Daniel Doane

Daniel Doane was born about 1664 in Barnstable County, Massachusetts; he died 1 September 1743 in Newtown, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania.

He married 1686 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Mehitable Twining.

He moved with (or followed) his wife's Twining family to Pennsylvania, indicating the possibility that he and/or his wife were Quaker. Israel Doane was a son of Dr. Daniel Doane by his first wife, said by her nephew, Harwich town historian, to have been Constance Snow, daughter of Constance and Nicholas Snow, who were the Doane's neighbors in Eastham, Massachusetts.[1]

However, as no official documentary proof of Constance's marriage to Daniel Doane exists, and the only existiing contemporary record is Josiah Paine's unofficial notebook, now in the Eastham Public Library, listing Constance Snow as Israel Doane's mother must be marked: "UNPROVEN."[2]

From "Doane Family" by A.A. Doane

Date of death: Sept. 1, 1743.

Birth: 1666 Eastham Barnstable County Massachusetts
Death: 1743 Newtown Bucks County Pennsylvania

I am a Doane Triple, descended from all three brothers: Eleazer 1692, Joseph 1697 and Israel 1699 - David Roberds

Children:

1. Daniel Doane (1687 - ____)*
2. Eleazer Doane (1692 - 1757)*
3. Joseph Doane (1697 - 1783)*
4. Israel Doane (1699 - 1797)*

Spouse: Mehetabel Twining Doane (1661 - 1743)

Burial: Middletown Friends Cemetery (now) Langhorne, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Note:

The Middletown Meeting sent committees to him in 1710/11, which were met with "unseemly expressions" and "contemptuous flouts", causing his disownment. He was accused of meddling in astrology and prediction, especially "as to ye man's wife that came to such an untimely end". He claimed not to be connected in any way to it.

The Doane Family and Their Descendants, Third Ed., 1976, p. 53

"Mr. Doan was of a self-reliant, independent, inquiring mind, and was led to study the teachings of the Friends who were then creating a sensation by their new doctrine. Charmed by their teachings, he united with the meeting at Sandwich, about 40 miles from his father's home, the oldest meeting in America. The precise date of his joining the Friends is not known, but in 1696 he applied for and received from the Sandwich Meeting the following certificate of removal for himself and wife:

"At a meeting of Friends at Sandwich in New England ye 17th of 3rd mo. 1696. We are to signify to all whom it may concern that our friend Daniel Doan and his wife Mehetabel, that as far as we know their lives and conversations have been as becometh ye truth, and as for his testimonial that he hath borne amongst us for ye blessed truth, we have great unity with it as witness our hands. Wm Allen, Israel Gaunt, Matthew Jones, John Ewing, John Jennens, James Stewart, and Abiah Jenkins.

"After an overland journey of nearly seven hundred miles Mr. Doane arrived in the Friends Colony in Pennsylvania with his wife and four small children, the youngest about two years old. In course of time, date unknown, he presented his credentials at the meeting in Middleton, Bucks Co., and was duly accepted in membership. He settled in, or adjacent to the village of Newtowne where he followed carpentering and farming, and prospered to an extent that gave him a competence in his declining years.
On Apr 4, 1702, he purchased of James Yates for seventy pounds sterling 78 acres of land situated south of present Newtowne Borough, and east of Newtown Creek. On Jan 2, 1713, he bought 22 acres adjoining the former purchase.
Although Daniel began well in Bucks Co. and was at first, it is thought a religious teacher among Friends, only a few years after his arrival in Pennsylvania his investigating spirit led him to study the stars and the influence of the planets upon one another. But reports "that Daniel Doane should meddle in astrologie" brought him into conflict with his Meeting, which lasted almost continually until he was disowned in 1711. He had a way of assuming the defensive which involved the frequent sending of committees to parley with him ' but Daniel, strong in his sense of the right of private judgment and of free toleration as to opinions, treated all charges and committees with "unseemly expressions" and "contemptuous flounts". From time to time, however, he would send in written apologies and other papers, one of which was as follows:

"In as much as many by their consulting the figure of conceptions and with revolutions and perfections presume to tell what is contingent to bear upon earth, either weal or woe, while they themselves are ye bitter source, and are shut up, under ye oxit of ye animated spirit and become fools to ye wisdom of Egypt; and inasmuch as it has mused the minds of many concerning me because I have done some things of that nature as to prediction, and some have inquisitus to see ye aphorisms and schemes by which I did work them and though I did never show it unto any, yet I do say ingeniously and without mental reservation, that I never was inclined, much less to study, any magick art or southing devinations or negromantic trick."

