Sarah DENISON

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 25 Jun 1710
• Religion: 13 May 1733; Taken into The First Church of Christ in New London, Conn.

Sarah married William DOUGLAS between 04 Mar 1730 and 1731 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA. William was born on 01 Jan 1708 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA; died on 13 Nov 1787 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Richard DOUGLAS died on 01 Mar 1816 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA.
2. Margaret DOUGLAS was born on 04 Oct 1735 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA.
3. Eunice DOUGLAS
4. Abiah DOUGLAS was born on 05 Jan 1741 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA; died on 01 Oct 1816.
5. William DOUGLAS was born on 07 Feb 1731 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA; died on 01 Oct 1805 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA.
6. Elizabeth DOUGLAS was born on 26 Nov 1733 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA.
7. Jonathan DOUGLAS was born on 04 Jul 1737 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA; died on 06 Mar 1800 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA.
8. Sarah DOUGLAS was born between 07 Feb 1745 and 1746 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA.
9. Lydia DOUGLAS died on 17 May 1811 in Wallingford, Vermont.
10. George DOUGLAS was born on 16 Jul 1739 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA; died on 10 Dec 1807 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA.
11. Lucy DOUGLAS was born on 27 Nov 1743 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA; died in 1832.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Member of the Governor's Council
• Military Service: Captain of the Train Band
• Baptism: 14 Oct 1677, Stonington, New London, Connecticut
• Education: 1693; Graduate of Harvard College
• Death: 22 Jan 1720

Notes:

George was a graduate of Harvard College. A lawyer and "distinguished citizen of New London."

George married Mary WETHERELL in 1694 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA. Mary (daughter of Capt. Daniel WETHERELL and Grace BREWSTER) was born on 07 Oct 1668 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA; died on 22 Aug 1711 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Mary Brewster Wetherall
• Baptism: 11 Jun 1671

Notes:

Mary married first Thomas Harris, son of Gabriel and Elizabeth Harris. He died at Barbadoux, June 9, 1691. His only child, Mary, "was regarded the richest heiress in the settlement."

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 14 Jun 1646, Roxbury, Massachusetts
• Military Service: Aug 1673; Ens. for New London Co Troop
• Fact: Oct 1694, Dep for Stonington
• Fact: Oct 1695, Dep for Stonington
• Will: 26 Apr 1698
• Will Proved: 10 Jun 1698

John married Phebe LAY on 26 Nov 1667 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut. Phebe (daughter of Robert LAY and Sarah FENNER) was born on 05 Jan 1650/51 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 28 Feb 1699 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; was buried in Elm Grove Cemetery, Mystic, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From 1680 to 1710, he was more prominent in public affairs than any other inhabitant in the town. He was town clerk, moderator, justice, judge of the county court and judge of probate. No man in the country stood highter in point of talent and integrity.

Name:
Daniel Wetherell was born November 29, 1630, at Free Schoolhouse, in Maidstone, Kent County, England, coming to New England with his father when he was but about four years old. When he had arrived at manhood, or possibly before that, he took up residence in New London, Connecticut, where he showed himself to be possessed of superior executive abilities, combined with a trustworthy character, and that community proceeded to make use of him according.

He served in one office after another, and often in more than one capacity. He was Town Clerk, Moderator, Justice, Assistant Judge of Probate, and Judge at the County Courts. One is led to wonder what New London would have done without him!! Miss Caulkins, the historian of that town, says, "No man in the country at that time stood higher in the point of talent and recognized integrity."

Headstone Inscription:

Here Lyeth The body
of Capt. Daniel
Wetherell Esq. Who
Died April Ye 14th. 1719
In The 89th Year of His Age

Daniel married Grace BREWSTER on 04 Aug 1659 in New London, New London, Connecticut, USA. Grace (daughter of Jonathan BREWSTER and Lucretia OLDHAM) was born on 01 Nov 1639 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 22 Apr 1684 in New London, Connecticut; was buried in Brewster Cemetery, Montville, New London Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Grace and Daniel also had 4 sons, who all died at birth.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: 1643, Went to England and fought in the Parliamentary Army
• Fact: 02 Jul 1644, Wounded and captured - Battle of Marston
• Emigration: 1651
• Will Proved: Jun 1695

Notes:

"After his wife's death, Bridget, George went to England, served under Cromwell in the army of the Parliment, won distintion, was wounded at Naseby, was nursed at the house of John Borodell, by his daughter Ann- whom he married and returned to Roxbury, and finally settled at Stonington, Conn."

