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- Source: NEHGR V. 55, page 112:
Ancestry of Patience Doggett.
Source: The Great Migration, Vol. 1,NEHGS, pages 568-570:
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1630
FIRST RESIDENCE: Watertown, MA
REMOVES: Rehoboth by 1646, Martha's Vineyard by 1651
FREEMAN: Requested 19 October 1630 and admitted 18 May 1631 [MBCR 1:80, 366]. Propounded as freeman of Plymouth County, 7 June 1648 (and presumably made free on that date, as he was also the deputy to that court from Rehoboth) [PCR 2:125].
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 [PCR 2:123]. Appointed customs taker for Rehoboth, 7 June 1648 [PCR 2:125].
ESTATE: Granted thirty acres in Great Dividend in Watertown, 25 July 1636 [WaBPO 5]; granted six acres in Beaverbrook Plowland; six acres of Remote meadow; and thirty acres Great Dividend [WaBOP 93]. In the Composite Inventory he retained only one of these parcels, the fifteen acre homestall [WaBOP 38].
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 [PCR 7:104]. 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 [Doggett Genealogy 77, citing DuLR 1:354].
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 pounds in goods from John Edy in part payment for two oxen Week sofd for Doggett, also the hide and tallow of an 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 undivided and their priviledges 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 Thomas" 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 there 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"; "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 [Doggett Genealogy 78; Scrapbook 113-14].
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 [Doggett Genealogy 79, citing DuLR 1:322].
BIRTH: By about 1600 based on estimated date of first marriage.
DEATH: Between 13 May 1673 (date of will) and 26 May 1673 (date of inventory).
MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1625 _____; she died by 1667. (2) Plymouth 29 August 1667 "John Doged, of Martin's Vineyard, married to Bathshebath Pratt, widow" [PCR 8:31], widow of Joshua Pratt; she was alive on 4 June 1673 [PCPR 3:1:112].
CHILDREN - All with first wife:
i. John, b. about 1625 (deposed 1676 aged 51 [unknown document cited in Marha's Vineyard History 127]); m. Rehoboth 23 November 1651 Anne Sutton.
ii. Thomas, b. say 1632; m. by about 1652 Hannah Mayhew, daughter of Thomas Mayhew.
iii. Elizabeth, b. say 1636; m. Jeremiah Whitton.
iv. Hepzibah, b. say 1639; m. by 1659 John Eddy, son of Samuel Eddy.
v. 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 County 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 [Marha's Vineyard
History 3:140-141].
BIOGRAPHICAL 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), cited as Doggett Genealogy]. Charles Edward Banks wrote at length of the Doggetts in the history of Martha's Vineyard.
NEHGR Vol. 55, page 12: John Daggatt, b. England, came to New England with Winthrop in 1630. He was one of the first proprietors of Martha's Vineyard having received a grant of land in Edgartown, Dec. 1 1642.
He moved to Plymouth,where he m. (2) Bathsheba Prat, widow, Aug. 29, 1667. John Dagget d. Plymouth, May 1673.
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