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Officers for the six Regiments raised for the defence and safety of the Colony. [1775-04-26] Connecticut, General Assembly. [S4-V2-p0411] [Document Details][Complete Volume]
Fourth Company, Fifth Regiment. — David Dimon, Captain; Peter Hendrick, First Lieutenant; Ebenezer Hill, Second Lieutenant; Wakeman Burr, Ensign.
===========================The following sketch of David Dimon is taken from " Brief
Memorials of Ancestry and Kindred," by Arthur Dimon Osborn.
" David Dimon was commissioned Captain of the 4th Company
in the 5th Regiment, when the six Connecticut regiments were
organized in 1775, by Act of the General Assembly, for service in
the revolutionary war. He was promoted to be Lieutenant
Colonel, and on the death of the Colonel took command of the
regiment, and died in the service."
The following narrative was prepared by his son, Ebenezer
Dimon, January 13, 1841:
" Col. David Dimon of Fairfield, commenced his Revolutionary
services in 1774, by assisting in organizing and preparing his
fellow-citizens in the town for that event. In the early part of
1775 he joined a corps of volunteers which took possession of a
quantity of the King's military stores in New York.
" The States of Connecticut and New York having determined
on raising forces for the invasion of Canada, my father received a
commission of Captain in the corps raised for that object. I was
with him from May till the end of August in their company near
the city of New York and did the duty of waiter to him and of
fugleman to the company, till the company broke up and the
troops proceeded under the order of General Montgomery on the
Canadian expedition.
"When the siege of St. Johns commenced my father was pro-
moted to the rank of Brigade Major and became one of General
Montgomory's staff. He assisted in taking Fort Chambly. A part
of the select corps was led by Major Brown and the other part by
him. At the surrender of St. Johns he was appointed to take posses-
sion of the Fort and receive the submission of the garrison. He
continued with Montgomery until he took possession of Montreal,
at which time circumstances required him to return to Connecticut.
In the campaign of 1776 he was promoted to the rank of Major in
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one of the Connecticut regiments raised for the defense of New
York, and I was with him during the whole of this discouraging
campaign. In the winter of that year Congress passed an order
for raising the regular army, and he was again promoted to the
rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in one of the Connecticut regiments.
The chief Colonel (Douglas) soon after his appointment was taken
sick and died and the duty of recruiting and preparing the regi-
ment for actual service devolved on my father.
" While this was in progress a detachment of the British army,
under General Tryon, landed on the west side of this town on
their expedition to destroy a large quantity of military stores at
Danbury. As soon as the alarm had reached us here my father
assembled and put in motion such of the new recruits as had been
enlisted in this part of the State to harass the British on their
march. In the battle of Ridgefield which took place in the same
expedition, he acted under the immediate orders of General
Arnold. Directly after this event the regiment was filled up and
prepared for actual service and was posted on the line between
this State and New York. The duties at this post became very
arduous, requiring constant vigilance and change of position to
prevent surprise by the numerous forces of the British then in
New York. In a night movement in September the regiment be-
came drenched in rain during nearly the whole night, and my
father, the next day, was seized with a bilious fever, which proved
fatal in the thirty-sixth year of his age. At this time I was again
with him. About two years after this the house which he left was
burnt by a detachment of the British army, in the general confla-
gration of this village. This loss reduced his family nearly to a
state of indigence severely felt for ten years after."
Another account is given in Lossing's Field-Book of the Revo-
lution, vol. I, page 403.
Fifth Generation. 37
And in vol. I, page 408:
" Col. David Dimon, one of Wooster's subordinate officers was
a native of Fairfield and was a brave and useful soldier. He was
one of the volunteers who captured British stores at Turtle Bay,
N. Y., and one of Montgomery's staff in the expedition to Canada
in 1775.
" He was active in the capture of St. Johns on the Sorel and
Fort Chambly, after which he returned to Connecticut on public
business, and was not with the army in its defeat at Quebec.
Colonel Dimon continued in active service until after Tryon's ex-
pedition to Danbury.
" He had the command of the barricades in Ridgefield and pur-
sued the British to Compo A fever produced by exposure in the
service caused his death in September following when in the 36th
year of his age."
The inscription on his tombstone in Fairfield reads as follows :
Colo. DAVID DIMON
died in the Army of
the United States
Septr i8th 1777
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And his remains are
here intered.
49.
Ann (Allen) Dimon, b. Sept. 28, 1741; d. March 9, 1812, in
Fairfield; m. Nov. 15, 1762, David Dimon.
Daughter of David and Sarah (Gould) Allen. David was a son
of Matthew Allen, one of the nineteen patentees named in the
orignal charter of Connecticut.
Sarah Gould or Gold was a daughter of Nathan Gold, another
of the nineteen patentees.
50.
Sarah^^ Dimon, b. 1743, in Fairfield; m. Nov. 11, 1762, Joseph
Sturges.
" Colonels Cook and Dimon with a small force of militia at-
tempted to defend Danbury against the British (April 26th, 1777),
but their force being too small they retreated to the Americans at
Bethel."
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1741 - 1777 (36 years)