denison, gentleman. Baptized Bishop's Stratford, Hertfordshire 10 Dec. 1620. Died Hartford, Conn., 23 Oct. 1694. Married (1) Bridget Tompson; (2) Ann Borodell. He was the son of William Denison and Margaret (Chandler) Monck. Hertfordshire,England DEATH: 23 Oct 1694, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Father: William DENISON Mother: Margaret CHANDLER
Family 2 : Ann BORODELL MARRIAGE: 1645, Naseby, Northamton, England daughter of John BORODELL and Anne BROUGHTON, about 1645 in Cork, County Cork, Ireland. Ann was born 17 Mar 1615/1616 in Cork, Co. Cork, Ireland. She died 26 Sep 1712 in Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut and was buried in Elm Grove Cemetery, Mystic, New London Co., Connecticut. DENISON GENEALOGY, by Denison, Peck & Jacobus, page 1. Father John Borodell, cordwainer (leather merchant) of Cork, Ireland. age 97
1640 - George DENISON, age 20, wrote a proposal of marriage in the form of a love poem to Bridget THOMPSON, the daughter of John and Alice (FREEMAN) THOMPSON. A copy of this poem appears in the DENISON NEWSLETTER (July 1985), No.77, p.4 as follows: "It is an ordinance, my dear divine Which God unto the sons of men makes shine. Even marriage is that whereof I speak And unto you my mind therein I beak. In Paradise, of Adam, God did tell To be alone, for man, would not be well. He in His wisdom thought it right To bring a woman into Adam's sight. A helper that for him might be most meet And comfort him by her doing discreet. I of that stock am sprung, I mean from him And also of that tree I am a limb A branch though young, yet do I think it good That God's great vows by man be not withstood. Alone I am, a helper I would find Which might give satisfaction to my mind. The party that doth satisfy the same Is Mistress Bridget Thompson by her name. God having drawn my affections unto thee My Heart's desire is thine may be to me. Thus with my blottings though I trouble you Yet pass these by cause I know not how Though they at this time should much better be For love it is the first have been to thee And I wish that they much better were. Therefore I pray accept them as they are So hoping my desire I shall obtain. Your own true lover, I, George Denison by name. From my father's house in Roxbury To Miss Bridget Thompson, 1640."
1640 - George DENISON (1618-1694) married (1st) in May 1640 to Bridget THOMPSON (1622-1643), daughter of John and Alice (FREEMAN) THOMPSON. They had two daughters: Sarah DENISON (1641-1701) married 1659 Thomas STANTON; and Hannah DENISON married (1) 1659 Nathaniel CHESBROUGH, m. (2) 1680 Joseph SAXTUN. Wheeler, Richard Anson, HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, CONNECTICUT , 1643 - Bridget (THOMPSON) DENISON, wife of George DENISON, died in August 1643 at Roxbury, Mass. The day following the funeral, "not even returning to his house for a handkerchief," he left his two infant daughters with his mother-in-law, Alice (FREEMAN) THOMPSON PARKE (She married second to Robert PARKE); and immediately returned to England, where he enlisted in Oliver CROMWELL's army and served in the Civil War there on the Parliamentary side. He was at the battle of York, or Marston Moor; was wounded at Nasesby; and taken to the house of a gentleman named John BORODEL, whose daughter Ann nursed him, and they were married in 1644 - George DENISON was promoted to Captain in the cavalry in the Parliamentary army. In the battle of Marston Moor, July 1644, he had fought bravely, maybe desperately, since he was taken prisoner. He escaped, and a year later in the decisive engagement at Naesby, he was badly wounded. To recover from his war wounds, he went to Cork, Ireland where his uncle, Edward DENISON, had been appointed Deputy Governor by the Parliament. At Cork, he found lodging at the home of well-to-do John BORODELL, a merchant in leather wares. George DENISON, fell in love with his nurse, Ann BORODELL, daughter of his host . 1645 - The Rehoboth town records describes an incident that occurred on the occasion of the removal of Joseph PECK to Seekonk (Rehoboth) in 1645. "Mr. Joseph PECK and three others at Hingham, being about to remove to Seaconk, riding thither they sheltered themselves and their horses in an Indian wigwam, which by some occasion took fire, and although there were four in it and (they) labored to their utmost, burnt three of their horses to death, and all their goods, to the value of fifty pounds." He was second on the tax list at Rehoboth. His house was upon the plain in the northerly part of the "Ring of the Town," near the junction of the present Pawtucket with the old Boston and Bristol road, not far from the Boston and Providence railroad station (in 1911). - Cutter, William Richard, et.al., GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT (N.Y. 1911), v. , pp.51-52; James Kendall Hosmer, ed., WINTHROP'S JOURNAL "HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND" (1908), v.II, p.224. 