| Note* | | Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33 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 [MBCR 1:80,366]. Propounded as freeman of Plymouth Colony, 7 June 1648 (andpresumably made free on that date, as he was also the deputy to thatcourt from Rehoboth) [PCR 2:125]. EDUCATION: Made his mark to his will. His inventory included '1 Bible andpsalmbook' valued at 10s. OFFICES: Deputy to Plymouth General Court for Rehoboth, 7 June 1648 [PCR2:123]. Appointed customs taker for Rehoboth, 7 June 1648 [PCR 2:125]. ESTATE: Granted thirty acres in Great Dividend in Watertown, 25 July 1636[WaBOP 5]; granted six acres in Beaverbrook Plowlands, 28 February 1636/7[WaBOP 8]; granted six acres in Remote Meadow, 26 June 1637 [WaBOP 9];granted six acres in Town Plot, 9 April 1638 [WaBOP 11]. In the Watertown Inventory of Grants, John Doggett held six parcels:fifteen acre homestall; two acres of meadow; six acres of upland [TownPlot]; six acres of [Beaverbrook] Plowland; six acres of Remote meadow;and thirty acres Great Dividend [WaBOP 93]. In the Composite Inventory heretained only one of these parcels, the fifteen acre homestall [WaBOP38]. (Four of the parcels granted to John Doggett were in the CompositeInventory in the possession of Richard Wait [WaBOP 38-39].) On 2 October 1662 'John Doged of the Island called Martin's Vinyard'complained that the Vineyard did not honor his ownership of land grantedhim there by Mr. Thomas Mayhew [PCR 7:104]. On 29 January 1665[/6] JohnDoggett 'the Elder' purchased one-twelfth of the one-fifth of a lot nextto the sea at Martin's Vineyard from sachem Towanicut [Doggett Gen 77,citing DukesLR 1:354]. In his will, dated 13 May 1673 and proved 4 June 1673, 'John Doggettfinding the symptoms of Death upon me' bequeathed to 'my beloved wife'all the household goods, 'all my wearing cloths and all my debts in anypart of Plymouth Collonie,' also one ox as Sacconesit in the hands ofWilliam Week Jr., also Ð5 in goods from John Edy in part payment for twooxen Week sold for Doggett, also the hide and tallow of an ox at theVineyarad to be sent to Boston 'and the four quarters of the ox I giveequally to my sons and daughters at the Vineyard'; to 'my two sons Johnand Joseph ... my lands at Martha's Vineyard undivided and theirprivileges which are part of the twenty seventh part of that townshipcalled now Edgartown'; to 'my son Thomas' ten acres of meadow; to 'my sonJohn' 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 sonThomas' forty acres of upland and two acres of meadow at ElizabethIslands 'which upland I bought of Francis Ussleton'; 'my whole farm Ihave already equally divided betixt my three sons'; 'my ten acre lot uponthe line' equally to 'my two sons John and Joseph'; 'my land atAquampache and at Felix Neck and at Konomache and a piece of meadow atSangekantackett' and residue of lands equally divided between 'my twodaughters Elizabeth and Hephzibah'; 'all my cattle and horse kind atMartha's Vineyard' equally divided between 'my two daughters'; 'my willis that my son John send my wife two pair of shoes and then to dischargehim of all further debt'; all estate at the Islands 'my loving friendsIsaac Robinson and Jon Edy my son-in-law' overseers; 'concerning myestate in this Collonie ... Lieutenant Morton and Andrew Ring' overseers[Doggett Gen 77-78, citing DukesLR 1:321; MD 25:37-39, citing PCPR3:1:94]. The inventory of 'John Doged of Plymouth' was taken 26 May 1673 andtotalled Ð16 18s. 9d., with no real estate included; the inventory wasexhibited 4 June 1673 on the oath of the widow Bathsheba Doged [MD25:123, citing PCPR 3:1:112; Doggett Gen 78; Scrapbook 113-14]. On 29 May 1675 John Edy and Jeremiah Whitton, husbands of Elizabethand Hephzibah, quitclaimed their rights in land near the Neck to JosephDaggett [Doggett Gen 79, citing DukesLR 1:322]. BIRTH: By about 1597 based on date of first marriage. DEATH: Between 13 May 1673 (date of will) and 26 May 1673 (date ofinventory). MARRIAGE: (1) Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, 29 August 1622 AliceBrotherton, baptized Husborne Crawley, Bedfordshire, 6 March 1602[/3],daughter of Thomas and Ellen (_____) Brotherton [TAG 72:100]; she died by1667. (2) Plymouth 29 August 1667 'John Doged, of Martin's Vineyard, marriedto Bathshebath Prat, widow' [PCR 8:31], widow of JOSHUA PRATT; she wasalive on 4 June 1673 [PCPR 3:1:112]. CHILDREN: With first wife i JOHN, bp. Woburn, Bedfordshire, 5 September 1624 [TAG 72:100]; m.Rehoboth 23 November 1651 Anne Sutton. ii THOMAS, b. say 1632; m. by about 1652 Hannah Mayhew, daughter ofTHOMAS 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 