1695 - 1778 (83 years)
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| Name |
DENTON, Robert* 7 sue |
| Birth |
1695 |
Jamaica, Queens County, Long Island, New York, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| _UID |
D68B837039C4FE4DBA26AF1222D20D69A7E7 |
| Death |
1778 |
Hampshire County, Virginia |
| Person ID |
I30747 |
Garys-Tree |
| Last Modified |
28 Jan 2009 |
| Father |
DENTON, Jonas, b. 1677, Hempstead, Queens [now Nassau] County, Long Island, New York, USA d. 1717 (Age 40 years) |
| Mother |
SEAMAN, Jane, b. Abt 1679 |
| Marriage |
Abt 1707 |
Hempstead, Queens [now Nassau] County, Long Island, New York, USA |
| Family ID |
F11011 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
MOON, Jane, b. 1714 d. 1787, Hardy County, Virginia (Age 73 years) |
| Marriage |
13 Feb 1737/38 |
Burlington County New Jersey |
| Family ID |
F11039 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
7 Feb 2024 |
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| Notes |
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Robert's will mentions all his children.
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Robert owned land by 1751 in present-day Hardy Co, WV on both the Lost
River and Cacapon River west of Strasburg, VA. Following the last Indian
uprising in 1766, Robert was involved in the purchase of more land in the
Great North Mountain Range in what is now West Virginia. Robert stayed in
this area though his brother James and others found Tennessee alluring, as
well as Kentucky. He amassed some 1,600 acres of land in the area. He
must have become ill in the late 1760s for he began to sell off the Lost
River parcels, mostly to his family. In 1768 he sold 323 acres to his
daughter Margaret and her husband, Joel Robinson. At his Lost River
Plantation he began to see the great migration into the countryside begin.
Surveyors were in Kentucky laying out the best lands for those who
participated in the long conflict with the French and the Indians.
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The English crown still forbade movement across the Alleghenies, but their
Virginia governor, John Murray, Lord of Dunmore, instituted an
expansionist attitude after he took office in 1771. The land-greedy
pioneers were impatient with the "rights" ascribed to the Indian tribes.
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The Virginal Admiralty Records have a listing for a Robert Denton in 1746.
It may have been this Robert Denton. Robert died in the early part of
1778.
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| Sources |
- [S960] Imported GEDCOM file fr Ken Erd Mar 2006.
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