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Descendants of Robert Deeble

Generation No. 1

1. Robert¹ Deeble^1,^2,^3,⁴ was born in England ⁵, and died Unknown. He married <Unnamed>. She died Unknown.

Notes for Robert Deeble:
"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.
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"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."

More About Robert Deeble:
Residence: of Dorchester, Massachusetts

Marriage Notes for Robert Deeble and <Unnamed>:
"children; (no absolute proof except for Thomas)", VanBuren Lamb, Jr., "Line of Henry Dibble"
"children; (no absolute proof except for Thomas adn Frances)", VanBuren Lamb, Jr., "Line of Jethro Dibble".

Children of Robert Deeble and <Unnamed> are:

Robert² Deeble ^6,^7,⁸, born Abt. 1608 ^9,^10,¹¹; died Unknown.

Notes for Robert Deeble:
"Age 28 in 1635, when he came to N.E. as serveant to Joseph Hull."-VanBuren Lamb, Jr., "Dibble Family," "Your Ancestors", Volume 3, No. 11-12 Nov & Dec 1949

ii.

Oliver Deeble ^12,^13,¹⁴, born Abt. 1610 ^15,¹⁶; died Unknown.

More About Oliver Deeble:
Baptism: 22 Jul 1610, St. Germain, Cornwall, England ¹⁷

iii.

Frances Deeble ^18,^19,^20,²¹, born Abt. 1612 ^22,²³; died Unknown.

Notes for Frances Deeble:
"age 22 in 1635"- VanBuren Lamb, Jr., "Dibble Family," "Your Ancestors", Volume 3, No. 11-12 Nov & Dec 1949

+	5	iv.	Thomas Deble, born Abt. 1614; died 17 Oct 1700 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut.
	6	v.	Ebenezer Deeble ²⁴, born Abt. 1616 ²⁵; died Unknown.
+	7	vi.	John Deeble, born Abt. 1618; died 07 Oct 1646 in Springfield, Massachusetts.
+	8	vii.	Abraham Dible, born Abt. 1620; died 31 Dec 1690 in Suffield, Hartfield, Connecticut.

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