Robert Dibble

Origins of the Dibble Family in England (28)

• Positive Evidence: Robert Dibble [Deeble] lived at Glastonbury, Somerset, at least between 1605 and February 1610, when his son John (1605), and daughters Joanna (April 1609) and Francis (February 1610) were baptized at the church of St. John Baptist. It is likely that he moved shortly after the last event because there is no record of his son Thomas’ baptism anywhere, and Thomas (calculating from his age at emigration) must have been born in 1612 or 1613. The fact that we have the right family is proved because Francis’ age at emigration tallies with her baptismal date. The probability is that Thomas was baptized elsewhere after the family moved, but the record has not survived. It would have been likely to have survived at Glastonbury, where the records were carefully kept, unless his father, perhaps for religious reasons, avoided having him baptized. Most parents started their families shortly after marriage but as neither Robert’s marriage nor the baptism of earlier children is recorded at Glastonbury, it is fair guess he moved there shortly before 1605.
• There is no evidence of the family elsewhere in England before or after this until, Robert, probably with some of his family, emigrated from Weymouth, Dorset, to New England in the “Recovery of London” (Master, Gabriel Cornish) on 31st, March 1633 to be followed by Thomas and Francis from the same port on 20th March 1635. History of the Dibble Family By VanBuren Lamb, Jr., Summit, New York “Robert Deeble was the first of this name in New England. He and his wife were early settlers of Dorchester, Mass. The first records of this town have been lost, but it is recorded that he was made freeman 6 May 1635. Robert and his wife (known only as goody deeble) evidently became members of the Dorchester Congregation which was formed in 1629 at the New Hospital in Plymouth, Eng. Some members of this congregation sailed from Plymouth and some from Weymouth, Eng. The ship in which Robert and his wife came to these shores is not known, but possibly they arrived 24 June 1633 with 78 other members of this Congregation, for the names of these passengers are not recorded. His son Thomas Deble age 22 with Frances Debel age 24 sorer (sister) did sail from Weymouth, Eng. on 20 Mar.1635. A Robert Dabyn age 28 arrived in New England the same year and was listed as a servant to Joseph Hall. There were probably other brothers and sisters during the Indian uprisings and massacres Abraham Dibol (of Haddam and later of Simsbury, Conn.), John Deble’s family of Springfield, Mass., and an Ebenezer Deble appear in Windsor, Conn. In close association with Thomas Deble. “One record says Robert Deeble was a native of Somersetshire, Eng. but I can find no proof of this statement. However he is definitely from the West Counties of England where there are thousands of references to the family (with many variations of spelling) in the church records of Devon, Dorset, Somerset, and Cornwall. There were hundreds of Dibble wills preserved in the Bishop of Exeters files before War II, which I feel sure would have given our ancestry in England back to 1400, but they were all destroyed in the “Blitz”.
• Emigration: Weymouth, Dorset , England to Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts 1634 3 2
• 1634, Dorchester, "Recovery"
• Event: Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Freeman 6 May 1635 4
• Event: Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts - Received land grant Property 17 Dec 1635 Links
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hutch/EGGLESTON/Dibble.htm Sources
• A genealogical register of the first settlers of New England. Savage, James, 1784-1873 (Main Author); John Farmer; Orrando Perry Dexter, 1854-1903 (Added Author) Publication: Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1829.Page: p 44
• History and genealogy of the families of old Fairfield. Donald Lines Jacobus. Publication: Baltimore : Genealogical Publishing Company, 1976. Page: vol III p 1504
• Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by FrederickLewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999
• Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, Page: p 68
• The History of New England from 1630 to 1644 by John Winthrop, Esq., James Savage. Baltimore; Clearfield Press. Page: p 446

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"To return to New England - Robert Deble and his son Thomas are mentioned in a land deed in Dorchester, Mass.Dec.17, 1635, in which Thomas is ordered to build a house within a year.This he probably did not do, for Thomas went to Windsor, Conn. With Mr. Warham who followed Thomas Hooker with the majority of his congregation.

