It is an assumption that Jeremiah Doty was buried in the now-called Van Veghten Cemetery which was the graveyard of the First Reformed Church referred to in early records as the Raritan Church. He was associated with this church. This church is now in Somerville, but it was originally on the "north side of the Raritan" near Finderne outside of what is now Somerville.
It is located on the grounds of an office building at 10 Finderne Ave., Bridgewater, NJ. It was likely much larger than the area currently fenced.
In 1912, in the "Somerset County Historical Quarterly" Vol. 1, on page 274, in an article about the Smith Burying-Ground, it says that bodies and gravestones were moved "to the old First Reformed church lot, on the north side of the Raritan, whereon stood the church that was burned in the Col. Simcoe raid of 1779, and where two or three headstones still stand, one being that of Derick Van Veghten." The cemetery was clearly decayed 100 years ago.
According to "The Historical Background and Growth of the Bedminster Church, Bedminister, NJ," "The Church of the Raritan, to which reference has been made, appears to have been erected sometime between 1718 and 1721 on land donated by Michael Van Veghten, one of the earliest colonists in that part of Somerset. The building stood on ground just north of the present Finderne and remained in use until 1784, when a new brick structure was built in Somerville town itself." Thus, the Church of the Raritan became the First Church, Somerville."
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Jeremiah Doty was baptized at the Raritan Church, Somerset County, NJ 3 June 1714 as were his two siblings. Some of his children were also baptized at Raritan. His parents were Edward Doty 1685-1717 and Sarah (Davis? Faunce?) Doty who was living in 1717. It is likely he was born in Piscataway where his father's will was probated. The boundary between this part of Somerset County and Piscataway, Middlesex County is very near.
He seems to have lived in Somerset County as an adult. He lived in Bridgewater certainly from 1777 until 1797 and likely earlier. He was one of the landowners who petitioned the New Jersey Assembly in 1778 for compensation for the damage done to their property by George Washington's army encamped at Middlebrook in 1777. He appeared regularly in the tax-rateable lists from 1779 until 1797.
According to the 1897 "Doty-Doten Family in America" there is a 15 Aug 1766 document in which he mortgages property. According to it, he was a cordwainer, i.e. a shoemaker.
He and his wife appear in a Somerset County deed in 1788 settling ownership of the last of her father's property.
His daughter Marite/Mary and her husband Joshua Martin joined him in Bridgewater in the 1780s.
He seems to have died c 1797 which is his last appearance in the tax records in Bridgewater. In the "Doty-Doten Family in America," it says he died c 1790 but there are multiple tax records after that.
He was a great-grandson of Pilgrim Edward Doty of the Mayflower. His grandfather Samuel Doty moved to Piscataway from Massachusetts.
He married Hampye/Harmtje/Harriet Coevert, daughter of Teunis Coevert, about 1742. She reportedly died in Hector, NY in c. 1795 but likely later. Her son Jacob lived there until after 1850. The original source is "The Doty-Doten Family in America." Hector, NY is about 16 miles from Ovid, NY where two of her other adult children lived. After being widowed it is possible she joined them. In addition, her cousin Tunis Covert, namesake of Covert, NY which was originally part of Ovid, moved there. Both her daughter Sarah and her cousin and his family were buried at the McNeal Cemetery, Ovid, NY. This old cemetery is full of 18th century New Jersey people--including members of the Covert, Sebring, Compton, Tunison families--who moved to the Ovid area after the American Revolution when lands in the "Central New York Military Tract" were granted to veterans. That, she too, was buried there is a best-guess.
His children were:
* Unnamed child bap. 13 July 1743, likely Edward 1743-1754
* Nelly b. c. 1749 (It was previously assumed that she married Joseph Allen of Monmouth County, NJ in 1798. This turned out to be a different woman.)
* Sarah/Sally bap. 7 May 1751 - 1817, married Reuben Dennis and moved to Ovid, NY
* Marite/Mary bap. 28 Oct 1752, married 1. James Bishop, 2. Joshua Martin, is very likely buried at the Old Presbyterian Churchyard in Bound Brook as was her 2nd husband, no existing gravestone. She is sometimes called Maria in family histories. The "Doty-Doten Family in American" listed her as Mouchey and had her baptism date wrong. I have seen no contemporaneous records using that nickname.
