Capt George Denison
1620 - 1694 (73 years)-
Name George Denison [1] Title Capt Birth 10 Dec 1620 Bishops Stortford, East Hertfordshire District, Hertfordshire, England 
[1] Gender Male Death 23 Oct 1694 Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut [1] Burial Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut [1] - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11435695/george-denison
Plot: 8-392
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Inscription
HEAR / LIES THE / BODY OF CAPTIN / GEORGE DEN / ISON DEPARTED / OCTOBER THE / 23 IN THE 74[th] YEAR / OF HIS AGE 1694
Gravesite Details
age 73. Veteran of King Phillip's War
Person ID I4703 Gritton Last Modified 21 Apr 2026
Father Deacon William Denison, b. Feb 1571, Bishops Stortford, East Hertfordshire District, Hertfordshire, England d. 25 Jan 1653, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts (Age 81 years) Mother Margaret Chandler, b. Oct 1575, Bishops Stortford, East Hertfordshire District, Hertfordshire, England d. 3 Feb 1645, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, (Age 69 years) Marriage 7 Nov 1603 [1] Family ID F2023 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Bridget Thompson, b. 11 Sep 1622, Preston Capes, Daventry District, Northamptonshire, England d. 16 Aug 1643, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, (Age 20 years) Marriage 1640 [1] Children + 1. Hannah Denison, b. 20 May 1643, Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts d. 18 Oct 1715, Stonington, New London County, Connecticut (Age 72 years)Family ID F2021 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Apr 2026
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Notes - He was the son of William and Margaret (Chandler) (Monck) Denison. He married first Bridget Thompson and second Ann Borodell.
George Denison died in Hartford, Oct. 23, 1694, while there on some special business, being 76 years old. His wife, Ann Borodell, died Sept. 26, 1712, aged 97 years. They were both remarkable for magnificent personal appearance, and for force of mind and character. She was always called "Lady Ann." They held a foremost place in Stonington. At the time of their marriage, in 1645, she was 30 years old and he 27. He has been described as "the Miles Standish of the settlement," but he was a greater and more brilliant soldier than Miles Standish. He had no equal in any of the colonies, for conducting a war against the Indians, excepting, perhaps, Captain John Mason.
George's brother, General Daniel Denison wrote in 1672: " My Brother George buried his first Wife in the year 1643, went to England, was a soldier there about a year, was at the Battle of York or Marston Moor where he did good service, was afterward taken prisoner, but got free, and having married a second Wife, he returned to New England the year before our Mother died, and not long afterward removed himself to New London, near whereunto at Stonington he now liveth."
The story is that George met his second wife, Ann Borodell, when he was wounded and took shelter in her father's house. He married her in England and returned to Massachusetts about 1644. [1]
- He was the son of William and Margaret (Chandler) (Monck) Denison. He married first Bridget Thompson and second Ann Borodell.
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Sources - [S2] Find a Grave.
- [S2] Find a Grave.