WILLIAM DENISON

• Birth Notes
  • b: 1570/71 

• Death Notes
  • 1652/53 

• General Notes
  • William and Margaret Chandler Denison
         William Denison, one of our earliest known ancestors, was born about 1570 and lived in a village called Bishops-Stortford in Herts County, England. He was a “maltster,” presumably a brewer of ale and malt beverages. In 1603 he became the second husband of Margaret Chandler (b. 1577), the daughter of John and Joan Chandler of Bishops-Stortford. (She was the widow of a man named Monck.) Their first son, George Denison Sr., was born in England; the birthdate of their second son Edward is uncertain.
         To escape religious persecution, they emigrated to Roxbury, Mass. aboard a ship called the Lion in 1631, just eleven years after the Mayflower. William was a highly respected member of the colony, becoming a “freeman” (in full communion with the church) the next year and serving as a representative on the Massachusetts General Court from 1635 to 1637. Margaret died on Feb. 2, 1646; William died January 25, 1654. 
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    1.  WILLIAM2 DENISON  (JOHN1) was born Abt. 1570 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, and died January 25, 1652/53 in Roxbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts.  He married MARGARET CHANDLER1 November 07, 1603 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertsfordshire, England, daughter of TOBIAS CHANDLER and JOAN MUMFORD.  She was born Bef. October 13, 1577 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, and died February 23, 1644/45 in Roxbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts.
    
    
    
    Notes for WILLIAM DENISON:
    
    Denison Genealogy, by Denison, Peck & Jacobus, page xxi.
    
         William came to America on the Lion with his wife and 3 youngest sons; settled in Roxbury, MA 1631. John Eliot, Pastor of the First Church of Roxbury and Apostle to the Indians was a tutor of George, his youngest son. Eliot had arrived on the same ship. William was a merchant and must have been a man of means and good education. He was deacon in the First Church of Roxbury, and had a large influence in the Colony. One record states his wife did not unite with the church until some years later. William built a house in Roxbury MA which was still standing in 1882.
    
    
    
    
    
    More About WILLIAM DENISON:
    
    Burial: Old Eliot Steet Cemetery, Roxbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts
    
    Christening: February 03, 1570/71, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England
    
    
    
    

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