Person:Charles Doughty (4)

Quoted from The Record published by NYG&BS, Oct. 1912, pg 318: "In the 'Brooklyn Eagle' of June 7, 1891, an 'old Brooklynite' gives some interesting items: . . . No criminal or betrayer of trusts, public or private, has ever been known to bear the name of Doughty, which, let it be understood, has no connection whatever with the English 'Doty' or the Irish 'Dougherty' or Doherty'. As Doughty is spelled now so it has been spelled continuously since the days of Henry VIII. Of Charles Doughty, for whom the street was named, it is stated that he was about 85 when he died, previous to 1820, and that he used to often tell how, when a young man, he had been told by old people that they recollected when an Indian squaw waded from Governor's Island to Long Island with her papoose."

1.   The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society)
   July 1912, pg 286.
2.   The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society)
   Vol 43, Oct 1912, pg 317.