52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 1: Beginnings: The Rogers-Lacey Bible Fragment

A single old, hard-backed photocopy of pages from a family Bible got me started on my genealogical quest. I had always been interested in my family history and my mom showed me this old, worn photocopy of a bible page that my grandmother had.  On the right side were a bunch of names, in very old handwriting; one dated 1775 (!) and birth dates. On the left side there was a copy of another bible page placed over the original left hand side of the Bible (what was underneath??). Names on the right side were unfamiliar to me and my mom (my grandmother had passed, so we couldn’t ask her): Moore, Wyatt, Ford (we think), and Lacey. My mother knew the Lacey name as that was the name of her grandmother (my great grandmother): Sallie Lacey, who married Asa Clark Rogers, Sr. The left side of the page were mostly Rogers and their birth dates, which was my mom’s family and she know some of these names including her father, Asa Clark Rogers, Jr.

So my mom and I set out to find out who these people were. My mom knew that the Rogers and Lacey family had come from Delaware and, as a child, she spent many summers in Frederica, Kent Co., Delaware, where her father was born.  She still had cousins there and in the early 1980s we went to visit them, where they helped fill in some details, but there were names on that right side that they were not familiar with, either. We visited the Barratt’s Chapel cemetery in Frederica and found several of the names on the left side buried there.

As a newbie family historian and living near Delaware, I spent many hours at the Delaware Archives in Dover, Delaware (this was way before Ancestry and FamilySearch). I eventually located all the people on these bible pages and all of the people on the right side were related to the Moore and Lacey family of Sussex County, Delaware and the people on the left were the Rogers family that married into the Lacey family and were from Kent County. A summary of my findings was published  in the Delaware Genealogical Society Journal (V.4, No. 1, April 1987, p.18-20).

Right side:

Vincent Moore Son of Issac Moore and Agnes His wife was borned the 1st day of March 1775

Sarah Moore wife of Vincent Moore was Borned April 12th 1786

Thomas Wyatt Son of Noah Wyatt was borned September 13 1783

Clairiasa Ford wife of Thomas Wyatt was borned 1790

Thomas T. Lacey the son of Zadock B. Lacey and Mary his wife was borned December the 16th 1828


Left side:

Sallie M. Lacey Daughter of Thomas T. Lacey & Clairasa his wife was borned March the 8th 1855

James Lacey, Son of Thomas & Clarrissa A. Lacey was borned November the 28th 1859

Clara Lacey Daughter of Thomas T. Lacey &  Clairasa his wife was borned March the 25th 1862

Thomas Lacey Rogers Son of Asa Rogers and Sallie his wife was borned February the 10th 1877

Harriet Lacey Rogers Daughter of Asa Rogers and Sallie his wife was borned January the 2th 1879

Lawrence Smithers Rogers Son of Asa C. Rogers and Sallie his wife was borned August 17th 1881

Asa Clark Rogers son of Asa C. Rogers and Sallie his wife was borned August [crossed out] January the 16 1886


52 Ancesors in 52 Weeks. Oooops. Ignoring the Evidence

This is an “oops” case of ignoring evidence that was right in front of me.   It starts with my g. grandmother, Mary Doris McDonough (1866? – 1951).  I came into possession of her family bible, which had scant information in it. In fact, she just recorded family deaths for a short period of time, approximately 1890 – 1910. [1]

 

Among the names in the bible was recorded the death of a Catherine Doris in November (actual day missing or faded away) in Brooklyn, with the date that could have been “1900,” which someone had penciled in.  It was the only person with a “Doris” surname in the bible.

 

One of the first things I did was look at the death certificate for Mary Doris McDonough. Fortunately, my grandmother, Gertrude McDonough Rogers (1895-1972)  kept a copy of the original. The death record names her parents as John Patrick Doris and Catherine Duffy. The informant was her daughter, Catherine McDonough O’Connor (1896-1987). [2]

Now being a novice family historian at the time I took that as gospel truth.  My mother did also, but she didn’t really know much about the Doris side of the family. Turns out these weren’t her parents at all, but that’s another story.

 

I did assume that the Catherine Doris in her bible record was either a sister of Mary Doris or Mary Doris’ mother. Catherine Doris, Catherine Duffy. Made sense.

