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The grantee seems to be the Boughton who was Secretary of Maryland, but what relation or connection he was of Doughty, I fail to discover.

In the calendar of the New York Assizes to be held beginning the first Wednesday in October, 1669, stands:

Francis Doughtey Pl't John Hicks, William Laurence &c Def ts upon the suite & Request of Capt'a Underhill & Mr Laurence — By the ord'r of the Governo'r Ap'r 19 : 1669.¹

It is said that he or his executor won the suit which was for salary at Flushing some twenty years before.²

Mr. WILLIAM LOGAN RODMAN GIFFORD of St. Louis, Missouri, was elected a Corresponding Member.

¹ Second Annual Report of the State Historian of the State of New York (1897), pp. 352,353, 357. This suit first appears on the calendar 28 September, 1665. Under date of 1666, Onderdonk writes:

Mr. Francis Doughty was minister at Flashing, at 100 guilders a year. His contract for salary was burnt one year before his trial [1665 f] by Win. Lawrence's wife, who put it under a pye in an oven. . . . Underhill had ordered the church door shut up because Doughty preached against the Government. Thereafter Doughty was discharged. His son recovered 600 guilders; each party to pay their own costs. The defence was, that Gov. Studyvesant, by calling each person into his room separately, had forced the town to sign a call to said Doughty (Queens County in Olden Times, p. 6).

² Mr. Doughty's two sons Francis and Elias, who came with him from England, married and remained in the Province of New York. Mrs. Bunker in her Long Island Genealogies seems possibly to have mistaken grandchildren for children in the list she gives of his sons.