"George and Ann were both remarkable for magnificent personal appearance, and for force of mind and character. She was always called "Lady Ann." They held foremost place in Stonington. He has been described as "the Miles Standish of the settlement," 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, excepting, perhaps, Captain John Mason."

Excerpt from "Rev. John Eliot's Record of Church Members, Roxbury, Mass.": This winter we had a gracious p'vidence of God befell two brothers Edward & George Dennison, who had been proude incendiarys of some trobls among us, and full of distemp', and disaffection. but the Lord left them to open and shamefull drundennesse at Boston: espec'.edward. We did so greatly humble them both yet though George (being a membr) was excomvnicated, yet in a short time was taken in againe. And Edward humbling himselfe so effectually yet he was also speedyly received in to the Church, this is the tryvmph of grace, to magnify grace by sinne.

Excerpt from "Direct Descendants of Capt. George Denison": George's bro, Gen Danl Denison wrote in 1672 "My two brothers, Edward and George had all the Estate of my father left between athem, being both marryed long before my father's death; my Brother George buried his first Wife in the year 1643, went into England was a souldier ther above a year, was at the Battle of York, or Marton Moore, where he did good service, was after ward taken Prisoner, but got free and having maried a second Wife he returned to New England the year before our Mother died, and not long after ward removed himelf to New Ldon near whereunto at Stonington he now liveth, having 3 sons John, William, and George, 4 or 5 daughters......3 daughters are married to Stanton, Palmer and Cheesebrook all living at present in the same town."
He served as Deputy to the Conn Gen Court from New London Sept 1653, May 1654 and Feb 1657, and from Stonington Oct 1671, Oct 1674, May 1678, Oct 1682, May and Oct 1683, May, July and Oct 1684, May and Oct 1685, May 1686, May 1687, Sept 1689, May Sept and Oct 1693, and May 1694. When 1st mentioned in "Conn Col Recds" he is called "Captain," based upon his service and commission in England. He served on the War Comm for New London in 1653 when war threatened with Dutch. Although 56 he served as capt in King Philip's War 1676 in command of New London County troops and second in command of the Conn Army under Maj Robert Treat. He was ap'pted Provost Marshal May 1677. He was Capt of volunteer troops against the enemy Sept 1689.

"George Denison of Rocksbury in New England gentleman and Bridge Denison his wife daughter of John thompson late of Preston in the County of Northampton and of M(ist)ris Alice Thompso now dwelling at Rocksbury" gave a power of attorney on 22 march 1640/1 to recover her share of her father's estate.

George married Ann BORRODELL in 1645 in Naseby, Northamton, England. Ann was born about 1615 in England; died on 26 Sep 1712 in Stonington, New London, Connecticut; was buried in Elm Grove Cemetery, Mystic, New London, Conn.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: 06 Sep 1712

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1638, Lynn, Massachusetts
• Residence: 1649, Saybrook, Conn.

Robert married Sarah FENNER in Dec 1647 in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut. Sarah (daughter of Arthur FENNER and Sarah BROWNE) was christened on 26 Nov 1615 in Horley, Surrey, England; died on 21 May 1676 in Old Saybrook, Middlesex, Connectoci; was buried in River View Cemetery, East Haddam, Middlesex Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: Between 1646 and 1647, Arrived in America with sibling William and Arthur
• Death: 25 May 1676, Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut

Notes:

Name:
William Wetherell was of the educated class in England, where he was born in the year 1600. His education was completed at Cambridge, where he graduated with the degree of A.B. in 1623, and three yeas later he took the degree A.M. at the same university. In 1625 he was married to Mary Fisher, who was born in England in 1602.

With his wife, three children and one servant, he emigrated to New England, coming in the ship HERCULES, and in the ship's register he is recorded as "Schoolmaster," from Maidstone, England. He arrived in 1634 or sooner, and in 1635 he was employed in a grammar school at Charleston, Massachusetts, and in Cambridge during the two years following that.

In 1638 he removed to Duxbury, Massachusetts, where he purchased a house, but it has not been discovered what his occupation at that time was. In 1644 he moved to Scituate, Massachusetts, and on September 2, 1645, he was ordained as the first minister of the church organized there, and from that time the church records are in his handwriting until 1674. As his pastorate did not terminate at the latter date we conclude he was compelled by some infirmity to permit others to write the records after that. He died at Scituate April 9, 1684, aged 84 years.

