Note: The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998. Subject numbers are HAP's originals. HAP's page divisions are shown: after subject page numbers are complete document page numbers in brackets and issue dates. The original text had generations indented in turn: here, generation numbers are added to each individual: the children of the title subject are "1/--". Subject 1068. 11/16/50 P1. (401) FRANCIS DOUGHTY. The following is from the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vols 43, page 275, (by Ethan Allen Doty), and Vol 67, page 229, (by William J. Hoffman) entitled "The Doughty Family of Long Island", and "Van Der Donck Van Bergen", respectively. Francis Doughty's birth and death dates are not known. He was the son of an Alderman of Bristol, England, whose will, dated May 16/1654, proved October 31/1634, reads:- "I, Francis Doughtie of Hempstead in the parish of Oldsbury, Gloucestershire, England, gentleman, leave to my son Francis, my white horse or nag. To Spencer Achley, my daughter Frances' son, 20/- to be paid by my executrix within six months next after my decease. To son John Dauyes, the son of my daughter Margaret, 10/- to be paid in like manner. To the three children of my son Francis, that is to say, Mary His daughter, and Francis and Elias his sons, 30/- to be paid in like manner. The rest of my goods, moveable and unmoveable whatsoever, I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth (excepting what I have passed by my deed bearing date of May 15/1634 made to certain uses of Humphrey Hooke, alderman of the City of Bristol, Thomas Lloyd of the same, Adam Baynham of Yate, Gent, and William Maye of Cherefield, gent, this excepted and I make my daughter Elizabeth my whole and sole executrix. One of the witnesses was Francis Doughtie, Minister. The above will gave rise to a great contention in New England. Elizabeth Doughtie became the wife of William Cole, in the parish of Chew Magna, Somersetshire, England, gent. William and Elizabeth Cole were then in New England, as was also her brother Francis, who at that time called himself a planter of Dorchester, Mass., and seems to have been a minister at Taunton, Mass., and afterwards to have moved to Long Island. Francis Doughty, (of this subject), had been in England the Vicar of Sodbury, Gloucestershire. About 1637, this Reverend Francis Doughty, with others, purchased from the Plymouth Colony, a tract of land at Taunton, Mass. He is reported to have come to Massachusetts in 1639, and settled at Taunton, preaching there, but having some difficulty with the people, he removed to Maspeth, (now Newtown) on Long Island, where we find him in 1642. The Court Records of the Colony of Massachusetts, show that he had a lawsuit with his sister Elizabeth, the wife of William Cole, extending through many years. When he was Vicar of Sodbury in England, he was silenced for non-conformity, and emigrated to Taunton in 1637: he was expelled from England with his wife and child. Doughty secured the conveyance of Maspeth, L.I., said to have been 13,332 acres, on March 28/1642, with a view to establishing a Presbyterian colony there. The settlement began in 1642 but the Indian war broke it up in 1643, and the minister and his flock went to Manhattan for shelter. He became the first Puritan and indeed the first Presbyterian minister in New York, He ministered here from 1643 to 1648, supported by voluntary contributions from the Puritans and the Dutch of the city. Francis Doughty was a man of decided opinions and a chronic objector. He criticized Governor Kieft and trouble was the result. In April 1647, the Director of the New Amsterdam Colony, rescinded the Doughty patents, dividing the property among the members of the association, leaving Doughty only his Bouwery and the land in his possession. This Bouwery occupied land on the east of Flushing Bay, now Stevens Point. Doughty appealed to the Courts of Holland, which further offended Governor Kieft, so he fined Doughty $10 and locked him up in the common jail for 24 hours. Doughty had 6666 acres in his own name: he deeded this farm to his daughter Mary on her marriage to Adriaen Van Der Donck on October 23/1645, owned in 1895 by Subject 1068. Page 2. (402) Abraham and John Rapelyea. Adriaen later presented Francis' appeal to the Courts of Holland, and probably was able to keep the land for his wife. Francis Doughty then became Minister at Flushing Church, where he preached for a year at 600 Guilders. He was glad to escape from his troubles on Long Island, and left for what he called "the English Virginias", in 1648, actually Maryland, where his brother in law William Stone was governor, and where he preached to the Puritans for many years. In 1655 Francis went to Northampton County, Virginia, and became Rector of an Episcopal Church there. Francis Doughty's first wife, whom he married in England, was named Bridget, last name unknown: some say it was Stone. Francis married, 2nd, in 1658, Ann Eaton, a widow with some property, and shortly after he moved to Rappahannock County, when in 1662 he bought 200 acres of land. For several years he was rector of two parishes, one on each side of the river. In 1668 he had a lengthy argument with two prominent members of the parish, and he underwent a trial by the County Commissioners, but no decision has been discovered. In 1658-9 he placed his farm with trustees for the benefit of his wife and announced his intention to depart "for some other country that may prove more favorable to my aged, infirm and decayed body than where I now reside". His wife was unwilling to leave her