William Denny and Margaret [Unk]

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Husband William Denny ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: Abt 1707
     Christened: 
           Died: 8 Oct 1784 1 4
         Buried: 

       Marriage: 

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Wife Margaret [Unk] ^{1 2 4}

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           Born: Abt 1718
     Christened: 
           Died: 7 May 1794 1 4
         Buried: 

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Children

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1 M William Denny ^{2 3 5 6 7 8 9}

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           Born: 1737 - Chester Co, PA 10 11
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 1800 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA
         Buried:  - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA

         Spouse: Agnes Parker (1741-Aft 1800) 2 3 5 7 8 9 12
           Marr: 1760 11 13

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2 M David Denny ^{1 4}

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           Born: Abt 1742
     Christened: 
           Died: 4 Nov 1820 1
         Buried:  - Brandywine Manor Church, Chester Co, PA

         Spouse: Elizabeth [Unk] (cal 1750-1809) 1

         Spouse: Martha [Unk] (Abt 1789-1867) 1

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3 M Walter Denny ^{3 4 12}

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           Born:  - ? Chester Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: May 1778 - Bucks Co, PA 12
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Mary [Unk] (      -      ) 12

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General Notes: Husband - William Denny

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Different sources give widely different information about the early generations of this family.

The Denny family is of English descent, the American ancestor being William Denny, who came to this country prior to 1735, and settled in Uwchlan township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The records show and the histories of Chester and Cumberland counties confirm that he took up and patented two hundred and ninety three acres of land in that township. His ownership is further confirmed by the fact that in 1777, he and his wife, Margaret conveyed a tract to their eldest son, David Denny, a Revolutionary soldier of record.

. . . probably of Scotch-Irish stock, he settled in Uwchlan township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, as early as 1735, and in 1750 obtained a patent for 293 acres next to land of Robert Smith and others. In 1775 he and his wife, Margaret, conveyed this to David Denny, one of their sons.

The Denny family was residing in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, as early as the middle of the eighteenth century, at which time William Denny was residing in the little town of Carlisle. It was founded here by a still earlier ancestor, who emigrated from the north of Ireland, and upon reaching America settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in the first quarter of the eighteenth century. Not long afterward he moved further west and became one of the earliest pioneers and settlers of the great western wilderness which at that time covered the entire portion of the State of Pennsylvania, west of the Alleghenies.

1 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 518.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 376.

3 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 642.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 876.

5 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 579.

6 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 35, 76.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 876, 985.

8 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 1.

9 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 18.

10 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 581.

11 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 985.

12 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 76.

13 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 35.