John Dinsmoor

Notes:

Emigrated to Londonderry, New Hampshire, which is now Windham, as early as 1723, and is the ancestor of most of the Dinsmoors of NH. He was taken prisoner by the Indians, and, after various adventures, finally made his appearance in the Scotch settlement of Londonderry, NH, with many of the people there he was acquainted, having known them in Ireland. He made his home in what is now Windham. Being a mason, he built a stone house, in which he lived, and where he died in 1741. In 1891 the place was occupied by Phineas D. Scott.

After building a home, he sent for his son Robert and his daughter Elizabeth to come with their step-mother, and their families to live with him.

Family/Spouse: Hannah Deane. Hannah was born about 1673 in Ireland; died on 2 Jan 1749 in Londonderry, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Robert Dinsmoor was born in 1692 in Ballywattick, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland; died on 14 Oct 1751 in Windham, NH; was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, East Derry, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.

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John DINSMOOR, b. abt 1650 Scotland, left Scotland about 1667 for Ballywattick NI. He was the second son who didn't like the idea of paying homage and respect to his elder brother. At the age of 17, when his father required him "to hold the off stirrup of his elder brother's saddle, when he mounted his horse", he took off for Ulster, with only the clothes on his back and a cane.

"This man lived until he was 99 years of age. He was fifty years married, and twenty nine years a widower, which ended his life, much respected by all who were acquainted with him, for his piety, morals, and good sense." Grandson Robert Dinsmore in letter to his cousin in 1794.

Notes:

"Laird Achenmead, the progenitor, and earliest known ancestor of the Dinsmoors, was a Scotchman, born in Auld Scotia certainly not far from the year 1600. The fact that he was called Laird would indicate that he was a man of some note and consequence in his locality. He was a farmer, had tenants under him, and dwelt on the bank of the flowing Tweed, at a place which tradition has variously called Achenmead, Auchinmede, Aikenmead, and other variations of the name. This spot has not been identified and located by his inquiring and investigating descendants. Tradition asserts that he was a follower and adherent of Douglass, and as one of those powerful chiefs had his home in a fortress, whose walls were of wondrous thickness and strength, placed on a projecting rock in a fiercely wind-swept and narrow defile, on the north bank of the River Tweed, known as Neidpath Castle, near the City of Peebles, it is not amiss to hazard the conjecture that Laird Dinsmoor's home was in the immediate vicinity.

** Leonard Allison Morrison, Among the Scotch-Irish: and a Tour in Seven Countries, in Ireland, Wales, England, Scotland, France, Switzerland, and Italy; with History of Dinsmoor Family (Boston, Massachusetts: Damrell & Upham, 1891)

Auchinmede is in the parish of Kilwinning, in the district of Cunningham, in the County of Ayr (Ayrshire), southwest of Glasgow (not on the River Tweed).
"In forming the road to Auchinmede a stone coffin was discovered containing human bones." The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Ayr" MDCCCXLV (1845).
Spelling variations: Auchinmede, Auchinmaid, Auchinmead, Auchenmead: Ayrshire OS Name Books, 1855-1857, parts being the property of the Earl of Eglinton at that time:
https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/ordnance-survey-name-books/ayrshire-os-name-books-1855-1857/ayrshire-volume-41/38
The Auchenmade quarry is a large Limestone Quarry used for various purposes. The Property of the Earl of Eglinton.