Stephen W. DOUGHTY II

   Another name for Stephen was Stephen DOTY.

  General Notes:

Source Citation: 1830 U S Census: Lincoln, Delaware, Ohio, Page: 88; NARA Roll: M19-130; Family History Film: 0337941.
1830 United States Federal Census
about Stephen Doughter Name: Stephen Doughter
[Stephen Doughty]
Home in 1830: Lincoln, Delaware, Ohio
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Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 3
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 5
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 5



Delaware Co., Ohio Tax Records Peru township.
Multiple years.

In 1820, Marquis Gardner, Joseph Philbric and Stephen Doty, Sr., with a son of the same name, came into Lincoln. Gardner had come to Peru in 1816 with his father, John Gardner, from Virginia. The head of the family was a Scotchmar), and came over as one of the British troops in the war of the Revolution, and was with Cornwallis at the surrender of Yorktown. Pleased with the country, lie determined to make it his home, and did not return to his native land. He settled in Virginia 1 and afterward emigrated to Peru, where he died. About 1820, Joseph Philbric, a native of Maine, came into this township and bought some two hundred acres of land in the southern part of the township; soon after, Marquis Gardner, who was related to Philbric by marriage, came to the latter's place, and, later, bought the property, where his son Robert now lives. This part of the township at that time was sparsely settled, and it is related that the Gardners were obliged to invite the settlers living within a radius of eight miles about, to raise their buildings. Doty was a native of Maine, and first "squatted" on the school lands in Harmony, but in a short time bought the land now owned by Collins Buck. Appleton Snell, from Maine, and James McConica, an Irishman, came into the settlement, and, marrying daughters of Mrs. Hubbell, built cabins and became members of the little community.

The organization of the township of Lincoln in 1828, was mainly due to the efforts of Collins Buck, Steiner and Shadrack Hubbell. The first election was held on the first Monday in April, 1828, at Hubbell's cabin. It resulted in the election of Edmund Buck as justice of the peace, and as there were but seventeen men to fill twenty-four positions each of the voters present was elected to one or more offices.
In 1818, Alexander Edgar came to Peru and put up a store and distillery. This was then the nearest store, and absorbed the greater part of the trade of Lincoln trade until the business at Chesterville and Cardington divided it. The nearness of these places of business and the lack of any good water power in the township had the effect of discouraging the undertaking of similar enterprises in Lincoln. A saw mill was built very early on Edmund Buck's place, near one of the branches of Alum creek, by Shadrack Hubbell. This afterwards passed into the hands of Mr. Buck, and later into the possession of Stephen Doty, Jr. In 1830, after Stephen Doty, Sr.. bought the Collins Buck place, his son, Geo. W., built a small saw mill on the stream as it passes through that property. A tannery was early established on the Pulton farm by Stephen Corwin, which supplied the neighborhood material for shore, clothing and harnesses. About 1850 Thomas Roby establish another tannery on the Ashbrook farm but it did not prove a permanent affair.

Stephen married Abigail about 1800 in Prob. Maine. (Abigail was born about 1783 in Maine, died on 26 Oct 1855 in Morrow Co., Ohio and was buried in Ebenezer Cem, Lincoln, Morrow, Ohio.)