The parentage, place and exact date of Samuel's birth are currently known. Records indicate he came to New jersey in 1675. Here he met his wife-to-be, Increase Lippincott.
She was the second daughter and sixth child born to the English emigrant, Richard and Abigail Lippincott. Richard had previously emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay colony but returned Plymouth, England after Richard was excommunicated. In England he followed the Society of Friends and was jailed for religious dissent. It was soon after Richard's release from this persecution that Increase was born. Her family immigrated in 1663 to live in Rhode Island. Here the family joined with other patentees to start the first English colony in New Jersey. Increase's family resided on Passequeneiqua Creek, a branch of the South Shrewsbury River, about a mile and a half from the town of Shrewsbury, in what was to become Monmouth County. Increase grew to young womanhood and was joined in marriage to Samuel Dennis in 1680. Increase gave Samuel the following five children:
Abigail – 1687 - m. Philo Leeds
Samuel – 1689 – m. Ann West
Jacob – 1691 - m. Clemence Woodward
Zipeah - 1693 – m. John Hulet
Rachel – 1695 - m. Isaac Stelle
Increase died within a week of Rachel's birth.
Samuel Dennis passed away in 1723 and rests in the Christ Churchyard, Shrewsbury, N.J.
Like so many other resting places of the very early colonists, the marker for this person's mortal remains has been lost or decayed away after almost three centuries of time and weather.
She was the second daughter and sixth child born to the English emigrant, Richard and Abigail Lippincott. Richard had previously emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay colony but returned Plymouth, England after Richard was excommunicated. In England he followed the Society of Friends and was jailed for religious dissent. It was soon after Richard's release from this persecution that Increase was born. Her family immigrated in 1663 to live in Rhode Island. Here the family joined with other patentees to start the first English colony in New Jersey. Increase's family resided on Passequeneiqua Creek, a branch of the South Shrewsbury River, about a mile and a half from the town of Shrewsbury, in what was to become Monmouth County. Increase grew to young womanhood and was joined in marriage to Samuel Dennis in 1680. Increase gave Samuel the following five children:
Abigail – 1687 - m. Philo Leeds
Samuel – 1689 – m. Ann West
Jacob – 1691 - m. Clemence Woodward
Zipeah - 1693 – m. John Hulet
Rachel – 1695 - m. Isaac Stelle
Increase died within a week of Rachel's birth.
Samuel Dennis passed away in 1723 and rests in the Christ Churchyard, Shrewsbury, N.J.
Like so many other resting places of the very early colonists, the marker for this person's mortal remains has been lost or decayed away after almost three centuries of time and weather.
The parentage, place and exact date of Samuel's birth are currently known. Records indicate he came to New jersey in 1675. Here he met his wife-to-be, Increase Lippincott.
She was the second daughter and sixth child born to the English emigrant, Richard and Abigail Lippincott. Richard had previously emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay colony but returned Plymouth, England after Richard was excommunicated. In England he followed the Society of Friends and was jailed for religious dissent. It was soon after Richard's release from this persecution that Increase was born. Her family immigrated in 1663 to live in Rhode Island. Here the family joined with other patentees to start the first English colony in New Jersey. Increase's family resided on Passequeneiqua Creek, a branch of the South Shrewsbury River, about a mile and a half from the town of Shrewsbury, in what was to become Monmouth County. Increase grew to young womanhood and was joined in marriage to Samuel Dennis in 1680. Increase gave Samuel the following five children:
Abigail – 1687 - m. Philo Leeds
Samuel – 1689 – m. Ann West
Jacob – 1691 - m. Clemence Woodward
Zipeah - 1693 – m. John Hulet
Rachel – 1695 - m. Isaac Stelle
Increase died within a week of Rachel's birth.
Samuel Dennis passed away in 1723 and rests in the Christ Churchyard, Shrewsbury, N.J.
Like so many other resting places of the very early colonists, the marker for this person's mortal remains has been lost or decayed away after almost three centuries of time and weather.
She was the second daughter and sixth child born to the English emigrant, Richard and Abigail Lippincott. Richard had previously emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay colony but returned Plymouth, England after Richard was excommunicated. In England he followed the Society of Friends and was jailed for religious dissent. It was soon after Richard's release from this persecution that Increase was born. Her family immigrated in 1663 to live in Rhode Island. Here the family joined with other patentees to start the first English colony in New Jersey. Increase's family resided on Passequeneiqua Creek, a branch of the South Shrewsbury River, about a mile and a half from the town of Shrewsbury, in what was to become Monmouth County. Increase grew to young womanhood and was joined in marriage to Samuel Dennis in 1680. Increase gave Samuel the following five children:
Abigail – 1687 - m. Philo Leeds
Samuel – 1689 – m. Ann West
Jacob – 1691 - m. Clemence Woodward
Zipeah - 1693 – m. John Hulet
Rachel – 1695 - m. Isaac Stelle
Increase died within a week of Rachel's birth.
Samuel Dennis passed away in 1723 and rests in the Christ Churchyard, Shrewsbury, N.J.
Like so many other resting places of the very early colonists, the marker for this person's mortal remains has been lost or decayed away after almost three centuries of time and weather.
Inscription
Here lieth in hopes of a joyful resurrection the body of Samuel Dennis who came from Great Britain to this place AD 1675 & lived here to the day of his death which was the 7th of June 1723 age 72 years & 6 m. Leaving issue two sons and three daughters by his only wife Increase who departed this life 28 years before him
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