Yorkshire, England
Homeland of Rev. Richard Denton

The Ministry of York at Yorkshire, England, built ca. 1472 which was most likely seen and visited by Rev. Richard Denton and his family.

Denton Park (England) 1860

Coley's Chapel, Halifax, Yorkshire, England.  This is the church where Rev. Richard Denton was minister and was the site of the christening of three of his children:  Samuel on 29 May 1631; Daniel on 10 July 1632; and Pheobe on 20 Sept. 1634.

Rev. Richard Denton was pastor of Coley's Chapel from 1628 until about the time of his family's move to America, probably in early 1635.

The Priory at Bolton
Yorkshire, England

Later-day church building of Christ's First Presbyterian Church at Hempstead, Long Island, New York.  This is the church established in 1644 by Rev. Richard Denton and is the oldest Presbyterian Church in America.

America's First Racecourse
"Towards the middle of Long-Island lyeth a plain sixteen miles long and
four broad ... and once a year the best horses in the Island are brought
hither to try their swiftness.''
-- Daniel Denton, 1670

The first measured race course in America was set up on the great
Hempstead Plains in the spring of 1665, less than a year after the
English captured New Netherlands from the Dutch and began to put an
English spin on life on western Long Island. On the order of the new
English governor, Richard Nicholls -- who thus became the father of
racing in America -- a course called Newmarket was laid out in what is
today's Garden City. The oldest American racing trophy in existence, a
silver porringer that is now owned by Yale University, was awarded on
this course in 1668.

Tom's Brook, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia.  Home of Capt. Abraham Denton (1700-1774).  Abraham and members of his family are buried here.

Thanks to Herschel Denton for sending the following present-day pictures of the home place and burial site of Capt. Abraham Denton at Tom's Brook.

Herschel Denton also sent these pictures of the cemetary and grave of Jonathan Denton, 1773-1828.

Thanks to Shirley Haley for sending in this picture taken in 1901.  The photo depicts those attending the reburial of John B. Denton on the grounds of the Denton County, Texas Courthouse.  Denton, Texas was named for this preacher, lawyer and Indian fighter who, as a member of Stephen F. Austin's first group of settlers, was killed in an Indian battle in 1841.  This was the third burial of John B. Denton.   The picture was part of an article written in celebration of the sesquicentennial of Denton County.

Early locations of some of the Dentons.