Lt. Col. John DENISON

John married Elizabeth SALTONSTALL about 1688. Elizabeth (daughter of Nathaniel SALTONSTALL and Elizabeth WARD) was born on 17 Sep 1668 in Haverhill, Massachusetts; died on 08 Jul 1726 in Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; was buried on 14 Jul 1726. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Nathaniel Saltonstall and Elizabeth Ward

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From NEHGR 1853, Vol. 7, p. 305
"Boston, Saturday, July 9, 1726. Yesterday morning deceased here, aafter a short illness of a fever, and this evening is decently iterred, Mrs. Elizabeth Cotton, only daughter of the late Hon. Col. Nathaniel Saltonstall, Esq. of Haverhill, and sister to the late Hon. Gurdon Saltonstall, Esq., of Connecticut, Governor." She was born 15 Sept. 1668; m. 1 Rev. Mr. John Denison of Ipswich, who d. Sept. 1689, by whom she had the late Col. John Denison, Esq. of the same town; 2. Rev. Mr. Roland Cotton of Sandwich, who died in March, 1721-2. By him she left ten children, (five of whom were sones,) who followed her to the grave. On the demise of her husand, she moved to Boston, where she resided till her death. "She was known to be a person of very superior wit, knowledge and virtue, from her youth up."

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Nathaniel Saltonstall, born Ipswich, Massachusetts about 1639, graduate harvard College 1659, freeman 1665, Representative 1666, Town Clerk of haverhill 1669 to 1671, Colonel of Essex Regiment 1679 to 1686, Assistant 1679 to 1686, 1689-1692, Member of Council, Judge Oyer and Terminer Court 1692, refused to serve in witchcraft trials, died 21 May 1707.

Nathaniel married Elizabeth WARD on 28 Dec 1663 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. Elizabeth was born on 1 Apr 1647 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts; died on 29 Apr 1714 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of John Ward and Alice Edmunds