Edward Doty's 1st wife

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Edward [Doty, of the "Mayflower" in 1620] was an apprentice (servant) to Stephen Hopkins, and apprentices could not generally get married until their contract term was up. William Bradford, in his journal Of Plymouth Plantation, states in early 1651 "But Edward Doty by a second wife hath seven children, and both he and they are living." Doty's first marriage must have occurred in Plymouth sometime after he was released from his contract with Hopkins (which apparently occurred between 1623 and 1627). 

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He married Faith Clarke on Plymouth 6 January 1634/5, so his 1st wife must have died before then. There is no record of her or any children.

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=buszidog3...
  • The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. by Robert Charles Anderson, New England Historic Genealogical Society. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA, 1995. pg. 573-577