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 Myles), 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 Ring3 (Deborah2 Hopkins, Stephen1); Patience Sherman married Josiah Wormall and died before her mother; Experience Sherman married her step-brother, Myles3 Standish (Alexander2 Myles1); and the youngest daughter, Desire3 Standish, married Nathan Weston4 (Rebecca3 Soule, John2 George1)