Mary (Churchill) Doty (1654 - 1722)

Born 1 Aug 1654 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Doty — married Dec 1672 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony

Wife of Henry Churchill — married 8 Feb 1688 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 6 Mar 1722 at age 67 in Truro, Barnstable, Massachusetts

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Biography

We know that she was living in 1725 as records of three property conveyances to relatives were recorded by her. She was living at Truro, Cape Cod, (Barnstable) , Mass. with her grandson Thomas Doty (3)at the time of her death. Plymouth Colonial Records tell us that " on the 17th. of Ja. 1661, "Mary Churchill being examined by The Gouement, confessed that she is begoten with child by Thomas Doty, and that she had carnal copulation with him three several times...the third time... about the same time she said that Doty departed the Goument... Shee being further examined, denied that she ever had to do with any other man," Mary's other brother Joseph and brother in law John Drewe, posted bond in the sum of 10 pounds until her judgement date in June; at that time "she was fined 6 pounds for committing fornication and she was whipped ". After Mary was whipped and fined she brought a formal complaint in June 1672 against Thomas saying that he had departed the jurisdiction and that it was doubtful that he would return. The Jury found for Mary and awarded her his third of the boat, nets, anchors and sails. She was also awarded his gun, rapier and boat hiring dues. Thomas returned and married her. They moved to Truro, Mass. She was the first woman to be brought to court on such a charge alone. Usually both parties were charged. Her mother Hannah Pontus (Rickard), in her will, " gave and granted to Mary Churchill, her true and natural daughter, one quarter part of a share of land belonging in Middleboro." Her husband, Thomas Doty's, will was written by Mary. This was unusual for the period as most women could neither read or write.

1671/1672 General Court 17 January 1671/1672 Records of Plymouth Colony 5:83 In reference to the August 8 incident, Ephraim Tinkham testified that he "haveing occation to speak with the said Thomas Dotey, went to the house of Joseph Churchill, expecting to meet with him there, and coming to the house, knocked att the dore; but noe body answared, and soe hee went in and stayed a while in the outward room; and by some noise that hee heard in the house, conceived there was sombody within, although they answared not; but att length Mary Churchill came forth, and he asked her if Thomas Dotey was in the house or noe; but shee did not reddily answare him, but after some pause shee answared that hee was in the house; soe hee desired to speake with him; and soon after, Thomas Dotey came forth, and soe the said Sarjeant Tinkham and hee went away together, and hee admonished the said Dotey to take heed least evill might come of such carriages, or to that purpose; and the said Mary Churchill, being examined affeirmed that the same time that the said Sarjeant Tinkham tooke them soe together as aforsaid, was one of the three times hee had carnall coppulation with her as above said; and shee further examined, deneyed that shee ever had to doe with any other man." She then promises to show up.

Joseph Churchill -it was at Churchill's house where Mary Churchill and Dotey had sex on August 8, 1671, 17 Jan. 1671/1672. Mary Churchill -tells the Court that she was impregnated by Dotey; had "carnal coppulation" with him at three different occasions, 17 Jan. 1671/2. -fined 6 pounds for committing fornication with Dotey, 5 June 1672. -complains to the Court that she needs financial help from Dotey to raise the child. Jury awards her part of his boat, and other goods, 30 October 1672. Thomas Doten, Jr. -son of Thomas Doten born 22 July 1679. Mr. Gray -part owner (?) of a boat with Edward and John Rickard that was rammed by Dotey's boat, 29 Oct. 1673. Thomas Howes -owns part of a boat with Dotey and Leiutenant Morton, 30 Oct. 1672. Leiutenant Morton -owns part of a boat with Dotey and Thomas Howes, 30 October 1672. Ephraim Morton -was in possession of a gun belonging to Dotey, 30 Oct. 1672. Gorge Morton -had a rapier of Dotey's, 30 Oct. 1672. Edward Rickard -complains that Dotey's boat ran into his, 29 Oct. 1673. John Rickard -complains that Dotey's boat ran into his, 29 Oct. 1673. Ephraim Tinkham -testifies that he was at the house once when Dotey and Churchill were having sex, 17 Jan. 1671/1672. Richard Willis -hired the boat owned by Dotey, Morton, and Howes for 40 shillings, 30 October 1672. Josias Wormall -complains to the Court that Dotey did not pay him for framing a house, because Dotey has departed the government. Court allows Wormall to sell the house frame, 5 March 1671/1672. Joseph Churchill -it was at Churchill's house where Mary Churchill and Dotey had sex on August 8, 1671, 17 Jan. 1671/1672.

The controversy of Mary Churchill and her supposed second husband Henry Churchill as per following:

· 1. TAG 71(1996): 114-120, article: "DOTY AND CHURCHILL OF PLYMOUTH COLONY; The Two Claimed Wives of Thomas2 Doty," by Barbara Lambert Merrick: "Thomas Doty (Edward1) was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts about 1641- 42[1] and died there on 4 or 5 December 1678.[2] The question of whether he had one wife named Mary Churchill, or two wives, the second also named Mary, surname unknown, has been a matter of conjecture for many years.[3] An examination of all the many court documents proves that Thomas2 Doty had only one wife, Mary Churchill, and that she was the mother of all three of his known children. Mary (Churchill) Doty married second, Henry Churchill, whose parentage has not been ascertained Proof of Mary Churchill's parentage was found in the published Plymouth Col­ony Records, which state that "Mary, the daughter of John Churchill, [was] borne the first of August" in the year 1654 at Plymouth.[4] Her mother was Hannah Pontus, John Churchill's second wife, whom he had married on 18 December 1644.[5] The nuncupative will of John Churchill Sr., dated Tuesday 24 December 1662 mentioned his wife; sons, Joseph, Eleazer, John and William; daughter Hannah; and stated "at his wifes Decease that then such of his children as have had noth­inge in particular as above given them, should have what is left in equal propor­tions to equalize what is given to them fornamed, as far as it will goe."[6] This instrument does not mention his known daughter, Mary, or his reputed son, Henry Churchill, but it is agreed that it made provision for an unnamed child or children. John Churchill's widow, Hannah (Pontus) Churchill, daughter of William and Wybra (Hanson) Pontus, married second at Plymouth 25 June 1669, as his third wife, Giles Rickard.[7] Hannah died in Plymouth on 22 December 1690,[8] and the "Inventory of the Estate of Hannah Rickard, Deceased," was taken on 17 March 1691 (probably 1690/1).[9] It mentioned estate "now in the possession of her Children," listed no real estate, and accounted for personal property "At Joseph Churchels"; "At Eleazer Churchils"; "At John Churchels"; "At John Drews"; "At William Churchels"; "At Henry Churchels"; with "things Given to her Grand child Hannah Dotey" and "things given to Martha Dotey." Birth records have been found for only three of John and Hannah (Pontus) Churchill's children. Hannah Churchill was born at Plymouth on 12 November 1649 and Eliezer was born there on 20 April 1652.[10] The record for their daughter Mary Churchill was cited earlier. The remainder of their children have been de­termined from the will of John Churchill and the inventory of Hannah (Pontus) (Churchill) Rickard, both of which name the same four sons, Joseph, Eleazer, John and William Churchill. John Drew's marriage record has not been found but he is accounted for, as a son-in-law, by the fact that the mother of his children was a woman named Hannah,[11] which provides good circumstantial evidence that the daughter Hannah, named in John Churchill's will, was the wife of John Drew, who was mentioned in Hannah (Pontus) (Churchill) Rickard's inventory. The grand-child Hannah Doty is identified in her birth record as the daughter of Thomas Doty and Mary his wife,[12] proving that her mother Mary's maiden name was Churchill and that she is Mary, the (known) daughter of John Churchill. Martha Doty is assumed to be, not a child of Hannah (Pontus) (Churchill) Rickard, but the illegitimate child born out of wedlock to daughter, Mary Churchill, prior to her marriage to Thomas2 Doty.[13] Of all of the individuals named in the above instru­ments, this leaves only Henry Churchill to be identified. Hannah (Pontus) (Churchill) Rickard disposed of her real property in a series of deeds to her known (Churchill) sons, Joseph, Eleazer, John and William.[14] No Plymouth County deed has been found in which she gives land to Henry Churchill. There is one additional piece of land evidence which is of great import to this family: On 30 June 1690, Hannah Rickard of Plimouth, widow, formerly wife of John Churchill, for "the love and natural affection and other valuable causes and considerations and hereunto especially moving have given granted ...unto "Mary Churchell "my true and natural daughter," one quarter part of a share of land belonging to Middleborough alias Namasket commonly called the sixteen shilling purchase..." (emphasis added).[15] This document proves that Mary (Churchill) (Doty) Churchill was Hannah (Pontus) (Churchill) Rickard's own birth daughter by calling her "natural daughter," a term reserved for a blood relationship. Therefore, Mary's second husband, Henry Churchill, was not a son of John and Hannah (Pontus) Churchill, as claimed by Mrs. Barclay,[16] for Mary could not have married her own brother. The above instrument, combined with the knowledge that Henry Churchill did not receive any of the land holdings of Hannah (Pontus) (Churchill) Rickard, indicates that his name appeared in her inventory because he was the second husband of Mary (Churchill) (Doty) Churchill, daughter of the deceased and her first hus­band, John Churchill. He was listed there as a son-in-law, as was customary, just as John Drew was listed because he was the husband of Mary Churchill's sister, Hannah (Churchill) Drew. Daughters were not listed separately unless they were widows... Footnotes: 1. Marion B. Cushman, et al., comps., Mayflower Families in Progress: Edward Doty... 2d ed. (Plymouth, 1993), 3; hereafter cited as MFIP: Doty. 2. Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories 4:33, Plymouth Co. Commissioners' Office, Plymouth; George Ernest Bowman, "Thomas2 Doty's Will and Inventory," The Mayflower De­scendant [MD] 4(1902):233-34. His nuncupative will states that it was "Comitted to writing December the 5th within 24 houres after the Death of the said Thomas Dotey." 3. See Ethan Allan Doty, comp., The Doty-Doten Family in America, Descendants of Edward Doty, an Emigrant by the Mayflower, 1620 (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1897), 268-69 (hereafter cited as Doty-Doten Fam.); Gardner Asaph Churchill and Nathaniel Wiley Churchill, comps., The Churchill Family in America, ed. Rev. George M. Bodge (n.p., 1904), 5; Mrs. John E. Barclay, "Notes on the Doty and Churchill Families," TAG 36(1960): 1-9. 4. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, eds., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10 (Boston, 1855-61), 8: 16: hereafter cited as Plym. Col. Recs. 5. Plym. Col. Recs., 2:79. 6. [George Ernest Bowman} "John Churchill's Will and lnventory," MD 18(19l6):40-41. 7. Lee D. van Antwerp, comp., Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. ed. Ruth Wilder Sherman (Camden, Maine, 1993), 666; hereafter cited as Plymouth VR. 8. Plymouth VR, 135. 9. "Abstracts of the Plymouth County. Mass., Probate Records and Files": Estate of Hannah Rickard, MID 30(1932):142-43 10. Plym. Col. Recs., 8:7. 14. 11. Plymouth VR, 6. 12. Plymouth VR, 4. 13. Plym. Col. Recs., 5:83, 94. 14. Plymouth Colony Deeds 3:301; Plymouth Co., Mass., Deeds 1:3 15, 7:178, 9: 197, 9:314, 10:612, 12:178. 15. Plymouth Co. Deeds 3:157. 16. TAG 36(1960):5..." 2. From "The American Genealogist," no. 141, v. 36, no. 1, pp. 1-9, January 1960, article: "NOTES ON THE DOTEY AND CHURCHILL FAMILIES," by Mrs. John E. Barclay, F.A.S.G., Whitman, Mass.: "In the "Doty-Doten Genealogy," (1897) by Ethan Allen Doty, we find several peculiar and ambiguous statements about the relationships to the Churchills. Consulting the "Churchill Genealogy," (1901) by Gardner A. and Nath­aniel W. Churchill for clarification only adds to the confusion and leaves one rather bewildered as to just how the authors arrived at their conclusions. Certain­ly they could not have studied the records of all those concerned. However, the relationships are involved and difficult to untangle. Since some later writers have repeated the errors of the above-named compilers, the following is an attempt to correct the errors and make a more intelligible interpretation of the records. Thomas(2) Dotey, son of Edward and Faith (Clarke) Dotey, was born at Plymouth about 1641. There is no rec­ord of his birth, or age at death, but a comparison of the few records we have of the family would indicate that he was born not later than 1642. His father died 23 Aug. 1655 when Thomas was about 14, bequeathing his Dartmouth lands to his sons, the eldest a double por­tion, the widow her thirds for life, and to her the house, lands and meadows within the precincts at New Plymouth, together with all chattels and movables. She made over all her right and interest in the Dartmouth and adjacent lands to her children 5 March 1655/6, and 9 May 1671 she deeded to her son Edward the house and land at High Cliff, Plymouth. She married second, 14 March 1666, John Phillips of Marshfield, where she died and was buried 21 Dec. 1675. Thomas was about twenty-five when his mother remar­ried, and he continued to live in Plymouth. He is first mentioned in "Plymouth Colony Records" (4:158) 2 July 1667, "complaint of John Barnes against Thomas Do­tey for detaining of fourscore and ten pounds of merchantable tobacco." This he had to make good. Thomas Dotey and John Dotey sold their Dartmouth lands 17 Feb. 1667 to John Smith (Plym. Col. Deeds, 3:1:98). 