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- (Research):After his father's death in 1701, Sergeant John Rickard, possibly his maternal uncle, was appinted his guardian.
The New England Courant
From Monday April 9th to Monday April 16th, 1722
Custom House Boston, Entered Inward
"....Joseph Prince, Wiam Carley, Josiah Doty, James Perguson, and Benmin Eddy from North Carolina..."
The New England Courant
From Monday April 23rd to Monday April 30th, 1722
Custom-House Boston, April 30. Cleard Out
"...Rich. Wait, Josiah Doty, Benj. Eddy and Nath. Lathrop for North Carolina..."
The New England Courant
From Monday June 18, to Monday June 25, 1722.
Custom-House Boston, Entred In
"...Jonah Doty, Miles Gale from North Carolina..."
Custom-House Boston, Cleared Out
"...Jostan Doty and Richard Langdon for North Carolina..."
26 May 1726 (Deed Book C:, pp 112-114) Carteret, NC
Capt. Josiah Doty, Mariner, of Plymouth, New England sells 373 acres to Charles Cogdell for 40 pounds. The following entry in Book C shows that Charles Cogdell sold other land on 6 March 1726/7 to John Shackleford the younger son and orphan of Francis Shackleford, Dec'd.
"The first record of Charles Cogdell buying land was May 26, 1726 when he bought 373 acres in the Precinct of Carteret from Josiah Doty of Plymouth in the Colony of New England for 40 pounds. In 1727 Josiah Doty was master of a whaling ship operating at Cape Lookout on the Outer Banks of NC. They caught a great number of whales from which Doty realized 300 barrels of oil."
WHALE FISHING IN NORTH CAROLINA WATERS. North Carolina.
To the Honble Christopher Gale, Esq., Chief Justice and the rest of the Assistant Justices of the Gen'l Court to be held at Edenton the last Tuesday in October, 1727......n the year of our Lord 1725, on or about the month of December Josiah Doty, Master of a Sloop or Ship with a great Company of men and Severall Boats with Tackle & stores under his care, charge and conduct did enter his sayd Vessell & stores in Port Beaufort within this Government by virtue of the aforesaid Toleration or lycence was permitted to unlode his sayd Company with their Boats, Stores and Utensils to go on the sayd employ of Whaling on the Sea Coasts of this Government for the winter Season of the sayd year who during the sayd season did kill, take and save a great number of Whales in the Bays, Shoar or Sea Coast of this Government and thereof did save and make the quantity of three hundred barrels of Oyle and one thousand weight of whalebone yet nevertheless the said Josiah Doty did not pay and render nor cause to be divided, payd and rendered to the said Palatine and the rest of ye true & absolute Lords Proprietors nor their Receiver the sayd Tenth part of the said Oyle and Bone, but the whole thereof in the said Vessell and other Vessels did carry and Transport out of this Government and doth still deny & refuse the said Tenth part of said Oyle and Bone by them gott as aforesaid to pay and render altho' he hath been often thereto required to the damage of his Excell'y John Lord Carteret Palatine & the rest of the true & absolute Lords Proprietors of Carolina five hundred pounds and thereon the sayd Attorney in their behalf as aforesaid commandeth suit and prays process and judgment thereon for the said damages and costs. (Source: The North Carolina historical and genealogical register, Volume 2 edited by James Robert Bent Hathaway)
1732: Josiah Doty, Mariner, and Abigail his wife, sell a plot at Plymouth, next to the lot of his brother Isaac Doten.
Sept Court 1742 (Carteret County, North Carolina)
William Owen, one of the subscribing evidences to the following deed, came into open court and made oath that he did see James Shackleford seal and deliver unto Joseph Morse for twenty acres of land on the west side of North River and that he did see Joseph Doty and John Shackleford evidence the same and ordered to be registered.
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1689 - 1767 (77 years)