the 1632 records of the plymouth court has twenty-three cases that mentions edward doty. there were complaints that he cheated people, said bad things about people which were not true, fought with people, and stole. doty was never punished except for paying small fines. this means that most of the cases were found to be untrue or very minor cases. except for the duel in 1621, he never had any physical punishment. physical punishment could have been whipping, branding, banishment, prison and public punishment.