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- “JOHN DOGGETT
ORIGIN: Woburn, Bedfordshire
MIGRATION: 1630
FIRST RESIDENCE: Watertown
REMOVES: Rehoboth by 1646, Martha's Vineyard by 1651
FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 and admitted 18 May 1631 …Propounded as freeman of Plymouth Colony, 7 June 1648 (and presumably made free on that date, as he was also the deputy to that court from Rehoboth)…
EDUCATION: Made his mark to his will. His inventory included "1 Bible and psalmbook" valued at 10s.
OFFICES: Deputy to Plymouth General Court for Rehoboth, 7 June 1648 ... Appointed customs taker for Rehoboth, 7 June 1648 ..
ESTATE: Granted thirty acres in Great Dividend in Watertown, 25 July 1636 … granted six acres in Beaverbrook Plowlands, 28 February 1636/7 … granted six acres in Remote Meadow, 26 June 1637 … granted six acres in Town Plot, 9 April 1638 …
In the Watertown Inventory of Grants, John Doggett held six parcels: fifteen acre homestall; two acres of meadow; six acres of upland [Town Plot]; six acres of [Beaverbrook] Plowland; six acres of Remote meadow; and thirty acres Great Dividend … In the Composite Inventory he retained only one of these parcels, the fifteen acre homestall … (Four of the parcels granted to John Doggett were in the Composite Inventory in the possession of Richard Wait …
On 2 October 1662 "John Doged of the Island called Martin's Vinyard" complained that the Vineyard did not honor his ownership of land granted him there by Mr. Thomas Mayhew … On 29 January 1665[/6] John Doggett "the Elder" purchased one-twelfth of the one-fifth of a lot next to the sea at Martin's Vineyard from sachem Towanicut …
In his will, dated 13 May 1673 and proved 4 June 1673, "John Doggett finding the symptoms of Death upon me" bequeathed to "my beloved wife" all the household goods, "all my wearing cloths and all my debts in any part of Plymouth Collonie," also one ox as Sacconesit in the hands of William Week Jr., also £5 in goods from John Edy in part payment for two oxen Week sold for
Doggett, also the hide and tallow of an ox at the Vineyard to be sent to Boston "and the four quarters of the ox I give equally to my sons and daughters at the Vineyard"; to "my two sons John and Joseph ... my lands at Martha's Vineyard undivideided and their privileges which are part of the twenty seventh part of that township called now Edgartown"; to "my son Thomas" ten acres of meadow; to "my son John" five acres of meadow; to "my son Joseph" five acres of meadow; to "my son Thomass" a small parcel of meadow at Chappaquiddick; to "my son Thomas" forty acres of upland and two acres of meadow at Elizabeth Islands "which upland I bought of Francis Ussleton"; "my whole farm I have already equally divided betixt my three sons"; "my ten acre lot upon the line" equally to "my two sons John and Joseph"; "my land at Aquampache and at Felix Neck and at Konomache and a piece of meadow at Sangekantackett" and residue of lands equally divided between "my two daughters Elizabeth and Hephzibah"; "all my cattle and horse kind at Martha's Vineyard" equally divided between "my two daughters"; "my will is that my son John send my wife two pair of shoes and then to discharge him of all further debt"; all estate at the Islands "my loving friends Isaac Robinson and Jon Edy my son-in-law" overseers; "concerning my estate in this Collonie ... Lieutenant Morton and Andrew Ring" overseers …
The inventory of "John Doged of Plymouth" was taken 26 May 1673 and totalled £16 18s. 9d., with no real estate included; the inventory was exhibited 4 June 1673 on the oath of the widow Bathsheba Doged …
On 29 May 1675 John Edy and Jeremiah Whitton, husbands of Elizabeth and Hephzibah, quitclaimed their rights in land near the Neck to Joseph Daggett ..
BIRTH: By about 1597 based on date of first marriage.
DEATH: Between 13 May 1673 (date of will) and 26 May 1673 (date of inventory).
MARRIAGE: (1) Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, 29 August 1622 Alice Brotherton, baptized Husborne Crawley, Bedfordshire, 6 March 1602[/3], daughter of Thomas and Ellen (_____) Brotherton … she died by 1667.
(2) Plymouth 29 August 1667 "John Doged, of Martin's Vineyard, married to Bathshebath Prat, widow" … widow of JOSHUA PRATT ; she was alive on 4 June 1673 …
CHILDREN:
With first wife:
1) JOHN, bp. Woburn, Bedforshire, 5 September 1624; m. Rehoboth 23 November 1651 Anne Sutton.
2) THOMAS, b. say 1632; m. by about 1652 Hannah Mayhew, daughter of THOMAS MAYHEW.
3) ELIZABETH, b. say 1636; m. Jeremiah Whitton.
4) HEPZIBAH, b. say 1639; m. by 1659 John Eddy, son of SAMUEL EDDY.
5) JOSEPH, b. about 1647; m. say 1665 ____ ____, a sister of Putuspaquin, a minor sachem at Sanchekantacket, and probably the widowed mother of “Zachary” called the “son-in-law” of Joseph Doggett [Dukes Count Sessions Court 26 May 1685]. Richard Andrew Pierce has made an extensive study of this couple. She was not Alice Sisseton as claimed by Banks.
ASSOCIATIONS: John Doggett arrived in New England in 1630 and settled first at Watertown. One of his daughters married a son of SAMUEL EDDY , whose brother JOHN EDDY had married a daughter of John Doggett of Groton, Suffolk. All of these circumstances would lead one to believe that John Doggett the immigrant to New England was a member of this same Doggett family, but no connection has yet been found.
COMMENTS: As John Doggett received six acres in the Beaverbrook Plowlands and in the Remote Meadows, his family could have consisted of himself, his wife and four children. Our reconstruction of birth years for the children only gives him three children at the date of these grants, so some adjustment may be necessary in the list of children. On the other hand, the sixth acre of these grants may have been for some member of the household other than the immediate family, or for the family's holdings of livestock.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1894 Samuel Bradlee Doggett published an account of several Doggett families, including substantial research in English records [A History of the Doggett-Daggett Family (Boston 1894; rpt. Baltimore 1973)…Charles Edward Banks wrote at length of the Doggetts in his history of Martha's Vineyard.
In 1997 Gordon L. Remington identified the first wife of this immigrant, and also found the baptism of their eldest child…”
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Connected Bloodlines
Abt 1602 - 1673 (~ 71 years)
