Extracted from DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE COLONIAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF 

NEW JERSEY, VOLUME XXIII, CALENDAR OF NEW JERSEY WILLS, VOLUME I, 1670-1730; 

Paterson NJ, 1901

( Libers 1, 2, etc. are of West Jersey Wills.  Those as Libers A, B, etc., 

are of East Jersey Wills)

DENNIS, page 133:

     1715 July 27.   Denis, Dennis, Jonathan, junior, of Cohansie, Salem 

Co., weaver; will of.  Wife Sarah, sole heiress and executrix of real and 

personal estate, with legacies to daughters Rachel and Sarah.  Witnesses – 

Noah Wheaten, Peter Fitchrandolph, Jane Fitzrandolph, John Roberts, Rebeckah 

Denis.  Proved August 16, 1715.  Lib. 2, p. 32.

     1715 Aug. 18.   Inventory of the personal estate, £235.19.4 ½, incl. a 

negro woman £22.10, and “Dangerously dew to the Estate by accounts” £36.10; 

made by John Paine and John Firth.

[beginning page 134]

     1702-3 Jan. 3.   Dennes, John, of Woodbridge, carpenter; will of.  Wife 

Rachell, sole heiress and executrix of goods and chattels.  Children spoken 

of.  Uncle Samuel Dennes and brother Nathaniel Fitz Randolph overseers.  

Witnesses – Edward Slater, Philipp Cox and Nicolas Munday junior.  Proved 

March 27, 1703.   Middlesex Wills.

     1702-3 Jan. 28.   Inventory of the personal estate of (£29.11.0); made 

by John Langstaff and Benjamin Martin.

     1719 Aug. 9.   Dennes, Jonathan, of Cohansey, Salem Co., yeoman; will 

of.  Wife Rachel.  Sons – Phillep, Charles and Samuel.  Real and personal 

estate.  Executors – the wife and son Phillep.  Witnesses – Richard Brick, 

Rachel Craven, Peter Fitchrandolph.  Proved May 31, 1720.  Lib. 2, p. 160.

     1720 April 28.   Inventory of the personal estate, £186.7; incl. 150 

bushels of wheat £18.15; made by Thomas Craven and Enoch Moore.

     1707 July 26.   Dennes, Dennis, Samuel, of Woodbridge, East Jersey; 

will of.  Wife Mary.  Children – Samuel, sole executor, and Jonathan.  Real 

and personal estate.  Witnesses – Sam’l Shepherd, Tho: Davis, Geo. Ewbanck.  

Proved June 10, 1708.   Lib. 1, p. 202.

     1707-8 Feb. 2.   Dennes, Mr. Samuel, of Middlesex Co.  Inventory of the 

personal estate of, £107.2.9, incl. a Bible and other books £1.8.–; made by 

John Bishop, Thomas Pike and Noah Bishop.

     1708 June 10.   Letters testatmentary granted to Samuel Dennis, the 

executor of the last will, etc.

     1719 March 20.   Dennes, Samuel, of Woodbridge, Middlesex Co., yeoman; 

will of.  Wife Mary.  Children – Sarah, Reliance, Elizabeth, Samuel.  Real 

and personal estate.  Executors – the wife and dau. Sarah with Edward 

Freeman and Benjamin Bloomfield as overseers.  Witnesses – Yelverton 

Crowell, Edward Crowell, Moses Rolph.  Proved April 21, 1720.   Lib. A, p. 

175.

     1698 April 14.   Dennis, Charles, of Shrowsbery; will of.  Wife Mary.  

Sons – John, Joseph and Philipp; the wife to take care of the orphaned 

children of Franzis and Elisabeth Jackson.  Real and personal estate.  The 

wife executrix with George Curlies and Nathaniell Slocum as assistants.  

Witnesses – Thomas Huitt (?), George Corleis and Remembrance Lippincott.  

Proved January 9, 1698-9.   N. J. Archives, XXI., p. 295, and Monmouth 

Wills.

