BOB LOWERY to EDWARD PLANTER DOTY

You: Bob Lowery

Mother: Sally Diefenderfer

Grandfather: George W Diefenderfer

Great grandmother: Elinor V. Doty (married Harold Diefenderfer in 1900)

BIRTH: FEB 1874 • Chicago, Illinois

DEATH: Unknown

2nd great grandfather: Erastus D Doty Sr. (married Mary P Nichols)

BIRTH: 1 SEP 1836 • Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA

DEATH: 13 MAY 1927 • Chicago, Cook, Illinois

Erastus D Doty worked as a livestock inspector, livestock dealer and livestock commissioner in the Chicago, Illinois stockyards. He and his wife, Mary, had six children who lived to adulthood.

3rd great grandfather: Theodorus Doty (married Catherine Terwilliger)

BIRTH: 14 SEP 1801 • Duanesburg, Schenectady, New York, USA

DEATH: 11 JUN 1885 • Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

Theodorus Doty was a hotel owner/keeper in various Chicago locations including the Doty House located in Ward 2 in 1850s-60s, located at the corner of State Street and Douglas Place (now East Pershing Road), on Chicago’s south side. Doty House was located approximately six blocks from the Union Stockyards. Doty’s son (and Erastus’ brother), Harvey, ran the saloon at his father’s hotels and also owned several billiard parlors in Chicago at that time including Doty's Billiard Hall at 74, 76 and 86 Randolph Street (1863-1866), on the site of a billiard table manufacturing company. He was also involved in local politics. He served as a Justice of the Peace in Lyons, Cook County and held the positions of “Overseer of the Poor” and “Commissioner of Highways” in the mid-1850s. He and his wife, Catherine, had ten children who lived to adulthood.

4th great grandfather: Prince Doty (married Almira Beach)

BIRTH: ABT 1766 • Salem, Washington, New York, USA

DEATH: 17 MAR 1814 • Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Prince Doty and family were living in Duanesburg, Schenectady County, New York in 1800. In 1805, Prince Doty held the rank of major in a company within the New York militia. He was also a member of the New York State Assembly from 1798-1802. Doty served as a quartermaster in the U.S. Army during Tobias History Research © 2016 Page 1

the War of 1812. He died in 1814 while on a military-related visit to Cleveland, Ohio. Prince and his wife, Almira, had at least five children who lived to adulthood.

5th great grandfather: Theodorus Doty (married Jane Dunsmoor)

BIRTH: 25 DEC 1736 • Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA

DEATH: 1783 • Salem, Washington, New York, USA

A history of Hardwick, Massachusetts introduces Theodorus as a “housewright” or carpenter of homes, living in Braintree, Massachusetts in 1767. Theodorus and his wife, Jane, had at least seven children who lived to adulthood.

6th great grandfather: Edward Doty (married Mary Andrews)

BIRTH: 7 MAY 1705 • Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA

DEATH: Unknown

Edward and his wife, Mary, had at least eight children who lived to adulthood.

7th great grandfather: Ellis Doty (married Ellinor unk.)

BIRTH: 16 APRIL 1677 • Sandwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA

DEATH: MARCH 1728 • Rochester, Plymouth County, Massachusetts

Ellis and his wife, Elinnor, had at least six children who lived to adulthood.

8th great grandfather: Joseph Rochester Doty (married Deborah Ellis)

BIRTH: 30 APRIL 1651 • Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA

DEATH: 3 MAY 1731 • Rochester, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA

Joseph and his wife, Deborah, had ten children who lived to adulthood.

9th great grandfather: Edward Planter Doty (married Faith Clark)

BIRTH: 14 MAY 1598 • East Halton, Lincolnshire, England

DEATH: 23 AUG 1655 • Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA

Edward and his wife, Faith, had nine children who lived to adulthood. Descendants and their relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin.

EDWARD PLANTER DOTY BIOGRAPHY

Edward Planter Doty departed Plymouth, England, aboard the Mayflower on September 6/16, 1620. Upon arrival of the Mayflower at Cape Cod, Doty was one of 41 male passengers who signed the Mayflower Compact where his name appears as "Edward Doten".

Edward Doty came on the Mayflower as a servant/apprentice to Stephen Hopkins, and was apparently still a servant in 1623 when the Division of Land was held.

In late 1620, Doty accompanied Hopkins and others on some of the early Pilgrim explorations of the Cape Cod area while trying to locate a suitable location for their settlement.

