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Marlon Brando

Movie Actor

Benjamin Denslow III

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Marlon Brando — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 38 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Denslow Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Old   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 May 1760 
  • Birth Location:
  • Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Apr 1851 
  • Death Location:
  • Cherry Valley, Otsego, New York 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Cherry Valley Cemetery, Cherry Valley, Otsego, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ruth Spencer
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 May 1783 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Children:
  
  

  Philander Denslow

  Sardis Denslow

  Jasper Denslow

  Alcena Anna Denslow

  (probable) Charity Denslow (Ahnentafel No:19 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

• Additional marriages for Benjamin Denslow III

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  • Spouse:
  • Eunice Bacon
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Oct 1845
  • Marriage Location:
  • Litchfield, Herkimer, New York

• Sources for Benjamin Denslow III

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Suffield, p. 57, Birth records for children of Benjamin and Ruth Denslow.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Suffield, p. 57, Birth record for Benjamin Denslow.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Suffield, p. 57, Marriage record for Benjamin Denslow and Ruth Spencer.
  • ⁴ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A031946.
  • ⁵ Federal Census, NY, Herkimer County, 1810, Litchfield, Image 4 of 10.
  • ⁶ Federal Census, NY, Herkimer County, 1820, Litchfield, Image 1 of 7.
  • ⁷ Federal Census, NY, Otsego County, 1850, Cherry Valley, Image 48 of 105.
  • ⁸ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/15/2018).
  • ⁹ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1948, Vol. 79, pp. 24-26.
  • ¹⁰ The American Genealogist, 1952, Vol. 28, p. 127.
  • ¹¹ U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1861-1985, Record for Benjamin Denslow.
  • ¹² Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2006, Vol. 39, p. 550.
  • ¹³ Fernald, Natalie R., ed., The Genealogical Exchange, Buffalo, New York, 1906, Vol. 3, No. 6, p. 48, gives death date as 11 APR 1851.