At length tired of Daniel and his doings, the Middletown Meeting, after many expressions of sorrow "that he is so wayward" and prayers "that he may be brought back to the truth" disowns "the said Daniel Doane to be one of us" and "we being clear of him, his wickedness lies upon his own head."He was bequeathed one pound of money in his father's Will dated Sept 18, 1712. This small allowance may have been on account of his having joined the Friends, but it is more probable that the sone received his share of his father's property before the removal to Pennsylvania.Daniel Doane was the first of the Doane family to migrate from Cape Cod. He was the first and only one of the early generations to forsake the church of his fathers. He was the founder of the largest and in some respects the most important branch of the family.His death is thus recorded on the records of the Middletown Meeting: "Daniel Doane Senior deceased ye first day of ye ninth (or eighth) month Anno 1743 and ye third day of ye week."His Will dated Oct 4, 1731, was probated Dec 31, 1743. The following is an extract:"To my beloved children, Daniel Doan, Elieser Doan, ElijahDoan, Joseph Doan, Israel Doan, Lydia Stradling, Rebecca Randall,and George Randall (my son in law) husband of my daughter Elizabeth deceased 5 shillings each. To my dear and loving wifeMary Doan the remaining all and singular of my whole estate,for ye maintaining, educating, and bringing up my children, born of my said wife Mary Doan, namely, Samuel, Mary, Thomas, Sarah, and Ebeneser Doan.

Children of first marriage from Middletown Meeting records:

1. Daniel, b. 1687-8, 11, 23
2. Lydia, b. 1690-1, 10, 30; m. 1715, 8, 5, in Friends Meeting at Middletown, Thomas Stradling, husbandman; about 1725 took certificate from Middletown to Buckingham.
3. Eleazer, b 1691-2, 12, 21
4. Elijah, b 1694, 4, 3Joseph b 1697, 2, 23
5. Israel, b 1699, 3, 20
6. Elizabeth b 1701, 8, 20 m at Middletown 1722, 8, 10 George Randall
7. Rebecca b ___; m at Middletown, 1722, 8, 10 Joseph Randall,a brother of George

Children with second wife, Mary (children are identified in his will):

1. Samuel
2. Mary
3. Thomas
4. Sarah
5. Ebeneser

The Doane Family, Vol II, compiled by the Doane Family Association of America, Inc., 1975, corrections to Vol 1

"first wife of Daniel Doan may have been Mehatebel, dau of William and Elizabeth Dean Twining, whose step grandmother was Ann Doane, 2nd wife of William Twining. His second wife was Mary (Hancock) Price, daughter Timothy Hancock of Evesham Twp, Burlington Co., N.J. and widow of Reece Price of Burlington Co., N.J. and later of Bucks Co., Pa.correction: Daniel Doane purchased 78 acres for 21 pounds and deed was dated June 4, 1702."On Sept 5, 1936, a marker was placed on the land once owned by Daniel Doan with the following inscription: "This tone marks the land of Daniel Doan purchased after his arrival in Newtown (Bucks Co., Pa.) in 1695. He was a member of the first Quaker Meeting in America at Sandwich, Mass., son of Deacon Daniel Doane of Eastham, Mass., grandosn of Deacon John Doane, immigrant from England to Plymouth in 1628. He and Stepehen Twining, his wife's brother were the first New Englanders in Newtown."Humphrey, Bucks County Births,1682-1800, pp. 70-71children of Daniel and Mehetabel:Daniel 24 11mo 1687/8 Middletown MMEleazar 21 12mo 1691/2 Middletown MMElijah 3 4mo 1694 Middletown MMElizabeth 20 8mo 1701 Middletown MMIsrael 20 3mo 1699 Middletown MMJoseph 2 2mo 1697 Middletown MMLydia 30 10mo 1690/1 Middletown MMHenry C. Mercer, "The Doanes Before the Revolution", Bucks County Historical Society, Vol 1, p. 174John Doane was a Pilgrim father, ariving in Plymouth before 1630 when his name first appeas on a tax list. He was born in 1590. Beyond the facts of Deacon John Doane having been the father of numerous children, having been governor's assistant in 1633, along with Miles Standish, and chosen deacon of the Plymouth church in 1634, and having heldped found the offshoot colony of Eastham in 1644, where his family afterward lived, we have little to say of the first John Doane. John had a son Daniel who had a son Daniel who was the Pa. emigrant. The records of the Middletown Friends MM stated that on the 3d month 17th day 1696 Daniel Doane and Mehetebel, his wife, brough a certificate of good conduct from the Friends meeting of Sandwich, Mass. Daniel, Jr. deserted the religion of of his ancestors and joined the persecuted sect of Quakers at Sandwich about 40 miles from his native town. Daniel's father cut him off in his Will with one pound sterling. Although Daniel began well in Bucks County, and was it appears at first a religious teacher among the Friends, about three years after his arrival a dark rumor "that Daniel should meddle in predictions by astologie," brought him into trouble with the meeting which lasted almost continuously until he was disowned in 1711. He had a way of assuming the defensive which involved the frequent sending of committees to parley with him whom he often met with "unseemly expressions and contemptous flouts". From time to time when it had gone to far, he would send in written apologies to meeting, one of those which it appeared "was not fit to read." There was trouble too "as to y man's wife that came to such an untimely end", as to which scandal Daniel declares in one of his numerous papers that "many mouths were open to speak things strange and ambiguous concerning me, but I was clear both at to action and thought." How far Daniel's astrological methods differed of Wiggins may best be seen in in his chief paper, worthy of Nostradamus himself, read before meeting in 1702 when the "rumors" had assumed their darkest character. (same quote as above) But soon after taking unto himself seven devils worse than the first, he proceeded to walk "loosely and vainly", and meet all attempts to recall him with "contemptuous flouts". so that finally,, tired out with Daniel and his dark doings, the Meeting in 1711 disowns the said Daniel "to be one of us" and "we being clear of him, his wickedness lies upon his own head." as cited at http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Daniel_Doane_(4)

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!BIRTH: R. M. Bell, "Ancestry of Richard Milhous Nixon" (gives birth date as c 1664); Gen. Soc. of Mayflower Descendants, "MFIP Stephen Hopkins" pg 5; Date approx.

!MARRIAGE: (1) Bell as noted above; A A Doane, "Doane" Vol. I pp 53-54, (Boston, MA 1902) quotes a cert. given by the Friends at Sandwich Mtg. dated 17 Mar 1696 which refers to Daniel and his wife, Mehitabel; Doanes Fam. Assoc. of America, "Doane" Vol. II, pg 3, birthdate of his first child was 1687/8; Lambert as noted above. (2) Bell, as noted above, (given Name, Enc # 101); Doane Vol. II pg 3 as noted for birth; date from Mycolynda Updegraff (ref James Savage, "A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England" (Gen Pub. Co. Baltimore, 1969) 1696 - Moved from Cape Cod to PA, date approx. !DEATH: Middletown, Bucks Co, PA Meeting (Quaker) Records; Bell as noted for birth (Enc # 101); Lambert as noted for birth.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Doane-290

Daniel Doane Born 1666 in Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts

Son of Daniel Doane and Constance Snow

Brother of Ruth Doane [half], Constant Doane, Joseph Doane, Constance (Doane) Shaw, Israel Doane, Rebecca (Doane) Merrick, Nathaniel Doane, Abigail (Doane) Dimmock and Hepzibah Doane [half]

Husband of Mehitable (Twining) Doane — married about Jul 1687 in Eastham. Barnstable, Massachusetts

Husband of Mary (Hancock) Doane — married 1726 in Middletown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Father of Daniel Doane, Sarah Doane, Lydia (Doane) Stradling, Eleazer Doane, Elijah Doane, Joseph (Doane) Doan, Israel Doane, Elizabeth (Doane) Randall, Rebecca (Doane) Randall, Samuel Doane, Mary Doane, Thomas Doane and Ebenezer Doane

Died 1 Sep 1743 in Newton, Bucks, Pennsylvania

Profile last modified 14 Nov 2018 | Created 18 Jun 2011

544. (Vol. I. #14. p. 53)

DANIEL 3 DOAN (Daniel 2,John 1) His 1st wife, Mehetabel, may have been identical with the daughter of William2 and Elizabeth (Dean) Twining, whose stepgrandmother was Anne (Doane), 2nd wife of William1 Twining, (See #540). His 2nd wife was Mary (Hancock) Price, daughter of Timothy Hancock of Evesham Twp., Burlington Co., N.J. and widow of Reece Price of Burlington Co., N.J. and later of Bucks Co., Pa. and not the daughter of James Yates, as conjectured in A. A. Doane's THE DOANE FAMILY. This is proven by wedding certificate (Quaker) of her dau. Elizabeth, by her 1st husband, who m. at Falls Meeting, Feb. 16, 1734, Roger Moon. This certificate was signed by James Moon, father of the groom and then by Mary Done, and then by Hannah Price, the sister of the bride, this being the customary order of signatures on Quaker wedding certificates—the groom's parents followed by the bride's, or sometimes in separate columns, with a third column for the leaders of the meeting and other Friends who witnessed it.

