When Daniel Denton III was born in 1685, in Hempstead, Nassau, New York, United States, his father, Daniel Denton II, was 25 and his mother, Deborah Leonard, was 22. He married Hannah Seaman in 1707, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He died in 1752, in Long Island, New York, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Hempstead, Queens, New York, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of numerous places so called. The vast majority, including those in Cambridgeshire, Cumbria, Dumfries, Durham, Kent, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northumberland, Oxfordshire, Sussex, and Yorkshire are named from Old English denu ‘valley’ (see Dean 1) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. An isolated example in Northamptonshire appears in the Domesday Book as Dodintone meaning ‘enclosure, settlement associated with Dodda or Dudda’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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