Bridget Doughty

Detached Bridget Doughty as daughter of Sir John Carr Stone, Sr., of Bretherton in Lancashire & Katherine Stone, and sister of The Notorious Captain John Stone.

Biography

Bridget, parents unknown, was the first wife of Francis Doughty, married 1624 in Oldbury, Warwickshire, England. He was born 4 Nov 1605 in Hempstead, Gloucestershire, England and died before 3 Mar 1684 before age 78 in Virginia. Francis was the son of Francis Doughty (d. 1634) and Margaret Barker.

Bridget died before 10 June 1657, in Flushing, New Netherland Colony, or in Virginia, when her husband remarried.

They emigrated to the Massachusetts Colony in 1638.

The four children of Bridget and Francis Doughty were:

• 1. Mary DOUGHTY b: ABT 1628 in England; m. 1) Adriaen Cornelissen van der Donck 2) Hugh O’Neale
• 2. Francis DOUGHTY b: ABT 1630; m. Margaret Howell
• 3. Cornet Elias DOUGHTY b: BET 1632 AND 1634 in England; m. Sarah.
• 4. Enoch DOUGHTY b: 1639 (probably in Massachusetts); m. Ann.

Anne (Graves) Cotton married secondly to Nathaniel Eaton in 1641/42. She married thirdly Francis Doughty 10 June 1657 in Accomack County, Virginia. With son Samuel, they moved to Charles County, Maryland, where Anne died 2 March 1682/83.

Disputed origins

According to https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-558282

After many years of research on the Doughty family, I can state with some conviction that Bridget, the wife of Francis Doughty, was not a Stone; there is no known record of her baptism or birth, no record for her marriage to Francis, no record of her death. That she was his wife is proven by a couple of court records in 1640 that speak of Francis and Bridget Doughty being sued by his sister Elizabeth (Doughty) Cole. …

It is important to realize that John Anderson Brayton in his long, carefully researched genealogical essay on Francis Doughty identifies Francis's first wife as Bridget ________ ; her surname is unknown. This highly skilled and carefully presented genealogical study cannot be ignored. If Brayton did not find a source for Bridget's surname, it is unlikely that anyone else will. ( "The Ancestry of Rev. Francis Doughty of Massachusetts, Long Island, New Amsterdam, Maryland and Virginia," The American Genealogist Whole No. 305 (Jan. 2002) Vol. 77, No. 1, pp. 1- 17 & Whole No. 306 (April 2002) Vol. 77, No. 2, pp. 127-136)

The error that created Bridget STONE is easily identified and perfectly understandable. Gov. William Stone of Maryland in his will dated 3 December 1659 called Francis Doughty his brother-in-law.[6] That gave rise to the misperception that Bridget, the wife of Francis, was a Stone, the sister of the governor of Maryland. The reason that Francis Doughty was identified as the brother-in-law of Gov. Stone is that he really was. Just not by a connection through his first wife. When the governor wrote his will, Bridget (_____) Doughty was dead, and Francis had remarried (as her third husband) Ann (Graves) (Cotton) Eaton; they married in June 1657 in Hungar's Parish, Northampton Co., Virginia.[7] The new wife Ann Doughty (maiden name Graves) was a sister of Verlinda Graves, the wife of Gov. William Stone.[8] So Francis was the governor's brother-in-law through his second wife not his first.

In conclusion, Bridget's maiden name is unknown, The names of her supposed mother and sister are certainly incorrect. The dates of her birth and death are rough estimates, as is the date of her marriage.

Research Notes

https://websites.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/pn/p5397.htm

Governor William Stone of Maryland, in his will written 3 December 1659, named his brother-in-law Francis Doughty and his brother Mathew as overseers and guardians to his minor children. Governor William Stone was married to Verlinda. Francis Doughty's first wife was Bridget and his second wife was Ann Graves, widow of William Cotton and Nathaniel Eaton. William Cotton [then married to Ann Graves] named in his will "Brethrin-in-Lawe Capt. [later governor] William Stone and Captain William Roper" as overseers. William Roper was married to Katherine.

The language in both wills is consistent with the explanation that Ann Graves, Verlinda, and Katherine were sisters, daughters of Thomas Graves and his wife Katherine. Thus, Francis Doughty was brother-in-law to William Stone because they were married to sisters Ann and Verlinda Graves. William Stone and William Roper were brothers-in-law to William Cotton because they were married to Katherine and Verlinda Graves, sisters of William Cotton's wife Ann Graves. Further, both William Roper and his wife Katherine and William Cotton and his wife Ann Graves had daughters named Verlinda.

Some authors initially suggested that Bridget, the first wife of Francis Doughty, was a sister of Governor William Stone of Maryland because William Stone named Francis Doughty as his brother-in-law. However, that relationship does not explain the language in William Cotton's will.