In Hotton’s "original Lists" Thomas Deble age 22, husbandman, and Frances Deble age 24 , sister, lieve(sic) England 1635 for Virginia.Pope reads "sister" as "soror", and Bank’s reads "husbandman and sister" and says they left Weymouth in Dorset Mar., 1635 under Rev. Joseph Hull, and arrived May 5th at Wessaguscus, Mass.(This name was changed in May, 1635 to Weymouth, Mass.)

Robert Deeble’s signature as of 1641 appears on the frontispiece of Blanke’s Annals of Dorchester, Mass., 1846.", VanBuren Lamb, Jr., "Your Ancestors," Vol 2, pg 143.

• ****************************************************** "Robert Deeble was the first of this name in New England.He and his wife were early settlers of Dorchester, Mass.The first records of this town have been lost, but it is recorded that he was made a freeman on the 6 of May 1635.Robert and his wife (known only as goody deeble) evidently became members of The Dorchester Congreation which was formed in 1629 at the New hospital in Plymouth, England, under the leadership of the Rev. John Warham of Exeter.Some members of this congreation sailed from Plymouth and others embarked for America at Weymouth. The ship in Which Robert and his wife came to these shores is not known, but possibly they arrived the 24 of June 1633 with 78 other members of this congreation, for the names of these passengers are not recorded.His son Thomas Deble age 22, with Frances Deble age 24 sorer(probably meaning sister) did sail from Weymouth, Eng. on the 20 of Mar. 1635.A Robert Dabyn age 28 arrived in New Eng. in the same year and was listed as a servant to Joseph Hall.There were without doubt other brothers and sisters for during the Indian uprisings and massacres 1664-1676, Abraham Dibol(of Haddam and Simsbury, Conn.), & John Deble's family(from Springfield, Mass.), appear in Windsor, Conn. in close association with Thomas Deble.

One record says Robert Deeble was a native of Somersetshire, Eng. but I can find no proof of this statement.However he is definitely from the West Counties of Eng. where there are thousands of references to the family (with as many variations of spellings as there are in America) in the church records of Devon, Dorse, Somerset, and Cornwall.There wre also hundreds of Dibble wills preserved in the Bishop of Exeters files, before World War II, which I feel certain would have given our ancestry in England back to 1400, but they were all destroyed in the "Blitz".

There seems to have been a Dibble Coat-of-Arms, though it is not recorded in the College of Heralds.Arthur J. Jewrs in his Heraldic Church Notes of Cornwall, gives on page 58 the description of the arms of Deeble as "Purpure(purple)shield, three deebles or beansetters argent(silver), crest a deeble or (gold)".The arms are pictured, quartered with those of Wolsden, showing the beansetter to have been of the stirrup variety.Reverend Samuel Dibble, buried in Charles Church Yard, Plymouth, Eng. in 1750 had the above arms engraved on his tombstone, but this also was destroyed in the blitz.In old English dictionaries, before 1600, the word now spelled Dibble was spelled deeble.I find no foundation for the statement by some, that the name is of French origin(diable meaning devil) though some facetious clerks both in England and America so spelled it in the early records.I believe this to be the reason Nathan Dabol entered in his account book, "Henceforth we shall spell our name Dabol".

We have few records of Robert and Thomas Deeble in Mass.The first land record for them is Jan. 4 1635 when Thomas Deeble is to receive 30 acres in the division of the hill between Roxbury and Dorchester.In Mar. 1638 Robert was appointed bayliff (tax collector) for Dorchester and continued in this post until 1641.The records of the Dorchester Congreational Church for Feb 1642 list Robert Deeble and goody deeble as original members (Plymouth, Eng. 1629).I have found no further record of them in New England.It may be possible that they returned to England with other dissatisfied members of the old congreation, after their leader and many of their friends had removed to Windsor, Conn.

Robert Deeble's signature appears on the flyleaf of the History of Dorchester, Mass. In a list of original proprietors (photograph).This and the fact that he was chosen baliff is fair proof that he was a little better educated than some of the early colonists, many of whom could not write, signing their names with an X.", VanBuren Lamb, Jr., "Line of Henry Dibble."

Source: http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/d/i/b/George-A-Dibble-III/GENE29-0001....

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