William Denny and Agnes Parker
Husband William Denny 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Born: 1737 - Chester Co, PA 8 9 Christened: Died: Abt 1800 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA Buried: - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA
Father: William Denny (Abt 1707-1784) 5 6 10 11 Mother: Margaret [Unk] (Abt 1718-1794) 6 10 11
Father: William Denny ( -1751) 12 Mother: Agnes [Unk] ( - ) 13
Marriage: 1760 9 14
Wife Agnes Parker 1 3 4 5 6 7 13
Born: 1741 - near Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 3 6 13 Christened: Died: Aft 1800 Buried: - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA
Father: John Parker (1716-Bef 1785) 1 2 7 9 Mother: Margaret McClure ( -1792) 1 7 9 14
Children
1 M Maj. Ebenezer Denny 4 5 8 15 16 17 18
Born: 11 Mar 1761 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 4 5 8 16 18 19 Christened: Died: 21 Jul 1822 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 5 19 20 Buried: - First Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PASpouse: Nancy Wilkins (1775-1806) 5 8 16 21 22 23 Marr: 1 Jul 1793 16 21 23 24
2 F Priscilla Denny 19 25
AKA: Pusella Denny 9 Born: 28 May 1763 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 8 19 Christened: Died: 22 Feb 1849 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 8 19 Buried:Spouse: Capt. Simon Boyd ( - ) 25
3 M William Denny 8 17
Born: 24 Mar 1765 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 8 19 Christened: Died: in infancy Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
4 F Nancy (Agnes) Denny 8 17
Born: 31 Aug 1768 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 8 17 Christened: Died: 11 Jan 1845 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 8 17 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
5 F Margaret Denny 8 19
Born: 25 Jun 1771 or 1773 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 8 19 Christened: Died: 8 Dec 1847 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 26 Buried:Spouse: Samuel Simison ( - ) 8
6 F Mary [1] Denny 8 17
Born: 13 Feb 1775 or 13 Mar 1775 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 8 19 Christened: Died: Abt 1778 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
7 F Mary "Polly" [2] Denny 8 17 25 27
Born: 5 Mar 1778 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 19 25 26 27 Christened: Died: 10 Apr 1845 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 14 26 27 Buried: - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PASpouse: George Murray (1762-1855) 8 17 27 28 Marr: 27 Jun 1804 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 25
8 F Elizabeth Denny 8 17
Born: 22 Apr 1781 or 1782 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 8 17 Christened: Died: 27 Mar 1848 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 8 17 Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
9 M Boyd Denny 8 19
Born: 20 Feb 1783 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA 8 19 Christened: Died: - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA Buried:
General Notes: Husband - William Denny
He was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and was brought to Cumberland County by his parents in 1745. As the younger son, he was left, by his father's will, £20, a horse, and the cost of his schooling and learning a trade, to be paid out of the estate. He became quite a skilled cabinet-maker and carpenter, and was the contractor for the court house built in 1765, which served until destroyed by fire in 1845.
He appears as a citizen of Carlisle in the tax-list of 1762, and on Armstrong's plot of Carlisle, of 1763, as the owner of Lot No. 29, on West Main street, on which he resided in a substantial log cabin, which only gave way to a more modern building in 1894, and was at that time one of the best authenticated old land-marks of Carlisle. It was presented, together with the lot, to Dickinson College, by Miss Matilda Denny, granddaughter of Ebenezer Denny, and the proceeds from sale of it were used in the erection of Denny Memorial Hall. In the days of pack mules it was a prominent public house, and depot of supplies in the trade with Pittsburgh. In it were born his nine children, the eldest being Ebenezer.
He was coroner of Cumberland County, which then included a great part of the western portion of the state, by commission from John Penn, 1769, and as such re-examined the important case of James Smith, pronounced at an inquest in Bedford guilty of willful murder, and after three days the jury found it impossible for him to have committed the crime. [London's Narratives (Indian Wars), Vol. I, p. 256.]
He appears as called out with the militia in 1778, and in 1780 was assistant commissary of supplies. He died about 1800, and is buried in the old cemetery in Carlisle.
1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 579.
2 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 35, 76.
3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 876, 985.
4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 1.
5 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 642.
6 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.
7 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 18.
8 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 581.
9 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 985.
10 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 518.
11 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 876.
12 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 75.
13 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 76.
14 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 35.
15 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 215.
16 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 77.
17 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 877, 985.
18 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 377.
19 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 877.
20 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 78.
21 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 879, 986.
22 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 2.
23 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 379.
24 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 588.
25 —, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 34.
26 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 590.
27 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 388.
28
—, Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 33.
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