Daniel Denison Jr. (1730 - 1793)

Born 16 Sep 1730 in New London, New London County, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Katherine (Avery) Denison — married 1 Jul 1756 in Town of New London, New London County, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 17 Mar 1793 at age 62 in Stephentown, Rensselaer County, New York, United States

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Biography

Sergeant Daniel Denison Jr. served with New York Militia during the American Revolution.

Daniel Denison Jr. is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A031870.

Daniel Denison was born September 16, 1730, at New London, Connecticut. He was the second child of Daniel Denison and Rachel Starr.^[1]

(1) 1 Daniel DENISON Jr.

Birth: 16 Dec 1730, New London, New London County, CT Death: 15 Mar 1793, Stephentown, Rensselaer County, NY Burial: Mar 1793, Berlin, Rensselaer County, NY Bapt: 6 Dec 1730, First Church Of Christ, New London CT Father: Daniel DENISON (1703-1748) Mother: Rachel STARR (1705-1791)

Daniel Denison, Jr. (son of Daniel Denison, and great great great grandson of William Denison), born in New London, Conn., Dec.16, 1730; was married to Katherine Avery, July 1, 1756, who was a daughter of Col. Ebenezer Avery by his first wife. They settled in New London, where they lived until 1771, when they moved into the wilderness of New York, and settled in the town of Stephentown, Rensselaer County, east of Albany. He was one of the prominent men of the new settlement; held some important positions conferred upon him by the partiality of the citizens of the new settlement. By an act of the Legislature he was appointed one of three commissioners to adjust disputes of boundaries between the settlers. We make this extract from a memorandum book which he kept,and now in the hands of his grandson, Jonathan Denison, of South Berlin, N.Y.: "June 1771, I moved into this county from New London, and brought with me nine children." He died in 1793, and his wife died in 1825, aged 88 years. They were both buried in the family burying-ground in Berlin. The homestead remained in the family upward of 90 years. They had thirteen children, as follows :

He was listed in the Stephentown, Rensselaer County, NY Tax Records for the years 1790, & 91.

Spouse: Catherine AVERY Birth: 9 Jun 1737, New London, New London County, CT Death: 18 Aug 1825, Stephentown, Rensselaer County, NY Burial: 1825, Berlin, Rensselaer County, NY Father: Col. Ebenezer AVERY (1704-1780) Mother: Lucy LATHAM Marr: 1 Jul 1756, Groton, New London County, CT

Children:

1. Katherine Denison (1757-1851)
2. Daniel Denison (1758-1832)
3. Ebenezer Denison (1760-1843)
4. Jonathan Denison (1761-1833)
5. George Denison (1763-1786)
6. Griswold Denison (1765-1826)
7. Asenath Denison (1766-1829)
8. David Denison (1769-)
9. Latham Denison (1771-1847)
10. Child (1773-1773)
11. Samuel Denison (1774-1849)
12. Elihu Denison (1777-1820)
13. Thomas Denison (1779-)

Daniel Denison died 17 Mar 1793.

Sources

1. ↑ GBDenison Page 11.

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 30 Oct 2021), "Record of Daniel Denison", Ancestor # A031870.
• Denison Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of Captain George Denison; E. Glenn Denison, Josephine M. Peck and Donald L. Jacobus; Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, MD 1993 [Originally published, Pequot Press 1963; Reprinted, Baltimore, MD 1978, 1982, 1993], no. 282: https://archive.org/details/denisongenealogy00deni/page/11/mode/1up; https://archive.org/details/denisongenealogy00deni/page/28/mode/1up

• GBDenison: Denison, George Burlingame. A record of the descendants of Samuel Denison, late of Floyd, Oneida Co., N.Y., Muscatine, Iowa, 1884. On Archive.org

• William Brewster of the Mayflower and the Fifth Generation Descendants of his son Johathan, Barbara Merrick, Gen. Soc. of May. Descendants, 1999, p. 219.

• The Groton Avery Clan (Avery & Avery, 1912), p. 250, no. 274: https://archive.org/stream/grotonaveryclan01aver#page/250/mode/1up