 

I started looking for death records in Brooklyn for a Catherine Doris that died in November 1890-1910.  I came up with several possibilities, noted the certificate number, ordered the records, paid the fees and waited.  When they arrived none of them were my Catherine Doris. Realizing that I should look at other boroughs, I eventually found a Catherine Doris that died on November 3, 1898 in MANHATTAN (not Brooklyn).  Noted the certificate number, ordered the records, paid the fees and waited. The record (handwritten, no less) arrived and was disappointed. Her parents were given as William Sacke and Bella Sacke. Not Duffy.  Oh well. I put it aside. Nothing else seemed to match or make much sense. [3]

 

Years later. And I mean literally YEARS later, after many Irish records started coming online, I eventually found, through the help of genealogist in Ireland, a record of a baptism of a Mary Doris to a James Doris and a Catherine LACKEY in Clonbroney Parish, Co. Longford. [4] By this time I knew that the Doris family and her husband, Frank McDonough came from Co. Longford.  After further research, I found that  Catherine Lackey’s parents were William Lackey and Isabella Wallace and that Catherine was baptized in the Church of Ireland in St. Johnstown, which was the old name for the town of Ballinalee, Clonbroney Parish, Co. Longford where Mary Doris was baptized. [5]

 

 

 

 

Oh no. Years ago I had found the death record of a Catherine Doris in Manhattan on 3 November 1898! What I mistook for the surname SACKE was actually LACKE. The “L” was mistaken for an “S” or at least the clerk wrote it like an “S.” There was the death record for Catherine LACKEY Doris, the same as in my g. gradmother’s bible with her father William Lackey and Bella [Isabella] Lackey. Through other corroborating research, this was indeed the mother of Mary Doris and the parents of Mary Doris were not what was on her death certificate, but actually what was in the Irish records. Again, it’s another long, winding story that eventually confirmed the identity of the parents of Mary Doris as James Doris and Catherine Lackey as well as her siblings that came to the U.S. and lived in Manhattan and in Brooklyn.

 

So I could have saved myself years of research, dead ends and false leads if I had recognized that “S” was an “L.” Ooops, but I learned a lot along the way!

 

[1] The Holy Bible. New York: Thomas Kelly, 1880. ‘Deaths”; copy privately held by Gene R. Major (Original in Rutkamp/O’Connor family).

[2] Connecticut State Department of Health, Certificate of Death, No. 13261 (1951), Mary McDonough; Bureau of Vital Statistics, Connecticut

[3] State of New York,  Certificate and record of Death, No. 31251 (1898), Catherine Doris.

[4] Catholic Parish Registers, National Library of Ireland, Clonbroney Parish, County Longford, Baptisms 14 January 1849 – 2 March 1862. Indexed at Ireland, Catholic Parish Registers, 1655-1915, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61039/); Maria Doris bapt. 12 April 1860, parents Jocobi Doris and Cath Lackey, Ballinalee.

[5] Church of Ireland, Baptism Record, Catherine Lackey, 12 Oct 1828, St. Johnstown [Ballinalee], Clonbroney Parish, Co. Longford, https://Rootsireland.ie.

Mayflower Passenger, Edward Fuller

Edward Fuller (bapt. 4 September 1575, Redenhall, Norfolk, England; died 1620/21, Plimoth Colony)

400 years ago, my 10th great-grandfather, Edward Fuller, a Separatist, boarded the Mayflower in Leiden, Holland (aka The Netherlands). With his wife, son, his brother and his family, among 102 passengers (about half of them Separatists or Puritans), they made the journey across the Atlantic Ocean to the tip of Cape Cod near Provincetown in mid-November 1620.

On December 16, 1620 they came to the abandoned Wampanoag village of Patuxet, which had been called “Plimoth” on earlier maps. They arrived at the onset of a harsh New England winter and Edward Fuller and his wife (whose name is not known), died. His son Samuel survived as did his brother Samuel and his family.

Edward Fuller did not make it to that first “Thanksgiving” in the fall of 1621, but Edward Fuller did sign the Mayflower Compact thereby leaving a legacy to his son, Samuel and another son, Matthew that had remained in England (and came later). Of the 102 passengers on the Mayflower, genealogists and historians can only trace descendants back to just 26 families. Edward Fuller and his family is one of them. Here is a chart of my decent from the Mayflower passenger Edward Fuller (1575-1620/21).

