DOUGHTY ANCESTRY

Edward Doughty (b. 1738, Virginia) and Permelia Lucas Doughty were the parents of Mary Doughty (b. Jan. 17, 1776, Fayette County, Pennsylvania). Mary married James McCreary on March 11, 1794, and they settled nearLebanon in Warren County, Ohio.  James & Mary were the paternal grandparents of John Skinner McCreary, and great-grandparents of Emma Jane McCreary Muffley.

The spelling of our Doughty ancestry got mangled into “Dougherty” (& variants) in Warren County Ohio documents, and this error was perpetuated. My on-site Ohio visit (I arrived there on 9/11/01) & subsequent forays into Dougherty research represent a genealogical wrong-turn.

An August 7, 1785, Pennsylvania land survey for heirs of our ancestor Edward Doughty (b. 1738, Virginia) has “Dougherty” crossed out, and “Doughty” written in. Additionally Howard L. Leckey’s book “The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Families: A Genealogical History of the Upper Monongahela Valley”

refers to “Edward Doughty”: Edward’s daughter Permelia Doughty married Abijah McClain. Permelia was Mary’s sister. Abijah & Permelia Lucas McClain appear at

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/d/e/m/Rebecca-A-Dempster/GENE1-0002.html

Edward Doughty was reportedly born in 1738 in Virginia. Some information about him appears in “The Horn Papers”, but much care must be taken here, since those papers were revealed to be a hoax. Seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_Papers

Several trees at Ancestry.com list our Edward Doughty, mostly focused upon the line of Permelia Doughty McClain. There have been efforts to assess the likelihood that our Edward Doughty descended from the Edward Doty who came over on the “Mayflower”. The Doty/Doughty yDNA project at www.familytreedna.com/public/Doughty-Doty/default.aspx?section=yresults  has a cluster called Group V for those claiming descent from the Mayflower ancestor.

The 1758 marriage between Edward Doughty & Permelia Lucas reportedly took place in southwest Pennsylvania, but it may have been in Virginia before the migration. Tenmile Country (Tenmile Creek of current Greene & Washington counties) in Pennsylvania was pretty sparsely peopled prior to the arrival of a Maryland & Virginia group (including some Lucas, Van Meter, Hughes, & Swan people) coming with Thomas Gist, c. 1767.  The bogus Horn Papers claim that Edward Doughty arrived in Tenmile Country in 1766, & that he settled at what is now Rice’s Landing in Greene County, Pennsylvania. That location is correct anyway. I have a copy of the land survey for 300 acres. The Edward Doughty land, called “Pigeon’s Resort”, lay between the Monongahela River & the landof Thomas Blackledge. Later, that land became part of today’s Rice’s Landing.

Rice’s Landing lies in current Greene County on the west bank of the Monongahela River. From across the river into Fayette County it is only a few miles east to the land of our Hugh McCreary (b. 1744), father of James McCreary (who was a 4^th great grandfather of Gary Muffley).

Our Edward Doughty and Permelia Lucas had 6 daughters, and a son James who died young without heirs (thus no opportunity for a yDNA study there). The eldest daughter Permelia was born in 1759.

The Revolutionary War was in progress when our Mary Doughty was born on January 17, 1776. Her father reportedly already had some previous soldering experience. There had been Indian attacks in the area in 1774.

Permelia Doughty married Abijah McClain on January 10, 1780. According to “Tenmile Country…” (viewable online via Google Books), Abijah had been in the 8^th Pennsylvania Continental Line Regiment at the battles ofBrandywine (Sept. 11, 1777), Germantown (Oct. 4, 1777), & Saratoga (Sept. 19 & Oct. 7, 1777). The 8^thPennsylvania had formed in 1776 at Kittaning (just north of Muffley country in Westmoreland Co.).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th_Pennsylvania_Regiment

Records at www.familysearch.org state that our Edward Doughty, husband of Permelia Lucas, died September 9, 1781, at the Battle of Eutaw Springs, South Carolina, near the Santee River. That battle was fairly much a draw, but helped the Americans strategically, since local British forces were unable to link up with Cornwallis in Virginiabefore the British defeat at Yorktown.

At the Battle of Eutaw Springs, the American forces included troops from Virginia. It is possible that our Edward Doughty was in one of those Virginia units. Until 1784, southwest Pennsylvania was also claimed by Virginia. Nathaniel Greene commanded the American forces at Eutaw Springs. In 1796, Greene County, Pennsylvania, was named in his honor.

Forces known to have participated in the Battle of Eutaw Springs:

www.carolana.com/SC/Revolution/revolution_battle_of_eutaw_springs.html  Since the battle occurred on Sept. 8, & our Edward Doughty died on Sept. 9, it is possible that he was one of the wounded taken to Burdell’s Plantation. Many of the dead were buried where they fell.

Permelia Lucas Doughty died about 1786-1787, & was buried at Rice’s Landing. Leckey: “About 1792, Abijah McClain began buying out the heirs of Edward Doughty in order to obtain a full title to Pigeon’s Resort.” The 6 daughters were named, including “Mary, wife of James McCreary of Brownsville…” That land was divided into lots, part of current Rice’s Landing. James & Mary Doughty McCreary moved to Warren County, Ohio, by 1800.