Andrew Denman

DAR Ancestor # A031780

A private with the Essex County, New Jersey, militia, where he served as a teamster. Also "TMS [Quartermaster] GENERAL'S DEPT."

Christened September 30, 1761; DAR has dob as November 2, 1756.

Andrew was twice married; first in New Jersey, to Susanna Marsh, who died April 1, 1814, aged 57, leaving children, only one of whose names is on record,—Charlotte, who died February 18, 1817, aged 22.

He afterward married Mary, daughter of Moses Camp, and emigrated to central Ohio and settled on a farm near Columbus. There were born a family of eight children; —Andrew, Jr., in 1817; Moses, in 1818; Mary, January 25, 1820; Daniel, April 5, 1822; Elizabeth, September 5, 1824; Julia Ann, February, 1827; Isaac, March 31, 1829; and Sallie Jane on March 24, 1832.

Moses is the only one of this family of whom any succeeding record is found. He married Mary Manasmith, and settled on a farm in Delaware Co., Ohio, where their one son, Lewis Henry, was born. When this son was but an infant, Moses Denman started to Virginia with a drove of horses and mules to sell. He was somewhere waylaid, and was never heard of afterward by his family. His wife sold the farm in about a year, and went to her relatives in Mason Co., Ky., where she died soon afterward. The orphan son found home and friends; was educated in college at Georgetown, Ky., and became a Baptist minister.

...Thus far only can we follow the family of Andrew, the eldest son of Joseph, second son of John Denman [IV] and Mary [Elizabeth] Williams. Of Andrew's younger brothers and sisters only scraps of records are found. Sarah married John Radley in 1786, lived in Hamilton Co., Ohio, and had a daughter Mary. Joseph married a Miss Stewart, but no children are mentioned. Elizabeth married Andrew De Low, and had children, Andrew and Mary. Both she and Joseph lived in Miami Co., Ohio, as did also their brother Abner after leaving Kentucky in 1814. Abner married a Miss Ayers and had three children that are known of,—Richard, Gilman and Abner Ayers. Of David and Susan no record has been found. But of Nathaniel, the youngest son, we have a good record.

Denman Family History, p.13-14