What do we know about Edward Fuller? He was baptized in Redenhall Parish, Norfolk on 4 September 1575, the son of Robert Fuller and Sara Dunkhorn [Parish Register, Redenhall with Harleston & Wortwell, Norfolk, England].

Edward Fuller was named in the will of his father, Robert Fuller, which was dated 19 May 1613 and proved 31 May 1614. He gives Edward:

“Item I give unto Edward my sonne all that my tenemt sometyme Assies in Harlston aforesaid wth all the howses buildings yards gardens orchards & all other th appntenncs & also all such evidences & writings as to the said tenemt belongeth excepte the said copie hould orchard To have & to hould the said tenemt & all the other the pmisses wth th appntenncs(excepte before excepted) unto the said Edward his heires & asss for evr”[Church of England, Archdeaconry of Norfolk, Family Search (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/291384), Liber 41, p.82, images 286-289. Will of Robert Fuller [FHL 167098]].

 

Map of location of Redenhall, Norfolk Co.

St. Mary's Church in Redenhall where Edward Fuller was baptized.

 

 

 

 

Plaque in St. Mary's Church, Redenhall commemorating the Pilgrim brothers, Edward and Samuel Fuller
 

 

Edward Fuller was married (perhaps by 1605) by the time he came to Leiden to join other Separatists. His wife’s name is not known and was not recorded by William Bradford when they arrived in Plymouth Colony. He likely came to Leiden after his father’s death in 1614. His brother, Samuel was already there having arrived in 1611 and became a leading member of the congregation established by the Separatist leader, John Robinson and may have belonged to the separatist congregation before leaving England. Although no documentation exits, it is likely that Edward was also a member of this congregation and followed his brother. Edward and his wife and son are documented as passengers on the Mayflower.

 

 William Bradford, the governor of the colony, writing many years later, noted that Edward Fuller and his wife died in that first winter, but their son, Samuel had survived and was taken in by Edward’s brother, Samuel.

 

 Before that first winter, on 11 November 1620, Edward Fuller along with other men of the religious community signed the Mayflower Compact, the first framework of government written and enacted in the colonies that would later become the United States. 

                                             Edward Fuller signature, 2nd column, 2nd from bottom

52 Ancestors: Week 44 The ghost of Robert the Scot

 

The ghost of Robert the Scot, alleged manservant of Matthew Fuller of Plymouth Colony, is said to roam the marshes of Sandwich on Cape Cod near Scorton Hill. Having been falsely accused of stealing the jewels, he died of grief and starvation. He is still searching for the jewels to clear his name. In his grief, his moans and his droning bagpipes have been heard during the night. The spectre of Robert the Scot’s ghost was invoked to scare naughty children. Or so the tale has been told, probably since 1678. 

 

In Week 43 of 52 Ancestors https://grmgenes.blogspot.com/2020/10/52-ancestors-week-43-matthew-fuller.html), Matthew Fuller (my 9^th g.grandfather) of Plymouth Colony and Barnstable was described as an eccentric, but respected and honored member of Plymouth Colony.

Matthew Fuller died in Barnstable between 20 July 1678, when his will was made, and 26 October 1678 when his inventory was approved (his estate proved on 30 Oct 1678.) [1].  Matthew died a wealthy man and he provided for his wife, Frances, and his children, as well as Robert Marshall, “the Scotsman.” In his will, Matthew states:

“I Give and bequeath unto Robert Marshall the Scotsman a peece of Cloth Intended to make mee a suite; off;”

 

Among his inventory was this item: 

“Item pearle presciousstones and Diamonds att a Gesse £200”

 

Amos Otis in his Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, published in 1888, mentions the tale of Matthew Fuller’s precious stones in a note [2]:

 

“In connection with this box of jewels a marvelous tale is told. Soon after Capt. Fuller’s death it was missing. Robert, the Scotch servant, was charged with having stolen it. There was no proof against him – he was simply suspected. This charge so affected him that he took no food, and finally died of grief and starvation. He was buried in a grove of wood, on the north-eastern declivity of Scorton Hill. He died in the winter when a deep now laid on the ground. The neighbors carried his body to this place – the deep snow preventing them from proceeding farther, and there he was buried. Cat. Oliver Chase has recently placed two stones, one at the head and the other at the foot of poor Richard’s [sic] grave. For nearly two centuries the plow has not desecrated his grave, and we hope no sacrilegious hands will hereafter remove the simple monuments now erected to his memory. To this day his grave is pointed out, and some timorous people dare not pass it after nightfall. Many fearful stories are told of the appearance of the Scotchman’s ghost; and for years many a wayward child was frightened into obedience by threatening to call the Scotchman’s ghost, to aid the authority of the weak mother.”