In A. A. Doane's THE DOANE FAMILY, it is stated that Daniel Doan purchased 78 acres of land for 70 pounds. Mrs. Abbott re-read the original record and found that the price was 21 pounds and the deed was dated June 4, 1702, not April 4.

On Sept. 5, 1936, a marker was placed on the land once owned by Daniel Doan, with the following inscription: "This stone marks the land of Daniel Doan, purchased after his arrival in Newtown (Bucks Co., Pa.) in 1 695. He was a member of the First Quaker Meeting in America at Sandwich, Mass., son of Deacon Daniel Doane of Eastham, Mass., grandson of Deacon John Doane, immigrant from England to Plymouth in 1628. He and Stephen Twining, his wife's brother, were the first New Englanders in Newtown. Erected by The Doane Family Association of America, Inc." This marker is located on the corner of the campus of George School, Bristol Pike, Route 113, Newtown Twp., Pa.

Source : Studies of the life of Daniel Doan by Laura (Woodward) Abbott and Isabelle Shallcross, West Chester, Pa.[1]

Sources

↑ The Doane Family Volume II , Compiled by The Doane Family Assaociation of America, Inc. Published by the Association 1975 pgs. 3-4

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!Mayflower Families thru 5 Gene.- Stephen Hopkins-pg. 10-Daniel DOANE-md. Mehetable TWINGING, and _____ _____aft 1743. !AF-Daniel DOANE b. 1666 Eastham, Barnstable, MA, chr. 1 Sep 1743, D. 1 Oct 1743 Newton, Bucks, PA, bur. Middletown, MM,,Bucks, PA; m/1 1686 Mehetable TWINING, m/2 bef 1726 Mary HANCOCK; m/3 Mary YATES. !PRF CD #1 - Daniel & Mehitable came overland route 1696 to PA and settled with adjoining Twinings in Newtown. Daniel deposited a card from the Sandwich, MA, Society of Friends.

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Daniel & Mehitable came overland route 1696 to PA and settled with adjoining Twinings in Newtown. Daniel deposited a card from the Sandwich,MA Society of Friends.

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!See notes of father. The "Dawes-Gates..." account said born perhaps 1680-3, gave his death year and place and said he married perhaps about 1705. There is a marriage 1701, Barnstable, Mass, to Mary, LDS proxy sealing 11 Sep 1990 JRIVE and one 25 Dec 1703, Harwich, Barnstable, Mass, to Mary Paine, proxy sealing 8 Jan 1936.

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Carl O./Winkler, ordained

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!Mayflower Families thru 5 Gene.- Stephen Hopkins-pg. 10 - Nathaniel DOANE. pg. 25-Mary COLE b. 22 Oct 1679; apparently unmd. when mentioned in will of Sister Hannah on 3 Feb 1725/6; n.f.r.; It is suggested that Mary COLE md. Nathaniel DOANE who d. Harwich in 1758; this Nathaniel had a wife Mary and six children b. ca. 1706-15 prob. Eastham, but no proof has been found. The reference to this womasas Mary COLE in the 1725/6 will militates against the possibility. !AF-Nathaniel DOANE b. 1680 Eastham, Barnstable, MA, d. 1758 Harwich, New London, MA, md. 1701 Eastham, Barnstable, MA to Mary ______. !AF - Mary _____ md. 1701 Eastham, Barnstable, MA Nathaniel DOANE. !http://aleph0.clarku.edu/djoyce/gen/eastham/table.html - Dea. Nathaniell DOANE (ca 1680 - 1758) & Mary (DOANE).

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Church Records: Selected Areas of PA, 1600s-1800s Middletown MM Certificates 17/3/1696 - Daniel Doan and wife, from Sandwich in New England Church Records: Selected Areas of PA, 1600s-1800s MiddletownMM Children of Daniel and Mehetabel Doan: Daniel Doan b. 24th day of 11th month, 1687; Lydia Doan b. 30th day of 10th month, 1690; Eleaser Doan b. 21st day of 12th month, 1691; Elijah Doan b. 3rd dayof 4th month, 1694; Joseph Doan b. 23rd day of 2nd month, 1697; Israel Doan b. 20th day of 3rd month, 1699; Elisabeth Doan b. 20th day of 8th month, 1701. [Daniel Doan and wife, above, brought a certificate from meeting of Friends at Sandwich, New England, dated 17th day of 3rd month, 1696] Daniel Doan d. 1st day of 9th month, 1743.

