1William B. Trask, copier, Early Records of Boston, NEHGR Vol. 9, pp. 167-168 (Apr. 1855).
"CAMBRIDGE
Cutter Elisabeth dau of Richard & Elisabeth borne 15 (5) 1645.
Samuel sonne of of Richard & Elisabeth borne 3 (11) 1646.
Thomas sonne of Richard & Elisabeth borne 19 (5) 1648.".
1Ethan Allen Doty, Doty-Doten Family in America: Descendants of Edward Doty, an Emigrant by the Mayflower, 1620, p. 666 (1897).
"9507. REUBEN DOTY, son Samuel Doty and Zeruiah Lovell, b. Wareham, Mass., Feb. 8, 1745; m. Amenia, Dutchess Co., N. Y., Nov. 14, 1765, Hannah Delano. The Delanos were residents of Sharon, Ct., and came there from Massachusetts Bay.
He removed from Amenia to Fairfield, Oneida Co., N. Y., in 1797, or earlier, and bought there. The land purchased was probably in present town of Russia, Herkimer Co., N. Y.
Record of Deeds of Oneida Co., N. Y., at Utica, 1797. Reuben Doty of Fairfield, mortgages land bought same day of Providence, R. I., merchants. Mortgage cancelled, 1803. Land probably in present town of Russia, Herkimer Co.
They removed about 1810 to the town of Pike, then in Alleghany Co., now in Wyoming Co., N. Y., where he d. about 1820.
Reuben Doty was an officer in the Continental army, being, in 1777, a Lieutenant in Colonel Humphrey's New York Regiment.
His grandson, Reuben M. Doty, reports, on the authority of Ichabod Maurray and Daniel Murray, that when the Revolutionary army was lying before Saratoga, a call was made for one hundred volenteers for a dangerous service, Lieutenant Reuben Doty commanded and Ichabod Murray was one of the party. They marched by a circuitous route to the rear of Burgoyne's army, where, the second morning after leaving their camp, just before daylight, they burned his stores and mills. They then made the circuit of the British Army and brought into their own camp twenty-one prisoners of whom were six officers, besides twenty-one horses and twenty cows.
Children:
9730. i. LOIS, b. Amenia, N. Y., Feb. 12, 1767; bap. April 19, 1767.
9731. ii. CHLOE, b. Amenia; bap. March 19, 1769; m. John Slosson; lived Pompey Hill, Onondaga Co., N. Y.
9732. iii. DORUS, b. Amenia; bap. June 23, 1771.
9733. iv. LEONARD, b. Amenia; bap. May 30, 1773.
9734. v. JOEL, b. Amenia; bap. April 16, 1775; not m.; d. Pike, N. Y., 1816.
9735. vi. IRA, b. March 18, 1786.
9736. vii. JEREMIAH, b. Florida, Orange Co., N. Y., July 10, 1792.
9737. viii. ROSWELL, d. Pike, N. Y., 1816.
9738. ix. SARAH, m. Nathaniel Brown; lived Herkimer Co., N. Y.
9739. x. MERCY, b. Herkimer Co,. March 7, 1785.".
1Ethan Allen Doty, Doty-Doten Family in America: Descendants of Edward Doty, an Emigrant by the Mayflower, 1620, p. 705 (1897).
"9730. LOIS DOTY, dau. Reuben Doty and Hannah Delano, b. Amenia, Dutchess Co., N. Y., Feb. 12, 1767; m. prob. there about 1782, Ichabod Murray, b. Aug. 16, 1755. She d. Jan. 13, 1824. He d. July 16, 1831.
Ichabod Murray lived prob. in the vicinity of Amenia, N. Y., or Sharon, Ct., as he was a Revolutionary soldier, and with his brother, Daniel, was in the company commanded by Lieutenant Reuben Doty. His brother, Daniel Murray, married Elizabeth Raymond, and their daughter, Betsey, married Ira Doty, brother of Lois Doty. Ichabod Murray and wife removed with her father, about 1797, to Fairfield, then in Oneida Co., now in Herkimer Co., N. Y.
Children:
10381. i. HENRY, b. May 17, 1783.
10382. ii. JOEL, b. July 1, 1784.
10383. iii. CALVIN, b. Dec. 14, 1786; d. Sept. 30, 1814.
10384. iv. SOPHIA, b. April 10, 1788.
10385. v. CYNTHIA, b. April 1, 1790.
10386. vi. JUBA, b. March 15, 1792.
10387. vii. NORMAN, b. Jan. 27, 1794; not m.; d. Aug. 19, 1822.
10388. viii. FREDERICK, b. March 31, 1796; d. Sept., 1796.
10389. ix. SEYMOUR, b. Aug. 24, 1797.
10390. x. ROSWELL DOTY, b. April 30, 1800.
10391. xi. SABINA, b. April 9, 1802.
10392. xii. TRUMAN, b. Aug. 9, 1805.".