18 May i668, liberty was granted unto Edward Dotey, Thomas Dotey and Thomas Hewes to sett up a stage for fishing att Clarkes Island (Plym. Town Roc. 1:99). 13 Dec. 1670, an acre and a half of Land is graunt­ed by the Towne unto Thomas Doten (sic) lying in Alcar­mus field to sett a house in the most Convenient place soe as it may not be prejudiciall to others (ibid. 1:116). Thomas Dotey was evidently contemplating marriage and had hired Josiah Wormell to build him a house, but before the house was finished his plans were sadly interrupted and he fled the Jurisdiction of the court rather than face punishment, as we shall see later. On 5 March 1671/2 (Plym. Col. Reg. 5:87), "in ref­erence to a fram of a house, framed by Josias Wormall, according to agreement with Thomas Dotey, the said Do­tey being departed the govment, and the said Wormall not payed for his labour about the said fram, hee make­ing his adresse to the Court, the Court ordered, that a proffer should be made to Joseph Dotey, the agent of the said Thomas Dotey, that if hee would take the said fram, and fulfill the covenants that his brother Thomas Dotey, made with the said Josias Wormall about the said fram, he might if he pleased; if otherwise, that the said Josias Wormall might make sale thereof to satisfy himselfe; which, upon the refusal of the said Joseph Dotey, hee, the said Wormall, sold, and thereby is sat­isfied." The "Doty Genealogy" states that he returned and com­pleted his house and lived in it. The record clearly states that Josiah Wormall sold the frame and thereby is satisfied. The author of the genealogy omitted the last few lines of the above record; hence his error in concluding that Thomas Dotey finished the house and lived in it. Subsequent records show this house in the possession of John Lothrop of Barnstable who had mar­ried 3 Jan. 1671/2 Mary Cole of Plymouth and he in turn sold it to Samuel(2) Barlow 29 Aug. 1676 (Plym. Col. Deeds, 4:1:55). On 17 Jan. 1671/2, Mary Churchill was brought to Court to answer for her conduct in connection with Thomas Dotey and, being found guilty, was bound over to the next court, her bondsmen being John Drew, her bro­ther-in-law, and her brother Joseph Churchill [Plym. Col. Rec. 5:83). 5 Jun 1672 ... At this court, Mary Churchill was sentenced to pay a fine of six pounds...(we gather from the records that the Court sympathized with her) (Ibid. 5:94). These records with the next tell us why Thomas Dotey left Plymouth Jurisdiction, leaving Mary to bear the brunt at their misconduct rather than share the punish­ment with her. "Judicial Acts," 7:173: Mary Churchill sued out an attachment on such goods and chattels and all dues and rights appertaining to the said Doten to be for her support, and produceth, to the Court what the constable of Plymouth hath attached at her suit, The jury findeth for the plaintiff all the particulars specified and the evidences which were as followeth: Thomas Do­tey's 1/3 boat in partnership with Lt. Morton and Thom­as Mews; his third likewise of a parcel of nets in the same partnership, with his thirds of the roades, ancor and sails appertaining to the said boat, a gun; a ra­pier; 40s. for hire of boat due from Richard Wills and a parcel of boards in custody of divers person. Dated Oct. 30, 1672. It should be noted that no land was attached. He apparently owned no land at this time. He had forfeit­ed his grant and frame of house to Josiah Wormall, and previous to that had sold his Dartmouth lands inherited from his father. A few years later, we find he again owned land in Alcarmus Field, but on the opposite side of the highway. "Plymouth Col. Rec. 5:133: "In reference to the complaint of Edward Gray and John Rickard against Thomas Dotey and his company's boats crew in reference unto their running their boat against said Gray's Boat..." This is dated 29 Oct. 1673 and is introduced to show that by that date Thomas Dotey had returned to Plymouth. Although there is no record of the marriage now ex­tant, there is evidence that Thomas Dotey did marry Mary Churchill within the year following his return or by the latter part of 1674. Mary(2) Churchill was born 1 Aug. 1662/3, at Plymouth, daughter of John and Hannah (Pontus) Churchill. Her father died 1 Jan. 1662/3, and her mother married sec­ond, 25 June 1669, as third wife, Giles Rickard, and she died 22 Dec. 1690. She left no will, but the in­ventory of her estate shows "in the hands of her chil­dren: at Joseph Churchill, EIeazer Churchills, John Churchills, William Churchills, Henry Churchills; at John Drews (he married her daughter Hannah Churchill); things given grandchild Hannah Dotey; items given to Martha Dotey"--dated 17 March 1691 (Plymouth Probate, 1:89). In this inventory we note that daughter Mary Dotey is not mentioned but that her two children Martha Dotey and Hannah Dotey are named, and there is no mention of Thomas Dotey, Jr. The "Doty Genealogy" makes no mention of the daughter Martha among the children of Thomas and Mary (Churchill) Dotey, but names: 1. Hannah, b. Dec. 1675, and 2. Thomas, b. July 22, 1679, as if by the same mother. The omission of Thomas Jr. as one of the heirs of Mary (Churchill) Dotey leads me to believe that she died when Hannah was born or soon thereafter in 1676 but certainly before 1678. I can see no other inter­pretation in view of subsequent records. Children at Thomas(2) Dotey and Mary Churchill: i. Martha(3), b. ca. May 1672 out of wedlock as disclosed by records (Plym. Col. Rec. 5:83, 17 Jan. 1671/2; and 5:94, 5 June 1672). She was unmarried 17 March 1691, date of inventory of her maternal grandmother's estate (Hannus Pontus Churchill Rickard). She probably married John(4) White of Rochester (son of Samuel(3), Resolved(2), William(1) of the Mayflower), before 1696. They lived first in Sandwich, later removed to Roch­ester where most of their children will be found re­corded. ii. Hannah, b. Dec. 1675, "daughter of Thomas Doty (sic) and wife Mary" (M.D. 1:143, Plymouth V.R.). This with the record of her maternal grandmother's inven­tory as quoted above is sufficient proof that Thomas married Mary Churchill. Hannah Dotey d. 12 Apr. 1764 aged 87 yrs. 4 mos., having m. 12 Jan. 1699 Jonathan(3) Delano (Thomas(2), Philip(1), who was b. about 1676 and d. 5 Feb. 1765 aged 89 yrs, 2 wks. Thomas(2) Dotey married second, by 1678, another Mary, parentage unknown, and no clues were found that proved satisfactory after a very extensive search. Sometime during the year of 1678 Thomas purchased of John Water­man his house and land in Alcarmus field, about two acres bound on the northwesterly side by other land be­longing to said Thomas, also a parcel about an acre that was originally Gilbert Winslow's, which deed was not recorded until after his death, 3 March 1678, the day the widow made oath to the inventory of his estate. The acre lot he sold to James Cole Jr., acknowledging the deed 7 Oct. 1678 (Deeds, 4:226). Thomas Dotey died at Plymouth 4 or 5 Dec. 1678. His nuncupative will was made on the fourth and "committed to writing December the 5th within twenty-four houres" after his death. His widow Mary made oath to the inventory 3 March 1678/9, the day the will was probated (Plym. Col. Wills, 4:1:33, see M.D. 4:233)-"he gave absolutely to his wife Mary Dotey to be wholly att her Dispose and left it all with her to Improve and make use of as shee should see best," in the presence of Ed­ward Dotey, Samuel Eaton and Anne Savory. The inven­tory was taken by Ephraim Morton and William Harlow, Child of Thomas Dotey and second wife Mary ___: iii. Thomas(3), b. 22 July 1679 (posthumously) (Plym. Col. Rec. 8:67), d. near 8 Feb. 1722 at Truro, Mass. His will is dated 9 May l72l, probated 8 Feb. 1721/2 (Barnstable Prob. 4:45) and shows his mother outlived him. He gives his wife Mercy 2O pounds and use of the house; to Joseph Abbitt, the child that now lives with me, 20 pounds when twenty-one; to son Thomas all the rest of estate, he to maintain his grandmother Mary Churchill during her life...