1645 - George DENISON married (2nd) 1644/5, in Ireland, to Ann BORODELL, dau. of John BORODELL of Cork, Ireland. Her brother, John BORODELL, as was the custom of the time, settled upon her a dowry of 300 pounds, which her husband later, in 1662, acknowledged in a deed filed in Hartford. They returned to Roxbury in New England, where they had children: John Boradell DENISON (1646-1698) m. 1667 Phebe LAY; Ann DENISON (1649-1694) m. 1667 Gershom PALMER; Boradell DENISON (1651-1702) m. 1680 Samuel STANTON; George DENISON (1653-1711) m. Mercy GORHAM; William DENISON (1655-1715) m. 1686 Sarah (STANTON) PRENTICE; Margaret DENISON (1657-1741) m. James BROWN, Jr.; and Mercy DENISON (1659-1671); Wildley, Anna Chesebrough, GENEALOGY of the DESCENDANTS of WILLIAM CHESEBROUGH (1903), p.519-20; THE SECOND BOAT, v.3, p.63; v.4, p.104. 1645 - Margaret (CHANDLER) DENISON, wife of William DENISON, died at Roxbury, Mass. on 3 February 1645. She is buried in Old Eliot St. Cemetery, Roxbury. The church record of Rev. John ELIOT, says of her, "It pleased God to work upon her heart and change it in her ancient years after she came to this capital, and joined to the church in the year 1632." Ohler, Clara Paine, ANCESTORS and DESCENDANTS of CAPTAIN JOHN JAMES and ESTHER DENISON (1912), pp.148; Brown, Mrs. F. W., SOME OF THE ANCESTORS of OLIVER HAZARD PERRY (1911), Part I, pp.22-23. 1646 - In June 1646, just short of three years after he had abruptly fled from Roxbury, George DENISON returned with his new wife, Ann. He received a hero's welcome (particularly by the young men of the town who viewed him as a hero home from the wars.) George and Ann (BORODELL) DENISON collected little Sarah and Hannah from the girl's grandmother THOMPSON, and on 14 July 1646, their own first child, John Borodell DENISON was born. 1647 - Winthrop's Journal record dated 30 May 1647: "Captain WELDE of Roxbury being dead, the young men of the town agreed together to choose one George DENISON, a young soldier come lately out of the wars in England, which the ancient and chief men of the town understanding, they came together at the time appointed, and chose one Mr. PRICHARD, a godly man and one of the chief in the town, passing by their lieutenant, fearing least the young DENISON would have carried it from him, whereupon much discontent and murmuring arose in the town. The young men were over strongly bent to have their will, although their election was void in law, (George DENISON not being then a freeman,) and the ancient men over-voted them above twenty, and the lieutenant was discontented because he was neglected, etc. The cause coming to the court, and all parties being heard, Mr. PRICHARD was allowed, and the young men were pacified, and the lieutenant." - James Kendall Hosmer, ed., WINTHROP'S JOURNAL "HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND" (1908), v.II, pp.323-324. (George DENNISON had imbibed in Cromwell's army, ideas and a spirit which did not commend him to the Roxbury brethren, whose minister had been the strict Thomas WELDE, but he was a brave and active soldier, as was proved in Philip's War.) - . George DENISON came in 1654 with his family and located a little north of MINER on a rocky knoll overlooking a great meadow with a glimpse of the ocean beyond. He erected a little lean-to and surrounded it with a stout stockade. 1650 - George DENISON was a candidate for Commander of the Roxbury Train Band (militia company) in 1650. He was supported by the young men, but their elders, remembering his boyish pranks, and his inexplicable desertion of the baby daughters upon the death of his first wife, favored his opponent. He lost by a close vote. Considering himself better qualified for the position, he took the defeat badly, and in a gust of anger he left Roxbury for the new settlement in Connecticut at Pequot (New London), which had been opened to settlement by the English as a result of the defeat of the Pequot Indians, twelve years earlier, by Major John MASON. Haynes, Williams, CAPTAIN GEORGE and LADY ANN (1963).. 1651 - George DENISON removed from Roxbury, Massachusetts to New London, Conn. in 1651. George DENISON's hurt feelings at losing the election at Roxbury, were soon salved at New London where he was promptly named captain of the Train Band. He was allotted a choice house lot of six acres on what is now Hempstead Street. He also was granted twenty acres of marshland for grazing is cattle. 