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Descendants of Reverend Richard Denton




Generation No. 1


      1. Reverend Richard3 Denton (Richard2, Richard1) (Source: (1) "Cambridge University alumni books".., (2) "NYGB Volume 117".., (3) "International Genealogical Index, 2000".., (4) Internet Denton Family History site..) was born Abt. 1586 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, and died Abt. 1662 in England. He married Helem Windelbank November 16, 1617 in Southwerk, Surrey, London, England (Source: "Southwerk, London Parish Register"..), daughter of Thomas Windibank and Frances Dymoke. She was born Abt. 1588 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England.

Notes for Reverend Richard Denton:
Richard Denton was born ca. 1586 in England, and graduated from St. Catherine College, Cambridge, England in 1623. He came to New England around 1635. The "Cambridge University books" first list him as a Preacher at Halifax, England, and it states that he was a "Sizor (Undergraduate) of St. Catherine Easter from 1621-1624, a priest on 08 June, 1623, and Deacon ata Petersborough on 09 March, 1622/23. He later went on to be the Curate of a chapel in Halifax. In 1635 Richard must have just arrived in Ct., for he was living then in Wethersfield. From 1641-1643 he was living in Stamford, Ct.. On 30 October, 1640 Rev. Richard Denton, along with Thomas Weekes, John Jessup, and others were early settlers in Wethersfield, Connecticut Colony, and they purchased land from the Rippowanes Indians in the New Haven Colony, now known as Stamford, Ct.. Rev. Denton was to remove there the following March, and the others by November, 1641. When Rev. Denton accompanied by a part of his congregation, migrated to Hempstead, Long Island in 1644, Mr. Weekes did not go with him. Richard was a man of great soul, gracious and a great Christian, a man with but one eye. In 1647 he was living in Hempstead, and he was then listed as being 61 years old. From 1656-1659 he was still living in Hempstead, but in 1659 his wages were not paid, so he returned to England. He had fallen out of favor with the settlers in Hempstead. He left his children behind, and they all went on to found numerous parts of a great American Family.
     
Children of Reverend Denton and Helem Windelbank are:
  2 i.   John4 Denton, born Abt. 1618 in Bolton, Yorkshire, England.
  3 ii.   Richard Denton, born Abt. 1620 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England; died December 28, 1658 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts. He married Ruth Tileston December 11, 1657 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England; born in England.
  Notes for Richard Denton:
He was found in the rate list in 1683 in Jamaica, Long Island.

  4 iii.   Sarah Denton, born Abt. 1623 in Bolton, Yorkshire, England. She married William Thorne Abt. 1640 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England; born in England.
  5 iv.   Timothy Denton, born July 23, 1627 in Bolton, Yorkshire, England. He married Hannah Leonard April 24, 1676; born Abt. 1630 in England.
+ 6 v.   Nathaniel Denton, born March 09, 1628/29 in Fairfield County, or Springfield Hampton, Massachusets.; died October 18, 1690 in Jamaica, Long Island, New York.
+ 7 vi.   Samuel Denton, born May 29, 1631 in Coley Chapel, Halifax, Yorkshire, England; died March 20, 1712/13 in Hempstead, Long Island, New York.
  8 vii.   Daniel Denton, born July 16, 1632 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England. He married Abigail Stevenson Abt. 1659 in New York.
  9 viii.   John Denton, born Abt. 1634 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England.


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