--WebTV-Mail-20293-3588 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit --WebTV-Mail-20293-3588 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-WebTV-Signature: 1 ETAsAhQh5bmp0xDYMKxBkB4Em3Ca2r892wIUCIyN1WVg4YpIgNhZLH67RIL7Eao= From: ETexGal@webtv.net (Marcia Payne) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 09:01:56 -0500 (CDT) To: GW5438@aol.com Subject: Denny part 3 Message-ID: <4255-3DA193D4-2814@storefull-2115.public.lawson.webtv.net> Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit MIME-Version: 1.0 (WebTV) (Roman # 7) Samuel Denny, son of Daniel Denny (#6) was born at Leicester, Mas. on May 20, 1731. Hedied Sept 20, 1817. He married Elizabeth Henshaw on Sept 29, 1757. She was born on Sept 27, 1737, died Dec 7, 1787. He held a prominent position in the colony. He was Lt.Col. of a regiment tat marched to Lexington on the call of April 19, 1775. In Feb, 1776 he was elected Col. of the 1st Regiment in the count of Worcester and in Nov. was stationed with the Army of Tarrytown, NY. He represented Leicester in the general court in 1778 and was a member of the convention called to act upon the National Constitution in Jan. 1788. He lived on Moose Hill in the northwest part of the town. Elizabeth Henshaw, wife of Samuel Denny was the 10th child of Daniel and Elizabeth (Bass) Henshaw, who came to Leicester from Boston in 1748. He settled on a farm in the east part of the town which he inherited from his father, Joshua Henshaw. John Alden, pilgrim of Plymouth, was another ancestor of Elizabeth Henshaw. Elizabeth's father was often called upon to act as arbitrator or referee in legal cases, and was invariably the moderator at town meetings. Elizabeth wa a descendant through her mother, of Samuel Bass, who came to Boston in 1640, and of John Alden of the "Mayflower", whose daughter married John Bass, son of the emigrant Samuel Bass. --WebTV-Mail-20293-3588--