Papers, 1747-1849.

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Papers, 1747-1849.

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Papers of the Doughty family of Flushing, Queens County, N.Y., include accounts, bonds, surveys, marriage certificates, wills, receipts, letters, slave documents and genealogical material. Items of note include wedding documents of Zebulon Dickinson and Mary Doughty, 1747, and of George Doughty and Harriet Williams, 1832; will of Zebulon Dickinson, 1748; receipts for pasturage, 1778-1780; letters to William or Benjamin Doughty from John Hinchman, a loyalist who removed to England, 1782-1786; a biography of Mary Doughty (1757-1824) by her son; and a list of graves in the Doughty family plot in Westbury Friends Cemetery. Others mentioned in the documents include Samuel Doughty, Benjamin Carpenter, Increase Carpenter, Silvanus Hicks, Elias Hicks, Willet Lawrence, William Mott, Cornelius Roosevelt, George Farrington Seaman, Nicholas Townsend and Thomas Willit.

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Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830

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Elias Hicks was an eminent Quaker minister from Jericho, Long Island, N.Y. He was a farmer, partner in a tannery, and had a knowledge of surveying. Elias Hicks was born on March 19, 1748, a birthright member of Westbury Monthly Meeting, New York, and the son of John and Martha (Smith) Hicks. At thirteen he went to live with his older brother and was apprenticed to a carpenter. During this time, he became increasingly devoted to religious principles. In 1771, he married Jemima Seaman, th...

Doughty, Samuel.

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Williams, Harriet.

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Doughty, George

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Seaman, George Farington.

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Doughty, Mary.

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Doughty, William R.

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Roosevelt, Cornelius Van Schaack, 1794-1871

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Hicks, Silvanus.

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Doughty family.

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Mott, William L.

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Hinchman, John.

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Dickinson, Zebulon.

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Townsend, Nicholas W., 1951-

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Carpenter, Increase.

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Carpenter, B. Platt (Benjamin Platt), 1837-

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Carpenter, a resident of Poughkeepsie, was elected District Attorney of Dutchess County, N.Y. in 1858. In 1871 he was a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention, and the following year was temporary Chairman of the Republican State Convention. He was elected State Senator in 1875, County Judge in 1877, Chairman of Republican State Committee in 1882 and nominee for Lieutenant-Governor of New York that same year. In 1884 he was nominated for the position of Territorial Governor of Montana b...

Willit, Thomas.

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Lawrence, Willet.

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Doughty, Benjamin.

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Friends Cemetery (Westbury, Nassau County, N.Y.)

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