# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/daniel-denton
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:11:16.505Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/daniel-denton"
name: "Daniel Denton"
slug: "daniel-denton"
description: "Daniel Denton was an early American colonist. Denton led an expedition into the interior of northern New Jersey. He was one of the purchasers of what is known as the Elizabethtown Tract in 1664, in the area of present day Elizabeth, New Jersey. In 1670 he wrote the first English-language description of the area."
tagline: "Early American colonist of English descent"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1626"
deathDate: "1703"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.63
  momentum:             17.45454545454545
  historical:           6.604932
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Daniel_Denton"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "دانيل دينتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Denton"
    title: "Daniel Denton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Denton"
    title: "Daniel Denton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Denton"
    title: "Daniel Denton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Denton"
    title: "Daniel Denton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Denton"
    title: "Daniel Denton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Denton"
    title: "Daniel Denton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q514939"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump