Generations One through Three
Generation One
Dr. William Alexander Denune, the earliest southern colonial portrait painter, born 1699 in Scotland, graduated from medical school in Paris France in 1721, married Elizabeth Duvall, November 24, 1728, daughter of Mareen Duvall the younger and Elizabeth Jacob of Prince George County, Maryland. Besides their son William, listed in generation 2, pictures relating to them or their children follow.
Dr. William Denune, the first in our line, was an early southern colonial portrait painter. This ad appeared in the January 1976 issue of Antiques Magazine. There is a good chance this portrait could be a painting of one of Dr. William Denune's daughters.
Generation Two
William Denune, born January 14, 1741/2, in Queen Anne’s Parish, Prince George County, MD, married Elizabeth Duvall Forrest (William’s cousin; the daughter of William Forrest and Lucy DuVall. Elizabeth was born in 1737) Feb. 23, 1762.in Ann Arundel Co., MD. William fought in the French and Indian war and was a revolutionary war minuteman who fought at Bunker Hill and probably died at Valley Forge, PA, in the Winter of 1777-8. Besides their son John, listed in generation 3, pictures relating to them or their children follow. Unfortunately I don't have any.
Generation Three
John Duvall Denune, born 1767 in Prince Georges Co., MD (David A. Denoon says April 1766 near the Patomic River, probably MD), married January 17, 1798, to Sarah Burrell in Prince Georges Co., MD, died November 28, 1838 in Franklin Co., OH.. Some records of his birth state 1765, but it is believed that he said he was older in order to enlist in the army in 1780. He was a drummer in the Revolutionary War, a farmer in later life. Besides their son Alexander, listed in generation 4, pictures relating to them or their children follow.
Sarah (Burrell) Denune