Marylandwas established with religious freedom for Catholics. The colonial economy was based on tobacco cultivated by Africans who had been enslaved.
James Dimmitt was born about 1707 in Baltimore County, Maryland.
He married Barbara Broad.
John Broad Dimmitt (1736),
Athaliah Dimmitt (1737, married Broad Cole),
Elizabeth Ann Dimmitt (1740, married Zachariah Cross),
Mary Dimmit (1744, married Ashael Cross),
Barbara Dimmitt, and
James Dimmitt, Jr. (1747).
In 1765 James and Barbara moved to Rowan County, North Carolina.
James died about 1774.
The Pennsylvania Gazette
August 9, 1750
American colonists continued to use British monetary units, namely the pound, shilling and pence for which £1 (orli) equalled 20s and 1s equalled 12d. In 1792 the dollar was established as the basic unit of currency.