* John bap. at Readington 13 Apr 1755 - 1830, married Charity UKN 1778, moved to Ovid, NY
* Jannetje/Jenny bap. 29 Aug 1756 in Readington (died as infant and name reused? baptized twice or recorded twice?)
* Jannetje/Jenny bap. 29 Aug 1757 in North Branch, married Henry Tucker per "Silver Books". There is a Henry Tucker in the tax records as late as 1793 in Bridgewater and Bernards Twps.
* Hampye bap. 3 Sept 1756 - 1829, unmarried, lived with sister Maria/Mary Martin, left estate to two nieces, is buried at the Old Presbyterian Churchyard in Bound Brook
* Jacob b. c. 1759 - 1855, moved to Ovid, NY, married there Aulchy Huff 1797, moved to Lainsburg, MI late in life, perhaps to join his son Jeremiah with whom he was living in 1850 (FAG 14345606)
NB that there was a Revolutionary War soldier in Somerset Co NJ named Jeremiah Doty. This was likely his nephew, son of brother John Doty, and namesake. This Jeremiah was too old to have been soldiering.
It is located on the grounds of an office building at 10 Finderne Ave., Bridgewater, NJ. It was likely much larger than the area currently fenced.
In 1912, in the "Somerset County Historical Quarterly" Vol. 1, on page 274, in an article about the Smith Burying-Ground, it says that bodies and gravestones were moved "to the old First Reformed church lot, on the north side of the Raritan, whereon stood the church that was burned in the Col. Simcoe raid of 1779, and where two or three headstones still stand, one being that of Derick Van Veghten." The cemetery was clearly decayed 100 years ago.
According to "The Historical Background and Growth of the Bedminster Church, Bedminister, NJ," "The Church of the Raritan, to which reference has been made, appears to have been erected sometime between 1718 and 1721 on land donated by Michael Van Veghten, one of the earliest colonists in that part of Somerset. The building stood on ground just north of the present Finderne and remained in use until 1784, when a new brick structure was built in Somerville town itself." Thus, the Church of the Raritan became the First Church, Somerville."
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Jeremiah Doty was baptized at the Raritan Church, Somerset County, NJ 3 June 1714 as were his two siblings. Some of his children were also baptized at Raritan. His parents were Edward Doty 1685-1717 and Sarah (Davis? Faunce?) Doty who was living in 1717. It is likely he was born in Piscataway where his father's will was probated. The boundary between this part of Somerset County and Piscataway, Middlesex County is very near.
He seems to have lived in Somerset County as an adult. He lived in Bridgewater certainly from 1777 until 1797 and likely earlier. He was one of the landowners who petitioned the New Jersey Assembly in 1778 for compensation for the damage done to their property by George Washington's army encamped at Middlebrook in 1777. He appeared regularly in the tax-rateable lists from 1779 until 1797.
According to the 1897 "Doty-Doten Family in America" there is a 15 Aug 1766 document in which he mortgages property. According to it, he was a cordwainer, i.e. a shoemaker.
He and his wife appear in a Somerset County deed in 1788 settling ownership of the last of her father's property.
His daughter Marite/Mary and her husband Joshua Martin joined him in Bridgewater in the 1780s.
He seems to have died c 1797 which is his last appearance in the tax records in Bridgewater. In the "Doty-Doten Family in America," it says he died c 1790 but there are multiple tax records after that.
He was a great-grandson of Pilgrim Edward Doty of the Mayflower. His grandfather Samuel Doty moved to Piscataway from Massachusetts.
He married Hampye/Harmtje/Harriet Coevert, daughter of Teunis Coevert, about 1742. She reportedly died in Hector, NY in c. 1795 but likely later. Her son Jacob lived there until after 1850. The original source is "The Doty-Doten Family in America." Hector, NY is about 16 miles from Ovid, NY where two of her other adult children lived. After being widowed it is possible she joined them. In addition, her cousin Tunis Covert, namesake of Covert, NY which was originally part of Ovid, moved there. Both her daughter Sarah and her cousin and his family were buried at the McNeal Cemetery, Ovid, NY. This old cemetery is full of 18th century New Jersey people--including members of the Covert, Sebring, Compton, Tunison families--who moved to the Ovid area after the American Revolution when lands in the "Central New York Military Tract" were granted to veterans. That, she too, was buried there is a best-guess.
