• William Denison m. Margaret (Chandler) Monck at Stortford, Eng., Nov. 7, 1603. He was very well seated in Stortford or Stratford, but hearing of the then famous transplantation to New England, unsettled himself and recalling his son Daniel from Cambridge, removed himself and family in the year 1631 to New England, and brought over with him his son Daniel, then aged about 19 years, and two younger brothers, Edward and George, leaving his oldest son, John, who, had also been bred at Cambridge and was then a minister, married, with a good portion, and who lived about Pelham or in Hartford shire, not far from Stratford, where they were all born. William Denison brought with him into New England a very good estate and settled himself at Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Mass., and there lived till Jan. 25, 1653, when he died, having buried his wife about 8 years before, viz., 1645.3562

• William Denison is accounted a fellow-passenger with the Rev. John Elliot, of Roxbury, in “the Lyon,” which brought emigrants to America in 1631. He is known to have brought with him three sons, Daniel, Edward and George.3001, p 332