Person:Thomas Doughty (7)

Biography

Thomas Doughty (alt Douty, Doty, Doubty, Doreghty, Doughty) was born about 1630 in probably in Scotland, and died 1705 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. He married Elizabeth Bully on January 25, 1668/69 in Saco, Maine, daughter of Nicholas Bully.[1][2][3]

Elizabeth Bully married Thomas Doughty on 24 Jan 1669 in Bidderford, Maine. ("Thomas Doutie married to Elyzabeth Bullie Jan 24 - 1669," NEHGR Place Biddeford, Maine, USA. Vol 71:126)[4]

Children

Dates are approximate:

1. Elizabeth DOUGHTY b: 14 FEB 1669/70 in Prob Saco, Maine[1]
2. Abigail DOUGHTY b: BET. 1671 - 1688 in Prob Saco, Maine[1]
3. Benjamin DOUGHTY b: BET. 1671 - 1688 in Prob Saco, Maine[1]
4. Joseph DOUGHTY b: BET. 1671 - 1688 in Prob Saco, Maine[1]
5. Margaret DOUGHTY b: BET. 1671 - 1688 in Prob Saco, Maine[1]
6. Patience DOUGHTY b: BET. 1671 - 1688 in Prob Saco, Maine[1]
7. James DOUGHTY b: ABT. 1680 in Prob. Saco, York Co., Maine[1]

Origins

According to the Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire by Noyes, Libby & Davis, Thomas was a "Scotch prisoner". Robert Doughty has written several articles covering the likely origins of Thomas Doughty. While no proof exists at this time, it is likely Thomas Doughty was a prisoner of either the Battle of Dunbar or the Battle of Worcester, both of which led to large numbers of Scottish prisoners being sent as indentured servants to the New England colonies.

Timeline

• 1658 "Richard Huberd, Henrey Browne, Patrick Jameson, Edward Earwin, Walter Jackson, James Merry, Tho Doutey, James Eare, James Medellton, these all reciued as inhabetants" per Scales p 145.^[7]
• 1659 Showing Thomes Dowty taxed at Oyster River. Scales p 363.^[7]
• 1665. Eliakim Hutchinson rents Great Saw Mill to Thomas Doughty. This mill was located about 6 miles north of Dover, NH, on the Newichawannock River. First Permanent Settlement in Maine, per Stackpole pg 26.^[8]
• 1666-1667. Grand juror in Kittery, Maine.
• 1667 Oyster River (Dover, NH)
• 1653 - 1688 Saco, Maine
• 1658 Resided at Dover, NH
• 1659 Taxed at Oyster River (Dover, NH)
• 1669. Thomas Doughty leaves the Great Saw Mill. There is speculation he removed to North Berwick, Maine, which was first called Doughty's Falls. Before 1670. Thomas Doughty removes to Saco, Maine. He built a gristmill at Swamp Pond and stayed there for 20 years per Stackpole.^[8]
• 1677. Removes to Wells, Maine, during King Phillips War. He served in the militia there.
• 1678. Returned to Saco.
• 1686-1688. Town Treasurer of Saco, Maine.
• 1689. During King Williams War, Doughty removed to Malden, Mass.
• 1667. Page 377. " 'Thomas Doutie now Resident at oister Riuer', sells to Jeo Cutt of Portsmouth, land, marsh &c dwelling house, &c, now in occupation of Wm. Roberts of O.R. and purchased of him; Oct 1657. Thomas made his mark"

1.   Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939).

   DOUGHTY, a Staffordshire name.
   THOMAS, a Scotch prisoner, dep. in 1700, ± 70, that ab. 40 yrs. ago he liv. with Mr. Valentine Hill. In 1663 he and John Wingate were partners in a logging contract. He gained high repute as a lumberman, and when Roger Plaisted changed his connection from the Great Works mills to the Broughton mills, he succeeded him, and later must have had a mill of his own at Doughty’s Falls, Berwick. He was taxed at Oyster River 1661-1665. In 1667 he rem. to the Saco Falls mills, and bef. Philip’s War had rem. to Wells where he stayed thro that war. In 1686 he was tenant of Mrs. Bridget Phillip’s mill at Saco. His petn. to Andros ment. grist mill built by himself. In the next war he withdrew to Malden. Gr.j., Kit. 1666, 1667. Town Treas. Saco, 1688. He was often bondsman for a Scot in trouble. Lists 356d, 361a, 363ac, 364, 28, 266, 249. His est. was not settled until 1710. He m. at Saco 24 Jan. 1669-70 Elizabeth Bully (2), liv. 14 Dec. 1711. Ch: Elizabeth, b. 14 Feb. 1669-70, m. Thomas Thomes of Stratham and Falm. Margaret, m. in Boston 3 June 1703 Edmund Chamberlain, 2d in Malden 6 Mar. 1711-2 Samuel Wilson. Joseph, mar. in Salem 4 Dec. 1707 Elizabeth Nurse. He adm. his f.’s est. Will proved 1751, 3 ch. James, b. ab. 1680, m. in Hampton 10 Apr. 1707 Mary Robinson. In 1712 he was of Stratham, aft. war ended moved to Falm. List 388. 6 ch. Patience, m. in Salem 13 Mar. 1706-7 Benj. Follet; rem. to Windham, Conn. Benjamin, settled in Windham, Conn. Abigail, m. in Lynn 28 Oct. 1717 Robert Edmunds, who d. 4 Feb. 1749-50, 3 ch.; 2d 28 Nov. 1752 David Potter.
   
   BULLY NICHOLAS, fisherman, early at Saco, see Bailey (6). Bot house 1650. Lists 243a, 24, 244e, 245., 249. Will Suff. 7 Sep.—1 Nov. 1678. Goody Buly. List 246. Ch: Nicholas. Anne, m. 1653 Ambrose Berry (1), William Scadlock, John Carter (4). Grace, b. ab. 1636, m. John Boaden (7). Tamsen, bur. 30 July 1661. Elizabeth, m. 24 Jan. 1669-70 Tho. Doughty. John

2.   Scales, John, and Alonzo Hall Quint. Historical memoranda concerning persons and places in old Dover, N.H. (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1983)
   145, 363, 377.
3.   Thomas Doubty, in Everett Schermerhorn Stackpole and W. S. Meserve, The First Permanent Settlement in Maine (Prepared for the meeting of the Piscataqua Pioneers at South Berwick, August 18, 1926. Re-Published by The Old Berwick Historical Society, May, 1968)
   p 26 .
4.   The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   71:126.
5.   Thomas Doutee, in Massachusetts, Probate Court (Essex County). The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1916, 1917, 1920)
   Case Number: 8196.

   link

6.   A Doutee/Doughty Genealogy, in The Connecticut Nutmegger. (East Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Society of Genealogists)
   6:588 , 1973.
7. ↑ ^7.0 7.1
8. ↑ ^8.0 8.1