Timothy Dimmock (1668 - bef. 1718)

Born 8 Mar 1668 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Bethiah (Chipman) Dimmock — married after 1693 in Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Husband of Abigail (Doane) Dimmock — married 17 Mar 1703 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died before 1 Jan 1718 before age 49 in Ashford, Hartford, Colony of Connecticut

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Biography

Timothy Dimock, the son of Shobal Dimock and Joanna Bursley, was born at Barnstable in March, 1668.^{[1] [2][3]}

Timothy married first Bethiah Chipman, daughter of John Chipman; their marriage took place after 1693. Timothy and Bethiah had one known child:^[1]

• Jabez Dimmock, born about 1699

Timothy married second to an unknown wife, probably about 1700. By her, he had another child:^[1]

• Silence Dimmock, born about 1701

Timothy married third, Abigail Doane.^[1]"Timothy Dimock and Abigail Doan were Married by Captain Jonathan Sparrow the seventeenth Day of march 1702/3"^[4][5] She was the daughter of Daniel Doane of Eastham. Timothy and Abigail removed to Mansfield, Connecticut in 1703.^[1]

Timothy and Abigail had six children born in Mansfield, Connecticut:^[6][7]

• Timothy b. 2 June 1703
• John b. 3 Jan 1704/5
• Shubael b, 26 May 1707
• Daniel b. 28 Jan 1709/10
• Israel b. 22 Dec 1712
• Ebenezer b. 22 Nov 1715.

14 Mar 1715/6, 97 Acres of land were laid out for Timothy Dimmuck in the town of Ashford, Connecticut.^[8]

At a town meeting 9 July 1716, Timothy Dimick was voted an inhabitant of the Town of Ashford.^[9] 7 August 1717 the town voted him 100 acres. He was to pay the town £5.^[10] 17 Aug 1717 Timothy Dimmuck was "excepted" an inhabitant.^[10]

At a town meeting 1st day of January 1717/8, Widow Dimock received a hundred acre grant next to the land she lived on or elsewhere. She was #34 in the draft list of 5 March 1718.^[11]

Timothy died before 1 Jan 1717/8, at Ashford,^[11] (then part of Hartford County), Connecticut. His widow married, secondly, Benjamin Follett, of Windham, Connecticut, in 1728^[12]

The Inventory of the estate of Timothy Dimmuck was taken on 26 May 1718. Widow Abigail Dimock attested to the Inventory on 8 July 1718, which is the date on which she signed the Bond as Administratrix.^[13]

Research Notes

Bethia was the daughter of Elder John Chipman and his wife Hope Howland.^[14] In his Will, probated in 1708, John Chipman mentioned "My two grandchildren Mary Gale and Jabez Dimmock...." Mary was the daughter of Bethia's first marriage to ___ Gale, and Jabez was the son of Bethia and her second husband, Timothy Dimmock.^[15] In 1713, John's widow Ruth also made a bequest to Jabez "Dimok."^[16]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower Volume 3, Rockland, Maine, Picton Press, 2011. Subtitle: The First Five Generations Documented Descendants Through his third child Hope (2) Howland, Wife of John Chipman. Reference page 49
2. ↑ "Barnstable, Mass. Vital Records," MD 4:221
3. ↑ #S-19 Denise M. Milke, "Thomas Dimock and His Descendants," Nutmegger 21(1988):169
4. ↑ #S-19 MD 9:10
5. ↑ Births, marriages, deaths, 1649-ca.1840; intentions of marriage, 1700-ca.1905, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L979-9X31 : 3 October 2022), FHL microfilm 007009735, image 155, Eastham, Massachusetts, Volume 2, Births, & Deaths, 1654-1797, Page 96.
6. ↑ #S-19 Nutmegger 21(1988):364
7. ↑ Dimock, Susan Whitney. Births, baptisms, marriages and deaths, from the records of the town and churches in Mansfield, Connecticut, 1703-1850. (New York, The Baker & Taylor company, 1898) p. 62
8. ↑ .Town of Ashford, Connecticut. Register of Deeds: Proprietors Records. 1705-1770. p. 104
9. ↑ Ashford Proprietors Records. 1705-1770. p. 21
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} Ashford Proprietors Records. 1705-1770 p. 30, 31; p. 113
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1} Ashford Proprietors Records. 1705-1770 p. 39; p. 41; p. 114
12. ↑ #S-19 Nutmegger 21(1988):173 and 363
13. ↑ Probate Files Collection, Early to 1880; Author: Connecticut State Library (Hartford, Connecticut); Probate Place: Hartford, Connecticut; Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999 for Timothy Dimock; Hartford Probate Packets, Dickinson, L-Dixon, E, 1641-1880; Case 1692; Date: 1718
14. ↑ Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2 [Ancestry.com. database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Births and Deaths: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Volumes 1 & 2. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1992. Vol. 2, page 137
15. ↑ #S-20 "Elder John Chipman's Will and Inventory, and the Will of Ruth Chipman," transcribed by George Ernest Bowman. MD 3 (1901:3) :181, at 182. Accessed on 12 Dec 2017 at AmericanAncestors.org MD
16. ↑ #S-20 "Wills," MD 3:181, at 186.

• Source: S-19The Connecticut Nutmegger. Abbrev. Nutmegger. Glastonbury, CT: Connecticut Society of Genealogists, 1970-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.)

• Source: S-20The Mayflower Descendant: A Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History. Abbrev. MD. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899- . (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010)

• Torrey, Clarence Almon, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 2004. Sources listed by Torrey:
  • Bassett Preston 63 Marriage to Bethia. Makes no mention of wives 2, or 3.
  • Booth (1923) 73 Married to Bethia. Makes no metnion of wives 2, or 3.
  • Conn. Mag. 9:929 Mentions only Abigail Doane and their children.
  • Barnstable County Probate 3:237  ? without knowing who this is for, difficult to ascertain.
  • Doane 30 Only mentions Abigail and children.
  • Hartford Probate 2:377 Timothy's probate - not helpful
  • Cape Cod Lib 34:22]; Only mentions wife Bethia.
  • MD 3:186; starting on 181 the wills of John and Ruth Chipman. which are Barnstable County Probate 3: 228-231 and 3: 258-259. They mention Mary Gale and Jabez Dimock.
  • Banks Pilgrim Fathers 115  ? an error.

• Alfred Alder Doane, The Doane Family, (A. A. Doane, Boston, Mass., 1902) pg. 30.

• Source: S-478029997 Repository: #R-998256369 Title: Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.

• Source: S-478158887 Title: Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Note: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook). Repository: #R-99

• New Englanders in Nova Scotia Manuscript. R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010.) [1]