Samuel Dibble

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Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Nelson Hayes ← Alanson Hayes ← Jeremiah Hayes ← William Hayes ← William Hayes ← Abigal Dibble ← Samuel Dibble

In brief

Baptized March 24, 1643, in Windsor, Connecticut. He married January 21, 1668, in Windsor, Connecticut. He died June 5, 1709.

Family

Father

Thomas Dibble

Mother

____

Spouse

Abigail Graves

Spouse

Hepzibah Bartlett

m. 1668

Spouse

Frances Cranston

m. 1703

Children

With Abigail Graves

Abigail Dibble · in this line
b. January 19, 1666, in Stamford, Connecticut on Saturday Morning
m. August 29, 1683, Windsor, Connecticut

With Hepzibah Bartlett

Hepzibah Dibble
b. December 19, 1669
Joanna Dibble
b. October 4, 1672
Samuel Dibble
b. April 13, 1675
d. February 8, 1676
Mindwell Dibble
b. February 17, 1680
Thankful Dibble
b. June 19, 1685
Patience Dibble
b. October 25, 1687

Siblings

Israel Dibble
b. August 29, 1637
m. Elizabeth Hull, November 28, 1661
Ebenezer Dibble
b. Abt. September 1641
m. Mary Wakefield, October 27, 1663
d. December 19, 1675, in combat during the Swamp Fight in King Philip’s War
Hepzibah Dibble
b. Abt. December 1642
Miriam Dibble
Thomas Dibble
b. September 3, 1647
m. _____
m. Mary Tucker, October 10, 1676

Life story

A Father's Dark Warning

Samuel Dibble was baptized March 24, 1643, in Windsor, Connecticut, son of Thomas Dibble, and married Abigail Graves, receiving land in Stamford from his father-in-law William Graves in 1667. Samuel became entangled in one of colonial New England's stranger episodes that same year: after Abigail gave birth and began having convulsions, Samuel gave a deposition describing how her father William had visited before the birth and seemingly cursed her, warning she would die if her labor did not go well — testimony that helped fuel the accusation of witchcraft later brought against William. Abigail did die, and Samuel separately pursued William through the courts over an unpaid dowry, a dispute that left the two men estranged. Samuel was admitted to half-way communion with the Windsor church in 1670 and died June 5, 1709.

Sources (5)

Reverend Charles Wells Hayes, George Hayes of Windsor and His Descendants (Buffalo, New York: Baker, Jones & Co., 1884).
Norbert R. Bankert, “More on the Identity of Abigail (Graves) Dibble, and her Tragic Death and Suspicions of Witchcraft,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 155 (July 2001): 273-278; image copy, American Ancestors, (https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11632/273/23548020 : accessed 9 July 2026).
David D. Hall, Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England (Boston, Massachusetts: Northeastern University Press, 1991): 164-169.
Henry R. Stiles, The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut (Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1892); images, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/historygenealogi02stil : accessed 10 July 2026).
Connecticut Historical Society, Some Early Records and Documents of and relating to the Town of Windsor Connecticut 1639-1703 (Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1930); Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/someearlyrecords00conn : accessed 10 July 2026).