Colonial Genealogy 



THOMAS DIMMOCK, son of EDWARD, was chief justice of 

 the first court in Barnstable, of which town he was one of 

 the two founders. 



Few of the first settlers lived a purer life than Elder Dim- 

 mock. He came over not to amass wealth or acquire honor, 

 but that he might worship his God according to the dictates 

 of his own conscience, and that he and his posterity might here 

 enjoy the blessings of civil and religious liberty. ... If his 

 neighbor was an Anabaptist or a Quaker, he did not judge him, 

 because he held that to be a prerogative of Deity, which no 

 man had the right to assume. 



In dictating his will (1658) he said "that what little 

 he had he would give to his wife (Ann Hammond), for 

 the children were hers as well as his." His granddaughter, 

 Thankful Dimmock, married Edward Waldo, ancestor of 

 Ralph Waldo Emerson. 



Captain Shubael Dimmock of Barnstable, son of 

 Thomas, seems to have been a man of parts who "sus- 

 tained the character and reputation of his father." He 

 occupied various positions of trust, and died, much be- 

 loved, in Mansfield, Connecticut, "October 29, 1732, at 

 nine o'clock, in the ninety-first year of his age." 



So say the "Annals of Dorchester." In Cotton 

 Mather's famous "Magnalia Christi," however, the 

 Captain made a much earlier and more dramatic exit 

 from life, being slain in a skirmish of King William's 

 War. According to Mather, Captain Shubael was in 

 1697 a member of a defensive expedition to Casco Bay. 

 At Damariscotta River the party met a band of Indians 



who entertained them with a volley and huzzah ! None 

 of ours were hurt but Major March repaid 'em in their 

 own leaden coin. . . . Our army thus beat 'em off with 

 the loss of about a dozen men, whereof one was the worthy 

 Captain Dymmock of Barnstable. . . . But there was a 

 singular providence of our Lord Jesus Christ in the whole 

 of this matter. For by the seasonable arrival and encounter 

 of our army a horrible descent of Indians which might deso- 



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