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HISTORY OF ANCIENT WINDHAM,GENEALOGY.■T WILLIAM L. WtAVEI.lxxy.DIMMOCK—Continued,3. Oaft. Thomas Dimmoc* wo in the military service in the eastern country, and was killed in battle at Canso, on the 9th of Sept., 1697. He was a gallant officer, and in the battle, in which he Iqst his life, he would not conceal himself in the thicket, or shelter himself behind a tree, as the officers and soldiers under his command did, but stood out in the open field, a conspicuous mark for the deadly aipi of the French and the Indian warriors. Though only 33 at his death he had acquired a Targe es-w*-Hem. Desire- ; he d.as aboreStated, 8epL 9,1097; his wid. ai, Col. John Thatcher, fid of that name, Nor. 10,1698* by whom she had children; she d. lfarch 29,1749, aged 83. ChU. of Oapt. Thomas and Deeirs Dimock b. in Barnstable; Me-kitMt, b. Oct., 1686, m. Oapt. John Davis; Temperance,b. June, 1689, m. Benjamin Freemen, of Harwich; Edward, b. July 5, 1690, bad bailJS 19) Ttumoi, b- Dec. 25, 1694; Derirt, b. Feb., 1696, m. Job Gorham.4. Johs Dimuce, as he wrote his name, lired in Barnstable till 1709, when he re-moved to Falmouth. He m. Elisabeth Lumber*, Nor. 1689,and had chil.: Sarah, b. Dec., 1690; Anna or Hannah, b. last July, 1692; Mary, b. June, 1695; TktophiUu, b. Sept^ 1696, m. Sarah Hinckley ; (10) Tim-othy,b. July, 1698; Ebenaer, b. Feb., 1700; ThankfnL, b. April 20, 1704, m. John Lovell ; David, bap. May 19,1706.5. Timothy Dimmuck, called sen. in the records, by wile Abigail had the follpwiqg chiL recorded in Mpnafield, after which he moved to Ashford where he d. about 1733: (11) TVeM** b. June 2, 1703; (12) Johm, b. Jan.3,1704-5; (13) 8h*ad, b. May 27, 1707; Dmmid, b. Jan. 28,1709-10; Drad, b. Doe. 22,1712; Ebcnexr,b. Nor. 22,1715, m. Mary Key*, at Aahford, Sept. 27,1739, and had Abigail, March 12, 1739-40, Eben-essr, b. Dec. 11,1741, and other chil. b. at Aahford. The above Ebeneper, sen., was |he grandfather of CoL J. Dimock, of the U. P- army, in ponmmnd at Fortress Moo-roe gt the breaking out of the rebellkm^nd subsequently of Fort Warren, Boston harbor.6. 8tfp*AKL Dimock, sop of Dsn. Shubaei, lired and dipd in Barnstable, but many of his desoeudants are in Connecticut. He m. Tabatha Lathrop, May 4,1699; she d. July 25,1727, aged 56 yean; he d. Dec. 16, 1738, aged 65 yearn. ChU.: (14) Sammd, b. M*y 7,1702; A»rid,bsp. Jui*e ll,17(*s Josses, b. Dec. 24, 1706, d. Jtn., 1709; MthUdbU,b. June 26,1711; Shrivel, bap. April, 1716.
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