University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln 1-1-1984 Daniel Denton (c.1626–1703) Paul Royster University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libraryscience Part of the Library and Information Science Commons Royster, Paul, "Daniel Denton (c.1626–1703)" (1984). Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries. 3. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libraryscience/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications, UNL Libraries by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. from Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 24 pastor, and in 1656 he held the same position in Daniel Denton the town of Jamaica. When his father removed to (circa 1626–1703) Halifax, Nova Scotia, Denton remained on Long Island, and in 1664 he became one of the grantees of a patent at Elizabethtown, New Jersey. In 1665 BOOK: A Brief Description of New‐York: Formerly and 1666 he served as justice of the peace in New Called New‐Netherlands . (London: Printed York. Around 1659, Denton married Abigail Ste‐ for John Hancock & William Bradley, 1670; venson, who bore three children, and from whom New York: Gowans, 1845) he was divorced in 1672. The two elder children, Daniel and Abigail, remained with their father, Daniel Denton, son of the first Presbyterian min‐ while the infant daughter, Mercy, accompanied ister in America, wrote a promotional tract in her mother, who subsequently remarried.