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THE DOUGHTY FAMILY OF LONG ISLAND.

By Ethan Allen Doty.

In offering this record of the descendants of Rev. Francis Doughty, the emigrant to Taunton, Mass., and Maspeth, Long Island, I am aware that it is by no means complete, but it fur- nishes a foundation and a frame work on which any one inter- ested may build a more satisfactory record.

The items here given were collected while I was gathering material for "The Doty — Doten Family in America." Members of both the Doty and Doughty families frequently settled in the same town, and lived neighbors, though seldom intermarrying. This was notably the case on the north shore of Long Island, in Westchester Co., Dutchess Co. and Saratoga Co., in New York State, in New Jersey and in Maine. To keep my Doty records correct, I was obliged to take these of the Doughtys also.

There were other emigrants of Doughtys besides Rev, Fran- cis Doughty.

James Doughty was a resident of Plymouth, Mass., and of Scituate, where he married in 1649 Lydia, daughter of Humphrey Turner. Also a Thomas Douty born 1620-5, was in Berwick, Maine, before 1660.

Both of the above families are represented by descendants in, or emigrated from Maine.

Still another family largely represented in lower and Western New Jersey, claim descent from an Edward Doughty who came as a preceptor to the children of " Lady Moody" and marrying Millicent, perhaps the daughter of James and Rosana De Kraft, became the ancestor of a numerous family in New Jersey, Vir- ginia and Ohio.

Of these I have but scattering records, but these are at the service of any persons interested.

I. Rev. Francis Doughty was the son of a Bristol, (England) Alderman. He had been Vicar of Sodbury, Gloucester, Eng. (See English Colonization of America, by Edward D. Neill, Lon- don, 1 87 1.)

From Genealogical Gleanings in England, by Henry F. Waters.

(Will) "Francis Doughtie of Hempsteed in the parish of Oldsbury and County and Diocese of Gloucester, gent., 16 May, 1634, proved 31 October, 1634.

To my son Francis my white horse or nag. To Spencer Achley, my daughter Frances' son, twenty shillings, to be paid by my executrix within six months next after my decease. To John Dauyes, the son of my daughter Margaret, ten shillings, to be paid in like manner. To the three children of my son Fran- cis, that is to say, Mary, his daughter and Francis and Eliah, his sons, thirty shillings to be paid in like manner. The rest of my goods, moveable and unmoveable whatsoever, I give and be-