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

Notes:

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."