ofPutuspaquin, a minor sachem at Sanchekantacket, and probably the widowedmother of 'Zachary' called the 'son-in-law' of Joseph Doggett [DukesCounty Sessions Court 26 May 1685]. Richard Andrew Pierce has made anextensive study of this couple. She was not Alice Sisseton as claimed byBanks [Martha's Vineyard Hist 3:140-141]. ASSOCIATIONS: John Doggett arrived in New England in 1630 and settledfirst 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 JohnDoggett the immigrant to New England was a member of this same Doggettfamily, but no connection has yet been found. COMMENTS: As John Doggett received six acres in the Beaverbrook Plowlandsand in the Remote Meadows, his family could have consisted of himself,his wife and four children. Our reconstruction of birth years for thechildren only gives him three children at the date of these grants, sosome adjustment may be necessary in the list of children. On the otherhand, the sixth acre of these grants may have been for some member of thehousehold other than the immediate family, or for the family's holdingsof livestock. BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1894 Samuel Bradlee Doggett published an accountof severeal Doggett families, including substantial research in Englishrecords [A History of the Doggett-Daggett Family (Boston 1894; rpt.Baltimore 1973), cited above as Doggett Gen]. Charles Edward Banks wroteat length of the Doggetts in his history of Martha's Vineyard. In 1997 Gordon L. Remington identified the first wife of thisimmigrant, and also found the baptism of their eldest child [TAG72:89-100]. The History of Martha's Vineyard by Dr. Charles Banks: Volume III Family Genealogies: pp. 126 - 145 THE DAGGETT FAMILY JOHN1 DAGGETT, the head of this family, has received sufficient notice tocover the details of his life (Vol. II, Annals of E., pp. 63­66) andnothing has since been discovered to determine his ancestry or the maidenname of his wife. The author repeats his suggestion that it wasBrotherton as this name was perpetuated in three widely separatedbranches of Daggett descendants. [Wills of persons of this name whichhave come to the author's notice are as follows: Thomas Brotherton,mariner, Deptford, Kent 1621 (P. C. C. Dale 92), Eleanor Brotherton,widow, Lewes, Sussex 1636, John Brotherton skinner, London, 8 Mch. 1640(Commissary, Wills, London XXIX, 382); Alice Brotherton, widow, NewSarum, Wiltshire 8 July 1841 (P. C. C. Evelyn 100). Curiously enough oneRobert Daggett was appointed Rector of Gillingham Co., Dorset in 1334 byThomas de Brotherton.] 2. JOHN,2 b. abt. 1626; res. Rehoboth, Mass., wife ANNE SUTTON (Plymo.Deeds, i. 79); deposes aged 51 years in 1676. No further record of thisline will be given. 3. THOMAS, b. abt. 1630. 4. ELIZABETH, b. abt. 1638; m. JEREMIAH WHITTON. 5. HEPZIBAH, b. abt. 1642; m. JOHN EDDY abt. 1658. 6. JOSEPH, b. 1647. EAST CHOP AND FARM NECK This name was derived from the first grant of five hundred acres, made in1642 to John Daggett 'for a farm,' which covers the present settlement ofOak Bluffs. It is easier to designate the first land holders than the first settlers,because the territory was owned by men who also had lots of land in thevillage at Great Harbor at the same time, and it cannot be said withsurety in which place some of them actually resided. The first recordrelating to Ogkeshkuppe occurs under date of May 16, 1653, when it wasordered that ' Mr. Mayhew is to Purchase part of Ogisske (ppe) neck ofthe Indians for the town.' [Edgartown Records, I, 131.] This was in linewith Mayhew's policy of satisfying the native owners of the soil wheneverthe whites enlarged their sphere of improvement beyond formeracquisitions, and it is presumed that Mayhew carried out the towndirections. It is not known what 'part' of the neck was secured in thisway. On Dec. 1, 1642, probably after their first visit to their island domain,Thomas Mayhew, Senior, Thomas Mayhew, Junior, and John Smith, granted toJohn Daggett, a neighbor of theirs in Watertown, the following lands onthe Vineyard: .... twenty acres of land upon the point beginning at the great stonenext to my lot, and twenty acres of meadow: and also five hundred acresof land for a farm: he have liberty to take up wherever he the said JohnDoggett wishes, only provided he take not up his farm within three milesof the spring that is by the harbor in my lot aforesaid, before I that isThomas Mayhew the elder have made choice of twenty acres of meadow and afarm of five hundred acres for myself, the which choice not being madewithin one year insueing the date hereof, then the said John Doggett haveliberty to chuse for himself. [Dukes Deeds, I, 