1653 - On 25 April 1653, William CHESBROUGH, Capt. George DENISON, Obadiah BRUEN and Jonathan BREWSTER drew up the first New London Company grand list 1653 - In September 1653, Robert PARK sold 96 acres on the west Bank of Mystic River to George DENISON. (George DENISON,s first mother-in-law, Alice (FREEMAN) THOMPSON had married second to Robert PARK.) 1654 - George DENISON came to Pequotsepos (Stonington) from New London in 1654 with his wife, Ann (BORODELL) DENISON, and his children: Sarah, age 13; Hannah, 11; (daughters of his first wife); John, 8; Ann, 5; Borodell, 3; and the infant George, Jr. They located a little north of Thomas MINER on a rocky knoll overlooking a great meadow with a glimpse of the ocean beyond. He erected a little lean-to and surrounded it with a stout stockade. Haynes, Williams, CAPTAIN GEORGE and LADY ANN (1963); Williams Haynes, STONINGTON CHRONOLOGY (1976), p.12; Richard Anson Wheeler, HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON (Reprinted 1977), p.5. 1654 - George DENISON was a deputy of the General Court from Stonington in the years 1654, 1656, 1671, 1674, 1675, 1678, 1682-87, 1689, 1693, and 1694. 1653 - On 25 April 1653, William CHESBROUGH, Capt. George DENISON, Obadiah BRUEN and Jonathan BREWSTER drew up the first New London Company grand list --- total 16,670 pounds. - Williams Haynes, STONINGTON CHRONOLOGY (1976), p.12. 1654 - George DENISON was a deputy of the General Court from Stonington in the years 1654, 1656, 1671, 1674, 1675, 1678, 1682-87, 1689, 1693, and 1694. 1655 - George DENISON sold his house to John CHENNERY of Boston in 16551657 - The first religious service in Stonington was held, 22 March 1657, at Walter PALMER's in Wequetequock by the Reverend William THOMPSON, brother-in-law of Captain George DENISON. THOMPSON was a missionary sent from Boston to the Pequot Indians. - Williams Haynes, STONINGTON CHRONOLOGY (1976), p.13. 1657 - At the General Court at New London, 9 May 1657, Captain George DENISON "doth acknowledge ... that hee spake corruptly in saying that Mr BLINNMAN did preach for Pawcatuck and Mystik being a town before hee sold his land at Mystik," and the Court ordered that the inhabitants of Mystic continue to pay Mr. BLINNMAN his dues. - Williams Haynes, STONINGTON CHRONOLOGY (1976), p.13. (Note: The Rev. Richard BLINNMAN was a brother-in-law to George DENISON, having married Mary THOMPSON, sister of Bridget THOMPSON and daughter of John and Alice THOMPSON.) 1657 - The isolation of the early residents of Stonington made it difficult or impossible for them to attend the nearest church at New London. They had twice petitioned the General Court at Hartford for the right to establish their own church. Four times they were blankly refused. They were outraged when they were ordered to pay tithes for the support of the New London church and its pastor. The first spark of "taxation without representation" kindled brightly. The Stonington settlers met at Thomas MINER's, near the center of their scattered settlement, and planned their strategy. George DENISON offered a bold but clever plan. "Since it is exceedingly unlikely that our cause at Hartford shall come to a happy issue, let us address our petition to the General Court at Boston." Massachusetts claimed all the territory east of the Thames "by right of conquest" in the Pequot War. It was a thin claim, since the Massachusetts militia company had arrived after John MASON and his ninety Connecticut men had destroyed the two Pequot forts, but the case was currently before the Commissioners of the United Colonies, and a petition from the inhabitants of this disputed region was sure to be welcomed at Boston. On 16 October 1657, Captain George DENISON was sent to Boston with the petition of the settlers requesting that they be granted "the Liberties and privileges of a Township" in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was signed by George DENISON, Walter PALMER, John GALLUP, William THOMPSON, and Thomas STANTON, "for the rest of the Inhabitants and with their consent." George DENISON was chosen to carry the petition not only because he was a disinguished veteran of CROMWELL's "Ironsides"; but his brother, Daniel DENISON, was husband of Patience DUDLEY, the daughter of the late Colonial Governor of Massachusetts, Thomas DUDLEY (1576-1653). The Massachusetts magistrates received DENISON warmly; however, following the dictates of intercolonial politics, they discreetly advised the petitioners to set up their own local government. Massachusetts used the petition to make their case regarding claims to the disputed area, and on 21 October 1657, Massachusetts made formal claim at Hartford to land east of the Pequot (Thames) River. The area which is now Stonington became part of Massachusetts for a period of four years until 1662 when, under the Charter of King Charles II, the boundaries were fixed and Pawcatuck country, rechristened Stonington, was returned to Connecticut. Haynes, Williams, CAPTAIN GEORGE and LADY ANN (1963); Haynes, William, STONINGTON CHRONOLOGY (1976), p.13-14; Richard Anson Wheeler, HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON (Reprinted 1977), p.6-13; THE SECOND BOAT, v.6, pp.7-8. 