General Notes

ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1635 on the Hopewell of Weymouth
FIRST RESIDENCE: Dorchester
REMOVES: Barnstable 1639
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Dorchester church prior to 25 May 1636 implied by freemanship.
Admitted to Barnstable church in 1639, during a period when admission records were not kept. On 7 August 1650, a day of humiliation was declared in Barnstable church "for the investing of my brother Dimmicke into the office of an Elder" [NEHGR 10:38].
FREEMAN: 25 May 1636 [MBCR 1:372]. Admitted Plymouth Colony freeman, 3 December 1639 [PCR 1:137]. In the Barnstable section of the 1639 (as "Mr. Thomas Dimmack") and 1658 (as "Mr. Tho[mas] Dimacke," with name crossed out) Plymouth Colony lists of freemen [PCR 8:176, 200].
EDUCATION: Sufficient to serve as magistrate and on council of war.
OFFICES: Dorchester selectman (as "Mr. Democke," for terms of six months), 2 November 1635, 27 June 1636 [DTR 13, 16]. Committee to lay out land, 2 November 1635 [DTR 12]. Deputy from Barnstable to Plymouth General Court, December 1639, June 1640, June 1641, June 1642, October 1643, June 1648, June 1649 and June 1650 [PCR 1:126, 137, 155, 2:16, 40, 63, 123, 144, 154]. Commissioner to end small causes, June 1640, June 1644 [PCR 1:155, 2:73]. Petit jury, 1 March 1641/2 [PCR 7:28]. Plymouth Colony committee to negotiate with Massachusetts Bay over disputed territory, 1 June 1650 [PCR 2:158-60; MBCR 3:198-99, 4:1:17]. Plymouth Colony Council of War, 27 September 1642 [PCR 2:47]. In Barnstable section of 1643 Plymouth Colony list of men able to bear arms [PCR 8:193]. Lieutenant for Barnstable, 10 October 1643, 7 July 1646 [PCR 2:63, 105]. Barnstable committee to "appoint a place or places for their defense" (as "Mr. Thomas Dimmack") [PCR 2:65]. On 3 March 1645/6, "Lieutenant Dimmack, of Barnestable," was presented "for neglecting to exercise their men in arms," and was discharged [PCR 2:97].
ESTATE: Granted one of the "great lots at the bounds betwixt Roxbury and Dorchester at the great hill," twenty acres, 4 January 1635/6 [DTR 14]. Granted two acres of marsh, 18 February 1635/6 [DTR 15]. Granted "2 acres in the marsh next to Goodman Grenwayes," 27 June 1636 [DTR 17]. Granted "all the ground between his pale and Goodman Denslow and Bartholomew," 5 July 1636 [DTR 18]. Permitted to "have their portions in satisfaction of the Calve's Pasture in the marsh beyond the trees over against the Fox Point," two acres, 2 January 1637/8 [DTR 28]. In the division of 18 March 1637/8, received three acres, three-quarters and four rods, and four acres and twenty-four rods [DTR 31]. (In the 8 March 1663/4 accounting of the New Grant, at that date held entirely by William Stoughton, "Dimmock" was credited with having held at one time lot #13 [DTR 120].) In his undated nuncupative will, deposed to on 4 June 1658, "Mr. Thomas Dimacke of Barnstable" told "Anthony Annable and John Smith being with him the last summer some small space of time after he ... was taken sick they advised him to set his house in order to which he answered that little that God had given him he would leave to his wife for they were her children as well as his" [MD 14:230, citing PCPR 2:1:75].
BIRTH: By about 1610 based on estimated date of marriage.
DEATH: Before 4 June 1658 (probate of will).
MARRIAGE: By 1635 Ann ______ (assuming she was the wife who came to New England with him). (On 7 August 1650, Rev. John Lothrop referred to this immigrant as "my brother Dimmicke" [NEHGR 10:38]. Jacobus argued that the "likeliest solution is that Lothrop's second wife was a sister of Thomas Dimmock" [Granberry 209-10]. According to Otis, "the widow Ann Dimmock was living in October 1683.... She probably died before 1686" [Otis 339]. The evidentiary asis for these statements by Otis has not been found.)

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