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Let me say first that I am the inheritor of Dr. Richard Miller's voluminous Dimmitt genealogical materials. Dr. Miller worked on the Dimmitt family for 40 years, and his manuscript is really what I would call the "authority." I am in the process of preparing it for publication, but it is a slow process. (Incidentally, the book you cited, Jim, by June Dimmitt Houston is pretty good on that particular line, but in the early generations her information is in part dependent on Dr. Miller's work; they were correspondents and cooperated on the Dimmitt research.)
With regard to the so-called Richard Beal Dimmitt, let me quote from Dr. Miller:
"For over 50 years, this person was known by people concerned with Dimmitt genealogy, including the present author, as Richard Beal Dimmitt. Only recently has it become evident that the first name 'Richard' is fictitious... Theone and only occurrent of the name 'Richard' in print is in Burgess' 'Virginia Soldiers of 1776' published in 1927; and since Burgess had a reputation as a careful and thorough scholar, there was no cause to doubt the accuracy of his abstracts. So when he reported that a certain document referred to 'Sarah (who married Richard Dimmitt)...' this statement went unchallenged. Since her actual marriage record gave his name as 'Beal Dimmitt', it was easily inferred that his full name must have been Richard Beal Dimmitt... [In 1979 I saw a photocopy of the actual document]... Very careful examination of the handwriting in this document leads to the certain conclusion that the word 'Beal' was misread (by Burgess or one of his assistants) as 'Rich', and assumed to be the common abbreviation of 'Richard', as the name was finally printed."]
This Beal Dimmitt was in fact the son of William and Dorothy (Swan) Dimmitt. The list of children you have given, Jim, is correct, except that you have picked up "Catherine Ringgold" as a child, when in fact she is the wife of James William (I think you just misread June's book).
You are correct, Sylvia, about your Joseph Eveland marrying two Dimmitt sisters, daughters of Beal. The first sister Dr. Miller has as Louisa (not Lucea) Ellen; he notes that the Huffman book says "Lucea" but says that "all later records give her name as Louisa." She bore Eveland three children, and died in 1838; he then married Eveline Jane, by whom he had 14 more children.
William Dimmitt who married Dorothy Swan was the son of William Dimmitt (1711-?) and Catherine Warden Bull (also my ancestors). That William was the son of William Dimmitt (ca. 1683-1751) and his wife Elizabeth ----; that William was the son of William Dimmitt (ca. 1650-1710/11) by his first wife, whose name is unknown (his second wife was Susannah Cole). While William is the earliest ancestor known for certain, Dr. Miller suspected strongly that William was the son of a Thomas Dymmett, of whom there is record of his sailing from England in 1635 for America (but no record of him actually arriving here).
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