Multiple people may be conflated in this profile, i.e. information about different people may be combined and confused.
Note:
For whatever reason, this Oliver Hillard DENNIS has been confused with Oliver DENISON throughout their history. Most likely it is because the Barbour Collection has an error in it, and has incorrectly listed Oliver DENISON as "Oliver Hillard Denison".
The same error is repeated in 'Genealogy of The Descendants of William Chesebrough, perhaps due to the above.[1]
It's impossible to ask them why, however, it's mostly likely that they thought that DENNIS was a typo, and that Hillard was just missing from Oliver DENISON.
THEY ARE TWO DIFFERENT MEN THAT MARRIED TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
Also of note:
Exploring the distant possibility that Elizabeth Chesebrough did in fact marry Oliver DENISON and had a child named Oliver Denison that perhaps did not survive.[2]
Birth
Oliver Hillard Dennis was born 29 Feb 1760, to Robert Dennis and Joanna (Hillard) Dennis, in Tiverton.[3]
Marriage
All records found, that include a last name of the groom, indicate that this Oliver married Elizabeth Chesebrough on Aug. 26, 1781, in the First Congregational Church of Stonington.
Children
No definitive record of any children being born has been found, with the exception of the one mentioned in the opening notes, and that record is in nowise definitive either.
Death
When and where this Oliver (or Elizabeth (Chesebrough) Denison died and/or are buried has not been located as of 20 Sep 2018.
↑Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906, database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7W1-XF6 : 11 February 2018), Elizabeth in entry for Oliver Denison, 03 Apr 1782; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
↑Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914, database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8MR-S3J : 10 February 2018), Oliver Hillard Dennis, 29 Feb 1760; citing Tiverton, Newport, Rhode Island, reference 76; FHL microfilm 913,052.
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Disconnected from wrong parents, whoever created this profile confused Oliver Hilliard Dennis with Oliver Denison and they are two separate people, who married two different women.
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