The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-11-20
RECORD OF THE DENISONS
IN AMERICAN AND ENGLISH WAR-
 FARE.
Admiral Dewey Descendant of Wil-
 jam DentsOn.

I
 and allied families to know that Walter
 R. Denison has painted and hung in the
 historical house at the monument 1T | Groton, the Denison coat of arms, as 1 taken from the tomb of Major Genera, Daniel Denison, of Ipswich, Mass, says | the New London Day. The following facts are of interest to the many de- scendants of Captain George Denisor
 living in all parts of the world. show ing lineage of fighters on land and sea, including every war in which this country has been engaged, and whence
 Admiral Dewey inherited his fighting
 qualities and sound Americanism. We are indebted to record of the
 descendants of Captain George Deni-
 son by John Denison Baldwin and
 William Gift, and also the Kems and
 allied families by De B. Randolph
 Keim of Reading, Pa, from which we
 have literally copied.
 In l63l the good ship Lyon brought
 to this country William Denison with
 his three sons, Daniel, Edward and
 George, and the Rev. John Eliot, tu-
 tor in the family and apostle to the In
 d1ans. George at that time was tlir-
 teen years old. At the age of twenty
 two he married Bridget Thompson,
 daughter of John Thompson, gent, of
 Preston, Northamptonshire England,
 whose widow, Alice, lived in RoXbury.
 They had two children, Sarah Denson.
 who married Thomas Stanton. Jr., and
 Hannah Denison, twice married first
 to Nathaniel Chesebro, second to Cap
 tain Joseph Saxtou, who became very
 wealthy in the West India trade. The
 Wife, Bridget died in 1643 In the same
 year George Denison, the husband re-
 turned to England and joined the army of parliament. He took part in the bat
 tle or Naseby, England, in which the royal army of King Charles T.. com
 manded in person by the king and Prince Rupert, was so completely rout- ed by the Lord Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell on January IA, 1645, that the King took to his horse, leaving his can non, baggage and five thousand prison- CTS in the hands of the victors. In the conflict Captain George Denison was wounded and carried to the house of John Borodell. near the field. He was nursed by Borodell's daughter. Ann whom he married, and returned with her to Roxbury
 SETTLED AT MYSTIC.
 Here he was called "a young soldier lately come out of the wars in Eng iand. Not content with the quiet life at RoXbury he came to New London. l65l-54, and finally settled at Stoning ton, Conn.,, at place called Peuuotsop, near Mystic, Conn. They had seven children. The Denison record by John Denison Baldwin and William Gift continues: George Denison died In Hartford, October 23, 164 while in at tendance on the general court, in which he represented Stonington for fifteen sessions. His wife, Ann Borodell. died September 26, 1712, aged ninety-seven years They were both remarkable for personal appearance and for force of mind and character. She was always called Lady Ann" They held foremost place in Stonington At the time of their marriage in 1645 she was thirty years old and he twenty seven. He has been described as the Miles Standish of the settlement but he was a greater and more brilliant sol dier than Miles Standish He had no equal in any of the colonies for con- ducting war against the Indians. ex- cept, perhaps, John Mason. Mrs Cal kins, in her history of New London, says of him: "Our early history pre- sents no character of bolder or more active spirit than Captain George Deni- son. He reminds us of the bordermen 1of1 l. ,i-.. I,1 ways in demand, and was almost con- stantly placed in important public po- ;itions"
 The line of descent from the first of the captain of the Crom- Helian wars in England through his daughter, Hannah Denison, md her second husband, Captain Jo- ;eph Saxton, 1880, in ups and downs of fifteen years of matrimony led to the birth of George Dewey, admiral, U. s. | N. of Montpelier, Vt., 1887
 HEROES BY FLOOD AND FIELD. |
 The descent of the male line from George, a son of the second marriage | if Captain George Denison, the wound | d hero of Naseby, 1645, through the | marriage of his great-great- grand ! laughter Minerva Denson to Commo- lore John Rogers, U. s. N., through ne hundred and sixty-one years of brings us face to face with n infant, who in after life became rear dmiral in the United States navy. Or | ake the direct line of descent from the anne warrior of the Cromwellian days, through William Denison. another son, he next younger than George, through William, his son William, his son Ben- dam, his son Robert one of the first 9 march from Connecticut to the re- ef of Boston in the Lexington alarm in 775 sergeant in Captain Jewett's his son Jonathan to the sev- nth generation, we come to Robert S. ,enison, late of Groton, the man behind le guns at Monterey; although filling le humble position of boatswain he 'as no less brave than those filling igher rank. He served with distinc- on on the frigateS Columbus and during the conquest of Cal ornia, 1S46, under Commodores Sloata, rockton and Riddle After the cap Ire of Monterey he, with other com- ades of the United States ships, made D sort of web-foot drag0On corps, ,ined Fremont and Kit Carson, took os Angeles, marched east until they let General Kearney about three hun red miles from Santa Fe, and before le summer was ended had California lbdupd almost before battle had |