Denisons of early Ipswich, Massachusetts
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Denisons of early Ipswich, Massachusetts
 rootscrazy8
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Posted: 8 May 2009 2:32PM GMT |
Classification: Query
Surnames: Denison, Rogers, Wiggin, Thing, Whipple, Wise
There were two Denison families in early Ipswich, and no connection between them has yet been found. Major General Daniel Denison wrote an autobiography for his grandchildren in which he mentioned all sorts of cousins, but there is no reference to the other Denison living in Ipswich at the same time. It's a pretty significant omission, I think.
Members of the two families have been mixed together in a lot of trees online, because they have been mixed up in most genealogies that people use for reference. Mary K. Talcott identified all the members of one family and published what she found in 1902 in the NEHGR. In 1905, "The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass." was published, with Ms Talcott listed as and editor and contributor.
My own descent is from a "brick wall" named Mary Denison, wife of Daniel Wise. The brick wall is now a pile of rubble, I am glad to say!
Although the surname died out in the lines of both Ipswich families, the daughters of both families left posterity. We already knew about the General's daughter Elizabeth, who married Rev. John Rogers in 1660, and we knew about the General's grand-daughter Martha (John, Daniel) Denison, who married three times (Thomas Wiggin in 1689, Jonathan Thing in 1693, and Matthew Whipple in 1697), but the General had a great-great grand-daughter named Mary (John 5, 4, 3, Daniel), who married Daniel Wise in 1740, and had children.
My findings and my sources are online now at http://rootscrazy.wordpress.com/
I'd enjoy seeing some comments, but I am *begging* for additions and corrections, because one thing the Internet does NOT need is another incorrect tree!
Thank you!
Sarah
Members of the two families have been mixed together in a lot of trees online, because they have been mixed up in most genealogies that people use for reference. Mary K. Talcott identified all the members of one family and published what she found in 1902 in the NEHGR. In 1905, "The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass." was published, with Ms Talcott listed as and editor and contributor.
My own descent is from a "brick wall" named Mary Denison, wife of Daniel Wise. The brick wall is now a pile of rubble, I am glad to say!
Although the surname died out in the lines of both Ipswich families, the daughters of both families left posterity. We already knew about the General's daughter Elizabeth, who married Rev. John Rogers in 1660, and we knew about the General's grand-daughter Martha (John, Daniel) Denison, who married three times (Thomas Wiggin in 1689, Jonathan Thing in 1693, and Matthew Whipple in 1697), but the General had a great-great grand-daughter named Mary (John 5, 4, 3, Daniel), who married Daniel Wise in 1740, and had children.
My findings and my sources are online now at http://rootscrazy.wordpress.com/
I'd enjoy seeing some comments, but I am *begging* for additions and corrections, because one thing the Internet does NOT need is another incorrect tree!
Thank you!
Sarah