An American Family History

Abraham Denton

New York
Shenandoah, (was Orange, then Frederick) County, Virginia

The Great Wagon Road was the most important Colonial American route for settlers of the mountainous backcountry. It went from Philadelphia to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. One fork went to the Tennessee Valley and Knoxville and the other to the Piedmont Region of North Carolina.

Abraham Denton was born about 1700 in New York. He was the son of Abraham Denton (1675) and Mary Thorne.

He married Mary Odell about 1725 in New York. She was the daughter of Samuel Odell (1690).

About 1730, they settled in what was then Orange County, Virginia. It became Frederick and then Shenandoah County.

Mary and Abraham's children may have included:
Abraham Denton, Jr. (1726, married Mourning Hogg),
Joseph Denton (1729, married Ann Hogg),
Isaac Denton (1733, married Ann Whitson),
Samuel Denton (1734, married Margaret Moore),
James Denton (1735),
Martha Denton (1736, married James Moore and John Tipton), and
Phoebe Denton (1737 married William Plumlee, son of John Plumlee),

In 1755, Abraham Denton and Caleb Odell witnessed a land transaction in Frederick County.

In 1758 and 1764, Abraham Denton appeared on the rent roll of Frederick County .

Abraham died in 1774.

In 1786, Mourning Hogg Denton was a member of the Big Pigeon Baptist Church in Sullivan County, Tennessee. When John and Philip Mulkey moved from the Big Pigeon Church in 1797, to what is now Monroe County, Kentucky, Mourning
Denton joined Mill Creek 'by living testimony."

Samuel Denton (1734) was a captain with the North Carolina Continental Line and
received bounty land in White County, Tennessee.

Rent rolls were lists of landowners showing whether they had paid their annual quit-rents to the Crown. A quick-rent was a feudal remnant and was paid by a freeholder in lieu of services that might otherwise have been required.

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