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Notes for Daniel Doane,Jr.:
Includes Notes Of all the Quaker ancestors that I have found during the course of family research, Daniel DOANE Jr. remains an intriguing figure. The reasons for his being disowned by the Middletown Meeting stand apart from infractions made by later generations of our Quaker kinsman. It is not known when Daniel became a member of the Friends. There is an entry for the Friends meeting at Sandwich,MA on, "ye 17th of 3rd mo. 1696...", wherein, "...our friend Daniel DOANE and his wife Mehetabel, that has far as we know their lives and conversations hath been as becometh ye truth, and as for his testimonial that he hath borne amongst us for ye blessed truth, we have great unity with it as witness our hands..." This document is in effect a certificate of removal for he and his family. At some point in time after the above date he became a member of the Middletown MM at Bucks Co., PA. Soon after his arrival, it was reported by the meeting that, "...Daniel DOANE should meddle in predicting astrologie..." Despite attempts of the meeting to make him change his way he did not comply and was disowned in 1711. Daniel settled in Bucks Co., PA near the village of Newtown where he farmed and didcarpenter work. He figures in land transactions in 1702. His wife, Mehetabel is believed to be a daughter of William TWINING. Daniel DOANE was the only one of his family to leave the church of ancestors. Daniel died, "...ye first day of ye ninth month. Anno. 174and on ye third day of ye week..." He left a will dated October 4, 1731 and was probated December 31, 1743. Our family link Daniel DOANE Jr. & Mehetable TWINING is through a son, Eleazer Sr. The above profile taken from the family history of Deacon John DOANE. http://members.aol.com/kenshowind/quakers.htm

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!See notes of father. Birth, marriages and death from the "Dawes-Gates..." account.

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From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. !GENERAL:GEDCOM file imported on 2 Sep 2002., GEDCOM file i mported on 2 Sep 2002. !GENERAL:GEDCOM file imported on 7 Sep 2002., GEDCOM file i mported on 7 Sep 2002.

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Married to Mehitable, pre 1688(Baptist records Middletown,Penn(b:of 1st child). First 4 children,born in Sandwich,Mass.last of these four b:1694(Elijah),which places them in Sandwich on that date,but Elijah was 2 age when they left Sandwich,which would be 1696. Evidently lived,Newtown,but church was in Middletown. First 8 children by Mehitable,(Rebecca,last). will,probated;12-31-1743,dated;10-4-1731.

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Edward J./Gardner, ordained

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DEATH: drowned in a well

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dead

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Daniel Doane http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=b04bada9-ef22-4e5a-84b... Daniel Doane's first wife, Doane Family History http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=9e727136-ebeb-43c6-bc2...

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[Br%C3%B8derbund WFT Vol. 7, Ed. 1, Tree #4120, Date of Import: 28 Apr 1997] Per WFT #1670- Daniel Doane joined the Society of Friends at the Sandwich Monthly Meeting on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. On March 17, 1696, they requested a certificate and moved to Newtown in Bucks Co., Pennsylvania, where they were received in 1699. He purchased 78 acres, just south of Newtown, in 1702 from James Yates for 21 pounds sterling. The Middletown Meeting sent committees to him in 1710/11, which were met with "unseemly expressions" and "contempuous flounts", causing his disownment. He was accused of meddling in astrology and prediction, especially "as to ye man's wife that came to such an untimely end". He claimed not to be connected in any way to it. The additional 22 acres adjoining his farm were purchased from Yates on January 2, 1713. He reportedly married his second wife Mary Yates. (Possibly confused with Mary Price hancock, but seemed to be confirmed by WFT #3665). His will was signed October 4, 1731 and proved December 31, 1743, contains references to wife Mary and all of his children. Non-standard gedcom data: 1 BLSL 2 DATE BET. 1696 - 1699 2 PLAC Moved from Cape Cod, Massachusetts to Newtown, Pennsylvania. 2 SOUR Brøderbund WFT Vol. 7, Ed. 1, Tree #4120, Date of Import: 28 Apr 1997

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To Harwich,1744 Children listed in will of brother Elijah.No record in Eastham,or Harwich records.

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Religion: Friends (Quaker)