His children were:
* Unnamed child bap. 13 July 1743, likely Edward 1743-1754
* Nelly b. c. 1749 (It was previously assumed that she married Joseph Allen of Monmouth County, NJ in 1798. This turned out to be a different woman.)
* Sarah/Sally bap. 7 May 1751 - 1817, married Reuben Dennis and moved to Ovid, NY
* Marite/Mary bap. 28 Oct 1752, married 1. James Bishop, 2. Joshua Martin, is very likely buried at the Old Presbyterian Churchyard in Bound Brook as was her 2nd husband, no existing gravestone. She is sometimes called Maria in family histories. The "Doty-Doten Family in American" listed her as Mouchey and had her baptism date wrong. I have seen no contemporaneous records using that nickname.
* John bap. at Readington 13 Apr 1755 - 1830, married Charity UKN 1778, moved to Ovid, NY
* Jannetje/Jenny bap. 29 Aug 1756 in Readington (died as infant and name reused? baptized twice or recorded twice?)
* Jannetje/Jenny bap. 29 Aug 1757 in North Branch, married Henry Tucker per "Silver Books". There is a Henry Tucker in the tax records as late as 1793 in Bridgewater and Bernards Twps.
* Hampye bap. 3 Sept 1756 - 1829, unmarried, lived with sister Maria/Mary Martin, left estate to two nieces, is buried at the Old Presbyterian Churchyard in Bound Brook
* Jacob b. c. 1759 - 1855, moved to Ovid, NY, married there Aulchy Huff 1797, moved to Lainsburg, MI late in life, perhaps to join his son Jeremiah with whom he was living in 1850 (FAG 14345606)
NB that there was a Revolutionary War soldier in Somerset Co NJ named Jeremiah Doty. This was likely his nephew, son of brother John Doty, and namesake. This Jeremiah was too old to have been soldiering.
It is an assumption that Jeremiah Doty was buried in the now-called Van Veghten Cemetery which was the graveyard of the First Reformed Church referred to in early records as the Raritan Church. He was associated with this church. This church is now in Somerville, but it was originally on the "north side of the Raritan" near Finderne outside of what is now Somerville.
It is located on the grounds of an office building at 10 Finderne Ave., Bridgewater, NJ. It was likely much larger than the area currently fenced.
In 1912, in the "Somerset County Historical Quarterly" Vol. 1, on page 274, in an article about the Smith Burying-Ground, it says that bodies and gravestones were moved "to the old First Reformed church lot, on the north side of the Raritan, whereon stood the church that was burned in the Col. Simcoe raid of 1779, and where two or three headstones still stand, one being that of Derick Van Veghten." The cemetery was clearly decayed 100 years ago.
According to "The Historical Background and Growth of the Bedminster Church, Bedminister, NJ," "The Church of the Raritan, to which reference has been made, appears to have been erected sometime between 1718 and 1721 on land donated by Michael Van Veghten, one of the earliest colonists in that part of Somerset. The building stood on ground just north of the present Finderne and remained in use until 1784, when a new brick structure was built in Somerville town itself." Thus, the Church of the Raritan became the First Church, Somerville."
**
Jeremiah Doty was baptized at the Raritan Church, Somerset County, NJ 3 June 1714 as were his two siblings. Some of his children were also baptized at Raritan. His parents were Edward Doty 1685-1717 and Sarah (Davis? Faunce?) Doty who was living in 1717. It is likely he was born in Piscataway where his father's will was probated. The boundary between this part of Somerset County and Piscataway, Middlesex County is very near.
He seems to have lived in Somerset County as an adult. He lived in Bridgewater certainly from 1777 until 1797 and likely earlier. He was one of the landowners who petitioned the New Jersey Assembly in 1778 for compensation for the damage done to their property by George Washington's army encamped at Middlebrook in 1777. He appeared regularly in the tax-rateable lists from 1779 until 1797.
