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ternal and maternal sides to England and
Holland, respectively. The Dimock coat-
of-arms is as follows :
Arms— Sable, two lions passant argent,
crowned or.
Crest—A sword erect argent, hilt and pom-
mel or.
Motto
battle).
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
Pro rege ditnico (For the king I
The progenitor in America of the Dimock
family was Elder Thomas Dimock,
a native of England, from whence he emi-
grated to this country, and settled in Dorchester,
Massachusetts, in 1635. He was
selectman of that town in that year, and
on May 25, 1636, was admitted a freeman.
He removed to Hingham, where
he was living in 1638, to Scituate in 1639,
settling finally in Barnstable on Cape
Cod, of which he was one of the grantees
and founders in May, 1639. He was
chosen ordaining elder of Mr. Lothrop's
church in Barnstable, August 7, 1650. He
was deputy to the General Court ; freeman
of the Plymouth Colony in 1639;
magistrate in 1641 and 1644; was six
times deputy during the years from 1639
to 1650, and was lieutenant and drill master
in 1643. He married Ann Hammond,
who survived him. He made a nuncupa-
tive will, which was proved June 4, 1658.
leaving all his estate to his wife "for the
children were her's as well as his." Their
children were : Elizabeth, became the
wife of Knyvet Sears ; John ( ?) ; Timo-
thy, baptized January 12, 1639, buried
June 17, 1640; twin sons, buried March
18, 1640-41 ; Mehitable, baptized April
18, 1642 ; and Shubael, of whom further.
Ensign and Deacon Shubael Dimock,
son of Elder Thomas and Ann ( Hammond)
Dimock, was baptized in Barn-
stable, Massachusetts, September 15, 1644.
and died at Mansfield, Connecticut, Octo-
ber 29, 1732. He was a prominent citizen
of Yarmouth, on Cape Cod ; served
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as selectman from Barnstable, and as
ensign and deputy to the General Court
in 1685-86 and 1689. He removed to what
is now Mansfield, Connecticut, among
the pioneers in 1693, and his house in
Mansfield is still in good repair and occupied,
according to recent report. The
house in which he lived in Barnstable was
the fortification house built by his father,
which was taken down in 1800; it stood
near the house now, or lately, owned by
Isaac Davis, of Barnstable ; was two
stories high, twenty feet square, the first
story of stone, the upper of wood. Mr.
Dimock married, in April, 1663, Joanna
Bursley, baptized in March, 1645-46, died
in Mansfield, May 8, 1727, daughter
of John Bursley. Children: 1. Captain
Thomas Dimock, born in Barnstable,
April, 1664, killed September 9, 1697, by
Indians and French ; married Desire
Sturgis. 2. John, born June, 1666; re-
moved to Falmouth ;
married
Elizabeth
Lombard. 3. Timothy, of whom further.
4. Shubael, Jr., born February, 1673;
married (first) Bethia Chipman, and (sec-
ond) Tab-itha Lothrop. 5. Joseph, born
September, 1675; married, May 12, 1699,
Lydia Fuller. 6. Mehitable, born 1677.
7. Benjamin, born 1680; resided in
Mansfield. 8. Joanna, born 1682; married
Josiah Conant. 9. Thankful, born November,
1684; married Deacon Edmund
Waldo.
Timothy Dimock, son of Ensign and
Deacon Shubael and Joanna (Bursley)
Dimock, was born in Barnstable, Massa-
chusetts, March. 1668, and died in 1733.
He removed to Mansfield, Connecticut,
and thence to Ashfield, same State. He
married Abigail Doane, who died in
1718. Children : Timothy,
born June 2,
1703; John, January 3, 1704-05; Shubael,
of whom further ; Daniel, January 28,
1709-10; Israel, December 22, 1712; Eben-
ezer, November 22, 171 5.