Chaplain John Doughty

Kings college alumni By Leonhard Felix Fuld

This man was a son of Joseph, a merchant in New York, where the son was born in 1750, four years before the man whose honors are assigned to him by the catalogue. This man was ordained in England for the church at Peekskill, N.Y., but was soon transferred to Schenectady ; he was a loyalist.

The parish of St. Peter's, Peekskill, was organized August 10, 1770. Beverly Robinson (King's, 1773), or his father, and Susanna Phillipse, the wife of Doty's friend Beverly Robinson, were the principal benefactors. Doty became rector July 16, 1771 ; his successor was Rev. Bernard Page. He resigned in 1773, and, as was stated above, went to Schenectady, where he remained until 1777, when he obtained liberty to go to Canada, though he was forced to sell his furniture to procure the means for the journey. While here he had been twice arrested, and his services had been intermitted on account of his loyalty, and after reaching Canada he was chaplain to his Majesty's Royal Regiment at Montreal. In October, 1781, he went to England, but returned to Canada June 12,1784, where he continued till 1793, when he resigned to go to St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn, LI. In 1795, however, we find him again at Sorel, Canada, but he resigned in 1803. He died in 1826.