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About Capt. George Dill
George Dill
- OCCUPATION: Master of own ship Goodfellow
- BIRTH: 1619, Riverstown, Ireland (unproven)
- BAPTISM: 4 Nov 1621, Waltham Abbey, Essex, England (unproven)
- EVENT: Land grant in Salem, Massachusetts
- DEATH: 1654, sea on voyage to Ireland
- EVENT: 10 May 1654, Bill of sale from George Dell master of Goodfellow
- EMIGRATION: 1638 first Salem removes to Boston, Massachusetts
According to the Great Migration Project the parents and origins of George Dill are not known. He came to Salem in 1638 and removed to Boston.[1][2][3] He was master of the Goodfellow. He was a man of considerable controversy.[4] Wintrop called him a liar for bypassing to quarantine into Boston Harbor when he had just arrived from an island where 6,000 had died of plague or similar petulance.[5] He was brought before the court for bringing Irish slaves to New England to sell.[6] He married Abigail who married second to John Hanniford.[7] In his probate records and the probate records of John Hanniford and Boston Church Records we learn he had only four sons:
- John b Oct 1645 (Claimed by some authors but not named in probate records at all)
- Samuel b 31 Aug 1647
- Joseph b Feb 1649
- Benjamin b 27 Apr 1652
There is no evidence of any other children.[8][9][10][11]
Origins
Son claim he was the George Dille was born in Riverstown, co. Sligo, Ireland in 1619 and was christened at Waltham Abbey, Essex, in 1621. However, evidence is lacking.
Disconnected as child of John Dille, of Waltham Abbey
Sources
- Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1640 p 242 (Boston, Massachusetts. New England Historic and Genealogical Society. 2015) p 94
- Salem Town Records 1:89
- The Essex Antiquarian, 13 vols. (n.p., 1897– 1909) 13:164
- Winthrop Papers, 1498-1654, 6 volumes, various editors (Boston 1925-1992) 4:119
- John Winthrop, The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, James Savage, ed., (Boston 1853) 2:312-3
- EQC — Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts , , 1636-1686, 9 volumes (Salem 1911-1975) 1:14
- Hanaford, Mary Elisabeth, Family Records of the Branches of the Hanaford, Thompson, Huckins, Prescott, Smith, Neal, Haley, Lock, Swift, Plumer, Leavitt, Wilson, Green and Allied Families (Rockford, Ill., 1915) 1+
- The Records of the First Church in Boston, 1630-1868, Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volumes 39, 40 and 41, Richard D. Pierce, ed. (Boston 1961) 322
- Suffolk Probate Case # 286
- Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. (Boston: [S. Usher], 1913) 420-21
- NEHGR 5:442, 8:77, 13:149
- Savage, John. Genealogical Dictionary of New England Settlers.Volume 2 page 34 "Dell, or Dill, George, Salem, 1639, rem. to Boston, freem. 1651, by w. Abigail had John, b. Oct. 1645; Samuel, 31 Aug. 1647; Joseph, Feb. 1650; and Benjamin, 27 Apr. 1652. He was an active merch. d. abroad, prob. in 1654, for an imperfect will of3 Nov. 1653, recites that he was bound from Eng. to Ireland, thence to Virg. etc. He had good amt. of prop. Winth. II. 312. His wid. m. 8 Nov. 1655, John Hanniford. JOSEPH, Boston, mariner, prob. s. of the preced. had, 1678, w. Eliz. PETER, Chelmsford 1691."
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Capt. George Dill's Timeline
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1619
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Riverstown, Sligo, County Sligo, Ireland
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| 1621 |
November 4, 1621
Age 2
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Waltham Abbey, Great Waltham, Essex, England, United Kingdom
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| 1645 |
October 4, 1645
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Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1647 |
August 31, 1647
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Boston, Suffolk, MA, United States
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| 1649 |
February 1649
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Boston, MA, United States
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| 1652 |
April 27, 1652
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Boston, Suffolk, MA, United States
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| 1655 |
November 8, 1655
Age 36
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At sea on voyage to Ireland
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