Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

DIMMOGK.
ELDER THOMAS DIMMOCK.
Elder Thomas Dimmock and Rev. Joseph Hull, are the par-
ties named in the grant made in 1639, of the lands in the town of
Barnstable. A previous grant has been made to Mr. Richard
Collieut of Dorchester, by the Plymouth Colony Court, and subsequent
events make it probable, if not certain, that Messrs.
Dimmock and Hull were his associates. The date of the first
grant is not given ; but it was made either in the latter part of 1 637,
or the beginning of 1638. Soon after the first grant was made
Mr. Collieut and some of his associates came to Mattakeese,
surveyed certain lands, and appropriated some of them to his own
particular use ; but he never became an inhabitant of the town,
and failing to perform his part of the contract, the grant to him
was rescinded and made void ; but individual rights acquired by
virtue of the grant to him, were not revoked.
In the winter of 1637-8 the Rev. Stephen Batchiler of Lynn,
and a small company, consisting mostly of his sons, and his sonsin-law,
and their families, attempted to make a settlement in the
north-easterly part of the town, at a place yet known as Oldtown ;
but they remained only a few months. (See Batchiler.)
Some of those who came with Mr. Collieut in 1638, remained
and became permanent residents, for in March 1639, Mr. Dimmock
was appointed by the Colony Court to exercise the Barnstable
men in their arms, proving that there were English residents
in the town at that time.
April 1, 1639, the Court ordered that only such persons as
were then at Mattakeset should remain, and make use of some
land, but shall not divide any either to themselves or others, nor
receive into the plantation any other persons, excepting those to
whom the original grant was made, without the special license and
approval of the government.
This order implies, that the English who were in Barnstable
April 1, 1639, were associates of Mr. Collieut and restricts them
from receiving any who were not of that company.