Anthony died on Dec 15, 1638 in Cape Cod, MA. see note.http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/database/GreatMigrations/Default.asp?f=RESEARCH\DATABASE\GREATMIGRATIONS\CONTENT\0211.HTM
ANTHONY DIKE
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1623 on Anne
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
REMOVES: Cape Ann, Salem
OCCUPATION: Mariner.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Although not in the list of early Salem church members, his inclusions in the "freeman's land" section of the 1636 Salem land grant indicates that he was a member of that church no later than 1636.
FREEMAN: 18 May 1631 [ MBCR 1:366].
OFFICES: At the Essex Quarterly Court of 26 December 1637 "Margaret Weston challenged three of the jurymen of Salem, Jeffrey Massie, Edm. Batter and Anth: Dike" [ EQC 1:7], and none of these men appeared on the jury list for that court session.
ESTATE: "Anthony Dixe" received a grant in the 1623 Plymouth land division as a passenger on the Anne [ PCR 12:6].
"Antho: Dike" granted 40 acres in 1636 Salem division of land, being included among those designated freemen (original grant of 20 acres changed to 40) [ STR 21, 22, 25]. On 16 January 1636/7, "Antho: Dike" was one of eight men to "have each 1/2 an acre of land granted them at Winter Harbor for fishing trade, & to build on" [ STR 33]. On 21 August 1637 "Anthony Dike" requested meadow for two or three cows, but no record was made of any action on this request [ STR 56]. "Anth: Dike" was granted one acre in the 1637 division of marshland, for a household of six [ STR 103].
On 11 August 1673 "Anthony Dike of Salem, seaman," sold to "my father-in-law Nathaniell Pickman of Salem" for a valuable consideration "every part & parcel of land or whatsoever else did or do any ways appertain or belong unto me the abovesaid Anthony Dike, as eldest son to my father Anthony Dike deceased" [ ELR 5:10]. On 30 October 1682 "John Alford of Salem ... fisherman & Charity my wife" sold to "our father-in-law Nath[anie]ll Pickman of Salem" for "diverse good considerations ... all our right, title & interest that we have or might have or of right do or might any ways belong to us or either of us in any part or parcel of the lands formerly of Anthony Dike, the father of me the said Charity, deceased" [ ELR 6:67].
BIRTH: By about 1610 based on date of freemanship.
DEATH: 15 December 1638: "Anthony Dick, in a bark of thirty tons, cast away upon the head of Cape Cod. Three were starved to death with the cold; the other two got some fire and so lived there, by such food as they saved, seven weeks, till an Indian found them, etc." [ WJ 1:345].
MARRIAGE: Wife Tabitha _____, who married after 8 August 1639 Nathaniel Pittman (or Pickman) of Salem. In the 1655 litigation against Francis Johnson, Nathaniel Pittman appears as the successor to Anthony Dike, and Tabitha Pittman on 30 March 1657 testified regarding the last words spoken to her by "her husband Dike" just before he "was taken away at Cape Cod by the hard winter" [ EQC 2:25]. On 8 August 1639 there was "granted to Nathaniell Pitman a proportion of land, near about 20 acres lying next unto the Widow Diks land on the south side of the Forrest River" [ STR 89].
CHILDREN:
i ANTHONY, b. say 1636; m. by about 1665 Margery _____ (eldest child born before 1667); she m. (2) John Polin (antenuptial agreement dated 2 June 1680 [ ELR 7:26]).
ii CHARITY, b. say 1638; m. John Alford [ Essex Ant 3:104; EIHC 66:323].
COMMENTS: Since Anthony Dike was in Plymouth for the 1623 land division and not for the 1627 cattle division, and since Anthony Dike is next seen in Salem, Savage suggests that he joined ROGER CONANT in the exodus from Plymouth to Cape Ann.
Dike's maritime activities took him to all parts of the New England coast, and constantly led him into perilous situations, leading finally to his shipwreck and death off Cape Cod in 1638.