 

Apparently Amos Otis knew of the location of the gravesite of “Robert the Scot,” as he was later called, but since the time his work was published (1888) it has been forgotten, though many have tried to look for it in the area of Scorton Hill in what is now Sandwich, Barnstable County on Cape Cod.

 

Who was “Robert the Scot?” Matthew Fuller, in his will,  mentions a Robert Marshall, “the Scotsman,” though it is not at all clear that this man is the ghost "Robert the Scot" in the ghost tale.  There is no known record of a servant to Matthew Fuller or that Robert Marshall was that servant. There was more than one Robert Marshall living in Plymouth Colony at the time according to the Plymouth Colony Records (PCR).  However, there is no record in the PCR of Robert Marshall or Robert the Scot being accused of a theft of Matthew Fuller's jewels. Nevertheless, there certainly was an oral tradition and ghost tale, probably since the death of Matthew Fuller for Amos Otis to have taken the time to mention it and for Oliver Chase to place gravestones at the site.

 

The ghost story of Robert the Scot grew over time. The most descriptive (and fanciful) legend is told in Elizabeth Reynard’s “The Narrow Land.” [3].

Reynard describes Robert the Scot as “a North County madman with naked knees and a chess-checker petticoat” and that Robert was Matthew Fuller’s “chemist and personal servant.” Reynard seems to be describing a short kilt, hence the “naked knees,” but the short kilt was not worn by Scotsmen until the mid-1800’s. If he had a kilt at all, it would have been a great kilt, which would have completely covered him.

 

Reynard’s story, which was either handed in oral traditions or embellished from the tale in Otis, was that Robert was entrusted with the box of gems after Matthew Fuller died and that the jewels were missing when “lawful heirs required it.”  She also claims that “Governor Hinckley” summoned Robert to Court and accused Robert of theft.  However nothing in the Plymouth Colony Records mentions any such event. Hinckley was not governor until 1680, two years after the death of Matthew Fuller.

 

Reynard then describes, as Otis does, but with far more eloquent embellishment, that Robert was so overcome with grief as to the accusation that he could not eat and died of starvation.  He died in winter and his “great-boned corpse” could not be carried in the deep snow, so he was buried on the northeastern slope of Scorton Hill where Reynard eloquently says “Unhallowed earth covered him, a hard couch for such as he who had been grimly devout; and ever since then his spirit has refused to await quietly Gabriel’s summons. Before the dead rise from their tombs, before the sleep and the goats are divided.”

 

The old ghostly folktale is told that when one passes Scorton Hill at night, the bagpipes and a man’s tragic sobs can be heard. That the tale of Robert was known even two hundred years after his death is evident as when Amos Otis mentions that Oliver Chase placed stones on the grave “that their heft might weigh Robert down a little.”

 

Reynard concludes the tale saying that “Robert will walk in the moon’s pallor or the sea’s green twilight, and pipe and search the whole night through…bent is he on finding the Pearls, precious stones and Diamonds, at a guess £200.”

 

Happy Halloween!

 

 

[1] George Ernest Bowman, “Capt. Matthew Fuller’s Will and Inventory: Transcribed from the Original Records,” Mayflower Descendant 13 (1911) 7-13. Original: Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories, Vol. III, Part II, pp. 127-129; available at FamilySearch.org (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2018320).

 

[2] C.F. Swift, revised. Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, Being a Reprint of the Amos Otis Papers, Originally Published in The Barnstable Patriot. Volume 1, (Barnstable, Mass.: F.B.&F.P. Goss], 1888.

 

[3] Elizabeth Reynard, The Narrow Land: Folk Chronicles of Old Cape Cod, 3^rd ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1978) 294-297.

