Thomas Dimon, of Fairfield

Not the same as Thomas Deming, of East Hampton

THOMAS DIMON is the first provable ancestor of the Dimon family of Fairfield, Fairfield, CT. He settled in Fairfield prior to 1650, but little is his history and his ancestry is a matter of conjecture. The name Dimon, also spelled "Dimond" and "Dymond" in early Connecticut records, suggests British origins. We might therefore speculate that THOMAS was born in England shortly after 1600 and immigrated to New England as an adult. When THOMAS DIMON settled in Fairfield, the town founded in 1639 on Long Island Sound was growing steadily. Grain and timber were Fairfield's agricultural staples and the basis of an early export business. Excellent harbors in the town's immediate vicinity encouraged commerce and gave Fairfield the resource it needed to become a navigational center for all of the western Connecticut colony. THOMAS profited from Fairfield's costal trade both as a mariner and a ship owner. In the early 1650's he owned and operated a vessel valued at about £200. When the boat "suffered a great loss by fire", in 1655/56, one of his friends in Fairfield wrote the Governor at New Haven to ask for help in raising money for THOMAS' relief. It is not known if any relief was actually received by THOMAS. He died in the fall of 1658. His property was inventoried on Oct. 19, 1658. Since no mention is made of his wife in his will it is assumed she predeceased him. (2)

References

• Name: Thomas Dimon, Year: 1645, Place: Connecticut Source Publication Code: 1262 Primary Immigrant: Dimon, Thomas Annotation: Date and place of settlement or date and place of arrival. Names not restricted to the Order of Founders and Patriots of America. Source Bibliography: COLKET, MEREDITH B., JR. Founders of Early American Families: Emigrants from Europe, 1607-1657. Cleveland: General Court of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, 1975. 366p. Page: 91
• The Dimon Family of Fairfield, Connecticut The genealogy of the Dimond or Dimon family of Fairfield, Conn. : together with records of the Dimon or Dymont family of East Hampton, Long Island, and of the Dimond family of New Hampshire. Edwin R Dimond. Albany, N.Y. : J. Munsell's Sons, 1891. Page 11.
• yDNA of Colonial American D*mon(d) Families PDF document
• http://www.familytreedna.com/public/dimond_dymond_dna_genealogy/def...
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dimon-11 cites
• Donald Lines Jacobus, "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Connecticut," Vol 1, page 184.
• "Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700", page 450.
• Dimond, Edwin. The Genealogy of the Dimond or Dimon Family, of Fairfield, Conn. (Joel Munsell's Sons, Albany, N.Y., 1891) Page 7
• Solomon Sturges And His Descendants A Memoir And A Genealogy, Ebenezer Buckingham (1907), page 20
• Abstract of Probate Records at Fairfield, Connecticut, Down to 1721 (n.p.) Page 102: Inv. filed Oct. 19, 1658