John Doggett's Migrations

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From such evidence Savage and other well known antiquarians all agree that John Doggett came in the same fleet with Winthrop, arriving in Salem sometime between 12 June and 2 July 1630, according to which of the four vessels brought him to New England. He removed with Sir Richard Saltonstall to, and was one of the earliest settlers of, Watertown, Massachusetts. </div> <div> The home of Sir Richard Saltonstall was situated on the Charles River, within that strip of territory which was taken from Watertown and annexed to Cambridge in 1754, and was about a mile from the site of Harvard College. Between the home of Sir Richard and the New Town (Cambridge) line there was only one intervening lot, which belonged to John Doggett and contained thirteen acres. This lot he sold to Thomas Bringham in 1637. It may have been John Doggett's place of residence from his settlement there in 1630 to 1637, although, in The History of The Doggett - Daggett Family, Samuel Bradlee Doggett states his beleif that the homestall during his residence in Watertown was the fifteen acre lot bounded north and west by the (Fresh) pond and Nicholas Busby, south by highway, east by W. Paine and probably enbracing the lot of the Fresh Pond Hotel. </div> <div> The records of Watertown do not show that John Doggett took any prominant part in the affairs of the town during the time he made it his residence, as his name does not occur on the town records which have been preserved. Having taken up residence there, he applied to be made a freeman of the colony on 19 OCT 1630 and was admitted on 18 MAY 1631. In order for such an admission, it was necessary to be a church member, and for this reason there were some men holding respectable social positions who never were thus admitted, or not until of an advanced age. It was not necessary, however, to be a church member or a freeman in order to hold office in the town, or appointments from the court. This could be done by taking the oath of fidelity. </div> <div> In the Watertown Inventory of Grants John Doggett held 6 parcels of land: 30 acres in Great Dividend, granted 25 JUL 1636; 6 acres in Beaverbrook Plowlands, granted 28 FEB 1636/7, 6 acres in Town Plot, granted 9 APR 1638; 2 acres of meadow; 6 acres of Remote meadow; and a 15 acre homestall. In the Composite Inventory he retained only one of these parcels, the 15 acre homestall. (Four of the parcels granted to John Doggett were in the Composite Inventory in the posession of Richard Wait.) As John Doggett received six acres in the Beaverbrook Plowland and in the Remote Meadows, his family could have consisted of himself, his wife and 4 children. The reconstruction of the birth years of the children only gives him 3 children at the date of these grants, so some adjustment may be necessary in the list of the children. On the other hand, the sixth acre of these grants may have been for some member of the household other than the immediate family, or for the family's holdings of livestock. </div> <div> John Doggett continued to live in Watertown, receiving his shares in the several proprietors' divisions until some time about 1646, when he removed to Rehoboth, Massachusetts. He was propounded as a freeman of Plymouth Colony 7 JUN 1648 (and presumably made free on that date, as he was also the deputy to that court from Rehoboth), and was appointed customs taker for Rehoboth on that same date. </div> <div> Prior to that, however, Thomas Mayhew had become a townsman of Watertown, and when the purchase of Martha's Vineyard was made in 1641, John Doggett became an interested party, as a grantee, with others of a township on this island in MAR 1642. He remained in Rehoboth as late as the summer of 1648, but for how much longer is unknown, as the next record of him is on 20 MAR 1651/2 when he was chosen corporal of the military company at Martha's Vineyard. He soon attained to prominence in the local affairs of the island & on 8 JUN 1653 he was chosen assistant to the chief magistrate to manage the business of the island, a position to which he was annually elected for the three following years. It then becomes apparent that he did not get along smoothly with Mayhew and by 1660 he was entirely at "outs" with him. This probably arose form his purchase of the Indians at Ogkeshkuppe of a farm of 500 acres without Mayhew's consent, though Doggett had been granted the choice of a farm of that size by Mayhew in 1642, to be located not less than 3 miles from the governor's lot. His home lot at Great Harbor was the first one south of Governor Mayhew's, as was situated on the west side of the road to the plains as it passes Tower Hill. It was apparently the west half of a lot owned by him and Malachi Browning. It is probable that the was the side of his residence. Doggett was one of the townsmen who "submitted" to the Mayhew government in 1661, and in the next 2 years he is recorded as plaintiff in several civil suits against his neighbors for debts or damages; among these, on 2 OCT 1662 "John Doged of the Island called Martin's Vineyard" complained that the Vineyard did not honor his ownership of land granted him there by Thomas Mayhew. John Doggett was one of the subscribers to the "general fence" in the fall of 1663. On 29 JAN 1665/6, John Doggett, " the Elder," acting as agent for the town purchased some fishing rights (one-twelfth of the one-fifth of a lot next to the sea at Martin's Vineyard) from the Sachem Towanicut. Besides the five hundred acre "farm" the realestate holdings of John Doggett were as follows: </div> <div> "This is a true record of the pertickeler parcells of Land Now in Posession of John Doggett Inhabitant upon Martha's Vineyard: first four acres Lying at the South End of the Lott that he sould to John Edy and of the Same Lott, Thomas Jones on the South East, the Comon on the South and on the West: Secondly one Comonage Belonging to it" third one Lott of Meadow at Sanchacantackett two acres More or Less Bounded by John Smith on the South East and Thomas Doggett meadow on the North: fourthly Two acres of meadow upon Chapequideck on the further side of the Island from the Town: fifthly one Lont at Cracketuxet Running from one side of the Neck to the other side of it: Sixly one Lott at Quanomica: Seventhly one Lott at Meachemies his feild: and one Ten acre Lott upon the Line Bounded by John Gee his Lott upon the North East: Etghthly one Lott in Felix Neck; and Ninthly one thach Lott at Wintuckett: Tenthly one shear of alwives and a shear of whale: and Eleventhly one Seven and thrity part of the Meadow that the Town Bought of Tom Sesetom the Injain: all that land Comonage and Preveledges were granted By the Town to the fore said John Doggett and his heirs and assigns for Ever to Injoy and are now in the possession of the foresaid John Doggett and Recorded by me </div> <div> Thomas Doggett Clerk </div> <div> Date May the 26th In the Year 1668"</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> </tR> <tR> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>