Daniel Denison

Major-General Daniel Denison (September 20, 1682) was an English-born military officer and politician who spent the majority of his life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Early life He was the son of William Denison, an early settler of Roxbury, Massachusetts. He arrived in Roxbury with his parents in 1631, likely with the "apostle" Puritan Minister John Eliot, on the ship Lyon. Daniel Denison moved away in 1633 to become one of the first settlers of Cambridge. He married Patience Dudley, the daughter of Massachusetts Governor Thomas Dudley. He became a freeman of Cambridge on April 1, 1634, and served on the first Constable's committee to execute land allocation in the establishment of Cambridge (so ordered Feb. 3, 1634). He moved to Ipswich in 1635 to take up leadership responsibilities in the defense of the colony, and to develop a career in governance. Career