Person:Samuel Doty (11)

Information from The Doty-Doten Family in America says:

    At three weeks of age, his mother being too weak to properly carefor him he was taken to the residence of his grandparents, at FreshMeadows, on Long Island, with whom he remained till their deaths.  Whenof sufficient age he was sent to school and obtained a fair education.His grandfather was a Presyterian, a man of integrity and piety; hisgrandmother was a Quaker.  His grandfather died about 1770, at the age,it is said, of 107 years, and the grandmother in 1774, aged above 90.  Hethen returned to his parents a Westchester.
    The Revolutionary War now coming on, he espoused the cause of theking, and crossing to Long Island, avoided joining the American army.When the British landed on Long Island he joined them as a volumteer inthe 17th Dragoons, in the capacity of Quartermaster, though neverregularly enlisted in the army.  During the war he was for a long time aprisoner to the Americans, and after his release and return to the armyreceived a dangeous wound, the ball shattering the thigh bone andrendering him unfit for active service for three years.  At the close ofthe war, 1783, with many of the royalists he removed to Nova Scotia,landing at Annapolis Royal and was soon allotted lands at Sissiboo, nowWeymouth.  Here he engaged in the blacksmithing business, and soon afterremoved to New Edinburgh, a settlement on the opposite side of theSissiboo River, where he married.  He lived here about ten years, thentwo years at Clare, and subsequently at Yarmouth, Weymouth and Digby.  Aportion of this time he led a dissipated life, but subsequently reformedand became an active Christian worker in the temperance cause.  Thisaccount is taken from a sketch of his life furnished by himself, andpublished, 1831, by the Society for the Propogation of the Gospel, atWeymouth, N.S.  He does not mention ever returning to the United States,but in Westchester it is stated that he returned once or twice to visithis parents there.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Betsy David, 7 School Street, Woodstock, Vermont. Betsy David, contributor.
2. ↑ compiled by: Ethan Allen Doty. Doty-Doten Family in America Descendants of Edward Doty, An Emigrant by the Mayflower, 1620.