Individual Details
Mary CHURCHILL
(1 Aug 1654 - Aft 21 Oct 1725)
Events
| Birth | 1 Aug 1654 | Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America |  | ||
| Miscellaneous | 17 Jan 1671/72 | confessed to court that she had become pregnant by Thomas Dotey during July or August 1671 - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Miscellaneous | 30 Oct 1672 | Sued Thomas Dotey for getting her pregnant--won suit and was awarded all of his property - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Marriage | Bet 30 Oct 1672 and Mar 1674/75 | Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America - Thomas DOTY |  | | |
| Will-shared | 4 Dec 1678 - 5 Dec 1678 | (Thomas DOTY) | | | |
| Marriage | 8 Feb 1687/88 | Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America - Henry CHURCHILL | | | |
| Miscellaneous | 30 Jun 1690 | called a "true and natural daughter" in a land transfer from Hannah Pontus | | ||
| Property | 6 Mar 1721/22 | deeded to grandson Thomas Dotey, the share of land received from Hannah Rickard - Middleborough, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Property | 8 May 1722 | quitclaim to Lemuel Drew any interest in a dwelling house and one acre - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | | |
| Property | 11 Oct 1725 | sold to John White for 100 pounds a tract of upland she held by will from her husband Thomas Dotey - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Property | 18 Oct 1725 | acknowledged sale of land to John White - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America | | ||
| Property | 21 Oct 1725 | property which she deeded to her grandson Thomas Dotey | | ||
| Death | Aft 21 Oct 1725 | |
Families
| Spouse | Thomas DOTY (1641 - 1678) |
| Child | Martha DOTY (1672 - 1748) |
| Child | Hannah DOTY (1675 - 1764) |
| Child | Thomas DOTY (1679 - 1721) |
| Spouse | Henry CHURCHILL (1658 - ) |
| Father | John CHURCHILL (1620 - 1662) |
| Mother | Hannah PONTUS (1624 - 1690) |
| Sibling | William CHURCHILL (1656 - 1722) |
| Sibling | Hannah CHURCHILL (1649 - 1721) |
| Sibling | Eleazar CHURCHILL (1652 - 1716) |
| Sibling | John CHURCHILL (1657 - 1723) |
| Sibling | Joseph CHURCHILL ( - ) |
Notes
Marriage
Between the dates when she appeared in court under her maiden name and nine months prior to birth of second childWill-shared
Non-cupative will left entire estate to wife, Mary.Marriage
In the source, there is substantial discussion of the theory that Mary and Henry were siblings.Property
The house and land had been purchased by Lemuel and his now-deceased brother Nicholas, from Mary's son Thomas Dotey by deed dated 23 July 1709.Endnotes
1. Peter B Hill, Compiler, Edward Doty: His Descendants through sons Thomas and Samuel, and daughters Desire and Elizabeth, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Volume 11, Part II (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendents, 1996), 4.
2. "Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850: Plymouth Vol 1," database index with images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (AmericanAncestors.org: viewed 31 December 2014), p 661, entry for Mary [Churchill]; citing transcription of Lee D van Antwerp (compiler) and Ruth Wilder Sherman (editor), "Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850," Picton Press, Camden, Maine, 1993.
3. Maj Joel Andrew Delano, (compiler), The genealogy, history and alliances of the American house of Delano, 1621 to 1899: with the history and heraldry of the maison de Franchimont and de Lannoy to Delano, 1096 to 1621, and the royal ancestry of Lannoy from Guelph, prince of the Scyrri, to Phillippe de Lannoy, 476 A. D. to 1621, including other royal lines and a list of the Lannoy chevaliers de la toison d'or [golden fleece] (New York: [n.p.], 1899), pdf p 230 [original p 104]; digital images, Open Library, Open Library (https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23693816M/The_genealogy_history_and_alliances_of_the_American_house_of_Delano_1621_to_1899. : accessed 22 February 2015.
4. Barbara Lambert Merrick, "Doty and Churchill of Plymouth Colony: The Two Claimed Wives of Thomas Doty," The American Genealogist, 71 (1996), online archive, AmericanAncestors.org (http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/american-genealogist-the/image/?pageName=120&volumeId=13131 : downloaded 11 September 2016), p 114; citing Plymouth Colony Records.
5. Peter B Hill, Compiler, Edward Doty: His Descendants through sons Thomas and Samuel, and daughters Desire and Elizabeth, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Volume 11, Part II (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendents, 1996), 4.
6. Barbara Lambert Merrick, "Doty and Churchill of Plymouth Colony: The Two Claimed Wives of Thomas Doty," The American Genealogist, 71 (1996), online archive, AmericanAncestors.org (http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/american-genealogist-the/image/?pageName=120&volumeId=13131 : downloaded 11 September 2016), p 116.
7. Peter B Hill, Compiler, Edward Doty: His Descendants through sons Thomas and Samuel, and daughters Desire and Elizabeth, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Volume 11, Part II (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendents, 1996), 4.
