Sixth Generation

10. Desire DOTY (~) was born on 19 April 1645 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.^2,8,16

From MayflowerFamilies.com: "Desire Doty, the daughter of Edward Doty of the Mayflower, died 22 January, 1731, aged eighty-six years, according to her gravestone in the old cemetery at Marshfield. She had had three husbands and survived the last one nearly thirty years. By her first husband, William Sherman, she had six children, Hannah, Elizabeth, William, Patience, Experience and Ebenezer. By the second husband, Israel Holmes, she had two children, Israel and John. By the third husband, Alexander Standish (son of Captain Myles Standish), there were three children, Desire, Thomas and Ichabod. The births of these eleven children were all recorded at Marshfield. [Ante, 6: 21 and 7: 134.] The daughter Elizabeth Sherman died unmarried; Hannah Sherman married William Ring; Patience Sherman married Josiah Wormall and died before her mother; Experience Sherman married her step-brother, Myles Standish; and the youngest daughter, Desire Standish, married Nathan Weston."

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She died on 22 January 1731 at the age of 85 in Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.^2,8,17,18 (She may have died in 1723.) She was buried in Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.¹⁷ in the Cedar Grove Cemetery (AKA Old Burial Grounds).

Desire DOTY (~) and William SHERMAN Jr. were married on 25 December 1667.^15,17 William SHERMAN Jr., son of William SHERMAN and Prudence HILL, was born in 1644 in Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.¹⁷ He died in 1679 at the age of 35.¹⁷

Desire DOTY (~) and William SHERMAN Jr. had the following children:

Desire DOTY (~) and Israel HOLMES were married on 24 November 1681 in Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.¹⁷ Israel HOLMES was born on 14 April 1641 in Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.⁸ He died on 24 February 1684 at the age of 42 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.^8,17 He was buried in Marshfield, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.⁸ in the Cedar Grove Cemetery.

Desire DOTY (~) and Alexander STANDISH Sr. (~) were married about 1678.¹⁷ Alexander STANDISH Sr. (~), son of Myles STANDISH and Barbara MULLINS, was born on 22 May 1625 in Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.^8,18,19 He died on 6 July 1702 at the age of 77 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.^8,17 He was buried in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.⁸ in the Myles Standish Burying Ground.

Desire DOTY (~) and Alexander STANDISH Sr. (~) had the following children: