Capt. Ephraim Doane

Descendant of Mayflower passengers Stephen Hopkins and Constance Snow (Hopkins)

   “He resided some years in Truro but was in Provincetown in 1732, where he was engaged in the fisheries. About 1738 he removed his family to Middletown. He and his wife Mary were admitted to the church at Middletown on recommendation of the church at Provincetown, Jan. 6, 1739. His first purchase of land at Middletown was on June 18, 1739. He is on record in Connecticut as a ‘mariner’ and part owner of one or more small vessels. He was joint owner with Thomas Goodwin, George Phillips and Ebenezer Sage of the sloop Diamond. at the fall of 1745 they chartered this vessel to Maj. Jabez Hamlin as a transport to carry Connecticut troops to Louisbourg. She sailed in November of that year and soon after arrived. She was detained in the service until Feb. 3, 1746, when she sailed from Louisbourg for New London, but foundered at sea on the home trip. 

   “In May,1751, Ephraim Doane presented a memorial to the Assembly of Connecticut, showing these facts and setting forth that his two sons were among those lost in the vessel; that the sons were his great dependence in his advanced years, and that by their loss, and loss of his vessel, he was brought under pitiable circumstances. Whereupon the Assembly passed a resolution granting him a gratuity of £150 old tenor bills.”

On 5 Mar 1717 when Ephraim was 20, he married Mary Atkins in Truro, MA.284 Ephraim Doane married to Mary Atkins ye 5th day of March 1717: recorded John Snow town clerk. Mary died on 23 Dec 1751 in Middletown, CT.171

Source: http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr05/rr05_487.htm#P10594