8. Barbara Lambert Merrick, "Doty and Churchill of Plymouth Colony: The Two Claimed Wives of Thomas Doty," The American Genealogist, 71 (1996), online archive, AmericanAncestors.org (http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/american-genealogist-the/image/?pageName=120&volumeId=13131 : downloaded 11 September 2016), p 116.
9. Peter B Hill, Compiler, Edward Doty: His Descendants through sons Thomas and Samuel, and daughters Desire and Elizabeth, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Volume 11, Part II (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendents, 1996), 4.
10. Barbara Lambert Merrick, "Doty and Churchill of Plymouth Colony: The Two Claimed Wives of Thomas Doty," The American Genealogist, 71 (1996), online archive, AmericanAncestors.org (http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/american-genealogist-the/image/?pageName=120&volumeId=13131 : downloaded 11 September 2016), pp 119-120.
11. Peter B Hill, Compiler, Edward Doty: His Descendants through sons Thomas and Samuel, and daughters Desire and Elizabeth, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Volume 11, Part II (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendents, 1996), 5.
12. Peter B Hill, Compiler, Edward Doty: His Descendants through sons Thomas and Samuel, and daughters Desire and Elizabeth, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Volume 11, Part II (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendents, 1996), 4-5.
13. Maj Joel Andrew Delano, (compiler), The genealogy, history and alliances of the American house of Delano, 1621 to 1899: with the history and heraldry of the maison de Franchimont and de Lannoy to Delano, 1096 to 1621, and the royal ancestry of Lannoy from Guelph, prince of the Scyrri, to Phillippe de Lannoy, 476 A. D. to 1621, including other royal lines and a list of the Lannoy chevaliers de la toison d'or [golden fleece] (New York: [n.p.], 1899), pdf p 231 [104]; digital images, Open Library, Open Library (https://openlibrary.org/books/OL23693816M/The_genealogy_history_and_alliances_of_the_American_house_of_Delano_1621_to_1899. : accessed 1 March 2015.
14. "Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850: Plymouth Vol 1," database index with images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, American Ancestors (AmericanAncestors.org: accessed 2 April 2015), p 85, [p. 127] entry for "6 Henery Churchill", http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/massachusetts-vital-records-to-1850/image/?volumeId=14012&pageName=85&rId=253512628; citing transcription of Lee D van Antwerp (compiler) and Ruth Wilder Sherman (editor), "Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850," Picton Press, Camden, Maine, 1993.
15. Barbara Lambert Merrick, "Doty and Churchill of Plymouth Colony: The Two Claimed Wives of Thomas Doty," The American Genealogist, 71 (1996), online archive, AmericanAncestors.org (http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/american-genealogist-the/image/?pageName=120&volumeId=13131 : downloaded 11 September 2016), p 120.
16. Barbara Lambert Merrick, "Doty and Churchill of Plymouth Colony: The Two Claimed Wives of Thomas Doty," The American Genealogist, 71 (1996), online archive, AmericanAncestors.org (http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/american-genealogist-the/image/?pageName=120&volumeId=13131 : downloaded 11 September 2016), p 115.
17. Peter B Hill, Compiler, Edward Doty: His Descendants through sons Thomas and Samuel, and daughters Desire and Elizabeth, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Volume 11, Part II (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendents, 1996), 5.
18. Peter B Hill, Compiler, Edward Doty: His Descendants through sons Thomas and Samuel, and daughters Desire and Elizabeth, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Volume 11, Part II (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendents, 1996), 5.
19. Peter B Hill, Compiler, Edward Doty: His Descendants through sons Thomas and Samuel, and daughters Desire and Elizabeth, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Volume 11, Part II (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendents, 1996), 5.
20. Peter B Hill, Compiler, Edward Doty: His Descendants through sons Thomas and Samuel, and daughters Desire and Elizabeth, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Volume 11, Part II (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendents, 1996), 5-6.
21. Peter B Hill, Compiler, Edward Doty: His Descendants through sons Thomas and Samuel, and daughters Desire and Elizabeth, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Volume 11, Part II (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendents, 1996), 4-6.
22. Barbara Lambert Merrick, "Doty and Churchill of Plymouth Colony: The Two Claimed Wives of Thomas Doty," The American Genealogist, 71 (1996), online archive, AmericanAncestors.org (http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/american-genealogist-the/image/?pageName=120&volumeId=13131 : downloaded 11 September 2016), p 120.
23. Peter B Hill, Compiler, Edward Doty: His Descendants through sons Thomas and Samuel, and daughters Desire and Elizabeth, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Volume 11, Part II (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendents, 1996), 4.
24. Barbara Lambert Merrick, "Doty and Churchill of Plymouth Colony: The Two Claimed Wives of Thomas Doty," The American Genealogist, 71 (1996), online archive, AmericanAncestors.org (http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/american-genealogist-the/image/?pageName=120&volumeId=13131 : downloaded 11 September 2016), p 120.