Ancestry of
Ted Danson

TV Actor - “Cheers”, “CSI”

Mary Denison

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Ted Danson — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 165 
  • Father:
  • John Denison 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Noyes   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 24 Jan 1742 
  • Christening Location:
  • First Congregational Church, Stonington, New London, Connecticut 
  • Death Date:
  • 17 Sep 1800 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Avery-Morgan Burial Ground, Groton, New London, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Oliver Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Apr 1759 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Denison Smith (Ahnentafel No:82 )

• Sources for Mary Denison

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 01/27/2015).
  • ² Phinney, Mary Allen, Allen Genealogy: A Brief History of Lewis Allen (of Fisher's Island and New London, Conn.) and His Descendants . . ., Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc. (1954), 22.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 321, 482, 784.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 49.
  • ⁵ Smith, H. Allen, A Genealogical History of the Descendants of the Rev. Nehemiah Smith of New London County, Conn., with Mention of . . ., Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1889), 85-89.
  • ⁶ Stoddard, Mrs. Frances M., Genealogical History of the Allen Family and of Some of Their Connections, Boston: Privately printed (1891), 51.
  • ⁷ Wheeler, Richard Anson, History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, From its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900, New London, Connecticut: Press of the Day Publishing Company (1900), 346.
  • ⁸ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 452.
  • ⁹ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 607.

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