Rev. Dibblee was born in 1715 to Wakefield Dibble in Danbury, CT; Ebenezer Dibble was born in 1706 to Zachariah Dibble in Stamford, CT. Bowditch Dexter (1885) supports Wakefield Dibble as his father. Rev. William Tatlock delivered a memorial sermon in 1881 that states 16 April 1715 was Rev. Dibblee’s date of birth, and attributes his parentage to Wakefield Dibble of Danbury, CT. [1]
The Dexter source attributes parentage to Wakefield Dibble, and affirms year of birth was 1715 (Dexter, 1885, p. 507). This is confirmed by Bowditch Dexter (1885). The Youngs (1932) source from the Protestant Episcopal Church echoes the Wakefield Dibble parentage (p. 51).
Rev. Dibblee married Joanna Selleck Bates in 1736. His wife Joanna’s parentage is attributed to Jonathan Bates and Joanna Selleck of Stamford, Connecticut, and sources report that Joanna died years before him (1885, p. 508).
According to Bowditch Dexter (1885), Ebenezer was conferred a Doctorate in Divinity by Columbia College in 1793 and used the title Dr. Dibblee (p. 580). The use of this title is also mentioned in Cutter (1913).
Ebenezer is described in the “History of Stamford” (1868) as born in 18 July 1706 to parents Zachariah Dibble and Sarah Clements, who married on 13 Aug 1699. He is noted to have graduated Yale in 1734 and died in 1799. [3]
His birth date and parentage are substantiated by town records recording the birth of “Ebinezur” to “Zachariah Debble” on 18 July 1706. [4] This source appears to be mixing up two different people with similar names.
Conlon, Alice Izelle Dibblee. Dibblee-Perry & Allied Families Page 82-3.
Huntington, E.B. History of Stamford, Connecticut, 1641-1868, including Darien until 1820. Darien, CT: 1868.
Cutter, William Richard (ed). "New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of Commonwealths and the Founding of a Nation." Volume 3 (p.1082). Lewis Historial Publishing Company, 1913. Available at: https://books.google.com/books?id=7_UsAAAAYAAJ
YOUNGS, THOMAS, et al. “LETTERS OF THE REVEREND DOCTOR EBENEZER DIBBLEE, OF STAMFORD, TO THE REVEREND DOCTOR SAMUEL PETERS, LOYALIST REFUGEE IN LONDON. 1784-1793.” Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, vol. 1, no. 2, 1932, pp. 51–85. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/42968097. Accessed 25 Sept. 2020.
Ancestry.com. Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data:White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.
Ancestry.com. U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.Original data:Newspapers and Periodicals. American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts. The Digitized Content is licensed from the American Antiquarian Society ("AAS") and may not be reproduced, transferred, commercially or otherwise exploited, in whole or in part, outside the terms and conditions of this service without the express written consent of AAS. All rights reserved.
This source gives his birth date as 18 Jul 1715 Stamford.
"He was missionary of Christs Church, Hartford, Conn. to Stamford, class of 1734 Yale, to England 1748 where he was ordained, and preached for 50 years at Stamford."
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