1658 - On 10 May 1658, Massachusetts forwarded the second petition of the Stonington Settlers to the Commissioners of the United Colonies, with the suggestion to the Pawcatuck people that they order their affairs by common consent. On 30 June 1658 the Stonington settlers drew up a sort of dry-land Mayflower Compact or Declaration of Independence, "The Association of the Poquatuck People." The pact was signed by George DENISON, Thomas SHAW, Nathaniel CHESEBROUGH, Elihu PALMER, Thomas STANTON, Elisha CHESEBROUGH, Moses PALMER, Walter PALMER, Tho. STANTON, William CHESEBROUGH, and Samuel CHESEBROUGH. The Commissioners of the United Colonies settled the Pawcatuck dispute by allotting all the Pequot territory east of the Mystic River, continuing from it's head through the middle of Lantern Hill Pond and then due north to Massachusetts, and all west of this boundary to Connecticut. Massachusetts upon accepting the Pawcatuck territory, renamed the town "Southertown" and appointed George DENISON, Robert PARK, William CHESEBROUGH, Thos. STANTON, Walter PALMER, and John MINER as a committee to conduct the prudential affairs of the town. DENISON, CHESEBROUGH, and MINER were authorized to try cases; Walter PALMER, constable; and DENISON, clerk of the writs, empowered to solemnize marriages. The bounds of the town were extended northward 8 miles from the mouth of the Mystic. - Haynes, William, STONINGTON CHRONOLOGY (1976), p.13-14. 1658 - There was strong feelings on both sides in Stonington between partisans of Connecticut and Massachusetts. Thomas MINER was questioned at Walter PALMER's house on whether he intended to take Capt. DENISON's place as leader; if as leader he would make a division of the town; whether he would deliver the town to Connecticut authorities; and other matters. 1662 - A pre-nuptial agreement had been entered into between George DENISON and Ann BORODELL. It was ratified and confirmed at Hartford, Conn., 3 May 1662, as follows: "This witnesseth that I, George DENISON, of Southertown, in Connecticut, jurisdiction in New England, for and in consideration of a jointure due unto my now wife, Ann Borodell Denison, upon marriage and upon my former engagement, in consideration of the sum of three hundred pounds by me received of Mr. John BORODELL, which he freely gave to my wife, his sister, Ann Borodell Denison, and I have had the use and improvement of and for, and in consideration of conjugal and dearer affection moving me, thereto ---," etc. See First Book of Connecticut State records, Hartford, Conn., page 274; Richard Anson Wheeler, HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON (Reprinted 1977), p.711. 1663 - Captain DENISON raised his "grate manor house" at Pequotsepos on 8 May . 1664 - 16 June 1664, on order of the United Colonies, Daniel DENISON (brother of Captain George DENISON) and Daniel GOOKIN laid out 2,000 acres at Cossaduck Hill for use of the Pequots. The Court "doe hereby declare that what irregularities and abusive practices have proceeded from them whereby they have seemed to offer contempt to the authority her established, it shall be forgiven and buryed in perpetual oblivion and forgetfulness." Pardon was granted to all "Captyn DENISON, he only excepted, who hath neglected or refused to submit himselfe peaceable to the order of the Council of this colony." THE SECOND BOAT, v.6, pp.7-8. 1664 - Captain George DENISON remained defiant to the authority of Connecticut, and on 11 November he was hailed into the local courts for performing the marriage ceremony of William MEASURE and Alice TINKER under a commission granted to him in 1658 by Massachusetts. 1664 - In the fall of 1664/5 the peace of Stonington was disturbed by a pair of rowdy womanizers, John CARR from Rhode Island, and his pal John ASHCROFT. John CARR was sued by Geo. DENISON for "engaging the affections of his daughter Ann without leave" and for stealing a hat, belt, and silver spoon. The culprit retracted and was fined 34 pounds, 7s. 5d., a good round sum in those days. But on 10 December 1664, CARR and ASHCROFT were arrested for engaging in a fight with John GALLUP (who also had some pretty daughters); and the next year the pair were again arraigned for "endeavoring to entice women from their husbands." CARR later was jailed in Rhode Island, but in 1670 he escaped with an Indian companion and fled to the Narragansetts. - Williams Haynes, STONINGTON CHRONOLOGY (1976), p.15,21. A Stonington town meeting was held at the home of George DENISON on 28 February 1666. 1666 - The May 1666 session of the General Court changed the name of Mystic, Connecticut (earlier Southertown) to Stonington. At the same General Court session, a pardon was granted to George DENISON, and . 