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[[Category: London, England]]
[[Category: Virginia Colonists]]
[[Category: Northumberland County, Virginia]]
== Biography ==
=== Name ===: Name: John /Dennis/<ref>Source: [[#S138]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for John Dennis</ref><ref>Source: [[#S138]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for John Dennis</ref>
=== Birth ===
: Birth:
:: Date: 1607:: Place: London, London, England<ref>Source: [[#S138]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for john deane</ref><ref>Source: [[#S138]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for John Dennis</ref><ref>Source: [[#S138]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for John Dennis</ref><ref>Source: [[#S138]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for John Dennis</ref>
=== Death ===
: Death:
:: Date: 31 JUL 1652:: Place: Northumberland, Virginia, USA<ref>Source: [[#S138]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for John Dennis</ref><ref>Source: [[#S138]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for John Dennis</ref>
=== Event ===
: Event:
:: Type: Arrival
:: Date: 1635:: Place: Virginia, USA<ref>Source: [[#S157]] Page: Database online. Place: Virginia; Year: 1635; Page Number: 5. Data: Text: Record for John Dennis</ref>
:: August 8, 1636
:: Court Appearance At a court in Accomack, John Dennis, aged 28
or there abouts, says Roger Roads and Mr Melling fell into hot words, Roads saying Melling killed his sow, etc. <ref>Virginia Colonial Abstracts, vol 1, Accomack County</ref>
:: March 20, 1621:: Shareholder, Virginia Company<ref>Susan Myra Kingsbury, Records of the Virginia Company: 1606-1626, vol iii, p. 64</ref>
== Sources ==
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* Source: <span id='S138'>S138</span> Author: Ancestry.com Title: Public Member Trees Publication: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006; Repository: [[#R1]] * Repository: <span id='R1'>R1</span> Name: www.ancestry.com Address: E-Mail Address: Phone Number: * Source: <span id='S157'>S157</span> Author: Gale Research Title: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Publication: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006; Repository: [[#R1]] NOTEFilby, P. William, ed., Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2006
=== Notes ===: Note <span id='N1033'>N1033</span>www.geo cities.com/grandmak33/ dennisvirginia .html JOHN JR DENNIS (JOHN SR1)4 was born 1608 in London, Middlesex, England, and died July 31, 1652 in Northumberland , Virginia court record5. He married BARBARY UNKNOWN6. She was born 1613 in England, and died 1690. Notes for JOHN JR DENNIS: (Virginia Colonial Abstracts, vol 1, Accomack County) June 4, 1635. Daniel Cugley. 400 acres for transporting Paschal Crocker, Peter Varlow, Thomas Dymer, George Luckin, Thomas Peak, John Champion, Leonard Lenards, and John Dennis. [Did John Dennis name his son, Paschal, after Paschal Crocker? If so, does this suggest Barbara was related to Paschal Crocker?] April 5, 1636. William Mellinge and John Dennis appraised the goods of Mr Nicholas Throgmorton, granted to James Cook. August 8, 1636. At a court in Accomack, John Dennis, aged 28 or there abouts, says Roger Roads and Mr Melling fell into hot words, Roads saying Melling killed his sow, etc. [This record establishes that John Dennis, Jr. was born in about 1608.] ________________ (Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book 2, p. 183) September 15, 1649. John Dennis, 350 acres, scituated at great Wicocomoco, bounded on the northern parts with a branch of said river, on the southern part by a small branch, parting same from land of Thomas Gascogne and making this a neck of land. For transporting seven persons: Richard Parker, Christopher Walsgrave, Barbery Dennis, Robert Swanson, Thomas Long, Thomas Acties--a servant of Capt Stoner. ________________ "John Dennis, Jr. died on 31 Sept 1652. Debts due to John Dennis Junr who dyed in Virginia at Jo'n Dennis Senr's house in Wicocomocoe the last day of July 1652. John Dennis Senr. upon Accot." 1652, July ... "Barbary Dennis, widow, to have comm. of admr. of estate of John Dennis, her husband, decd." 1653 ... "Whereas John Dennis Senr [sic--must be Jr.] doth owe unto Mr. Thomas Speke 300 lb tobacco, the court doth order that David Spiller, who married with the widow and administatrix of the said Dennis, shall within ten days make payment." (Northumberland County, VA, Abstracts) An inventory of the Goods of John Dennis Junr who dyed at Wicocomoco at John Dennis Senr the ultimo July 1652, apraised by Rich Budd, Jo Gresham and Jo Gamblin, sworne before George ffletcher the 4th Septem 1652. John Dennis Senr his account of john Dennis Junr his estate. The account of John Dennis adminstrator of all and singular the goods and chattels of John Dennis Junr deceased late whilest he lived of Great Wicocomocoe in the County of Northumberland and Colony of Virginia. Imprs this accountant and administrator doth charge himself with all the estate of the said deceased contained in an inventory amounting unto the sum of .....2217 Paid and laid out of the deceased estate as followeth: Imprs this accountant and administrator hath paid himself a debt due and owing unto him by the deceased in his lifetime for transporting the deceased goods from Newport News........................400 Itm due from the deceased to this accountant for nine months diet..................900 Itm for a funeral dinner...................500 Itm for the deceased washing and soap in his lifetime......100 Itm for travails and diet at the ordinary about getting ad'con............................100 Item to the Clerk of the Court for his fees.............142 Total............................... .............. .................2142 So it appeareth by this account that this accountant and administrator hath got remaining on his hands of the estate of the deceased the sum of......................69 [By my calculation John Dennis, Sr. had 75 pounds remaining.] (Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book 2, p. 288) July 16, 1654. Orphans of John Dennis. 400 acres in Northumberland County. 350 acres north upon a branch of the great Wicocomoco River, called Dennis Creek, southeast upon a branch dividing this from land of Thomas Gascogne and northwest upon land of William Spicer, and 50 acres bounding northeast upon the same, etc. 350 acres due by the decease of their father, John Dennis, who pattented it September 15, 1649; and 50 acres for transporting William Dingley. April 26, 1656. Richard Dennis. 400 acres in Northumberland County. 350 acres north upon a branch of great Wicocomoco River called Dennis Creek, southeast upon a branch dividing same from land of Thomas Gascogne and northwest upon land of William Spicer, and 50 acres adjacent same 350 acres, granted unto his father, John Dennis, September 15, 164- and due him as son and heir; and 50 acres for transporting of one person. December 26, 1664. Barbara Dennis, widow, gives her daughter Mary Dennis four cows. Notes for BARBARY UNKNOWN: After the death of John Dennis, Jr., Barbara married secondly David Spiller. His will was recorded in Northumberland County, Virginia, on October 21, 1658. He stated "I give my whole estate to be equally divided between my sons, John Swanson [he apparently married a Swanson widow, before Barbara], Richard Dennis, Pasco Dennis, and John Dennis, excepting one cow called Florence, which I also give my youngest son John Dennis. I give unto Susanna Holling, my brother's child, a cow. Tobacco to James Magregory. Witnessed by Thomas Gascogne and John Taylor. Children of JOHN DENNIS and BARBARY UNKNOWN are: 3. i. JOHN III3 DENNIS, b. Bet. 1641 - 1651, Virginia .. youngest son; d. Bef. March 19, 1678/79, St. Stephen's Parish, Northumberland, VA. ii. MARY DENNIS, b. 1646. 4. iii. PASCHALL DENNIS, b. 1648. 5. iv. RICHARD DENNIS, b. Abt. 1650.
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