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Dockstater Genealogy Page Directory  Total Records: 2  Descendants of LEWIS DENNY Lewis Denny was of French parentage, having been born in 1740 in French Territory, near present day Cahokia, Illinois. When he was 18 years of age, he along with his brother Martin and a French Officer, went to fight in the French and Indian war. At Fort Niagara, he and his brother were taken prisoner by the Mohawk Indians. He married a Mohawk woman and settled at Canaseraga. Lewis son John, kept a road tavern and built the first frame house in the village of Canaseraga, which in 1823 became the town of Sullivan. John married Dorothea Dachstaeder (later becoming Doxtator) who was the daughter of Captain Honyere Tewahangarahken, alias Doxtader. John and Dolly's son, Abraham married Catherine Nellis, daughter of John Nellis. Abraham led the first band of Seneca Indians to Kansas and Missouri, where, according to his daughter, Mrs Jacob Doxtator (Catharine),so many sickened and died there. He came to Wisconsin and talked a few Oneidas, Stockbridge and Brothertown Indians to remove to Indian territory. On this trip he died on the Little Osage River. All of his children had removed to Wisconsin, including my great, great grandmother, Mary Ann Denny. Her son, Syrenius married a Brothertown woman, Harriet Elizabeth. Her grandfather was WilliamCaroline Kristine Andler George Lester Cole Family of Vegreville, Alberta, Canada Our branch of the Cole family started out in Massachusetts, then moved to Vermont, then New York State (Herkimer & Jefferson Counties), then Canada West, then Wisconsin, then Minnesota and finally to the Canadian prairies in 1899. 2/17/2012 11:22 PM Page 1 of 1  1 of 1

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