| Miscellaneous Doty Records Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi ~~~~~ |
| EDWARD DOTY'S WILL May the 20th 1655 In the Name of God Amen Know all men to whom it may concerne that I Edward Dotten senir of the Towne of New Plymouth in New England being sicke and yett by the mercye of God in prfect memory and upon matture Consideration Doe by this my last will and Testament leave and bequeath my purchase land lying att Coaksett unto my sons; my son Edward I give a Double portion and the the rest of my sonnes equall alike if they live to the age of one and twenty. If they Die before then to bee prted among the rest onely to my wife I leave a third During her life and then after to returne to my sonnes. And unto my loveing wife I give and bequeath my house and lands and meddows within the precincts of New Plymouth together with all Chattles and moveables that are my proper goods onely Debts and engagements to bee paid; As for my Share of land att Punckquetest if it come to anything I give it unto my son Edward; This being my last will and Testament; I Edward Dotten Doe owne it for my Act and Deed before these my loveing frinds who are Witnesses and Doe sett my hand to the same; the Day and yeare abovewritten. Witness John Howland Edward Dotten James Hurst (his Marke) John Cooke William Hoskins Ther being many names besides Coaksett I mean all my purchase land According to the Deed. Att the generall court held the fift of March 1655; faith the wife of Edward Dotten, Deceased Did give up and make over all her right and enterest she had in the land of Edward Dotten att Coaksett or places adjacent unto her Children this shee Did in the prsence of the said Court; held att Plymouth yt Day and yeare agove expressed. The abovewritten Will and Testament of Edward Dotten Deceased was exhibited to the Court held att Plymouth the fift of March 1655 on the oathes of Mr. John Howland, James Hurst, John Cooke and William Hoskins. ~~~~~ MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS 1633 The Names of Freemen of eich Towne; Plymouth: Edward Dotey 1643 The Names of all the Males that are able to beare Armes from xvj. Yeares old to 60 Yeares, w'in the severall Towneshipps; Plymouth: Edward Dotey 1658 Names of Freemen; First Plymouth: Edward Doty 1689 Received and admitted as Freemen at y Generall Court held at Plimouth the first Tuesday of June, 1689, these underwritten: Edward Dotey, Sen. 1774 Representing Onslow County in the North Carolina Provincial Congress, held to elect delegates to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia: Benajah Doty 1776 4/4/1776; Representing Onslow County at the Provincial Congress, Halifax, (the fourth meeting of the people in a representative capacity opposed to the Royal Government in NC) was: Benjamin Doty [probably 'Benajah'] 1776 10/15/1776; Delegate: Benajah Doty; "Delegate to Congress, which was not only to make laws, but also to form a Constitution, which was to be the cornstone of all law; and, as it is well or ill ordered, would tend to the happiness or misery of the State." 1778 Member of the General Assembly from Onslow County; House of Commons: Benajah Doty 1769 Onslow Co., NC Tax List: Doty, Benajah and son; Peter & Mima, 2 white men; 1 Negro man; 1 Negro woman |
| MARRIAGE BOND, JOSIAH WARREN - NANCY DOTY [daughter of Benajah Doty] State of North Carolina, Onslow County Know all men by these _____, That We, Josiah Warren, Benajah Doty and Hinchey Warren, are held and firmly bound unto his Excellency _____ and his Successors in Office, in the Sum of _____ Pounds, current Money of this State, for the true Payment whereof, we do hereby bind ourselves, our Heirs, Executors, Administrators and Assigns, jointly and severally, firmly by these _____. Witness our Hands and Seals, this _____ Day of 1780. The condition of this obligation is such, That whereas the above-named Josiah Warren hath made Application for a Licence for a Marriage to be celebrated between him and Miss Nancy Doty, _____ of St. John's Parish. Now if it shall appear hereafter, that there is nothing to obstruct said Marriage, then this Obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full Force and Virtue. Signed, Sealed and Delivered, in the Presence of : Josiah Warren Hinchey Warren Benajah Doty ~~~~~ BENAJAH DOTY'S WILL In the name of God Amen the Twenty Second Day of October One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty, I Benajah Doty of Onslow County in the State of North Carolina being very sick and weak of body but of perfect mind and memory Thanks be given unto God, Therefore calling into mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appoiinted for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my sould into the hands of God that gave it and my body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in ____ Christian Burial _____ of my Executors. Nothing doubting but as the general Resurrection shall revive the sam again by the mighty power of God, and as _____ such worthy estate where with it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life, I give Demi_____ and dispose of the same in the following manner and form. I give to my loving wife, Elizabeth Doty, two negroes, Tom and Sarah, likewise I give to my wife, Elizabeth Doty, one horse and side saddle, five cows and calves, she having choice out of my stock and one bed and bedstead and furniture also the choice of two sows and piggs and ))))) hoggs for meat and one barrow. Corn to make beef and all of my hitching _____, two hocks of bees and a hlaf dozen of chares and one case of bottles and choice of two wheels, one wooling wheel and one linning wheel, two ewes and lambs and two trunks and _____ in _____ and all fowls of all kins. I give to Hester Brack twenty pounds and no more. I give Taber Doty four hundred and forty acres of land lying on the North East of New River and a negro fellow, Bob, one feather bed. I give unto my daughter, Nancy Norris, one hundred acres of fine/pineland joining the land that she now lives on, which land I bought from James Hammons to her and her heirs ajoins forever and calves and one feather bed. I give the land whereon I now live to my two sons, Samuel and Benajah. Likewise my grist mill that ajoins my land to be equally divided with the said land by my Executors to them and their Heirs and apines forever like wised give each of them a feather bed. My will is that their shall be a likely young negro woman bought for my son James as soon as sthe money is got for the sale of my Estate. Likewise, I give to my son James one feather bed. Now my will is that all my estate that is not here in merchandise to be sold and money to be divided between my three youngs sons. I like wise constitute make and ordain my worthy friends Robert Nixon and Stephen Williams Executors and my beloved wife, Elizabeth Doty, Executrix on this my last will and testament and I do here utterly disallow, revoke, _____ other forms of testaments with legacies and bequests and _____ by me in anyways before named willed and bequeathed _____. And confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament in witness where of I have here unto set my hand and seal the day and year above written. Signed, m sealed in the presence of us: Francis Chatwin John Cook William _onkey Signed: Benajah Doty, with seal My G-Grandfather's Attic-Home |
| Edward Doty, of The Mayflower, was from London and came as a servant of Stephen Hoopkins, also from that city. The register of St. Mary-le-Strand, London, gives the marriage of an Edward Dowty and Wynifryd Waryner, 12 December, 1613, and the marriage of a Thomas Dowghty four years later. As Bradford refers only to Doty's second marriage, this London record may possibly be his first wife, though the interval is rather lengthy. Thomas is a name found in the Plymouth line. An Edward Dowtie was a juror of Southwark in 1629. Thomas Doughty, born in 1575, was a draper in the parish of St. Martin's, Orgar. A Richard Dowty, clerk of St. Saviours, Southwark, made his will in 1555. |
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