Ancestry of
Ted Danson

TV Actor - “Cheers”, “CSI”

Denison Smith

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Ted Danson — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 82 
  • Father:
  • Oliver Smith 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Denison   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 Jun 1769 
  • Birth Location:
  • Stonington, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Dec 1860 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Avery-Morgan Burial Ground, Groton, New London, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Waity Smith
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Mar 1788 
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  • Child:

  Mary Denison Smith (Ahnentafel No:41 )

• Sources for Denison Smith

  • 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), 89, 114-115.
  • ⁶ Stoddard, Mrs. Frances M., Genealogical History of the Allen Family and of Some of Their Connections, Boston: Privately printed (1891), 51.

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