 

52 Ancestors: Week 43 “Matthew Fuller - Quite the Character”

 

Matthew Fuller was eccentric. He often argued with his neighbors and brought them to court. He spoke openly and indiscreetly about the elders, the magistrates, and religious leaders. He was fined for his indulgences. He even was sued by Thomas Hinckley, the Assistant Governor at the time, for defamation. Yet, he was bestowed with honors, held military leadership roles and Plymouth Colony offices.  That he did not receive more harsh punishment other than minor fines and a slap on the wrist is not surprising.  After all, he was the only physician in the Colony and even held the post of Surgeon-General. He was well known and tolerated for his curmudgeonly nature.

 

Matthew Fuller, son of Mayflower passenger, Edward Fuller, came to Plymouth Colony about 1640/1 [1]. He died in 1678 in Barnstable, Mass.  He had many honors [2]:

·      He was admitted a freeman of the Colony on 7 June 1653 and Miles Standish chose him to be a sergeant and was later named a deputy to the Colony Court.

·      On 20 June 1654 he was appointed Lieutenant under Capt. Miles Standish and on 2 Oct 1658 was elected to the council of war, became its chairman in 1671 and also a magistrate of the Colony.

·      In addition to his martial abilities, he was also appointed Surgeon-General to the Colony on 17 Dec 1673 and served as Captain during the King Phillip War.

 

 

                                           

                                            [William Hubbard's "Map of New-England," 1677. It may have been "commissioned by Hubbard for                                             his volume The History of the Indian Wars New England that was published in London and Boston                                                in 1677. It is described by Samuel G. Drake, editor of Hubbard's Indian Wars (1865), as                                                               'the curious Woodcut Map.]" - The Plymouth Colony Archive Project                                                                                                (http://www.histarch.illinois.edu/plymouth/1677map.html)]

 

At the general Court of Plymouth on 2 October 1658, he first ran into serious trouble with the elders.  The elders of Plymouth Colony passed a law for a tithe for the maintenance of ministers, which applied to non-church members as well. Then Lieutenant Matthew Fuller vehemently objected. He had Quaker neighbors and friends (though he himself was not a Quaker) and stood on their behalf. His language to the elders was indiscreet and not at all respectful:

“Lieutenant Fuller, being presented for speaking reproachfully of the Court, and saying the law enacted about minnesters maintainence was a wicked and a divillish law, and that the divill satt att the sterne when it was enacted, the words being proved, hee referring himselfe to the Bench, the sesure to bee fined fifty shillings.” [3]

 

For an official to slander the Court should have gotten Matthew Fuller into more trouble, but instead they still bestowed honor and trust onto him - they nominated him to the War Council that very same day.

 

He died about October 1678 a wealthy man by the standards of the day. He had a considerable amount of “Pearls, precious stones, and Diamonds.” The box of gems went missing after his death and blame for the theft went to his manservant, Robert Marshall, “the Scotchman.” 

 

Therein, lies a spooky tale to be told for Halloween!

 

 

[1] Bruce Campbell MacGunnigle, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume 4 – Edward Fuller (Boston: General Society of Mayflower Descendants), 1990.

 

[2] C.F. Swift, revised. Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, Being a Reprint of the Amos Otis Papers, Originally Published in The Barnstable Patriot. Volume 1, (Barnstable, Mass.: F.B.&F.P. Goss], 1888.

 

[3] Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, ed. Records of the New Colony of Plymouth in New England, Court Orders, Volume III 1651-1661, p. 150 (orig. page 143).

 

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week #39. Should Be a Movie

 

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week #39. Should Be a Movie

 

There should be a movie of the colorful life Captain George Denison.  Adventurer, soldier in Cromwell’s army, public official, soldier in King Phillip’s War, founder of Stonington, and my 9^th g.grandfather. His is a story of heartbreak, war, love and success. The life and genealogy of George Denison is told in many articles and books; the most up-to-date and fully documented sketch is found in the New England Historic and Genealogical Society online database: Early New England Families, 1641-1700 [1].  There are many fanciful stories of Captain George Denison and many claim Capt. Dension as an ancestor.

 

George Denison was born in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, 10 December 1620 to William Dension and Margaret (Chandler) Monk (or Monck), about the same time the Pilgrim’s were settling into Plymouth for that first hard winter.

He left England in 1631 with his brothers and parents and settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony where he married his first wife Bridget Thompson about 1640. They had one two children (Sarah and Hannah) before Bridget died in 1643 of “feaver & consumption.” That he was deeply in love with Bridget is attested to by a poem allegedly written by George during their courtship and recorded in the Denison genealogy.

