Ebenezer Dimon (bef. 1705 - 1746)

Born before 18 Mar 1705 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut

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Descendants

Died 28 May 1746 after age 41 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut

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Biography

• He was a graduate of Yale College and for many years sheriff of Fairfield County.

His will is dated 1 May 1746 and proved on 1 July 1746 in Fairfield.^[1]

His inventory was taken on 2 December 1746.^[2]

The distribution of his estate is dated 1 December 1747 and recorded at Fairfield.^[3]

Another distribution was completed on 27 June 1758.^[4]

Burial

Old Burying Ground, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut

Sources

1. ↑ “Probate Records, v. 9-10, 1741-1755”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-9922-6714 : 13 May 2022), FHL microfilm 007627281, image 189-190, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 9, 1741-1748, Page 355-356.
2. ↑ “Probate Records, v. 9-10, 1741-1755”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-9922-671N  : 13 May 2022), FHL microfilm 007627281, image 202-204, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 9, 1741-1748, Page 381-384.
3. ↑ “Probate Records, v. 6-8, 1717-1750”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G92K-T28T : 26 April 2021), , FHL microfilm 007627301, image 420-422, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 7, 1721-1750, Page 327-330.
4. ↑ “Probate Records, v. 11-12, 1753-1762”, database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L92K-YL99  : 30 May 2022), FHL microfilm 007627290, image 408, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, Vol 12, 1747-1761, Page 185-186.

See also:

• Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (Holt, 1885) Vol. 1, Page 370
• Ward, George Kemp. Andrew Warde and His Descendants, 1597-1910 (A.T. De La Mare Printing and Pub. Co., New York, 1910) Page 35 & Page 44
• Find A Grave: Memorial #49054757
• Whitmore, Harriet E. Goulden. A Memorial Of The Kindred And Ancestry Of Harriet L. Sturges Goulden, Of Fairfield, Connecticut (1899)

• Page 24: "Ebenezer Dimon, son of Moses Dimon, II., and Jane (Pinckney) Dimon, was baptized March 18, 1705, He was graduated from Yale College in 1728. His class numbered only twelve students. Until 1767, names were arranged in the class lists of Yale College "not alphabetically, but according to the social rank of the family " to which the student belonged. Ebenezer Dimon's rank was fourth among the twelve families represented by his class. He married, January — 1730, Mary Burr, daughter of Col. John and Deborah (Barlow) Burr. He was an influential man in the county, and for many years its high sheriff. His death, in his forty-second year, occurred two years before his father's, and his widow married Col. James Smedley, Inventory of his estate, £5,800. His family consisted of eight children — five daughters and three sons. His son, Col. David Dimon, was an officer in the United States army, and left a brilliant record of service. He was colonel of the 5th Regulars; major on Gen. Montgomery's staff at the siege of Montreal ; died in Ridgeueld, in service.t Sarah Dimon, daughter of Ebenezer, married Joseph Sturges, who died on board a British prison ship in the WTar of the Revolution, leaving her a widow with six children."
• Page 25: Inscription in old Burial Hill Cemetery:

Here lyes buried ye body of

Mr. Ebenezer Dimon,

Who departed this Life

May 28th, Anno Dom. 1746,

In ye 42nd Year of his age.

• Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Connecticut County, District and Probate Courts. Fairfield Probate Records, Vol 9-10, 1741-1755. Image 189
• Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., New Haven, Conn., 1930) Vol. 1, Page 186.