Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

338 GBNBALOG-ICAL NOTKS OF BAKNSTABLE FAMILIES.
what sect he belonged, they will call him blessed, and only regret
that their lives are not like his.
In the latter part of his life Mr. Dimmock appears to have
been of feeble health, and unable to perform any act that required
labor or care. It appears also, that he was obliged to sell a por-
tion of his ample real estate, to provide means for the support of
himself and family, and at his death he gave the remainder to his
wife, in a "will" full of meaning and characteristic of the man.
Dimmock is an old name in England, and there are many
families who bear it. It has various spellings, and probably was
originally the same as that of Dymocke, the hereditary champion
of England, an office now abolished, who at coronations owed the
service of Challenge to all competitors for the crown. In this
country I find the name written Dymocke, Dimmock, Dimack,
Dimuck, Dimicku. In the commission of Edward Dimmock
engrossed on parchment, three different spellings of the
name occur. The family usually write the name Dimmock, but
many Dimick, which is more nearly in accordance with tlie pronunciation
than any other spelling. It is probably a Welch or a
West of England name, and some facts stated by Burke in his
genealogy of the family favor the family tradition, that Elder
Thomas Dimmock's father was Edward, and that he came from
Barnstaple or that vicinity.
I. Elder Thomas Dimmock married Ann [Hammond ?] *
before his removal to Barnstable. His children were :
2. I. Timothy, baptized by Mr. Lothrop Jan. 12, 1639-40,
and was the first of the English who died in Barnstable, and
was buried June 17, 1640, "in the lower syde of the Calves
Pasture."
3. II. Mehitable, baptized April 18, 1642. She married
Richard Child of Watertown, March 30, 1662, where she
appears to have beeu a resident at the time. She
died Aug. 18, 1676, aged 34. She had 1, Richard,
March 30, 1663; 2, Ephraim, Oct. 9, 1664; 3, Shubael,
Dee. 19, 1665, he married, was afterwards insane, and
froze to death in the County prison ; 4, Mehitable ; 5,
Experience, born Feb. 26, 1669-70; 6, Abigail, born June
16, 1672, married Joseph Lothrop, Esq., of Barnstable; 7,
Ebenezer, born Nov. 10, 1674 ; 8, Hannah, twin, born Nov.
10, 1674, married Joseph Blush of Barnstable.
4. III. Shubael, baptized Sept. 15, 1644, married Joanna,
daughter of John Bmsley, April 1663.
*To attempt to gleau in a field which has been surveyed by so thorough a genealogist as
Dr. Bond, may seem presumptuous. Samuel House, Hobert Linnett, and Thomas Dimmock
it appears by the records of Mr. Lothrop, were his brothers-in-law. Rev. Mr.
Lothrop iliarried for his second wife, Anae, daughter of William Hammond of Watertown;
Samuel House mamed her sister Elizabeth; Mr. Lothrop's son Thomas married Sarah,
daughter of Robert Lmnell; William Hammond had tivo daughters of the name Anne, and
this would not be a case without a parallel, if both were hving .it the same time, and that
one mamed Mr. Lothrop and tlio other Mr. Dimmock.