According to the 1897 "Doty-Doten Family in America" there is a 15 Aug 1766 document in which he mortgages property. According to it, he was a cordwainer, i.e. a shoemaker.
He and his wife appear in a Somerset County deed in 1788 settling ownership of the last of her father's property.
His daughter Marite/Mary and her husband Joshua Martin joined him in Bridgewater in the 1780s.
He seems to have died c 1797 which is his last appearance in the tax records in Bridgewater. In the "Doty-Doten Family in America," it says he died c 1790 but there are multiple tax records after that.
He was a great-grandson of Pilgrim Edward Doty of the Mayflower. His grandfather Samuel Doty moved to Piscataway from Massachusetts.
He married Hampye/Harmtje/Harriet Coevert, daughter of Teunis Coevert, about 1742. She reportedly died in Hector, NY in c. 1795 but likely later. Her son Jacob lived there until after 1850. The original source is "The Doty-Doten Family in America." Hector, NY is about 16 miles from Ovid, NY where two of her other adult children lived. After being widowed it is possible she joined them. In addition, her cousin Tunis Covert, namesake of Covert, NY which was originally part of Ovid, moved there. Both her daughter Sarah and her cousin and his family were buried at the McNeal Cemetery, Ovid, NY. This old cemetery is full of 18th century New Jersey people--including members of the Covert, Sebring, Compton, Tunison families--who moved to the Ovid area after the American Revolution when lands in the "Central New York Military Tract" were granted to veterans. That, she too, was buried there is a best-guess.
His children were:
* Unnamed child bap. 13 July 1743, likely Edward 1743-1754
* Nelly b. c. 1749 (It was previously assumed that she married Joseph Allen of Monmouth County, NJ in 1798. This turned out to be a different woman.)
* Sarah/Sally bap. 7 May 1751 - 1817, married Reuben Dennis and moved to Ovid, NY
* Marite/Mary bap. 28 Oct 1752, married 1. James Bishop, 2. Joshua Martin, is very likely buried at the Old Presbyterian Churchyard in Bound Brook as was her 2nd husband, no existing gravestone. She is sometimes called Maria in family histories. The "Doty-Doten Family in American" listed her as Mouchey and had her baptism date wrong. I have seen no contemporaneous records using that nickname.
* John bap. at Readington 13 Apr 1755 - 1830, married Charity UKN 1778, moved to Ovid, NY
* Jannetje/Jenny bap. 29 Aug 1756 in Readington (died as infant and name reused? baptized twice or recorded twice?)
* Jannetje/Jenny bap. 29 Aug 1757 in North Branch, married Henry Tucker per "Silver Books". There is a Henry Tucker in the tax records as late as 1793 in Bridgewater and Bernards Twps.
* Hampye bap. 3 Sept 1756 - 1829, unmarried, lived with sister Maria/Mary Martin, left estate to two nieces, is buried at the Old Presbyterian Churchyard in Bound Brook
* Jacob b. c. 1759 - 1855, moved to Ovid, NY, married there Aulchy Huff 1797, moved to Lainsburg, MI late in life, perhaps to join his son Jeremiah with whom he was living in 1850 (FAG 14345606)
NB that there was a Revolutionary War soldier in Somerset Co NJ named Jeremiah Doty. This was likely his nephew, son of brother John Doty, and namesake. This Jeremiah was too old to have been soldiering.
It is located on the grounds of an office building at 10 Finderne Ave., Bridgewater, NJ. It was likely much larger than the area currently fenced.
In 1912, in the "Somerset County Historical Quarterly" Vol. 1, on page 274, in an article about the Smith Burying-Ground, it says that bodies and gravestones were moved "to the old First Reformed church lot, on the north side of the Raritan, whereon stood the church that was burned in the Col. Simcoe raid of 1779, and where two or three headstones still stand, one being that of Derick Van Veghten." The cemetery was clearly decayed 100 years ago.
According to "The Historical Background and Growth of the Bedminster Church, Bedminister, NJ," "The Church of the Raritan, to which reference has been made, appears to have been erected sometime between 1718 and 1721 on land donated by Michael Van Veghten, one of the earliest colonists in that part of Somerset. The building stood on ground just north of the present Finderne and remained in use until 1784, when a new brick structure was built in Somerville town itself." Thus, the Church of the Raritan became the First Church, Somerville."
