John DENNIS ⁴⁰⁹¹

  General Notes:

"JOHN DENNIS. He was born about or before 1643, undoubtedly at Yarmouth, Mass., and died in Woodbridge, N. J., May 8, 1689. According to the Woodbridge Town Records he married Sarah Bloomfield, December 18, 1668, who was the daughter of Thomas Bloomfield, Sr. of Woodbridge. John Dennis was not as prominent a man as his father and not nearly so popular a man as his brother, Samuel Dennis. In the freeholders' records, 1667-1677, he received a house lot of nineteen and one-half acres; in 1670 he is credited with receiving a patent for 107 acres; in 1681 he was rate-maker or assessor; in 1685 he was one of the eight men chosen to superintend the building of a bridge; he was overseer of highways in 1688. Dally locates his residence in the town with some exactness. His wife died May 15, 1689, but neither left a will, although administration on his estate was permitted to his oldest son, John Dennis, in 1695, despite the fact that inventory had been taken in 1689. Their children were:

I. John, born September 9, 1669, married April 8, 1694, Rachel Hull, born July 9, 1676, daughter of Captain Benjamin and Rachel (Yorke) Hull. He died in 1702-3.

II. Maria (Mary), born December 7, 1671, died October, 1689.

III. Sarah, born July 18, 1673; married July 16, 1689, Benjamin Fitz Randolph, of Piscataway.

IV. Elizabeth, born February 14, 1674; married April 4, 1693, to John Manning of Piscataway. "

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John married Sara BLOOMFIELD, daughter of Col. Thomas BLOOMFIELD and Mary. (Sara BLOOMFIELD was born on 30 Dec 1643 in Newburyport, Essex Co., Massachusetts, USA ^1596,4508 and died on 5 May 1689 in Woodbridge, Middlesex Co., New Jersey, USA ⁴⁵⁰⁸.)