[more continues which I do not transcribe.] After the death of Thomas(2) Dotey, his widow whose parentage is unknown, married second, 8 Feb. 1687/8 (M.D. 13:203) Henry(2) Churchill, a brother of her husband's first wife Mary. The "Doty Genealogy" seems to assume that Thomas Dotey had but the one wife, viz. Mary Churchill, and after the death of Thomas that she married Henry Churchill. It is difficult to understand this statement. It seems evident that the author did not know that they were brother and sister and it is certain that he could not have studied the Churchill family and the inventory of the estate of the widow Hannah (Pontus)(Churchill) Rickard in 1691, which reveals all these relationships. She was the mother of Thomas Dotey's first wife; grandmother of their two children, Marthz and Hannah Dotey; became mother-in-law of his second wife and stepgrandmother to Thomas Dotey, Jr. Henry(2) Churchill's birth is not recorded. He was not born in 1658 as stated in the "Doty Genealogy" that is the year in which his brother John was born. The "Churchill Genealogy" does not mention him at all, possi­bly because he is not mentioned in his father's nuncu­pative will, but not all the children are named, those not named were to share in what was left after his wife's death. Henry Churchill must have been the young­est child born 1660-63 about the time of his father's death or even posthumously in 1663. This would make him about twenty-five when he married the widow Mary Dotey. I am inclined to believe that Mary Dotey, the widow of Thomas, was much younger than Thomas, and that she was nearer in age to Henry, her second husband. Mary must have been a good stepmother as well as wife, for we find that she was well liked by her mother-in-law as shown by the following deed [Plym. Deeds, 3:157]: "Hannah Rickard formerly wife of John Churchill for ye love and natural affection and other valuable causes and considerations and hereunto especially mov­ing have given granted...to my beloved and natural daughter a quarter part of a share of land belonging in Middleboro ye Sixteen Shilling Purchase to her and her heirs forever," dated 18 June 1690 only a short time before she died. Further description in the deed shows that it was land granted to her father William Pontus which she and her sister, the only heirs, inherited. The wording of the deed at first "stumped" the writer when Hannah calls Mary her "natural daughter," since this term ordinarily implies blood relationship, but in the present case the relationship was peculiar, since Mary was both the stepmother of Hannah's granddaughters and also (by her second marriage) Hannah's daughter-in-law. Plymouth Deeds, 16:10, show that Mary deeded this tract of land to her grandson Thomas Dotey, 6 March 1721/2. Henry Churchill and Mary (___)(Dotey) Churchill had no issue. He died at Plympton near 3 Mar. 1714/15. He left no will and there is no administration of his estate, but Plymouth Deeds, 11:160, show that "for the love and good will I bear unto my dutiful son-in-law [stepson] Thomas Dotey," he gives, grants etc. unto him all "my several parcels of lands in Plimpton and also Plymouth and Sipican (Rochester) after the decease of my wife Mary," dated 8 July 1714, recorded 3 March 1714/15. But Thomas Dotey Jr., as shown above, died in 1722 before his mother, leaving an only child, his son Thomas aged about eighteen. After the death of her husband, Mary Churchill lived for a while in Rochester, possibly with John White and his wife. Although her husband, Henry Churchill, owned land there, there is no mention of a house on it. On 6 March 1721/2, "Mary Churchill of Cape Cod, Barnstable County, late of Rochester, widow, and relict of Henry Churchill late of Plimpton deceased, for love and af­fection towards my grandson Thomas Dotey assigned all that "my tract of land lying... in Middleboro in Six­teen Shilling Purchase" (Plymouth Deeds, 16:10). This was the land given her by her mother-in-law. Deeds, 16:41: Mary Churchill of Cape Cod, widow of Henry, and formerly wife of Thomas Dotey of Plymouth deceased, for divers good causes and considerations, quitclaims unto Lemuel Drew of Plymouth all my right, title, interest, etc., of, in, unto the dwelling house and one acre of land within mentioned in Plymouth which said Lemuel Drew and his brother Nicholas deceased pur­chased of my son Thomas Dotey by ye within written deed dated 20 July 1709, being now in the peaceable and quiet possession of said Lemuel Drew; dated 8 May 1722. Plymouth Deeds, 19:152: Mary Churchill of Roches­ter, widow and relict of Henry and who was widow of Thomas Dotey of Plymouth formerly deceased, for and in consideration of £100 sold to John White Jr. of Rochester a certain tract of upland near and adjoining to ye homestead of Lemuel Drew that ye said Mary Churchill holds by will from her husband Thomas Dotey...lying on the southerly side of John Harlow's homestead being all the right of land said Mary Churchill owneth there in that piece as also a small parcel of swamp about 20 rods westerly from said 3 acres above, containing about I acre known as Whottlebury swamp which was derived from Thomas Hughs reference being had to said Thomas Doty's will for particulars. Dated 11 Oct. 1725; ac­knowledged 18 Oct. 1725; recorded 21 Oct. 1725. This is the last reference we find to the widow of Henry Churchill. No death record has been found. Note: The name has been found written variously in the Colony Records, viz,: Dowty, Dotey, Doty, Dowten, and Doten. Later when we find that more of the family could sign their names, the various branches became es­tablished as Doty, Dotey or Doten and continued as such. In the earliest colony records Edward(1) invariably ap­pears as Dowty; Thomas(2) usually Dotey, twice as Doten, and Joseph as Dotey and Doty. I have used the spelling most commonly found pertaining to the individual under consideration." [Note the article continues about Eliezer Churchill in whose notes is a transcription of the balance of this article.] 3. FHL book 974.4 D3a "The Pilgrim Migration, Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633," by Robert Charles Anderson, NEHGS (Boston, 2004) was printed subsequent to "The Great Migration Begins." This later edition includes many revisions: "EDWARD DOTY ORIGIN: Unknown MIGRATION: 1620 on the Mayflower. FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth CHILDREN... With second wife... iii Thomas DOTY, b. say 1640; m. by 1675 Mary Churchill (by whom he had had an illegitimate child in 1672), daughter of John Churchill. Widow Mary m. (2) 8 February 1687/8 Henry Churchill. (In 1960 Florence Harlow Barclay studied the family of Thomas Doty and concluded that he married two women named Mary [TAG 36:1-7]. In 1996 Barbara Lambert Merrick reexamined the problem and concluded that Thomas Doty had only one wife and that Henry Churchill was not son of John Churchill [TAG 71:114-20]. We follow the latter article here.)..." 4. The main publication on the Churchill family by Gardner Asaph Churchill, "The Churchill Family in America" (Boston, MA: 1904), misses Henry Churchill and his marriage to Mary Churchill as her second husband. DEATH: 1. Death must be after 1690 since this person is mentioned in the 1690 inventory of Hannah (Pontus) Churchill Giles, apparently his mother-in-law per notes above: From "The American Genealogist," no. 141, v. 36, no. 1, pp. 1-9, January 1960, article: "NOTES ON THE DOTEY AND CHURCHILL FAMILIES," by Mrs. John E. Barclay, F.A.S.G., Whitman, Mass. The following is a short excerpt of the fuller transcription which can be fully read in the notes of Mary Churchill: "...Mary(2) Churchill was born 1 Aug. 1662/3, at Plymouth, daughter of John and Hannah (Pontus) Churchill. Her father died 1 Jan. 1662/3, and her mother married sec­ond, 25 June 1669, as third wife, Giles Rickard, and she died 22 Dec. 1690. She left no will, but the in­ventory of her estate shows "in the hands of her chil­dren: at Joseph Churchill, EIeazer Churchills, John Churchills, William Churchills, Henry Churchills; at John Drews (he married her daughter Hannah Churchill); things given grandchild Hannah Dotey; items given to Martha Dotey"--dated 17 March 1691 (Plymouth Probate, 1:89)..." · Change Date: 14 Nov 2014 at 09:33:09 All said and done it is quite possible that Mary Churchill did not have as second marriage to a Henry Churchill, and some researcher over the years got it wrong. Perhaps Mary, on becoming a widow, went to live with her unmarried brother , Henry. That would go a long ways to explain all the confusion and why they did not have any family.

