Jonas Denton

10.  JONAS2 DENTON (SAMUEL1, RICHARDA, RICHARDB, RICHARDC) was born 1679 in Hempstead, NY, and died 1717. 

Death date also seen as 1751 in Shenandoah, Virginia. Is that a mixup with his same name son?

He married

• (1) JANE SEAMAN 1695, daughter of JONATHAN SEAMAN and JANE. 
• (2) JANE HARDENBROCK 1711.

Children of JONAS DENTON and JANE SEAMAN are:

•  i. JONAS3 DENTON.
•  ii. DINAH DENTON, b. Abt. 1684.
•  iii. BENJAMIN DENTON, b. Abt. 1686.
• 32. iv. WILLIAM DENTON, b. Abt. 1690; d. 1752, Cumberland, NJ.
• 33. v. ROBERT DENTON, b. 1695, Jamaica, LI, NY; d. 1778, Hampshire CO, VA (Now Hardy CO, WV).
• 34. vi. SAMUEL DENTON, b. 1698; d. 1718.
• 35. vii. JOSEPH DENTON, b. 1702, Hempstead, NY; d. 1734, Greenwich, CT.
•  viii. JOHN DENTON, b. 1710, Hempstead, Queens Co. [now Nassau Co.], NY; d. 1765, Frederick Co., VA; m. SARAH ODELL, Abt. 1736, Eastchester.
• 36. ix. MARY DENTON, b. 1716.
•  x. ABRAHAM DENTON, b. 1718, Hempstead, Queens Co. [now Nassau Co.], NY.

Source:

• http://www.longislandgenealogy.com/denton.html
• http://www.longislandgenealogy.com/Denton.pdf

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Biography

From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Denton-125

Jonas, his family and cousin Jonathan Seaman moved west along an old trail from New York through Carlisle, PA, crossing the Potomac River near where Peter Stephens ran a ferry. Later Robert Harper established Harper's Ferry there. From this point, the Dentons skirted over to Winchester. Jonas bought 3,100 acres from Joist Hite on March 26, 1735.

The other Dentons probably made their settlement official by purchasing land from the Hites. The new home was near the Great Road from the Carolinas to Philadelphia (now U.S. Highway 11), cut out by the Indians years before.
Jonas, John Denton and Thomas Palmer bought 3,100 acres of bottom land along the North Fork of the Shenandoah River in the vicinity of Tom's Brook, VA from Joist Hite for 200 pounds, March 26, 1735. (Joist Hite of Lancaster, PA, of German descent, along with Robert McKay had taken 100,000 acres of land in the colony of Virginia, October 21, 1731. They settled both German and Scotch-Irish families on the land.) According to Deed Book, B, p. 544, Frederick Co Court, Winchester, VA, dated August 20, 1777, the deed to the 3,100 acres was not recorded until 1777 because of the Joist Hite-Thomas Lord Fairfax litigation which began in 1749 and did not end until after the Revolutionary War. It was settled in favor of Hite in 1786 -- twenty-six years after the death of Hite, and four years after Thomas Lord Fairfax's death. Part of the Jonas Denton land was mentioned as being in Augusta County. However, when Jonas and Jane Denton were in their advanced years, Jonas had turned his land over to his sons and was "just living on the land." Evidently, the squabble between Hite and Fairfax took its toll; both Jonas and Jane Denton were reported to have been severely senile in their latter years. (gencircles)

Died 1750 Dec Regarding Estate, Shenandoah, Virginia, United States

notes

From http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/DENTON/2006-08/1155220853

Jonas is the son of Samuel Denton b. 29 May 1631 Halifax Youkshire
England and married Mary "Rock" Smith b. 20 July 1640 Dorchester Suffolk
Co. MA
Samuel Denton is the son of Richard Denton b. April 1603 Yorkshire ....

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• http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Jonas_Denton_(1)_

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