kindred. On the same day, Francis deeded the reversion of his property to his son Enoch. Now, as Francis left Long Island in 1648, and that there was no reference to any son Enoch, it is difficult to explain how, ten years later, there could be a married son Enoch with children (not named) with instructions to his brother Francis, one or the executors, to sell all his property as he wanted his children to move out of the country. There is a record of Enoch Doughty as early as September 1658 in Maryland, and that he then had a wife Mary and a daughter Joy Doughty, living in 1668. Ann (Eaton) Doughty died in Maryland in the Spring of 1683, and there was quite a contest of her estate, which she left to her grandchildren by her first and second husbands, and there is no mention of any Doughtys. It would seem that her first husband was a brother of William Stone of Maryland. The will of Governor William Stone mentioned "brother in law Francis Doughty". Therefore future historians will have to make further investigations of Enoch, who may or may not have been a son of the Reverend Francis Doughty. The names of his children are as follows, omitting the doubtful Enoch. The James Doughty, who Savage states was in Scituate, Mass., and who married Lydia Turner, daughter of Humphrey Turner, was a separate emigrant but whether a relative or not, is not known. Issue:- (by his first wife Bridget ---) 1. Mary Doughty. Born probably at Hamsteed Farm, Oldsbury, Gloucester- shire, England, about 1625. She married at the Dutch Reformed Church, New Amsterdam, on October 23/1645, Adriaen Van Der Donck, Doctor of Laws, born about 1618, died between June 7/1655 and January 10/1656, son of --- Van Der Donck and Agatha Van Bergen. Adriaen matriculated at Leyden University on September 24/1638, and sailed on the ship "Eyckenboom" on May 17/1640 for New York, and became sheriff at Renssaslaerwyck (Albany) in 1641. Agatha Van Bergen was the daughter of Adriaen Van Bergen (1599), an exporter and part owner of the turf boat that ran down the river to Breda, and by capturing the city, assisted Holland in freeing it from the Spanish yoke. In 1645, Governor Kieft, in order to make presents to the Indians, was obliged to borrow money Subject 1068. P3. (403) FRANCIS DOUGHTY. from Adriaen Van Der Donck. In 1645, on the occasion of Mary's marriage, her father Francis Doughty conferred on her his farm at Flushing Bay. In 1648, Dr. Van Der Donck, familiarly called the Yonker, (or Young Lord), obtained a patent for this farm. In 1649, Adraien, President of the Board of Nine Men, was on called President of the New Netherlands. He, with two others, were accredited to the "Mighty Sovereigns", and sent in 1650, to carry a remonstrance, written by himself on behalf of the People. On April 26/1652, while in Holland, Adriaen of Breda, Patroon of the Colonie of Nipperham, by him called Colandonok, (now Yonkers), was empowered to dispose of his colonie and property, by will which gave the colonie to his wife. He returned to America in 1653. His wife, mother brother and sister, preceded him by about a year. His widow Maria (Mary Doughty), removed to Pawtuxent, Maryland, with her father, and later entered into possession of Nipperham. After Adriaen's death, she married, 2nd, before March 4/1661-2, the Reverend Hugh O'Neale of Maryland, and went there with him. They had no issue. In 1666, Delaware papers said "Van Per Donck widow also claimed the lands at Maspeth, L.I." In 1664, the English purchased from the Indians, all the land between Westchester and the North River, including the land which old Van Per Donck, his children and partners divided into Bouweries and plantations, but which were deserted at the time of the massacre in 1665. A survey was made of 640 acres, being a mile square, upon the main patent belonging to Van Der Donck at Yonkers. There is much doubt as to whether they had any children or not. Three of the name, supposed to be sons of Adriaen and Marie, were on Long Island in 1672, Adriaen, Andrew and Hendrick. Bunker infers they were his sons, but the Onderdonk Genealogy by Andrew J. Onderdonk, New York, 1910, and the Genealogy of "Van Der Donck Van Bergen", by William J. Hoffman, in the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 67, page 229, state that it has never been proved or disproved as to whether these were his sons: Hoffman states Adriaen had no children, and cites the fact that there is no record of the names Van Der Donck ever having been changed to Onderdonk. I omit therefore the descendants of these three supposed sons of Adriaen and Marie (Doughty) Van Der Donck, which will be found in the Onderdonk genealogy. 2. Francis Doughty. Dates of birth and death not known. He remained at Maspeth, L.I., after his father left. He married in 1660, Margaret Howell, daughter of Edward Howell, and widow of the Reverend John Moore of Newtown, L.I., who died in 1657, to whom she had borne five children, (see the N.Y. Gen & Biog Record, Vol 11, p 6). On February 18/1661, Francis Doughty was ordered to deliver up the house of John Moore to the schoolmaster Richard Mills. In a memo attached to the will of Francis, it shows he was in England in 1677 and among other things, had some tobacco to sell for joint account of himself and his brother Enoch. Issue:- 2/1. Margaret Doughty, baptized in the Dutch Church, New York, March 9/1661, After this no trace of the family has been found. 3. Elias Doughty. Born England about 1632, and died probably in 1690. He married at Flushing, L.I., about 1658-60, Sarah ---, who died in 1726. See subject 534 for issue and further particulars.