. Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey ... ld his interest to Gov-ernor Carteret. Others were Thomas ( Benydick). who had represented Jamaica, Long the Hempstead Convention of 1665; John Baker, who had been the principal militaryofficer at Albany, and who became foremost in resisting proprietary aggression in Jersey;John Ogden, who came from Connecticut to Long Island, and thence to Jersey, and becameone of the most influential in the new settlement there; also David and Nathaniel Denton,sons of the Reverend Richard Denton, who came from England to ^


. Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey ... ld his interest to Gov-ernor Carteret. Others were Thomas ( Benydick). who had represented Jamaica, Long the Hempstead Convention of 1665; John Baker, who had been the principal militaryofficer at Albany, and who became foremost in resisting proprietary aggression in Jersey;John Ogden, who came from Connecticut to Long Island, and thence to Jersey, and becameone of the most influential in the new settlement there; also David and Nathaniel Denton,sons of the Reverend Richard Denton, who came from England to ^Massachusetts and thence,in turn, to Connecticut, and to Hempstead, Long Island. Daniel Denton was a man of strongcharacter and great usefulness, and was a school teacher and physician. He soon sold hisinterest in the Elizabethtown grant to John Baker and John Ogden, and is believed to havereturned to England. In 1670 he published in London a volume which is notable as beingthe first description of the region now known as New York and New Jersey, ever printed in.


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