Henry's relationship to John Churchill and Hannah Pontus Churchill is unclear.

See: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=sadlerak&id=I21913 - Notes - for a very detailed but convincing argument why Henry Churchill, who married Mary, the widow of Thomas Doty, was the posthumous son of John Churchill and as such was not named in his father's will.^[1]

The controversy of Mary Churchill and her supposed second husband Henry Churchill as per following:

· 1. TAG 71(1996): 114-120, article: "DOTY AND CHURCHILL OF PLYMOUTH COLONY; The Two Claimed Wives of Thomas2 Doty," by Barbara Lambert Merrick: "Thomas Doty (Edward1) was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts about 1641- 42[1] and died there on 4 or 5 December 1678.[2] The question of whether he had one wife named Mary Churchill, or two wives, the second also named Mary, surname unknown, has been a matter of conjecture for many years.[3] An examination of all the many court documents proves that Thomas2 Doty had only one wife, Mary Churchill, and that she was the mother of all three of his known children. Mary (Churchill) Doty married second, Henry Churchill, whose parentage has not been ascertained Proof of Mary Churchill's parentage was found in the published Plymouth Col­ony Records, which state that "Mary, the daughter of John Churchill, [was] borne the first of August" in the year 1654 at Plymouth.[4] Her mother was Hannah Pontus, John Churchill's second wife, whom he had married on 18 December 1644.[5] The nuncupative will of John Churchill Sr., dated Tuesday 24 December 1662 mentioned his wife; sons, Joseph, Eleazer, John and William; daughter Hannah; and stated "at his wifes Decease that then such of his children as have had noth­inge in particular as above given them, should have what is left in equal propor­tions to equalize what is given to them fornamed, as far as it will goe."[6] This instrument does not mention his known daughter, Mary, or his reputed son, Henry Churchill, but it is agreed that it made provision for an unnamed child or children. John Churchill's widow, Hannah (Pontus) Churchill, daughter of William and Wybra (Hanson) Pontus, married second at Plymouth 25 June 1669, as his third wife, Giles Rickard.[7] Hannah died in Plymouth on 22 December 1690,[8] and the "Inventory of the Estate of Hannah Rickard, Deceased," was taken on 17 March 1691 (probably 1690/1).[9] It mentioned estate "now in the possession of her Children," listed no real estate, and accounted for personal property "At Joseph Churchels"; "At Eleazer Churchils"; "At John Churchels"; "At John Drews"; "At William Churchels"; "At Henry Churchels"; with "things Given to her Grand child Hannah Dotey" and "things given to Martha Dotey." Birth records have been found for only three of John and Hannah (Pontus) Churchill's children. Hannah Churchill was born at Plymouth on 12 November 1649 and Eliezer was born there on 20 April 1652.[10] The record for their daughter Mary Churchill was cited earlier. The remainder of their children have been de­termined from the will of John Churchill and the inventory of Hannah (Pontus) (Churchill) Rickard, both of which name the same four sons, Joseph, Eleazer, John and William Churchill. John Drew's marriage record has not been found but he is accounted for, as a son-in-law, by the fact that the mother of his children was a woman named Hannah,[11] which provides good circumstantial evidence that the daughter Hannah, named in John Churchill's will, was the wife of John Drew, who was mentioned in Hannah (Pontus) (Churchill) Rickard's inventory. The grand-child Hannah Doty is identified in her birth record as the daughter of Thomas Doty and Mary his wife,[12] proving that her mother Mary's maiden name was Churchill and that she is Mary, the (known) daughter of John Churchill. Martha Doty is assumed to be, not a child of Hannah (Pontus) (Churchill) Rickard, but the illegitimate child born out of wedlock to daughter, Mary Churchill, prior to her marriage to Thomas2 Doty.[13] Of all of the individuals named in the above instru­ments, this leaves only Henry Churchill to be identified. Hannah (Pontus) (Churchill) Rickard disposed of her real property in a series of deeds to her known (Churchill) sons, Joseph, Eleazer, John and William.[14] No Plymouth County deed has been found in which she gives land to Henry Churchill. There is one additional piece of land evidence which is of great import to this family: On 30 June 1690, Hannah Rickard of Plimouth, widow, formerly wife of John Churchill, for "the love and natural affection and other valuable causes and considerations and hereunto especially moving have given granted ...unto "Mary Churchell "my true and natural daughter," one quarter part of a share of land belonging to Middleborough alias Namasket commonly called the sixteen shilling purchase..." (emphasis added).[15] This document proves that Mary (Churchill) (Doty) Churchill was Hannah (Pontus) (Churchill) Rickard's own birth daughter by calling her "natural daughter," a term reserved for a blood relationship. Therefore, Mary's second husband, Henry Churchill, was not a son of John and Hannah (Pontus) Churchill, as claimed by Mrs. Barclay,[16] for Mary could not have married her own brother. The above instrument, combined with the knowledge that Henry Churchill did not receive any of the land holdings of Hannah (Pontus) (Churchill) Rickard, indicates that his name appeared in her inventory because he was the second husband of Mary (Churchill) (Doty) Churchill, daughter of the deceased and her first hus­band, John Churchill. He was listed there as a son-in-law, as was customary, just as John Drew was listed because he was the husband of Mary Churchill's sister, Hannah (Churchill) Drew. Daughters were not listed separately unless they were widows... Footnotes: 1. Marion B. Cushman, et al., comps., Mayflower Families in Progress: Edward Doty... 2d ed. (Plymouth, 1993), 3; hereafter cited as MFIP: Doty. 2. Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories 4:33, Plymouth Co. Commissioners' Office, Plymouth; George Ernest Bowman, "Thomas2 Doty's Will and Inventory," The Mayflower De­scendant [MD] 4(1902):233-34. His nuncupative will states that it was "Comitted to writing December the 5th within 24 houres after the Death of the said Thomas Dotey." 3. See Ethan Allan Doty, comp., The Doty-Doten Family in America, Descendants of Edward Doty, an Emigrant by the Mayflower, 1620 (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1897), 268-69 (hereafter cited as Doty-Doten Fam.); Gardner Asaph Churchill and Nathaniel Wiley Churchill, comps., The Churchill Family in America, ed. Rev. George M. Bodge (n.p., 1904), 5; Mrs. John E. Barclay, "Notes on the Doty and Churchill Families," TAG 36(1960): 1-9. 4. