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Captain, John Davis' co., raised for Worcester County, Wicomico (Bttn) (MD) militia
Captain RICHARD DAVIS; Colonel POPE, 4TH REGT
Additional References:
"Revolutionary Patriots of Worcester & Somerset Counties, Maryland 1775-83", by Henry C Peden, Jr, Willow Bend Books, Westminister, Maryland, Copyright 2000, pg 79-80
SAR Nat'l. No.191186 approved May 27, 2014
Spouse: (1) Ann Lewis; (2) Elizabeth Purnell Smack Children: Daniel;
Author: Charles Edwin Finley
Henry Dennis served by taking the Oath of Allegiance in Worcester County, Maryland before the Honorable James Selby in 1778 and as a Private in the Worcester County Militia, Wicomico Battalion, Capt. John Davis’s Company.
Henry was born 1750 in Worcester County, Maryland to Johnson Dennis and Nancy Truitt. He died July 31, in 1849 in Worcester County, Maryland. Henry and his first wife, Ann Lewis, had the following children—
1. Daniel (1788-1877) married Nancy Pendleton 2. Purnell I. (1790-1854) married Leah Adkins 3. Johnson (1792-) married Polly 4. Ananias, (1797-1868) married Elizabeth Jane Hearn 5. Hettie (1798-) 6. Henry J. (1799-1863)
Following his first wife’s death, Henry married Elizabeth Anne Purnell, and they had the following children—
7. Polly (1803-) 8. John W. (1808-1872) married Eliza A. Trader 9. Ephraim Wilson (1810-1880) married Mary Ann Lewis 10. Hester (1813-1880) married William Brittingham 11. James P. (1815-) married Julia 12. Henry Harrison (1817-1863) 13. Levin Dennis (1818-1866) married Harriett Beathards 14. Ann M. (1820-) 15. Rhoda (1820-) 16. Nancy F. (1822-1885) married Rufus K. Trader 17. Isaac M. (1825-1897) married Nancy Henrietta 18. Rachel (1825-1870) married Daniel Shockley
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After, 1750 a young Henry Dennis observed Somerset & Worcester counties divided into hundreds, from south to north: Mattapony, Pocomoke, Wicomico, and Baltimore Hundreds. Later, still additional subdivisions resulted in divisions being designated into election districts. In 1775, the MD Committee of Safety organized districts for raising state militia battalions. Worcester co., was primarily an agricultural area from its inception, with tobacco then wheat corn, and livestock