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About Capt. Anthony Dike, Sr.
Anthony Dike, mariner. He married Tabitha (Last Name Unknown) around 1630 in Salem, Massachusetts. They had two children.
- Anthony Dike, born about 1636; died prior to November 25, 1679 [25: 9m: 1679]: married by 1665 Margery (___); she married second, John Polin before 1680. [1] [8]
- Charity Dike, born about 1638; married John Alford. [1]
He died "when sailing his boat, a bark of thirty tons around Cape Cod, he was caught in the dreadful snowstorm and hurricane of Dec 15 1638, when as Gov. Winthrop writes: there was so great tempest of wind and snow all night and the next day, as had not been seen in our time" With him four others, the boat was loaded with furs that had been bought from the Indians and were to be delivered for his firm. His body was never was never recovered.
His widow married Nathaniel Pittman or Pickman.
Anthony Dicks was taken by Bull, the Pirate, (p. 58) and required to pilot him to Virginia, but Dicks refused. There was an Anthony Dixie, according to Morton, of Plymouth 1623. Anthony Dike was of Salem 1630 and was a sea captain. Dicks, Dixie and Dike are supposed to denote the same person. Gov. Winthrop says, under Dec. 15, 1638, — Anthony Dike in a bark of 30 tons, cast away on the head of Cape Cod. Three were frozen to death; the other two got some fire and so lived there by such food as they saved, seven weeks, till an Indian found them. This Capt. Dick or Dike left a widow Tabitha, who m. a Pitman and a son Anthony who d. 1670 and left a widow Margery.
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Capt. Anthony Dike, Sr.'s Timeline
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March 24, 1600
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Gravesend, Kent, England, United Kingdom
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| 1631 |
March 24, 1631
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Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, American Colony
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| 1638 |
July 1638
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Salem,Essex,Massachusetts
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December 15, 1638
Age 38
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Shipwreck by Pirate Bull, Lost at Sea off Cape Cod, Barnstable, Massachusetts
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