Denison, George, 1618 - 1694

George Denison, son of William and Margaret Denison of Hertofordshire, England, settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1631 but returned back to England after the death of his wife, Bridget Thompson in 1643.  Denison removed to Roxbury two years later where he lived until 1651.  He relocated to New London, Connecticut then to Pequotsepos at Stonington by 1654.

When Stonington fell under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts as Southerton in 1658, Bay Colony authorities chose him as one of its selectmen and commissioners.  In 1657 Denison petitioned the Massachusetts General Court for five hundred acres of land to be laid out on the Connecticut River in two places, either at Penecook on either side of the Merrimack River or near Pacomsickqueke.  In 1660 the Massachusetts Court granted him two hundred and fifty acres in Pequot Country. 

Denison was a deputy to the Connecticut General Court at various times from 1653 to 1694.  During King Philip’s War, he commanded English and Indian troops from New London County and was appointed provost marshal in 1677.  Denison's will indicates that he owned a thousand acres of Mohegan land and at least four Indian slaves, a youth or young man, a woman, a man named John who he bought from the Colony and John's son Job.

Shurtleff, Records of  the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay, 314, 333-5, 338, 340, 344, 350, 353, 357, 441.  Frances Manwaring Caulkins, History of New London, 332-334.  Wheeler, History of Stonington, 712.