In Plymouth Colony records, Doty's name was also spelled variously as Doten (Mayflower Compact), Dotey (1626 Purchasers and 1643 bear arms lists), Dolton (1627 Division of the Cattle), and Dowty (1633/34 tax lists).

Edward Doty later became a wealthy land owner, but his argumentative nature and display of temper caused him to be in the Plymouth court many times over the years.

Doty was one of the Mayflower passengers that have left an extensive record of his personality. He had a quick temper that often was out of control and had many business dealings that in some cases bordered on the fraudulent. Other troublemakers were often removed from Plymouth (i.e. Isaac Allerton was forced out) but Doty lived there throughout the rest of his life.

Doty's first problem with the law came just after the Pilgrims had begun constructing their settlement. The early eighteenth century notes of Thomas Prince describe an incident of June 18, 1621 when the first duel (with a sword and dagger) was fought in New England between two servants of Stephen Hopkins, Edward Doty and Edward Leister. The duel ended with one being wounded in the hand and one in the thigh. Their punishment was to be tied head and feet together for twenty-four hours without meat or drink. But soon their master Stephen Hopkins, apparently taking pity on their "great pains", made a "humble request, upon promise of a better carriage" and they were released by the governor.

In 1626 Edward Doty was one of twenty-seven Purchasers involved with the colony joint-stock company which afterwards was turned over to the control of senior colony members. That group were called the “Undertakers”, and was made up initially of John Bradford, Myles Standish and Isaac Allerton, who were later joined by Edward Winslow, William Brewster, John Howland, John Alden, Thomas Prence, and four former Merchant Adventurers back in London. On the agreement, dated October 26, 1626, his surname appears as "Dotey".

The post-1632 records of the Plymouth Court, which has no existing records prior to that year, has twenty-three cases over the 20 years between January 1632 and October 1651 that involve Edward Doty. The records include suits/countersuits, and charges such as fraud, slander, fighting, assault, debt, trespass, theft, etc. But although Doty appeared before the court numerous times, he was never punished for criminal activities beyond small fines. So even though he was charged with fighting and was sued by many persons for fraudulent trading and goods sales, almost all were civil cases and were not of a criminal nature. And other than his duel in 1621, he never received any physical punishment that was commonly given for crimes such as theft, serious assault and

adultery. He was quite fortunate in this regard as typical punishments at that time included whipping, branding, banishment and the stocks. However disagreeable in personality, Edward Doty was mostly involved in simple civil disputes and was never in any serious official trouble.

Edward Doty married Faith Clarke on January 9, 1635. Faith was the daughter of Thurston (Tristram) and Faith Clarke, arriving on the ship "Francis" in 1634. Since several of Doty's court cases involved Thurston and George Clarke, it would appear that some of his legal situations, including fights, were the result of in-law domestic problems. Together, Edward and Faith had nine children.

William Bradford, in his journal Plymouth Plantation, states in early 1651. "But Edward Doty by a second wife hath seven children, and both he and they are living." "Doty's mysterious first marriage must have occurred in Plymouth sometime after he was released from his contract with Hopkins." Nothing is known about his first marriage, and all his children were by his second marriage which was to Faith Clarke.

Resources

1. http://www.edward-doty.org/Edward-Doty.org/ 2. htps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Doty 3. https://www.themayflowersociety.org/ a. https://www.themayflowersociety.org/the-pilgrims/item/26-the-pilgrims 4. http://mayflowerhistory.com/doty/ 5. Doty-Doten Family in America: Descendants of Edward Doty, an Emigrant by the Mayflower, 1620 by E.A. Doty, 1897.

Documents

Location of Plymouth and other early North American colonies.

"The Landing of the Pilgrims," a painting by Henry A. Bacon (1877).

“Signing the Mayflower Compact 1620,” a painting by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1899).

Page from William Bradford's “Of Plimoth Plantation” containing the text of the Mayflower Compact. William Bradford (1590-1657) - Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Prince Doty, NY Assembly member (1798-1802): Members of the New York State Assembly, from CIVILIST AND FORMS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE COLONY AND STATE OF NEW YORK by S.C. HUTCHINS. (1886).

Harvey Doty, son of Theodorus Doty, billiard hall owner in Chicago (1860s).

Current site of old Doty House hotel (1860s-1880s), corner of State Street and Douglas Place (now Pershing) on Chicago’s south side.

Boundaries of old Chicago Union Stock Yards: Pershing Avenue, Halsted Street, 47th Street, and Ashland Avenue.

In 1910-1920, Harold Diefenderfer and Elinor V. Doty Diefenderfer lived at 7150 Euclid Avenue, Chicago, IL.