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Dorothie Hoyt was born on 13 Apr 1656 to my 9th great grandparents;  Sgt. John Hoyt, a founding father of the towns of Salisbury and Amesbury MA, and his second wife Frances. Dorothie’s “scandalous” behavior in Puritanical New England is best told with the following extract  from “A Genealogical History of the Hoyt, Haight, and …