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, eds., Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 vols. in 10 (Boston, 1855-61), 8: 16: hereafter cited as Plym. Col. Recs. 5. Plym. Col. Recs., 2:79. 6. [George Ernest Bowman} "John Churchill's Will and lnventory," MD 18(19l6):40-41. 7. Lee D. van Antwerp, comp., Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. ed. Ruth Wilder Sherman (Camden, Maine, 1993), 666; hereafter cited as Plymouth VR. 8. Plymouth VR, 135. 9. "Abstracts of the Plymouth County. Mass., Probate Records and Files": Estate of Hannah Rickard, MID 30(1932):142-43 10. Plym. Col. Recs., 8:7. 14. 11. Plymouth VR, 6. 12. Plymouth VR, 4. 13. Plym. Col. Recs., 5:83, 94. 14. Plymouth Colony Deeds 3:301; Plymouth Co., Mass., Deeds 1:3 15, 7:178, 9: 197, 9:314, 10:612, 12:178. 15. Plymouth Co. Deeds 3:157. 16. TAG 36(1960):5..." 2. From "The American Genealogist," no. 141, v. 36, no. 1, pp. 1-9, January 1960, article: "NOTES ON THE DOTEY AND CHURCHILL FAMILIES," by Mrs. John E. Barclay, F.A.S.G., Whitman, Mass.: "In the "Doty-Doten Genealogy," (1897) by Ethan Allen Doty, we find several peculiar and ambiguous statements about the relationships to the Churchills. Consulting the "Churchill Genealogy," (1901) by Gardner A. and Nath­aniel W. Churchill for clarification only adds to the confusion and leaves one rather bewildered as to just how the authors arrived at their conclusions. Certain­ly they could not have studied the records of all those concerned. However, the relationships are involved and difficult to untangle. Since some later writers have repeated the errors of the above-named compilers, the following is an attempt to correct the errors and make a more intelligible interpretation of the records. Thomas(2) Dotey, son of Edward and Faith (Clarke) Dotey, was born at Plymouth about 1641. There is no rec­ord of his birth, or age at death, but a comparison of the few records we have of the family would indicate that he was born not later than 1642. His father died 23 Aug. 1655 when Thomas was about 14, bequeathing his Dartmouth lands to his sons, the eldest a double por­tion, the widow her thirds for life, and to her the house, lands and meadows within the precincts at New Plymouth, together with all chattels and movables. She made over all her right and interest in the Dartmouth and adjacent lands to her children 5 March 1655/6, and 9 May 1671 she deeded to her son Edward the house and land at High Cliff, Plymouth. She married second, 14 March 1666, John Phillips of Marshfield, where she died and was buried 21 Dec. 1675. Thomas was about twenty-five when his mother remar­ried, and he continued to live in Plymouth. He is first mentioned in "Plymouth Colony Records" (4:158) 2 July 1667, "complaint of John Barnes against Thomas Do­tey for detaining of fourscore and ten pounds of merchantable tobacco." This he had to make good. Thomas Dotey and John Dotey sold their Dartmouth lands 17 Feb. 1667 to John Smith (Plym. Col. Deeds, 3:1:98). 18 May i668, liberty was granted unto Edward Dotey, Thomas Dotey and Thomas Hewes to sett up a stage for fishing att Clarkes Island (Plym. Town Roc. 1:99). 13 Dec. 1670, an acre and a half of Land is graunt­ed by the Towne unto Thomas Doten (sic) lying in Alcar­mus field to sett a house in the most Convenient place soe as it may not be prejudiciall to others (ibid. 1:116). Thomas Dotey was evidently contemplating marriage and had hired Josiah Wormell to build him a house, but before the house was finished his plans were sadly interrupted and he fled the Jurisdiction of the court rather than face punishment, as we shall see later. On 5 March 1671/2 (Plym. Col. Reg. 5:87), "in ref­erence to a fram of a house, framed by Josias Wormall, according to agreement with Thomas Dotey, the said Do­tey being departed the govment, and the said Wormall not payed for his labour about the said fram, hee make­ing his adresse to the Court, the Court ordered, that a proffer should be made to Joseph Dotey, the agent of the said Thomas Dotey, that if hee would take the said fram, and fulfill the covenants that his brother Thomas Dotey, made with the said Josias Wormall about the said fram, he might if he pleased; if otherwise, that the said Josias Wormall might make sale thereof to satisfy himselfe; which, upon the refusal of the said Joseph Dotey, hee, the said Wormall, sold, and thereby is sat­isfied." The "Doty Genealogy" states that he returned and com­pleted his house and lived in it. The record clearly states that Josiah Wormall sold the frame and thereby is satisfied. The author of the genealogy omitted the last few lines of the above record; hence his error in concluding that Thomas Dotey finished the house and lived in it. Subsequent records show this house in the possession of John Lothrop of Barnstable who had mar­ried 3 Jan. 1671/2 Mary Cole of Plymouth and he in turn sold it to Samuel(2) Barlow 29 Aug. 1676 (Plym. Col. Deeds, 4:1:55). On 17 Jan. 1671/2, Mary Churchill was brought to Court to answer for her conduct in connection with Thomas Dotey and, being found guilty, was bound over to the next court, her bondsmen being John Drew, her bro­ther-in-law, and her brother Joseph Churchill [Plym. Col. Rec. 5:83). 5 Jun 1672 ... At this court, Mary Churchill was sentenced to pay a fine of six pounds...(we gather from the records that the Court sympathized with her) (Ibid. 5:94). These records with the next tell us why Thomas Dotey left Plymouth Jurisdiction, leaving Mary to bear the brunt at their misconduct rather than share the punish­ment with her. "Judicial Acts," 7:173: Mary Churchill sued out an attachment on such goods and chattels and all dues and rights appertaining to the said Doten to be for her support, and produceth, to the Court what the constable of Plymouth hath attached at her suit, The jury findeth for the plaintiff all the particulars specified and the evidences which were as followeth: Thomas Do­tey's 1/3 boat in partnership with Lt. Morton and Thom­as Mews; his third likewise of a parcel of nets in the same partnership, with his thirds of the roades, ancor and sails appertaining to the said boat, a gun; a ra­pier; 40s. for hire of boat due from Richard Wills and a parcel of boards in custody of divers person. Dated Oct. 30, 1672. It should be noted that no land was attached. He apparently owned no land at this time. He had forfeit­ed his grant and frame of house to Josiah Wormall, and previous to that had sold his Dartmouth lands inherited from his father. A few years later, we find he again owned land in Alcarmus Field, but on the opposite side of the highway. "Plymouth Col. Rec. 5:133: "In reference to the complaint of Edward Gray and John Rickard against Thomas Dotey and his company's boats crew in reference unto their running their boat against said Gray's Boat..." This is dated 29 Oct. 1673 and is introduced to