Zebulon Doty (1755 - 1842)

Born 14 Mar 1755 in Basking Ridge, Somerset, New Jersey

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Rickey) Doty — married about 1778 in Basking Ridge, Bernards Township, Somerset, New Jersey

Husband of Rachel (Colyer) Doty — married 26 Oct 1819 in Somerset, New Jersey

Husband of Jane (Clendenning) McQuiston — married 21 Jan 1841 in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States

Descendants

Died 25 Apr 1842 at age 87 in Blairsville, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States

Biography

"Zebulon Doty, son of Jonathan Doty and Patience Sutton, b. Basking Ridge, New Jersey, prob. about 1758;

Marriages per DAR record

1. Sarah Rickey b. Basking Ridge, dau. Col. Rickey, m. 2d, Westmoreland Co., Pa.
2. Rachel _______ Colyer (a Widow)
3. Jane Eckless McQuiston (a Widow) McWhiston (or McQuiston) of Indiana Co., Pa.

Private Zebulon Doty served with 1st Battalion, Somerset County Militia, New Jersey Militia during the American Revolution.

Zebulon Doty is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A033575.

"He was a Revolutionary soldier, private, minute man of the Somerset County, New Jersey Militia, New Jersey State Troops. After marriage he removed to Troy, N.J., and later lived at Basking Ridge, but around 1784-5 removed to Westmoreland County, Pa., and settled at Derry, near Blairsville, where several of his brothers soon followed him. This country at that time was almost a wilderness, there being but few settlers. He is said to have kept tavern for a while, but was certainly a farmer also. He made frequent trips to Basking Ridge, where his three oldest children were brought up and remained. In a 'Census of families at Basking Ridge, 1818,' made by Rev. Mr. Brownlee, there appears in the list of families the name of 'Mrs. Colyer and four children,' with a note added later, 'married to Z. Doty in Westmoreland, Pa.'

Children of Sarah (Rickey) Doty

1. David, b. Troy, N.J., Oct. 1780.
2. Catharine, b. Troy, m. Basking Ridge, Stephen Southard. They lived Basking Ridge, no chil.
3. Nancy, m. Samuel Perry. They lived at or near Belleville, N.J. They had a large family.
4. Phebe.
5. Andrew m. CATHARINE LEIBENGOOD
6. Israel, b. Basking Ridge, Aug. 13, 1785. m. MARY BARNETT
7. Jonathan, lived and d. at Salem Meeting House, Westmoreland Co., Pa., probably now Delmont. He m. and had a family.
8. Maria, m. --- McCormick. They had a son who was a minister of the gospel.
9. Sarah, b. Westmoreland Co., 1802."^[1]

Revolutionary War Veteran

Zebulon Doty was a Revolutionary War Veteran along with his brothers Nathaniel and Jonathan. Zebulon served in the New Jersey Militia as a Private under Captains Platt & McCoy as well as Colonels Johnson, Wines & Frelinghuysen. Zebulon's DAR Ancestor # is: A033567. In the 1840 Pennsylvania Census of Revolutionary War Pensioners, Zebulon is listed as being 85 years old and living in Indiana Co., PA.

Zebulon Doty's revolutionary pension application, online at ancestry.com, reads as follows:

"On this 14th day of January eighteen hundred and thirty four personally appeared in the court of common pleas of Westmoreland County Zebulon Doty a resident of the said county of Westmoreland... aged seventy eight years on the fourteenth day of March last who being duly sworn... doth make the following declaration... that he enlisted in the month of June 1776 in Somerset County in the State of New Jersey in Captain Platt's company in Col. Johnson's regiment attached to what was called the flying camp for five months from Somerset County New Jersey we marched to New York we were at New York at the time of the declaration of Independence from New York we went across to Long Island, at Long Island this declarant was taken sick and was in the hospital when the battle was fought General Stirling was taken prisoner and our troops were defeated. This declarant was removed first to New York and then to New Jersey where he remained until his recovery. He then returned to the army at White Plains. He remained with the army there until discharged when the term of his enlistment had expired.

"In the winter of the year 1777 after the defeat of British at Trenton I was drafted, and went out under Captain MCoy to protect the country proper from the British who were in possession of Brunswick. Colonel Mines[?] was the Chief in Command. Our head quarters was at one Van Mulerans[?] in Somerset County New Jersey. While here we had a severe skirmish with a party of the British army at a place called Hanktown[?] (now called Bridgetown[?]). Two of our company were killed in it. This town l[ocated?] as near as this declarant can recollect between two and three months. In the month of August 1778 this declarant was drafted again, and served a month at Elizabeth Town New Jersey. He was then under Captain McCoy. Col. Frelingheuysen was our Col. and had the command. Our mission was to guard the inhabitants from the depredations of the British and Tories who came over occasionally from Staten Island to plunder. During this month we had a skirmish with a party of the Enemy in which Captain Lock one of our officers was killed.

"In the month of March, 1779 as the declarant believes he was again drafted for a month and served that length of time at Elizabeth Town. Lieutenant Collins was our commander but we had no officer of a higher grade. At the end of the month he was discharged and returned home. A few days before, the Battle of Monmouth. This declarant and Captain McCoy's company to which he belonged were ... and General [Herd?] I think was our immediate commander. This declarant was not present at the Battle or rather took no part in it. He remained with the militia at Monmouth Meeting House. He served about eight or ten days at this time.

"Before the burning of Springfield this declarant was drafted for a month. He had a sore hand, and did not arrive at the army until the day Springfield was burnt. After the action I helped to destroy the entrenchments the British had thrown up. I was discharged after remaining there a day or two.

"Declarant further states that he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no person who can testify to his services except Nathaniel Doty, who has some knowledge of a part of those services, and whose deposition is [xxxx]ed..."

Zebulon's former widow, under the name of Jane Jewell, was granted a pension in 1853. From Zebulon's entry in the Doty genealogy, this was his third wife --- McQuiston.

Zebulon is buried in the cemetery of the Hopewell Church in Blacklick Township, Pennsylvania.

Sources

1. ↑ Ethan Allen Doty, "The Doty-Doten Family in America: Descendants of Edward Doty, an Emigrant by the Mayflower, 1620" (1897), pp. 314-15.

• Somerset County, Marriages Vol. A
• DAR Patriot Record A033575
• Thank you to John Schmeeckle for creating WikiTree profile Doty-754 through the import of Stickler.ged on Dec 8, 2013.
• Mayflower Society Application Database: "Community Trees," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:QVQ1-171 : accessed 4 September 2021), entry for Zebulon Doty, cites sources; "Mayflower Pilgrim Genealogies" file (2:2:2:MMXD-DP8), submitted 24 February 2020 by FamilySearch. Source: Peter B. Hill, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations - Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass December 1620 (Vol. 11 pt. 2) ([Plymouth, Massachusetts]: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1996muel, and daughters Desire and Eli