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owned much land. Jesse Eldredge, father
of Zoeth Eldredge, was born August 9,
1715, in Eastham and died in Willington,
December 17, 1794. He married, November
7, 1734, Abigail, daughter of Samuel
and Abigail (Freeman) Smith. She was
born in Eastham, December 17, 1718,
and died in Willington, March 16, 1793.
She was a descendant of Elder William
Brewster, Stephen Hopkins, Governor
Thomas Prence, Edmund Freeman,
Rev. John Lothrop, Ralph Smyth, Henry
Howland and Thomas Clark. Elisha
Eldredge, father of Jesse Eldredge, was
born about 1690, and died in Mansfield,
Connecticut, November 9, 1754. He
married Dorcas, daughter of Thomas
Mulford, of Truro. She was born March
6, 1693, in Eastham, and died in Mansfield
about 1755. Her mother was Mary,
daughter of Nathaniel Basset, and granddaughter
of William Basset, who came
in the ship "Fortune" in 1621. Elisha
Eldredge, father of Elisha Eldredge, was
born in 1653, died in Eastham, October
14, 1739. In 1693 he was in Harwich and
bought land in the Doane neighborhood.
He afterwards sold this and removed to
what later became Wellfleet. His father,
William Eldredge, was a resident of Yarmouth,
Massachusetts, from March 3,
1645, to 1667. He was a man of standing
and substance ; was constable in 1657,
1662, 1674, 1675 and 1677; was also surveyor
of highways. He married Anne,
daughter of William and Tamesin Lumpkin,
of Yarmouth. William Lumpkin
came over in 1637. He was deputy to the
Colony Court and held many local offices.
Major Preston's maternal grandmother,
Betsey (Dimock) Eldredge, was born
January 29, 1795, in Mansfield, and died
in March, 1873. Her father, Shubael
Dimock, was born October 4, 1757; mar-
ried, January 22, 1789; died March 8, 1828.
Her mother, Elizabeth (Wright) Dimock,
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born July 31, 1769, died August 10, 1837.
The Dimock ancestry has been traced
back to Elder Thomas Dimock, who was
a selectman of Dorchester, Massachu-
setts, in 1635; freeman, May 25, 1636;
Hingham, 1638; Scituate, 1639. Amos
Otis says he was the leading man of the
town. He was deputy to the Plymouth
Colony Court in 1640-41-42-48-49, and
held other important offices. On October
14, 1642, he was elected lieutenant of the
militia and reelected in 1646; was or-
dained elder, August 7, 1659, an