• General Notes

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  [Brøderbund WFT Vol. 22, Ed. 1, Tree #0938, Date of Import: Dec 3, 1998]
  
  It is highly probable that Isaac doty of Oyster Bay was the son of Edward the Pilgrim, but no document making this connection has been found.
  
  Isaac's father Edward Doty, died in 1655, when Isaac was a child of six.  Presumably he lived with his mother after that, probably until about the time she remarried in 1667.  His movements for the next few years are not known, but Doty speculates that he may not have moved north to Marshfield with his mother and her new husband, but instead went to live in Sandwich, some twenty miles south of Plymouth, as his brother Joseph was later to do.  It would have been there that he met and was befriended by Anthony Wright, who became his benefactor later in Oyster Bay, LI, and who would have been influential in Isaac Doty's decision to move to Oyster Bay.
  
  The deposition of 1728 concerning the age of Isaac Doty of Oyster Bay is consistent with the birthdate of Edward Doty's son Isaac, lending support to the hypothesis.  It is further noted that three of Isaac Doty's six sons bore the names of Edward Doty's sons:  Jeseph, Samuel, and Isaac's own namesake.
  
  At a town meeting held at Oyster Bay, LI january 22, 1672/3, a piece of land for a house lot was allotted to Isaac Doty.  On february 19th the following, he and james Townsend received an allotment of 16 acres.
  
  From Anthony Wright he received by deed of a gift a piece of medow land on June 26, 1675.  And the will of Anthony Wright bequeathed "unto Issack Dotye, one cow".
  

Details of Isaac's family with Elizabeth England