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CHR 2 PLAC per Dossier (?) Little, Simmonds (Mrs. Fred)
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BURI 2 PLAC b. per Smokey Mtn hist. Soc Newsletter Sp 1983 V.F. Denton by David H. Templin
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1 BAPM
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BAPM 2 DATE 1623
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BAPM 2 PLAC graduated Cambridge u
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CONF 2 DATE 1630
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CONF 2 PLAC minister at Coley Chapel, Halifax, Yorkshire
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1 FCOM
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FCOM 2 DATE 1630
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FCOM 2 PLAC to America; settled first Wethersfield Conn
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1 OCCU settled Stamford Conn
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1 INFO moved to Hempstead, LI, New York
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1 RESI left Hempstead Pres Ch.
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1 RELI may have died in Essex 1722
Presbyterian minister who came to New England from Halifax, England, on 1630 and established a church on Long Island. He likely married in New York. According to Plumlee Family by Robert D. Plumlee, "perhaps Dentons and Odells migrated to the Shenandoah valley together. Families usually moved together at that time period and Dentons, Odells and Plumlees lived near each other in the valley.
In Forgotten Heroes and Heroines, Edythe Rucker Whitley writes an article
which says that from three large unpublished volumes of Denton family history in the Whitley Genealogical and Historical Collection, she draws her material. She says that the opinion is that all families in the US are descended from Rev Richard Denton of New York.
An article by David H. Templin attributes much of his information to a book, SOME OF THE DESCENDANTS OF REV. RICHARD DENTON, by Edythe Whitley. Whitley says" Reverend Richard Denton came to New England between 1610 and 1635. He was among the first settlers at Wethersfield, Connecticut and occasionally exercised his profession while in that place. He removed with some of the church members to Rippowoms(Stamford) in 1641.
After remaining at Stamford a few years, Reverend Denton, with some of the principal men of the plantation, again removed and went to Long Island and began the town of Hempstead. In 1659 Reverend Denton returned to England and lived in Essex until his death in 1662 or 1663 at the age of seventy-six. His monument bears the following inscription in Latin:
"Here lies the dust of Richard
Denton
O'er his low peaceful grave
bends
The perennial cypress, fit emblem
Of his unfading fame.
On earth
His bright example, religious
light.
Shone forth o'er multitudes,
In heaven
His pure rob'd spirit shines
Like an efulgent star."
The Reverend Doctor Mather, in his "Magnalia" thus speaks of Mr. Denton: "First at Wethersfield, then at Stamford, his doctrine drop's as the rain, his speech distilled as the dew as the small Rain upon the tender Herb, and as the shower's upon the grass."
Denton was a Presbyterian. He is so recognized by the Dutch pastors of New Amsterdam, who wrote to the Classics of Amsterdam in 1657: "At Heemstede, about seven Dutch miles from here, there are some Independents of the place listen attentively to his preaching, but when he began to baptise the children of such parents as are not members of the Chrurch, they sometimes broke out of the Church." In another reference, "He also ministered to the Puritans in our metropolis in an English Puritan Church. This was not a separate church building, but the band of Puritans to whom Doughty ministered. They worshipped along side of the Dutch and the French in the same building within the fort, and at different hours of service." (American Historical Magazine. Vol XIII; Doc Hist. N.Y. III, p. 107).
per David H. Templin "The Denton Family" Richard Denton was born in 1586 in Yorkshire, England. He graduated from Cambridge Universtity in 1623.
He was the minister at Coley Chapel,Halifx Yorkshire, until about 1630.
He came to America soon after and settled first in Wethersfield, Connecticut until 1641 when he moved to Stamford, Connecticut. About 1644, Richard Denton moved to Hempstead, Long Island. Richard Denton was the first minister of the Hempstead Presbyterian Church, which is still in existence. Richard Denton was pastor of the Hempstead Church until 1659. There is some dispute about where Richard Denton died. Some think he returned to England and died in Essex in 1622. (sic) It appears that Richard Denton had two wives, one of whom was Helen Windlbank. Richard Denton was father of at least 6 children.
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Abt 1603 - Abt 1662 (59 years)
