Documenting Ellis Doty LWYN-4BG
There are a couple of research goals riding on this line, including Mayflower lineage and DAR. Not to mention after years of at least online research a desire by me to fully document this family.
Three generations of Ellis Doty start in 1713 (LWR9-3LM) with his name probably from his grandmother's maiden name. He's still in Plymouth and his youngest son Ellis is born probably in 1769. Of course this is pretty late for his mother's (verified) birth date in 1713, one problem.
Ellis 2 (LWYN-4BG) is the one who moves from Plymouth MA to New York, probably in the 1790s. His youngest son Ellis is born in 1808, yet another late mother's age. But then Ellis 2's father-in-law in FamilySearch looks like a bit of a mess so perhaps clean-up will reveal more about her.
I researched Ellis 3 (LQT7-XWL) quite a lot, finding the first known record of a divorce in PA (where his wife's family was from). He seems to return to NY and re-marry but then is not mentioned in land records regarding his father's estate in NY.
His son Benjamin L. Doty joins the LDS Church and moves to Utah in 1855. I have good enough records from him on.
I'm good with offline in-depth research. However the Mayflower Society Silver Books have "probable" all over this line so I also don't necessarily feel I can do better than them. I'm a member now of AmericanAncestors.org. But I'm now pulling back to start over with general history so I can get a better handle on this time and place. I do sense however well-documented many of these places are due in part to lineage research, new sources come out and published histories become obsolete, so I'm navigating that too.
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This is a tough one. Ellis may appear in the 1812 war records so a search of the WIKI for information on that may help. Anyone else have ideas that could help Gina?
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