He seems to have been a man of marked personality, and to have given the impress of his strong character on the community in a way that has left its legacy of legendary lore. One anecdote handed down by tradition will serve to illustrate alike the quality of the man and the customs of the day; customs so different from our own in church matters that it is difficult to fully realize it. One of his congregation had entered church after service had commenced, and at the close of his prayer Mr. Wetherell thus addressed him:

"Neighbor Bryant, it is to your reproach that you have disturbed the worship by entering late, living as you do within a mile of this place, and especially so, since here is Goody Barstow, who has milked seven cows, made a cheese, and walked five miles to the House of God in good season."

Dean's "History of Scituate, Massachusetts," gives some account of him, and credits the tradition that his mother was the daughter of John Rogers, the martyr of Smithfield. Beside attending to his schoolteaching and later to his ministerial duties, it would seem that he found time to court the muse, for it is recorded of him that he "was one of the best of the early colonial poets.

William married Mary FISHER in 1625 in England. Mary (daughter of Thomas FISHER and Joan LUKES) was born in 1602 in England; died before 29 Mar 1684. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Became a Dutch citizen
• Military Service: 1637; Military Commissioner in the Pequot War
• Occupation: 1639; Served as deputy of General Court of Plymouth Colony
• Occupation: 1641; Served as deputy of General Court of Plymouth Colony
• Military Service: 1643; Member of Captain Myles Standish's Duxbury Company
• Occupation: 1644; Served as deputy of General Court of Plymouth Colony

Notes:

Jonathan came in the ship Fortune in November, 1621. He married Lucretia. She was probable a sister of John Oldham, who came to Plymouth on his 'perticular', about 1623, and who was called 'brother' by Jonathan. About 1630 Jonathan removed his family to Duxbury, from which place he was deputy to the General Court, Plymouth Colony, 1639, 1641-1644. He then removed to New London, Conn., about 1649, and settled in that part which later established as Norwich, his farm lying in both towns. Here he was deputy to the General Court of the Colony of Connecticut, 1650, 1655-1658.

In 1637 he was a military commissioner in the Pequot War; a member of the Duxbury Committee to raise forces in the Narragansett Alarm of 1642, and a member of Captain Myles Standish's Duxbury Company in the military enrollment of 1643.
REF: Winsor's Hist. Duxbury, p. 90; Peirce's Col. Lists p. 75 and 84 and Genl. Reg. Soc. Col. War, 1899-1902, pg 576

The descendants erected in the Brewster Cemetery, in 1855, a plain granite shaft about eight feet high, to the memory of Jonathan and his wife, Lucretia. A part of the inscription on the monument, referring to Jonahtan Brewster, says: "History speaks of his act," and to Lucretia Brewster there is the following: "A noble specimen of an enlightened, heroic Christian gentlewoman."

The Brewster Cemetery is at Brewster's Neck, between Poquetanuck Cove and the Thames River, in Connecticut. It contains about one square acre and is surrounded by a substantial stone wall, which was rebuilt in 1903.

Notes from William Brewster of the Mayflower and His Descendants for 4 Generations:
1. One of the men who undertook to discharge the debts of Plymouth Colony.
2. A freeman in 1633, he was active in the settlement of the town of Duxbury, Mass., incorporated June 7,1637.
3. Served as a surveyor, laid out highways, practiced as an attorney, and was styled "gentleman".
4. In 1638, established a ferry service to transport men and cattle across the North River. But sold this in 1641 to Messrs. Barker, Howell and others.

Jonathan married Lucretia OLDHAM on 10 Apr 1624 in Plymouth, Conn.. Lucretia (daughter of William OLDHAM and Phillipa SOWTER) was born in Derby, England; died between 04 Mar 1678 and 1679 in Brewster's Neck, Preston, New London, Conn.; was buried in Brewster Cemetery, Montville, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 04 Jan 1600, Darby, England; Parish of All Saints, Derby
• Baptism: 14 Jan 1600, Darby, England; Parish of All Saints, Derby

Notes:

Lucretia was a woman of note and respectability among her compeers. She has always the prefix of honor and is usually presented to view in some useful capacity: an attendant upon the sich and dying as nurse, doctress, or midwife, or a witness to wills and other important transactions.

Lucretia came over on the "Anne" with her brother, John Oldham, arriving about July 10, 1623.