My
first post OK DOTY’S—TIME TO TAKE IT BACK ANOTHER GENERATION introduced my
readers to Isaac Doty. ISAAC DOTY’S STORY, MINISINK, NY continued the saga.
Last week ISAAC DOTY’S STORY CONTINUES told more of 4th Great
Grandfather’s life. Today’s post completes Isaac’s story.
Isaac
Doty needed cash again in 1809. The Doty’s mortgaged 50 acres of farm land in
Minisink to Mary Kimber for $159.52. You’ll find a transcription of the
agreement in my next paragraph.
Transcription
Orange County, New York Mortgages, Liber G, pages 209-210
A Mortgage from Isaac Doty of Minisink in
Orange County & state of New York & Elizabeth his wife To Mary Kimber
of the same place Dated the sixth day of February one thousand eight hundred
and nine for All that certain tract piece or parcel of Land situate lying and
being in the town of Minisink aforesaid & is part of Lot number Nine in the
first Division of drownded lands in Wawayanda patent and is part of the farm on
which the said Isaac Doty now lives to be taken off the North west end of the
farm the whole width of the farm so far as to include fifty acres of Land__To
be Void on the payment of One hundred & fifty nine Dollars & fifty two
cents on or before the sixth day of February next with Lawful interest
according to the Condition of a bond of Equal date herewith__ and the said
Isaac Doty for himself his heirs executors and administrators, grant and agree
to and with the said Mary Kimber her heirs and assigns, that if in Case it
should so happen, that the said Sum of money above mentioned with the interest
thereon to become due, or any part there of should become due and unpaid, that
then, and in such case it shall and may be Lawful for the said Mary Kimber her
heirs or assigns, to grant, bargain, sell and dispose of the said premises
above mentioned, or any part thereof, at public vendue or otherwise, as to her
shall sum meet, to my person or persons, and for such sum or sums of money as
may be reasonably had for the same, and out of the monies arising or to arise
by the sale or sales thereof, to retain and keep in her hand the said sum of
money above mentioned and the interest that may be due thereon, together with
the Costs and charges for such sale or sales, rendering the Overplus (if any
be) to the said Isaac Doty his heirs, Executors or administrators, which sale
or sales so to be made by virtue of these presents shall be and are hereby
declared to be a full absolute and entire [bar] both in Law and equity against
the said Isaac Doty & Elizabeth his wife their heirs Executors
administrators and assigns and all Claiming under him them or any of them, and
all benefit and equity of Redemption of the premises or any part thereof In Witness whereof the said parties to
these presents have hereunto interchangeably set their hands and seals the day
and year first above written
Sealed and
Delivered in the presence of
Polly Hopkins
Reuben
Hopkins
Isaac Doty
Elizabeth Doty (her mark X)
Acknowledged
by the said Isaac Doty & Elizabeth his wife personally before John Steward
one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas for Orange County the sixth day
of February 1809
A true record
entered the sixth day of February 1809
By Hopkins,
Clerk
Grandfather
was to pay Mary Kimber $159.52 and interest by Feb. 6, 1810. I’m certain the
Grandparents felt appreciative to Mary Kimber for the financial help she gave. I’d
like to know Mary Kimber’s relationship to Isaac and Elizabeth. Was she a
neighbor, friend, or relative? I’m curious as I have Kimber ancestry too.
When
February 6, 1810 arrived, Isaac couldn’t pay his debt. The United States was in
the midst of an economic depression because of President Thomas Jefferson’s Embargo
Act of 1807. Congress hoped the embargo would keep our country neutral from the
wars being fought between Britain and France. The result was decreased trade
with many industries negatively affected.
Mary
Kimber’s attorney, Stephen Jackson, started proceedings to sell the Doty’s 50
acres on August 26, 1810. The land would be sold at a public auction at the
Court House in Goshen, New York. A
notice, ‘Sale by Mortgage’ was published in the Goshen newspaper Orange County
Patriot. The advertisement was printed weekly in the January and February 1811
issues and it also appeared in the March 5, 12, and 26, 1811 editions.
Legal Notice from the
Orange County Patriot
Published in Goshen,
New York
March 12, 1811
Mary
Kimber might have given Grandfather more time to pay the debt as the public
auction was postponed until May 1, 1811. Who bought Grandfather’s land? A
search of the Grantor indexes and deeds for Mary Kimber, Attorney Stephen
Jackson, and Sheriff of Orange County provided no clues.
Isaac
and his family lived in Minisink in 1810. According to the 1810 federal census
the children at home included his sons—Isaac, Jr., Joseph, Benjamin, Abner,
John and Jacob. Huldah was the baby of the family. Four year old Betsey died in
1809. Ruth, 17 years of age, still lived at home. The eldest, Hannah, wasn’t
with the family. She had probably married Uriah Ferguson by this date.
Sometime
between 1810 and 1811 Isaac left Orange County taking Elizabeth and the
children to upstate New York. Joseph, Isaac
and Elizabeth’s son, told Ethan Allen Doty (the author of The Doty-Doten Family
in America) that his father died about 1811 in Horseheads, New York. He was an
11-year-old boy when his father passed.
Did
newly widowed Grandmother Elizabeth and the children return to Orange County
after Grandfather died? I can’t say. Please contact me if you know what
happened.
Back
in Sussex County, New Jersey, Grandfather’s creditors claimed the proceeds from
the sale of 9 acres in Wantage that had belonged to Isaac’s father, Benjamin
Doty. The authorities in Sussex County didn’t know Grandfather had died and
called him an “absconding debtor” in a legal notice published in the Orange
County Patriot April 6, 1813. Poor Grandmother was left a widow with young
children and debts.
Legal Notice from the
Orange County Patriot
Published in Goshen,
New York
April 6, 1813
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