1672 - The following was extracted from a document written by Major General Daniel DENISON (1612-1682), December 26, 1672, to his grandchildren, John, Daniel and Martha DENISON: "Your grandfather (William) DENISON was born in England at Bishop's Stratford in Hertfordshire, in which town he married and lived till the year of our Lord 1631, with two brothers, Edward and George, who all of them had children. George the youngest brother had a son named also George, my cousin German, who was living in Stratford in the year 1672, as your uncle, Harlackenden SYMOUNDS, told me, who was that year in England and spoke with him. My uncle, Edward, had also children, and in the year 1631, removed himself and family into Ireland, where he died and left a son called John DENISON who was a soldier and major of a regiment in the time of the wars, and deputy governor of Corke, Ireland, where Mr. WAINWRIGHT saw him. I have received divers letters from him; he was living in Dublin in the year 1670. Your great-grandfather, my dear father, whose name was William DENISON, had by my dear mother, whose name was CHANDLER, six sons, and one daughter, two of which, viz: One son and the daughter died in their childhood; one son, who was the second named William, about 18 years of age, would needs go a soldier into Holland in the year 1624, at the famous siege of Breda when it was taken by SPINOLA, and Count MANSFIELD had an army out of England, to have raised the siege but the army miscarried, and my brother, William, was never heard of since. "We were now but four brothers left, viz: John, Daniel, Edward, and George. John and myself were bred scholars at Cambridge, where I continued till after I had taken my first degree. Your grandfather, my father, though very well seated in Stratford, hearing of the then famous transplantation to New England, unsettled himself and recalling me from Cambridge removed himself and family in the year 1631 to New England, and brought over with him myself being about 19 years of age, and my two brothers, Edward and George, leaving my eldest brother, John, behind him in England, married with a good portion, who was a minister, and lived about Pelham or in Hartfordshier, not far from Stratford, where he was born. "My father brought with him into New England a very good estate and settled himself at Roxbury, and there lived (though somewhat weakening his estate), till the year 1653 in January, when he died, having buried my mother about eight years before. "My two brothers Edward and George (who were your great uncles) had all the Estate my father left between them, being both married long before my father's death; my Brother George buried his first wife in the year 1643, went into England was a soldier there above 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 after removed himself to New London near whereunto (viz) at Stonington he now liveth, having three sons John, William, and George, 4 or 5 daughters; his eldest son John is married, and hath children which are your cousins, and 3 of his daughters are married to STANTON, PALMER, and CHEESEBROOH, all living at present in the same town. ---" NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, Vol.46, . 1675 - Thomas STANTON, John STANTON, and Capt. George DENISON were among those who presented a petition and protest to the General Assembly of Connecticut, on behalf of the town of Southertown (Stonington). They protested against certain laws deemed by them unjust to their rights, peace and liberty. For so doing, one of them, Capt. DENISON, was fined 10 pounds, and forbidden to hold office. Another one, Mr. John STANTON, "the towne's agent, for management of his agency, is fined ten pounds for that boldness, to be paid at the latter end of summer, at Boston, in money or corn, according to order." Meanwhile came the Indian uprising of King Philips War, and in May 1677, the fine, not yet paid, was revoked in recognition of the defendants' services in the war. - Stanton, William A., THOMAS STANTON
1694 - George DENISON, age 74, died 24 October 1694. His last illness and death occurred while attending the General Court at Hartford, Connecticut. Owing to the bad condition of the roads at that time, it was impossible to convey the remains to his home for burial, a distance of forty-four miles, and he was buried in the cemetery back of the old Center church at Hartford. His widow, Ann (BORODELL) DENISON, died 26 Sept. 1712, aged 97 years; and she is buried in Elm Grove cemetery, Mystic, Connecticut. Ohler, Clara Paine, ANCESTORS and DESCENDANTS of CAPTAIN JOHN JAMES and ESTHER DENISON (1912), pp.146-160.
More About George Denison: Burial: Cemetery back of the old Center Grove Church.
More About George Denison and Bridget Thompson: Unknown-Begin: 1640, Roxbury Mass..
More About George Denison and Ann Borodell: Unknown-Begin: 1645, England.
Children of George Denison and Bridget Thompson are:
George Denison (b. Bef. December 20, 1620, d. October 23, 1694)
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