One other piece of critical evidence is Dorothea's petition from
_Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series_, which was quoted in
Scull's book, but with absolutely no indication where the do***ent had
been found:
W. Noel Sainsbury, ed., _Calender of State Papers, Colonial Series,
America and West Indies, 1661-1668_ (London: HMSO, 1880), p. 607-08:
1668 ?
1833. Petition of Dorothea, widow of Daniel Gotherson, formerly
Dorothea Scott, to the King. Was heir to the young house of Scott's
Hall in Kent [i.e., the younger branch of the Scott family of Scott's
Hall], and brought her husband an estate of near 500l. per ann., which
was all mortgaged by him, and since his death all taken for debt, so
that petitioner and six children crave the King's clemency in the case
following: a great part of her husband's debts were contracted by his
disbursing near 2,000l. to one John Scott for land and houses in Long
Island; the land is all disposed of, and her son, for whom it was
bought, has been exposed to work for his bread the last three or four
years, though not full 17 years of age. Prays therefore for an order
to Fras. Lovelace, Deputy Governor of Long Island, to examine her
pretensions and do her justice: if she has no interest in land there,
has not any elsewhere.
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