show that by that date Thomas Dotey had returned to Plymouth. Although there is no record of the marriage now ex­tant, there is evidence that Thomas Dotey did marry Mary Churchill within the year following his return or by the latter part of 1674. Mary(2) Churchill was born 1 Aug. 1662/3, at Plymouth, daughter of John and Hannah (Pontus) Churchill. Her father died 1 Jan. 1662/3, and her mother married sec­ond, 25 June 1669, as third wife, Giles Rickard, and she died 22 Dec. 1690. She left no will, but the in­ventory of her estate shows "in the hands of her chil­dren: at Joseph Churchill, EIeazer Churchills, John Churchills, William Churchills, Henry Churchills; at John Drews (he married her daughter Hannah Churchill); things given grandchild Hannah Dotey; items given to Martha Dotey"--dated 17 March 1691 (Plymouth Probate, 1:89). In this inventory we note that daughter Mary Dotey is not mentioned but that her two children Martha Dotey and Hannah Dotey are named, and there is no mention of Thomas Dotey, Jr. The "Doty Genealogy" makes no mention of the daughter Martha among the children of Thomas and Mary (Churchill) Dotey, but names: 1. Hannah, b. Dec. 1675, and 2. Thomas, b. July 22, 1679, as if by the same mother. The omission of Thomas Jr. as one of the heirs of Mary (Churchill) Dotey leads me to believe that she died when Hannah was born or soon thereafter in 1676 but certainly before 1678. I can see no other inter­pretation in view of subsequent records. Children at Thomas(2) Dotey and Mary Churchill: i. Martha(3), b. ca. May 1672 out of wedlock as disclosed by records (Plym. Col. Rec. 5:83, 17 Jan. 1671/2; and 5:94, 5 June 1672). She was unmarried 17 March 1691, date of inventory of her maternal grandmother's estate (Hannus Pontus Churchill Rickard). She probably married John(4) White of Rochester (son of Samuel(3), Resolved(2), William(1) of the Mayflower), before 1696. They lived first in Sandwich, later removed to Roch­ester where most of their children will be found re­corded. ii. Hannah, b. Dec. 1675, "daughter of Thomas Doty (sic) and wife Mary" (M.D. 1:143, Plymouth V.R.). This with the record of her maternal grandmother's inven­tory as quoted above is sufficient proof that Thomas married Mary Churchill. Hannah Dotey d. 12 Apr. 1764 aged 87 yrs. 4 mos., having m. 12 Jan. 1699 Jonathan(3) Delano (Thomas(2), Philip(1), who was b. about 1676 and d. 5 Feb. 1765 aged 89 yrs, 2 wks. Thomas(2) Dotey married second, by 1678, another Mary, parentage unknown, and no clues were found that proved satisfactory after a very extensive search. Sometime during the year of 1678 Thomas purchased of John Water­man his house and land in Alcarmus field, about two acres bound on the northwesterly side by other land be­longing to said Thomas, also a parcel about an acre that was originally Gilbert Winslow's, which deed was not recorded until after his death, 3 March 1678, the day the widow made oath to the inventory of his estate. The acre lot he sold to James Cole Jr., acknowledging the deed 7 Oct. 1678 (Deeds, 4:226). Thomas Dotey died at Plymouth 4 or 5 Dec. 1678. His nuncupative will was made on the fourth and "committed to writing December the 5th within twenty-four houres" after his death. His widow Mary made oath to the inventory 3 March 1678/9, the day the will was probated (Plym. Col. Wills, 4:1:33, see M.D. 4:233)-"he gave absolutely to his wife Mary Dotey to be wholly att her Dispose and left it all with her to Improve and make use of as shee should see best," in the presence of Ed­ward Dotey, Samuel Eaton and Anne Savory. The inven­tory was taken by Ephraim Morton and William Harlow, Child of Thomas Dotey and second wife Mary ___: iii. Thomas(3), b. 22 July 1679 (posthumously) (Plym. Col. Rec. 8:67), d. near 8 Feb. 1722 at Truro, Mass. His will is dated 9 May l72l, probated 8 Feb. 1721/2 (Barnstable Prob. 4:45) and shows his mother outlived him. He gives his wife Mercy 2O pounds and use of the house; to Joseph Abbitt, the child that now lives with me, 20 pounds when twenty-one; to son Thomas all the rest of estate, he to maintain his grandmother Mary Churchill during her life...[more continues which I do not transcribe.] After the death of Thomas(2) Dotey, his widow whose parentage is unknown, married second, 8 Feb. 1687/8 (M.D. 13:203) Henry(2) Churchill, a brother of her husband's first wife Mary. The "Doty Genealogy" seems to assume that Thomas Dotey had but the one wife, viz. Mary Churchill, and after the death of Thomas that she married Henry Churchill. It is difficult to understand this statement. It seems evident that the author did not know that they were brother and sister and it is certain that he could not have studied the Churchill family and the inventory of the estate of the widow Hannah (Pontus)(Churchill) Rickard in 1691, which reveals all these relationships. She was the mother of Thomas Dotey's first wife; grandmother of their two children, Marthz and Hannah Dotey; became mother-in-law of his second wife and stepgrandmother to Thomas Dotey, Jr. Henry(2) Churchill's birth is not recorded. He was not born in 1658 as stated in the "Doty Genealogy" that is the year in which his brother John was born. The "Churchill Genealogy" does not mention him at all, possi­bly because he is not mentioned in his father's nuncu­pative will, but not all the children are named, those not named were to share in what was left after his wife's death. Henry Churchill must have been the young­est child born 1660-63 about the time of his father's death or even posthumously in 1663. This would make him about twenty-five when he married the widow Mary Dotey. I am inclined to believe that Mary Dotey, the widow of Thomas, was much younger than Thomas, and that she was nearer in age to Henry, her second husband. Mary must have been a good stepmother as well as wife, for we find that she was well liked by her mother-in-law as shown by the following deed [Plym. Deeds, 3:157]: "Hannah Rickard formerly wife of John Churchill for ye love and natural affection and other valuable causes and considerations and hereunto especially mov­ing have given granted...to my beloved and natural daughter a quarter part of a share of land belonging in Middleboro ye Sixteen Shilling Purchase to her and her heirs forever," dated 18 June 1690 only a short time before she died. Further description in the deed shows that it was land granted to her father William Pontus which she and her sister, the only heirs, inherited. The wording of the deed at first "stumped" the writer when Hannah calls Mary her "natural daughter," since this term ordinarily implies blood relationship, but in the present case the relationship was peculiar, since Mary was both the stepmother of Hannah's granddaughters and also (by her second marriage) Hannah's daughter-in-law. Plymouth Deeds, 16:10, show that