THE TOWN OF CORTLANDT. 1 27 



church, and also for the neighborhood of Jacob Mandeville, in the lower 

 end of Philipse's patent, in Dutchess county, where it is intended to 

 build another church to be united as one congregation, and that they 

 have cheerfully subscribed to the amount of ^61 15s. New York cur- 

 rency, towards supporting him as such. But sensible that such a sum 

 is not sufficient for that purpose, and being well assured of the benevo- 

 lence and generosity of the Venerable Society, whose readiness upon all 

 occasions, as far as possible to favor attempts of this nature has ever 

 been deservedly admired, they take the liberty humbly to pray that they 

 will appoint Mr. Doty their missionary to the aforesaid places, and to 

 grant him such part of their bounty as they shall think proper. 



Your petitioners humbly beg leave to recommend to your favorable 

 notice the infant state of St. Peter's church, and to assure you that we 

 shall ever esteem it a singular honor and happiness to be in any degree 

 patronized by the Society. May heaven ever smile upon and bless your 

 laudible endeavors to promote the glory of God; and at the great day 

 of accounts crown all your faithful labors here with everlasting happi- 

 ness. 



Sealed by order of the Vestry, this 15th day of Oct., 1770. 



John Johnson, Clerk." a 



The Rev. John Doty, A.M., the first rector of this parish, was the son 

 of Joseph Doty of New York, where he was borncirc. i75o. & In 1768 

 he was entered at Kings College, where he was admitted B. A. pro forma 

 in 1770. During the Summer of that year he officiated in this parish 

 as a lay reader, and in the fall went to England for holy orders. His 

 license from the Bishop of London, to officiate in this Province, bears 

 date Tuesday, the 1st of January, 1771. Soon after his return he ac- 

 cepted the call of the vestry, and was thereupon inducted, as appears 

 from the following documents: — "On the 8th of June, 1771, it was 

 unanimously agreed by the wardens and vestry, that the Rev. John Doty 

 be presented to the rectory of St. Peter's church, in the Manor of Cort- 

 landt, near Peekskill, and ordered that the wardens do deliver him the 

 key of the said church and give him possession according to law." 

 Agreeable to the above resolution the church wardens did on the same 

 day deliver the key to the said Rev. John Doty, and possession of the 

 said church. 



a New York, MSS. from archives at Fulham, vol. ii,pp. 526-7. (Hawks.) 

 6 Joseph Doty was a member of the ancient family of the Doughty's or Douteys of Esher, 

 Surrey and Boston, Lincolnshire, England. There was a Samuel Doty graduated at Yale Col- 

 lege in 1T33. The arms of this family are :— ar, two bars, between three mullets of six points 

 sa. pierced or. " The Rev Samuel Doghty, rector of Sibleston, was a younger brother of the 

 polite and politic Mr. Thomas Doughty of Midburn who conformed, and probably the son of 

 Mr. Samuel Doughty rector of Bringhurst." Nonconformist memorial, vol. ji, p. 401. 



