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Shubael (2) Dimock, son of Timothy
and Abigail (Doane) Dimock, was born
in May, 1707, and died June 26, 1788. He
married, January 25, 1739, Esther Pierce,
who died March 10, 1805, in her nine-
tieth year, daughter of Samuel Pierce.
Children: Jonathan, born December 13,
1739; Esther, Januarys 1743; Ephraim,
March 2, 1744; Ichabod, March 13, 1746;
Edward, June 5, 1748; Samuel, Novem-
ber 29, 1750; Eliphalet, March 12, 1753,
died young; Abigail, March 12, 1755;
Shubael, of whom further.
Shubael (3) Dimock, son of Shubael
(2) and Esther (Pierce) Dimock, was
born in Mansfield, Connecticut, October
4, 1757, and died March 8, 1828. He was
a Revolutionary soldier, with the rank of
sergeant in Captain Jonathan Birge But-
ton's company, No. 4, Colonel Savage's
regiment, Third Battalion of General
Wadsworth's brigade, raised to reinforce
General Washington at New York. He
served in Long Island and Harlem, and
on the retreat, September 15, 1776, suf-
fered some loss. He was in the battle of
White Plains, and his time of service expired
December 25, 1776. He is supposed
to have been with the troops at Valley
Forge. He was sergeant in Captain Brig-
ham's company, Colonel John Chandler's
regiment, the Eighth Connecticut Line, to
March 5, 1778, and in the same company
Under Colonel Giles Russell until Octo-
ber 28, 1779. He was at the battle of
Germantown, October 4, 1777, and then
was assigned to Varnum's brigade, Octo-
ber 16, 1777, a detachment in defence of
Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania. Mr. Dimock
married, January 2^, 1789, Elizabeth
Wright, born July 31, 1769, daughter of
Eleazer and Anna (Marsh) Wright.
Children: Ira, born December 31, 1789;
Otis, of whom further ;
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
Wealthy,
March
15, 1793; Betsey. January 29, 1795; Martial,
February 1, 1798; Shubael, October
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4, 1801 ; Orilla, December 8, 1803; Rufus
M., December 14, 1812.
Otis Dimock, son of Shubael (3) and
Elizabeth (Wright) Dimock, was born
August 5, 1791. He married Wealthy
Kinne, born August 5, 1790, daughter of
Nathan Kinne, and a direct descendant
of Henry Kinne, who came from Hol-
land to Salem, Massachusetts, in 1651 or
earlier. Children : Martial, who mar-
ried Jennie Campbell, and had several
children ; Edwin, who married Jennie
Murphy ;
Olivia, who became the wife of
Lucius Preston, and they were the par-
ents of a son, Frank Preston ; Lucius,
born August 2, 1825 ; Ira, of whom further
; Jane, who became the wife of Good-
rich Holland, and they were the parents
of a daughter, May.
Ira Dimock, son of Otis and Wealthy
(Kinne) Dimock, was born in Tolland,
Connecticut, January 15, 1827, and died
in Hartford, Connecticut, May 10, 1917.
The first eight years of his life were spent
in Tolland, where he attended the district
school, but the remainder of his education
was obtained in the schools of South
Willington, whither his parents removed,
his father having taken official position in
the spool cotton industry of that town.
Ira Dimock enjoyed vigorous health in
his youth, and when fifteen years of age
resolved to close his school days, and "go
out to seek his fortune," as he put it, in
reviewing the main incidents of his life,
at the request of the "Hartford Courant,"
in January, 1917, which publication de-
sired to honor Mr. Dimock on the attainment
of his ninetieth birthday. "I walked
over to Rockville, which was in those
days a small village, strung along both
sides of the Hockanum, with woods
reaching up to the tops of the hills. I
went into the old Frank Mill, for which
George Lee was agent. That was in 1842,
and there I worked at tending carding