Mary deeded this tract of land to her grandson Thomas Dotey, 6 March 1721/2. Henry Churchill and Mary (___)(Dotey) Churchill had no issue. He died at Plympton near 3 Mar. 1714/15. He left no will and there is no administration of his estate, but Plymouth Deeds, 11:160, show that "for the love and good will I bear unto my dutiful son-in-law [stepson] Thomas Dotey," he gives, grants etc. unto him all "my several parcels of lands in Plimpton and also Plymouth and Sipican (Rochester) after the decease of my wife Mary," dated 8 July 1714, recorded 3 March 1714/15. But Thomas Dotey Jr., as shown above, died in 1722 before his mother, leaving an only child, his son Thomas aged about eighteen. After the death of her husband, Mary Churchill lived for a while in Rochester, possibly with John White and his wife. Although her husband, Henry Churchill, owned land there, there is no mention of a house on it. On 6 March 1721/2, "Mary Churchill of Cape Cod, Barnstable County, late of Rochester, widow, and relict of Henry Churchill late of Plimpton deceased, for love and af­fection towards my grandson Thomas Dotey assigned all that "my tract of land lying... in Middleboro in Six­teen Shilling Purchase" (Plymouth Deeds, 16:10). This was the land given her by her mother-in-law. Deeds, 16:41: Mary Churchill of Cape Cod, widow of Henry, and formerly wife of Thomas Dotey of Plymouth deceased, for divers good causes and considerations, quitclaims unto Lemuel Drew of Plymouth all my right, title, interest, etc., of, in, unto the dwelling house and one acre of land within mentioned in Plymouth which said Lemuel Drew and his brother Nicholas deceased pur­chased of my son Thomas Dotey by ye within written deed dated 20 July 1709, being now in the peaceable and quiet possession of said Lemuel Drew; dated 8 May 1722. Plymouth Deeds, 19:152: Mary Churchill of Roches­ter, widow and relict of Henry and who was widow of Thomas Dotey of Plymouth formerly deceased, for and in consideration of £100 sold to John White Jr. of Rochester a certain tract of upland near and adjoining to ye homestead of Lemuel Drew that ye said Mary Churchill holds by will from her husband Thomas Dotey...lying on the southerly side of John Harlow's homestead being all the right of land said Mary Churchill owneth there in that piece as also a small parcel of swamp about 20 rods westerly from said 3 acres above, containing about I acre known as Whottlebury swamp which was derived from Thomas Hughs reference being had to said Thomas Doty's will for particulars. Dated 11 Oct. 1725; ac­knowledged 18 Oct. 1725; recorded 21 Oct. 1725. This is the last reference we find to the widow of Henry Churchill. No death record has been found. Note: The name has been found written variously in the Colony Records, viz,: Dowty, Dotey, Doty, Dowten, and Doten. Later when we find that more of the family could sign their names, the various branches became es­tablished as Doty, Dotey or Doten and continued as such. In the earliest colony records Edward(1) invariably ap­pears as Dowty; Thomas(2) usually Dotey, twice as Doten, and Joseph as Dotey and Doty. I have used the spelling most commonly found pertaining to the individual under consideration." [Note the article continues about Eliezer Churchill in whose notes is a transcription of the balance of this article.] 3. FHL book 974.4 D3a "The Pilgrim Migration, Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633," by Robert Charles Anderson, NEHGS (Boston, 2004) was printed subsequent to "The Great Migration Begins." This later edition includes many revisions: "EDWARD DOTY ORIGIN: Unknown MIGRATION: 1620 on the Mayflower. FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth CHILDREN... With second wife... iii Thomas DOTY, b. say 1640; m. by 1675 Mary Churchill (by whom he had had an illegitimate child in 1672), daughter of John Churchill. Widow Mary m. (2) 8 February 1687/8 Henry Churchill. (In 1960 Florence Harlow Barclay studied the family of Thomas Doty and concluded that he married two women named Mary [TAG 36:1-7]. In 1996 Barbara Lambert Merrick reexamined the problem and concluded that Thomas Doty had only one wife and that Henry Churchill was not son of John Churchill [TAG 71:114-20]. We follow the latter article here.)..." 4. The main publication on the Churchill family by Gardner Asaph Churchill, "The Churchill Family in America" (Boston, MA: 1904), misses Henry Churchill and his marriage to Mary Churchill as her second husband. DEATH: 1. Death must be after 1690 since this person is mentioned in the 1690 inventory of Hannah (Pontus) Churchill Giles, apparently his mother-in-law per notes above: From "The American Genealogist," no. 141, v. 36, no. 1, pp. 1-9, January 1960, article: "NOTES ON THE DOTEY AND CHURCHILL FAMILIES," by Mrs. John E. Barclay, F.A.S.G., Whitman, Mass. The following is a short excerpt of the fuller transcription which can be fully read in the notes of Mary Churchill: "...Mary(2) Churchill was born 1 Aug. 1662/3, at Plymouth, daughter of John and Hannah (Pontus) Churchill. Her father died 1 Jan. 1662/3, and her mother married sec­ond, 25 June 1669, as third wife, Giles Rickard, and she died 22 Dec. 1690. She left no will, but the in­ventory of her estate shows "in the hands of her chil­dren: at Joseph Churchill, EIeazer Churchills, John Churchills, William Churchills, Henry Churchills; at John Drews (he married her daughter Hannah Churchill); things given grandchild Hannah Dotey; items given to Martha Dotey"--dated 17 March 1691 (Plymouth Probate, 1:89)..." · Change Date: 14 Nov 2014 at 09:33:09 All said and done it is quite possible that Mary Churchill did not have as second marriage to a Henry Churchill, and some researcher over the years got it wrong. Perhaps Mary, on becoming a widow, went to live with her unmarried brother , Henry. That would go a long ways to explain all the confusion and why they did not have any family.

Sources

1. ↑ Note added by Chet Snow Snow-2128, Feb. 8, 2015. Henry Churchill had no descendants either and left his inheritance to his step-son after his mother's death.

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• Find A Grave Memorial# 61337553
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Marriage

8 feb 1687-88

Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA

Imported only 8 feb 1687 from Marriage Date and marked as uncertain.

• The CHURCHILL Family of Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
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• Find A Grave Memorial# 61337553
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• Churchill Family of America 1904 Pg. 5. fourth child of John & Hannah Churchilll

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Robert Stafford for creating WikiTree profile Doten-28 through the import of Full.ged on Mar 3, 2013.