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Lewis Denny was of French parentage, having been born in 1740 in French Territory, near present day Cahokia, Illinois.When he was 18 years of age, he along with his brother Martin and a French Officer, went to fight in the French and Indian war.At Fort Niagara, he and his brother were taken prisoner by the Mohawk Indians.He married a Mohawk woman and settled at Canaseraga.
Lewis son John, kept a road tavern and built the first frame house in the village of Canaseraga, which in 1823 became the town of Sullivan.John married Dorothea Dachstaeder (later becoming Doxtator) who was the daughter of Captain Honyere Tewahangarahken, alias Doxtader.
John and "Dolly"'s son, Abraham married Catherine Nellis, daughter of John Nellis.Abraham led the first band of Seneca Indians to Kansas and Missouri, where, according to his daughter, Mrs Jacob Doxtator (Catharine),"so many sickened and died there".He came to Wisconsin and talked a few Oneidas, Stockbridge and Brothertown Indians to remove to Indian territory.On this trip he died on the Little Osage River.
All of his children had removed to Wisconsin, including my great, great grandmother, Mary Ann Denny.Her son, Syrenius married a Brothertown woman, Harriet Elizabeth.Her grandfather was William Johnson, a descendant of "Augh Quant Johnson Otherwise Cato, of the Mohegan Tribe of Indians A young man who came over to England with Mr. Mason in the beginning of the year 1736."Harriet's grandmother was Charlotte Skeesuck, a Narragansett Indian from Charlestown, Rhode Island.
Descendants ofLEWIS DENNY
Updated September 1, 2002
Caroline Kristine Andler
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  • Syrenious Denny (7 KB)
    Syrenious Denny served both with the 2nd Wis Calvary, enlisting 16 October 1861 and mustering out on 19 August 1862 and also with the 38th Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers - Company C from the 24th of August 1864 to the 14th of June 1865.He was wounded at the battle of Petersburg by a musket ball hitting his knee.
  • Polly Dennie DeFerriere (14 KB)
    Polly, the daughter of Lewis Denny was painted by Frederick Spencer.The portrait hangs in the Madison County Historical Society, New York.
  • Harriet Elizabeth Mykel(Michel) Denny (1 KB)
    Harriet's father, Gilbert Mykel (Michel), died before Harriet was two years old.Her mother, Esther Johnson, remarried John Crosly Hammer, a Brothertown Indian.Harriet was raised in Brothertown, Calumet County, WI.
  • Edward Paul Bauer (2 KB)
    E. Paul Bauer, my father, was born in Fond du Lac but raised in Milwaukee.
  • Clara Belle Denny (2 KB)
    Clara Belle Denny was my grandmother, a very outspoken, strong woman who taught her children their Oneida heritage.
  • John Crosley Hammer, Husband of Esther Johnson (145 KB)
    John Crosley Hammer, a Narragansett Indian wasa Peacemaker with the Brothertown Indians in Wisconsin and one of the headmen of the tribe.
  • Illinois Country 1700 - 1763 (101 KB)
    Lewis Denny was born "on the Illinois River" in 1740.The Dana, Danio family were French fur trappers.
  • Lester Skeesuck, a Narragansett-Mohegan Indian (173 KB)
    Lester Skeesuck, was a member of the Brothertown Indians.He left Wisconsin and returned to Connecticut to live.
 

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