     1689 June 3.   Dennis, John, of Middlesex Co.   Inventory of the [page 

135] personal estate of (£44.10.10); made by Natt’ll Fitch Randoll, Ephraim 

Androws and Joseph Dole.  (Copy).

     1695 June 1.   Dennis, John, senior, of Woodbridge, carpenter.  

Administration on the estate of, granted to John Dennis.  N. J. Archives, 

XXI., p. 243.

     1696 June 1.   Bond of John Dennis of Woodbridge as administrator of 

the estate.  Samuel Dennis of the same place fellow bondsman.

     1712 28th d. 10th m. (Dec.).   Dennis, John, of Newton Township, 

Gloucester Co.; will of.  Wife ------.  Daughter Rebecca, brother William 

Dennis.  Real and personal estate.  Executors – William Alberson and Simon 

Breach.  Witnesses – Joseph Low, John Cock, James Cofey.  Proved December 

15, 1712.   Lib. 1, p. 391.

     1712-3 9th d. 11th m. (Jan.).   Inventory of the estate, £167.16.8, of 

which £50.00 stand for 550 acres of land and £64.00 as debts due by 

Nathaniel Pool of Philadelphia, Thomas Brian and Henry Ballinger; made by 

Thomas Sharp and John Mickle.

     1715 29th d. 2d. m. (April).   Account of the estate by the executors, 

showing payments to Isaac Norris, Robert Yeldah, Samuel Holt, Elias Hugg as 

executor to Abigaill Stanton, John Estaugh, John Cooper, Amos Ashead, 

Charles Brockden and Thomas Smallwood.

     1726 Dec. 10.   Dennis, Denis, John, of Cohansey, Salem Co.; will of.  

Wife Hannah, sole executrixx.  Children – Henry (under age), Hannah, Rachel 

and Sarah.  Real and personal estate.  Witnesses – Thomas Waithman, Peter 

Fitchrandolph, Charles Dennes.  Proved October 4, 1727.

     1726-7 Jan. 9.   Inventory of the personal estate, £164.18.3; made by 

Ebenezer Smith and Enoch More.  Lib. 2, p. 464, and Gloucester Wills.

     1715 May 4.   Dennis, Samuel, of Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co.; will of.  

Children – Samuel, Jacob, Abigail Leeds, Zibeah, Rachel; mentions Abigail 

Lippincott as grandmother of the three daughters.  Land Freehold, farm in 

Shrewsbury.  Personal property.  Executor son Jacob.  Witnesses – Wm. 

Brinley, John Corlies, Thomas Sutton.  Proved August 6, 1723.

     1720 1st d. 4th m. (June).   Dennis, Thomas, of Newton Township, 

Gloucester Co.; will of.  Wife ----------.  Children – Thomas (married), 

William, Mary and Hannah.  Real and personal estate.  Executor son Thomas.  

Witnesses – John Williams, Thomas Sharp, Abraham Alberson.  Proved May 20, 

1721.   Lib. 2, p. 180.

     1720 12th d. 10th m. (Dec.).   Inventory of the personal estate, £38; 

made by John Mickle and Tho: Sharp.

The following names appear in the INDEX of this volume, the references being 

as persons mentioned in wills, such as recipients, trustees, witnesses, 

etc., but not wills of:

DENES (DENNISS) - Jonathan

DENIS - Rachel, Rebeckah, Samuel, Sarah (DENNIS), Thomas, Unis.

DENNES - Charles, Elizabeth, Increas, John, Jonathan, Joseph, Mary (DENNIS), 

Phillep, Rachel, Rachell, Rebeccah, Reliance, Sam. jun., Sam’l, Samuel, 

Samuel junior, Sarah.

DENNIS - Barnt (?), Charles, Hannah (DENIS), Henry, Jacob, Jona., Jonathan, 

Joseph, Martha, Mary, Mr., Philipp, Rachel, Rebecca, Robert, Sam’l, Samuel, 

Samuel junior, Sarah, Thomas, William, Zibeah.

DENNISS - Jonathan, Samuel.