189.] This was a grant both liberal in terms and in the amount alienated bythem. THE 'FARM' When John Daggett came to the Vineyard cannot be accurately stated, butthe first time his name appears of record is in 1651, though it is to besupposed that he had been here for some time previous. [EdgartownRecords, I, 122.] He had a home lot in the village of Great Harbour, andthere is nothing to indicate that he did not reside there, as the mostdesirable place for residential purposes at that time. With his earlygrant, just referred to, he followed the custom of the patentee, andafter locating to his satisfaction, the tract of five hundred acres,three miles from a spring near Mayhew's house, he proceeded, in 1660, tobuy the sachem's 'rights' to the soil. On March 3rd of that yearWampamag, the chief of the Sanchacantacket tribe, sold to Daggett, 'acertain tract of land which was granted by Mr Thomas Mayhew Sen, and MrThomas Mayhew Jr, for a farm, I say a tract of land lying upon the eastside of the eastermost Chap of Homes Hole, called by the EnglishQuasquannes, butting down to the sea on the east, being bounded on theeast side by the sea, and on the north side with marked trees, runninginto the woods three hundred and twenty rods, and on the north side fromthe sea three hundred and twenty rods and on the west side three hundredand twenty rods.' [Dukes Deeds, II, 253. Quasquannes is probably anIndian personal name.] DAGGETT'S SUIT FOR 'THE FARM' For reasons not now known, Governor Mayhew refused to fulfill his earlygrant, and Daggett thereupon purchased the 'rights' of the Indian sachemto the soil on the date above mentioned. Acting under the influence ofMayhew the town voted, Oct. 3, 1660, 'that John Daggett, the elder, bathbroken the order of ten pounds upon every acer In purchasing a farm atSanchacontackett at the hands of the Indians without the towns consent.'[Edgartown Records, I, 133. A town order dated Jan. 4, 1652.] On December17, following, the townsmen proceeded to collect the fine by the passageof the order here quoted: To William Weekes, Constable: These are to warne you by the authority of this town to levie upon theestate of John Doggett, the elder, upon Martins Vineyard the sum of fivethousand (pounds) upon the breach of order in purchasing lands. [Ibid., 130.] A penalty of five thousand pounds was a little too much for John Daggettto pay for obtaining a title to a farm which had been granted to him indue and legal form, and he resisted this absurd levy. It was not onlyconfiscation, but it meant banishment, the favorite method of Mayhew indealing with his enemies. As the case could not be adjudicated in thelocal court, because of the interest of Mayhew in the result, the partiesagreed to refer it to the Plymouth Colony court for arbitration. Therecords of the town state 'the names of those that Doth try for the farmewith John Daggett:' Thomas Mayhew for My self and all Relations in the town that is eightlofts; Mr. Butler 2 lots; William Vinson his lot & his mothers; ThomasTrapp 1 lot; Robert Codman, 1; Nicholas Norton & 2 sons; Thomas Bayes 2lots; Thomas Burchard; Nicholas Butler; William Weeks; Goodman Jones;James Covet one half lot. [Edgartown Records, I, 145.] This list comprises most of the resident land owners, though the names ofArey, Bland, John Burchard, Eddy, Folger, Lay and some others are notincluded. Of course his son, Thomas Daggett, could not be identified withthe case, on either side. The town appointed Nicholas Norton and JohnPease to conduct the case in its behalf, and on Oct. 2, 1662, the trialwas held in Plymouth. The following is the record in the archives of thatcolony: Att the Court John Doged of the Iland called Martins Vineyard complainedagainst the towne of the said Vineyard in an action of the case for thetitle of a certaine prcll of land graunted unto the said John by Mr.Thomas Mayhew &c, which the said inhabitants doe unjustly and illegallydisturbe him in his quiets injoyment of the same, which said case is byjoynt consent of both prtyes refered to the determination of this Court. [Plymouth Colony Records, VII, 104.] It is not known whether John Daggett had any legal counsel to assist him,but his cause was so clear that it did not require any, and the verdictwas as follows: The jury find for the plaintiffs the full title graunted to him by Mr.Thomas Mayhew Senr. [Ibid. The Mayhews never became reconciled to this defeat. When JohnDaggett's will was offered for probate in 1673 it was accepted, 'withthis proviso only: that the farm is to contain 500 akers of upland and goakers of meadoe and no more.' It was Mayhew's last thrust at Daggett.]1 |