**
Jeremiah Doty was baptized at the Raritan Church, Somerset County, NJ 3 June 1714 as were his two siblings. Some of his children were also baptized at Raritan. His parents were Edward Doty 1685-1717 and Sarah (Davis? Faunce?) Doty who was living in 1717. It is likely he was born in Piscataway where his father's will was probated. The boundary between this part of Somerset County and Piscataway, Middlesex County is very near.
He seems to have lived in Somerset County as an adult. He lived in Bridgewater certainly from 1777 until 1797 and likely earlier. He was one of the landowners who petitioned the New Jersey Assembly in 1778 for compensation for the damage done to their property by George Washington's army encamped at Middlebrook in 1777. He appeared regularly in the tax-rateable lists from 1779 until 1797.
According to the 1897 "Doty-Doten Family in America" there is a 15 Aug 1766 document in which he mortgages property. According to it, he was a cordwainer, i.e. a shoemaker.
He and his wife appear in a Somerset County deed in 1788 settling ownership of the last of her father's property.
His daughter Marite/Mary and her husband Joshua Martin joined him in Bridgewater in the 1780s.
He seems to have died c 1797 which is his last appearance in the tax records in Bridgewater. In the "Doty-Doten Family in America," it says he died c 1790 but there are multiple tax records after that.
He was a great-grandson of Pilgrim Edward Doty of the Mayflower. His grandfather Samuel Doty moved to Piscataway from Massachusetts.
He married Hampye/Harmtje/Harriet Coevert, daughter of Teunis Coevert, about 1742. She reportedly died in Hector, NY in c. 1795 but likely later. Her son Jacob lived there until after 1850. The original source is "The Doty-Doten Family in America." Hector, NY is about 16 miles from Ovid, NY where two of her other adult children lived. After being widowed it is possible she joined them. In addition, her cousin Tunis Covert, namesake of Covert, NY which was originally part of Ovid, moved there. Both her daughter Sarah and her cousin and his family were buried at the McNeal Cemetery, Ovid, NY. This old cemetery is full of 18th century New Jersey people--including members of the Covert, Sebring, Compton, Tunison families--who moved to the Ovid area after the American Revolution when lands in the "Central New York Military Tract" were granted to veterans. That, she too, was buried there is a best-guess.
His children were:
* Unnamed child bap. 13 July 1743, likely Edward 1743-1754
* Nelly b. c. 1749 (It was previously assumed that she married Joseph Allen of Monmouth County, NJ in 1798. This turned out to be a different woman.)
* Sarah/Sally bap. 7 May 1751 - 1817, married Reuben Dennis and moved to Ovid, NY
* Marite/Mary bap. 28 Oct 1752, married 1. James Bishop, 2. Joshua Martin, is very likely buried at the Old Presbyterian Churchyard in Bound Brook as was her 2nd husband, no existing gravestone. She is sometimes called Maria in family histories. The "Doty-Doten Family in American" listed her as Mouchey and had her baptism date wrong. I have seen no contemporaneous records using that nickname.
* John bap. at Readington 13 Apr 1755 - 1830, married Charity UKN 1778, moved to Ovid, NY
* Jannetje/Jenny bap. 29 Aug 1756 in Readington (died as infant and name reused? baptized twice or recorded twice?)
* Jannetje/Jenny bap. 29 Aug 1757 in North Branch, married Henry Tucker per "Silver Books". There is a Henry Tucker in the tax records as late as 1793 in Bridgewater and Bernards Twps.
* Hampye bap. 3 Sept 1756 - 1829, unmarried, lived with sister Maria/Mary Martin, left estate to two nieces, is buried at the Old Presbyterian Churchyard in Bound Brook
* Jacob b. c. 1759 - 1855, moved to Ovid, NY, married there Aulchy Huff 1797, moved to Lainsburg, MI late in life, perhaps to join his son Jeremiah with whom he was living in 1850 (FAG 14345606)
NB that there was a Revolutionary War soldier in Somerset Co NJ named Jeremiah Doty. This was likely his nephew, son of brother John Doty, and namesake. This Jeremiah was too old to have been soldiering.
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