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Hardcover Book Titled: ... A Record On One Pioneer Family For Six Genertions ... The Dyments, by; Elmer Dyment, Writer, Born in 1870 | ||
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The book The Founding of Marblehead Thomas E. Gray, 1984 Gateway Press has little on the family. The family was clearly not a found among the founders 1628-1640. As shown below from the published town records the first record is the marriage of Aholiab to Elizabeth Norman 1648. The Gray book lists Aholiab and Elizabeth's marriage as having occurred 1684. The Gray book also lists the marriage of Edward Dimond to Rebecca Norman, Elizabeth Norman's older sister. Edward's marriage is not found in the published town records. The births of his children are recorded. The Norman sister's were from a founding family. Their father Richard was a soldier in King Phillips War. The family seems to have arrived at Marblehead c1650.
A Fishing Plantation, Marblehead was settled as a fishing village in the first half of the 1600s. The local society consisted of two groups, the men who managed the fishing industry and those who preformed the labor at sea. Marblehead’s early settlers were seafaring immigrants. The village in 1650 was about 100 inhabitants; by 1680 it had grown to 600. By the 1670’s Marblehead’s original 44 householders had grown to just over 100. The people of Marblehead showed no commitment to the values and institutions of Puritan Massachusetts. Closer counter parts to Marblehead were the settlements of the Isle of Shoals and other centers of the fishing industry. These were fishing camps for West Country men rather than experiments for devout East Anglicans. The two decades of war [Queen Anne’s War]] before 1713 brought hard times to the Marblehead fishery. With peace in 1713 this reversed and local control began to develop.
The first record in North America is 1607. John Di[a]mond was a member of the Plymouth Company's Popham Colony located on the Kennebec River [Maine]. The colony failed after thirteen months. But lessons learned aided the later plantation attempts. John was from Devonshire England. He was a rope maker and boat builder, building shallop's with sons; John, Andrew, William, and Thomas. The Diamond Shipyard was in use for more than a century. He lived on Crooked Lane, Kittery. John signed the admission to Massachusetts in 1652. There is a record of Dymond's Garden on Star Island in the Isle of Shoals.
1995 publication Patrick Dimond/Diamond/Dimon-Eighteenth Century Migrant-A Survey of His American Descendants by E. Grey Dimond, M.D.
An early genealogy of this family is recorded in the 1891 publication The Genealogy of the Dimond or Dimon Family of Fairfield, Conn. with inclusions Dimon or Dymont Family of East Hampton, Long Island and The Dimond Family of New Hampshire by Edwin R. Dimond. In this book and others there is speculation of a connection with the Deming Family
An early Colonial American family of Wethersfield, Hartford, CT abt. 1635. A genealogy of this family is recorded in the 1904 publication Genealogy of the Descendants of John Deming of Wethersfield, Connecticut by Judson Keith Deming. There was speculation that this family was linked to the Dymont, Dimon, Diman family of Long Island in several 19th century family genealogies.
The Dictionary of Surnames Oxford university press, Hanks and Hodges;
- English: variant of Daymon. The excrescent t or d is not common before the seventeenth century. Daymond, Diamond, Dymond, Dimond, Dimon. Diman, Diamant, Dimont, Dyment, Dyman.
- Jewish (Ashkenazi): Anglicized form of various Jewish surnames derived from German or Yiddish going back to Middle High German diement- Old French, diament via Latin from the Greek adamas, genitive adamantos, 'unconquerable'. Diamont, Diment, Diement, Diament, Demant, Dymant. The name Diamond can be an occupational name; gem merchant/trader.
Escott in Bradworthy 1700-1765, Bampton 1700s-1900s. Dayman in Bradworthy 1700s, Daymant in Bradworthy 1760s, Deiman in Kilkhampton 1500s. Deyman in Kilkhampton 1600s, Pancrasweek 1600s-1700s. Dyment in Bradworthy by 1801. Hatherley in Tetcott and Bridgerule by 1800. Saunders in Aylebeare 1700, Topsham 1800, Whimple 1600-2000, Topsham 1880-1950, Buckland Brewer 19th cent.
John and Mary HOBB[I]S (bu. 1698) who lived in Grove, parish of Wantage.
Humphrey Dyment b. 1795-1878 m. Mary Ashton 1801-1877
9 children
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Humphrey II 1817-1912 m. (1) Barbara MacArthur (2) Nancy MacDougall 1822-1889 William 1818-1886 m. Effa MacArthur 1814-1909 Eleanor 1840-1922 m. Humphrey Gorrill 1829-1907 Susan m. Hugh MacArthur John 1822-1886 m. Harriet Calton d. 1829 married 1856 Moses 1830-1893 m. Maria Bryant in 1853 Charles m. Elizabeth MacDougall b.1827 May Ann m. Henry Wickett in 1853 |
John Dyment Devonshire, England in 1801 m. Elizabeth Jones
13 children