Extracted from DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE COLONIAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF 

NEW JERSEY, VOLUME XXX, CALENDAR OF NEW JERSEY WILLS, VOLUME II, 1730-1750; 

Paterson NJ, 1918

( Libers 1, 2, etc. are of West Jersey Wills.  Those as Libers A, B, etc., 

are of East Jersey Wills)

DENNIS, beginning page 140:

     1747, Jany. 9.   Dennes, Charles, of Cape May Co., gentleman; will of.  

Wife, Priscilla.  Sons-in-law, John Cresse (minor) and Joseph Ludlam.  Son, 

Charles Dennis, to have plantation at Cohansey, Salem County, at the upper 

end of the place called Beacken’s Neck, joining land of Nehemiah Craven and 

land of Jonathan Strathem.  Executors – brother, Philip Dennis, and Charles 

Davis.  Witnesses – Henry Young, John Mackey and Elizabeth Mackey.  Proved 

16 May, 1749.  Letters granted to Philip Dennis in Cumberland Co.   Lib. 6, 

p. 223.

     1749, May 15.   Inventory, £136.13.9; made by Henry Young, Joseph 

Ludlam.

     1737, Aug. 26.   Dennis, John, of Haddonfield, tailor.  Int.  Adm’x, 

Sarah Norris, of Newton, Gloucester Co., dealer.  Fellow bondsman – Jonathan 

Axford, of same County, yeoman.

     1737, July 20.   Renunciation of Mary, widow of John Dennis, as Adm’x.  

Witnesses – John Kay, Sarah Kay.  Gloucester Wills, 219 H.

     1737, Oct. 28.   Inventory, £9.6.6; made by Jno. Hinchman, John 

Kaighin.

     1739, July 14.   Dennis, John, of Elizabeth Town Point, Essex Co., 

inn-holder; will of.  Wife, Mary, sole legatee.  Real and personal [page 

141] estate.  Executors – wife Mary, and friends Jonathan Hampton of Staten 

Island, New York, yeoman, and Thomas Jackman of Elizabeth Town.  Witnesses – 

Thomas Hall, Caleb Woodruff, Anne Cana.  Proved Aug. 22, 1739.  Lib. C, p. 

289.

     1739, Aug. 20.   Jonathan Hampton and Thos. Jackman renounce 

executorship.  Witnesses – Robert Drummond and Thos. Hill.

     1735, March 31.   Dennis, Samuel, of Salem Co., yeoman.  Int.  Adm’x, 

Anne Dennis (widow).  Bondsmen – Joseph Test, John Bacon, all of same place. 

  Witnesses – Danl. Mestayer, John Doe.   Lib. 4, p. 1.

     1735, March 17.   Inventory (£118.17.4) includes Bible, 6 cattle, 

swine, surveyor’s compass, chain and dividers.  Appraisers – John Bacon, 

Abiel Caril.

     1736, June 14.   Account.  Monies paid Wm. H. Clement Hall, Peter 

Turner, Saml. Fithian, Abiell Caril, Ananias Sayre, Wm. Watson, John Brick, 

Edwd. Test, Saml. Clark, Ebenezer Miller, Noah Wheaton, Isaac Fithian, John 

Loverin, Leonard Gibbon, Joseph Test, John Weckes.

     1741, Nov. 3.   Dennis, Samuel, of Shrewbury, Monmouth Co.; will of.  

Wife, Anne.  Children – eldest son Samuel, Lewis, Anne, Mary and Margaret.  

Executors – brother, Jacob Dennis, and wife Anne.  Witnesses – John Hepburn, 

Jr., David Hildreth, Patrick Drugan and Mary Palmer.  Proved Aug. 27, 1746.  

  Lib. D, p. 456.

The following names appear in the INDEX of this volume, the references being 

as persons mentioned in wills, such as recipients, trustees, witnesses, 

etc., but not wills of:

DENICE - Tunis

DENNIS - Anne, Charles, David, Elenor, Elizabeth, Henry, Jacob, James, John, 

Jonathan, Joseph, Lewis, Margaret, Mary, Philip, Priscilla, Rachel, Robert, 

Samuel, Sarah, Thomas, Tunis, William, Mr.