 

Upon his wife’s death in 1643, a distraught George Denison left New England and his two daughters and returned to England.

He enlisted in in Oliver Cromwell’s army and fought at the Battle of Marston Moor (or Battle of York) where he was taken prisoner and escaped. His service in Cromwell’s army was verified by his brother Daniel Denison, but other stories have Capt. Denison also at the Battle of Naseby a year later.  

 

                                                            The Battle of Marston Moor, John Barker
 

The story is told that he was wounded at Naseby and was in the care of a wealthy Irish leather merchant then living in England, John Borodell and his beautiful daughter, Ann Borodell, who was nursing George. George fell in love with Ann. There are many stories about this courtship of Ann (some have him making his way to Cork, Ireland, where John Borodell had property; some have him remain in England) and returned to New England in 1645 with his new wife. That Ann Borodell was well-born is undeniable as she had a considerable dowry and property in Dublin. The stories certainly would be fodder for a movie as embellishment of his life.

George and his wife Ann lived in Roxbury for a while until he had a run-in with the local church and in 1647, the Rev. Eliot of Roxbury wrote: “This winter we had a gracious p’vidence of God befell two brothers Edward & Georg Dennison, who had been proude incendiarys of some troble among us, & full of distempr, and disaffection. But the Lord left them to open and shamefull drunkennesse at Boston: especy edward.”

 

That got George excommunicated, but was taken in again. In 1647 the young men of  Roxbury wanted to choose George Denison “a young soldier come lately out of the wars in England.” However, the elders wanted someone else, noting that George was not a Freeman and was tainted by his service in Cromwell’s army.

Apparently George had enough of Roxbury and left to settle in New London in 1651, where he served as Deputy to the General Court. He also served on the War Commission for New London.

He was granted land in Mystic in 1652 and in Stonington in 1654. He was later granted land in what was Pequot territory in 1660, where he built his manor at Pequotsepos. The original house is gone, but the Denison homestead from 1717 exists on the same plot and is a museum operated by the Denison Society. He is listed as one of the founders of the town of Stonington, Connecticut, where he again served as Deputy to the General Court at various times between 1671 and 1694.

 

 

George Denison, having been rebuked for the military by the elders in Roxbury, was selected as a Captain in the King Phillp’s War in 1676 in command of New London County troops against the Pequot.  He fought at the “great swamp fight” in Rhode Island in 1675 and as Provost Marshall was responsible for raising forces against Narragansett and Wampanaug Indians. He was credited with the capture the Chief Canonchet, the Narragansett chief in April 1676.

 

 

                  Canonchet Memorial, Rhode Island. https://www.visitrhodeisland.com/listing/canonchet-memorial/8291/
 

George and his wife Ann Borodell were “both remarkable for magnificent personal appearance, and for force of mind and character. She was always called ‘Lady Ann’....He has been described as ‘the Miles Standish of the settlement’ [Stonington]; but he was a greater and more brilliant soldier than Miles Standish. He had no equal in any of the colonies, for conducting a war against the Indians, except perhaps Capt. John Mason.”

 

[1] Alicia Crane Williams, Early New England Families Project, 1641-1700. Database and sketch of George Denison online at https://www.americanancestors.org/browse/publications/ongoing-study-projects/Early-New-England-Families,-1641--1700.

 

Some References

John Denison Baldwin and William Clift. A Record of the Descendants of Capt. George Denison of Stonington, Conn. (Worcester: Tyler & Seagrave, 1881).

 

E. Glenn Denison, Josephine Middleton Peck, and Donald L. Jacobus. Denison Genealogy: Ancestors and descendants of Captain George Denison (Stonington, Pequot Press, 1963). A revision of the 1881 work by Baldwin.

 

Katherine Dimancescu, Denizens: A Narrative of Captain George Denison and his New England Contemporaries (Katherine Dimancescu, 2017).

 

“The Will of George Denison, 1683.” New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 13, (1859), 73-77.

 

Daniel Denison, “Autobiography of Major-General Daniel Denison,” New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 46, (1892) 127-133. This letter from George Denison’s brother provides a detailed first hand account of the life of George Denison and his brothers and parents.

 

The Denison Homestead, The Denison Society, Mystic, Connecticut. https://www.denisonhomestead.org/