Lieutenant Reuben Doty

Descendant of Edward Doty Mayflower passenger

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Reuben Doty was an officer in the Continental army, being in 1777, a Lieutenant in Colonel Humphrey's New York Regiment. His grandson, Reuben M. Doty, reports, on the authority of Ichabod Murray and Daniel Murray, that when the Revolutionary army was lying before Saratoga, a call was made for one hundred volunteers for a dangerous service, Lieutenant Reuben Doty commanded and Ichabod Murray was one of the party. They marched by a circuitous route to the rear of Burgoyne's army, where, the second morning after leaving their camp, just before daylight, they burned his stores and mills. They then made the circuit of the British Army and brought into their own camp twenty-one prisoners of whom six were officers, besides twenty-one horses and twenty cows. Source: The Doty-Doten Family in America, published 1897, page 666.

Reuben married November 14th 1765 in Amenia, Dutchess County, New York.