Biography of The Rev. Francis Doughty

http://www.angelfire.com/wv2/vabullard/Rev.%20francis%20doughty.htm

Francis is next heard of as pastor of Hungars parish on the Eastern Shore of
Accomack County, Virginia. The Virginian church had been strictly Anglican
up to 1652, when the colony submitted to parlimental authority. After that
date the several parishes were left to go their own ways without
interference by legislative acts of reform. Doughty came here, probably, in
a modified Anglicanism, having no surplice or Book of Common Prayer, but
otherwise very much what it had been prior to 1652. Of his pastorate at
Hungars, very little is recorded. It is mentioned that in 1655, he
instigated a witchcraft prosecution, and in 1656 was favorably mentioned in
the will of a parishioner. In June of 1657, he was married again, to Ann
Graves, who had the distinction of marrying 3 successive rectors of Hungar’s
parish. Ann and her sister, Verlinda, were the daughters of Capt. Thomas
Graves, one of the original adventurers of the Jamestown Colony, and had
both been born in Accomack county, Va. Verlinda was married to the Governor
of Maryland, and this fact gives rise to the misconception that the maiden
name of Bridgett Doughty, the 1st wife of Frances, was Stone. Gov. Stone was
known to refer to Frances as his brother-in-law, and someone seeing this
thought it must mean that Bridgett and the Governor were brother and sister,
making her Bridgett Stone. In reality, the wives of Francis and the Governor
were the sisters, Ann and Verlinda.
Ann Graves married, before July 10, 1637, the Rev. William Cotton, who, on
that date patented land in right of his wife Ann Graves. Rev. Cotton, whose
mother resided at Bunbury, Cheshire, England was the first minister of
Hungars parish, the first formally organized church on the Eastern Shore of
the Chesapeake Bay. He left a will of August 1640, naming "Brethrin-n law
Capt. William Stone" and another as overseers of his estate. Ann then
married, by 1642, the Rev. Nathaniel Eaton, who came to Virginia from
Massachusetts, where, in 1638, he had become the first master of the school
that later became Harvard University. He had been born England in 1609, and
came to Massachusetts in 1638. His father had been a clergyman in England,
and his brother was the respected first Governor of the New Haven Colony.
Governor Winthrop of New York mentions in his journal that Eaton, after he
went to Virginia, was a "drunken preacher". In 1642, he assigned land at
Hungars Creek due him by right of intermarriage with the ""widdowe and
relict of William Cotton, Clerke", (often a misspelling for the word
cleric). By 1646 Eaton had left the colony, deserting his wife, and returned
to England, where he lived privately until the restoration of King Charles
II. Conforming to the ceremonies of the Church of England, he was fixed at
Biddlefield, where he became a bitter persecutor of the Dissenters, and died
in prison for debt. In June of 1657 Ann married the Reverend Doughty, rector
of Hungars, but moved with him to Charles County, Maryland by 1660. The
earliest reference to the presence of Rev. Doughty in Charles County is
found in a bill of debt, a paper that in those days performed the function
of the modern promissory note. The bill shows that in June 1660, the
minister promised to pay George Short a certain amount of tobacco either at
Pickawaxen in Charles County or at Potomac, on the Virginia side. About
January or February of 1661, a Captain William Battin, who kept a store at
Pickawaxen, summoned Mr. Doughty to county court, but the matter was
adjusted and the case never came to trial.

From Melissa Thompson Alexander's page on Bridget Stone Doughty:

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=madagtene...

•ID: I65664

•Name: Bridget STONE 1

•Sex: F

•Birth: ABT 1604

•Death: BEF 1657 in Northampton Co, England or VA or NY?

Father: John * STONE b: BET 1572 AND 1578 in Croston, Lancashire, England

Mother: Katherine GRIFFIN b: ABT 1581

References

1. 1. Brayton, John Anderson, "The Ancestry of the Rev Francis Doughty of Massachusetts, Long Island, New Amsterdam, Maryland and Virginia" The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .). Reference Volume 77 (2002), pages 1-3 < AmericanAncestors >; (document attached); pages 16-17 < AmericanAncestors >; (document attached).
2. Maryland Calandar of Wills, Vol 1
3. https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jayem59&id=I3044 (dead link)
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Doughty_(clergyman) cites
   1. Bell, James B. (2013). Empire, Religion and Revolution in Early Virginia, 1607–1786. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 90. ISBN 9781137327925. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
   2. Dorman, John Frederick (2004). Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5: Families G-P. Genealogical Publishing Co. p. 134. ISBN 9780806317632. Retrieved 10 October 2015. < GoogleBooks >
   3. Parker, Henry Ainsworth (1906). "The Reverend Francis Doughty". Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volume 10. p. 262. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
   4. Parker, "Reverend Francis Doughty," p. 261.
   5. Dixon, William Gray (1930). The Romance of the Catholic Presbyterian Church. p. 233.
   6. Lechford, Thomas (1642). "Plain Dealing, or Newes from New-England". Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volume 23. p. 96. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
   7. Rev. Francis Doughty". Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 5 (3): 290. 1898. JSTOR 4242057
5. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-558282
6. https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I1950...
7. https://websites.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/person/g5397.htm
8. Robert and Janet Chevalley Wolfe, Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy, "Notes for Bridget"

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