It has long been suspected that Gary’s 5th great-grandfather Edward Doughty (b. 1738) was kin to Doughty of Upstate South Carolina. Jeremiah Doughty (b. May 14, 1777, Pendleton District SC) was the ancestor of an autosomal DNA match with Gary: A shared segment on Chromosome 16 of 14.65 centiMorgans in the Family Tree DNA database. Another descendant of this Jeremiah Doughty has an yDNA match with documented descendants of Samuel Doty (b. 1643), son of Edward Doty who arrived in 1620 in the Plymouth Colony via the Mayflower. See the Doty/Doughty yDNA Project at www.familytreedna.com/public/Doughty-Doty?iframe=yresults. Jeremiah Doughty’s father was Joseph Doughty (b. 1755): The yDNA findings for this group are under “Descendants of Joseph Doughty Sr. of South Carolina”. Haplogroup R1b & positive on SNP (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism) marker Z255.
Gary has several other atDNA matches with descendants of Mayflower Edward Doty. Here are the kids of his son Samuel Doty Sr. (b. 1643): http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colonialfamiliestonewjersey/doty/d0/i0000076.htm#i76 Samuel Doty Jr. (b. 1679) might have been the ancestor of both Gary’s Edward Doughty (b. 1738) & of Jeremiah Doty (b. 1777, Pendleton District S.C.). The Most Recent Common Ancestor for Gary versus descendants of Jeremiah Doughty possibly is more recent than the MRCA for Gary versus other atDNA matches, where the MRCA appears to be Samuel Doty Sr. (b. 1643), & perhaps even Mayflower immigrant Edward Doty himself.
James Doty (b. 1686), son of Samuel Sr., was the reported ancestor of sailorio32 at Ancestry.com, where the atDNA match with Gary is 7.8 cM. Daniel Doty (b. 1701/02), another son of Samuel Sr., was the reported ancestor of csmk51 at Ancestry.com, where the atDNA match with Gary is 7.4 cM. There are more matches, including people who reportedly descend from brothers of Samuel Doty Sr. (b. 1643).
Other descendants of Samuel Doty Sr. (b. 1643) went to the Tenmile Country of the Upper Monongahela River in southwest Pennsylvania, onetime home of my Edward Doughty (b. 1738). Joseph Doty (b. 1696), son of Samuel Sr., was the ancestor of Anthony Doty, whose descendant Tom is Kit # 89355 in the Doty/Doughty yDNA Project, Edward-Samuel-Joseph yDNA group. A write-up about Anthony Doty (d. 1815) appears on Page 113 of “The Tenmile Country And Its Pioneer Families”, by Leckey.
Enoch Enoch (b. 1750) was thought to have married Mary Doughty, who may have been a sister or cousin of my Edward Doughty (b. 1738). Enoch Enoch appears on Page 52 of the Leckey book. Enoch Enoch also appears from Page 123, Chapter 3, of Harry J. Enoch’s “Historical Records of the Enoch Family in Virginia and Pennsylvania”. Enoch Enoch was on Tenmile Creek by 1766. Later he sold his land interest to my Edward Doughty. Doughty’s land, called “Pigeon’s Resort”, was on the west bank of the Monongahela River at Pumpkin Run, formerly called Enoch’s Run. Pumpkin Run enters the Monongahela just upstream from the mouth of Tenmile Creek. After the death of our Edward Doughty, his son-in-law Abijah McClain bought the land rights from Edward’s descendants & laid out lots which form part of the current village of Rice’s Landing in Greene County Pennsylvania. Permelia Doughty McClain (wife of Abijah) was a sister of my Mary Doughty McCreary (great-grandmother of Emma Jane McCreary Muffley), & Permelia appears in a number of online family trees. Enoch Enoch appears in the Maxwell tree by cgoodmax who has a 6.1 centiMorgans atDNA match with Gary in the AncestryDNA database, although this tree lists neither Doty nor Doughty ancestry. Enoch Enoch was not the ancestor of the Maxwell tree home person.
Edward Doty (b. 1685), son of Samuel Sr., was the ancestor of Catherine Doty Van Voorhees (b. 1754). Catherine appears in our Muffley tree at: www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/64174501/person/210146139161/facts Her husband Abraham Van Voorhees was known kin to Gary via Van Voorhees ancestry. Our Edward Doughty (b. 1738) arrived in Tenmile Country of southwest Pennsylvania quite early; his probable kinswoman Catherine & her husband Abraham apparently arrived after the Revolutionary War.
At www.gedmatch.com Gary’s Kits are A693287 (AncestryDNA) & T203534 (Family Tree DNA). Hopefully, Doty/Doughty atDNA kin will accumulate at GEDmatch over time.
