The traditional source for Ormond's birth date and location is Rev. Silas Ketchum and Ethan Allen Doty's 1897 compilation The Doty-Doten Family in America (DFA). There is no positive documentation or evidence yet found which would validate his birth date and location. Conversely, there is no contradictory evidence regarding the date which would provide reason to doubt the date. However, evidence found since publication of DFA provides good evidence that Ormond was not born in Charlotte Precinct, but in Beekman Precinct. Charlotte Precinct, Dutchess County in the Province of New York, British America, did not exist until 1762. Ormond's parents moved the family a bit north to the Crum Elbow Precinct in 1754 or 1755. In 1762 Crum Elbow Precinct was subdivided into three smaller precincts and the area where the family of Joseph Doty lived became known as the Charlotte Precinct.

In or about the year 1769 Ormond's parents moved again from the Charlotte Precinct, north up the Hudson River to the Lansingburgh village in the Schaghticoke District then a part of Albany County.

1768 is about the time of Ormond's marriage to Phebe Vail. At the time of this writing, we do not know whether Ormond's move to Schaghticoke District proceeded or followed his parent's move there. Currently, the earliest record of Ormond's presence in Albany County is his release from jail in February 1778. And he appeared in Schaghticoke tax rolls in 1779.

"It is reported that during the time immediately leading up to the Revolutionary War, Ormond Doty lived at or in the vicinity of Albany, New York, that he was a British loyalist and was imprisoned in Albany for some time on this charge but at the intercession of his brothers, who were patriots, he was released on the condition of going to Wallingford, Vermont, at that time a wilderness. He removed there with his family, where they settled and remained."
(Ethan Allen Doty, The Doty-Doten Family, 1897 p.511)

Updated Bio: October 31, 2022, Charles Scott Doty, [email protected]