Roger Clap records the following story of the capture and release of Anthony Dike by the pirate Dixey Bull in 1632: "They having taken one Anthony Dicks, a master of a vessel, did endeavor to persuade him to pilot them unto Virginia; but he would not. They told him that they were filled with such fear and horror, that they were afraid of the very rattling of the ropes; this Mr. Dicks told me with his own mouth" [ Clap 362-63].
About the same time Dike entered into a partnership with Roger Conant, Peter Palfrey and Francis Johnson for trading in beaver in Maine; this led to extensive litigation more than twenty years later, and also provides the evidence for the existence and remarriage of Tabitha, Anthony Dike's wife [ EQC 1:409, 2:22-26].
In 1636 Dike was carrying freight to the Connecticut for William Pynchon [ WP 3:286], and then in 1637 he took an active part in the Pequot War, appearing at Saybrook and in Narragansett Bay, bringing reports to Roger Williams and carrying a letter from Governor Vane of Massachusetts Bay [ WP 3:407, 411-12; RWCorr 78-81].
Savage says that Anthony Dike "in 1637 was of Charlestown or Salem." There was an Anthony Dix, carpenter, who was an inhabitant of Charlestown in 1641, and sometime before 1652 sold a house and lot in Charlestown to Walter Allen [ Wyman 294; ChBOP 136]. This could not be either Anthony Dike of Salem or his son of the same name.
That the Anthony Dix/Dike who had wife Margery in Salem by about 1665 was the son of the immigrant is supported by the probate of his estate, in which two of the appraisers were Nathaniel Pickman Sr. and Nathaniel Pickman Jr., who would be his stepfather and half-brother. (See TAG 17:163-65 for an account of Jonathan Dike, the son of this younger Anthony.)
Children:
| 656 | i. | Anthony (~1630-1679) | |
| ii. | Charity (1638-) |
1410 John Farmer. [197]
See the NEHGR Vol I, pp. 25-27, "The Farmer Family"
John married Isabell Barbage [197].
They had the following children:
| 706 | i. | Edward | |
| 705 | ii. | Mary |
1411 Isabell Barbage. [197]
1412 same as ahnentafel number 1410
1413 same as ahnentafel number 1411
1416 Jonathan Danforth. [156]
Born in Feb 1627 in Framingham, High Suffolk, England. [155] Jonathan died in Billerica, MA on Sep 7, 1712; he was 85. [155] aged 85.Jonathan married Elisabeth Unknown [90].
They had one child:
| 708 | i. | Jonathan (1659-1711) |
1417 Elisabeth Unknown. [90]
named in birth record of son Jonathan [155]
1424 Jonas Fairbank. [129]
Jonas died on Feb 10, 1676. [236] killed by Indians.Resided in Lancaster in 1657; killed by Indians [236]
On May 28, 1658 Jonas married Lydia Prescott [236]. [236]
They had the following children:
| i. | Mary (1659-) | ||
| ii. | Joshua (1661-1676) | ||
| iii. | Grace (1663-) | ||
| iv. | Jonathan (1666-) | ||
| v. | Hazadiah (1668-) | ||
| 712 | vi. | Jabez (1670-) | |
| vii. | Jonas (1673-) |
1425 Lydia Prescott. [236]
Father: John [236]
1488 Eleazer Hamlin.
Born on Mar 17, 1650 in Barnstable, MA. [206], [257]In Oct 1675 when Eleazer was 25, he married Mehitable Jenkins [257], [206], in Barnstable, MA. [206], [237]
They had the following children:
| 744 | i. | Isaac (1676-) | |
| ii. | Joseph (1680-1766) | ||
| iii. | Mehitable (1682-) | ||
| iv. | Elisha (ca1685-) | ||
| v. | Ichabod (1687-) | ||
| vi. | Shubal (1695-) |
1489 Mehitable Jenkins. [257], [206]