Joseph (Doane) Doan (1759 - 1838)

Born 23 Oct 1759 in Cane Creek, Chatham, North Carolina

Ancestors

Husband of Jemima (Vestal) Doane — married 15 Nov 1780 in Cane Creek, Chatham, North Carolina, USA

Descendants

Died 28 May 1838 at age 78 in Wilmington, Clinton, Ohio, USA

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Biography

Joseph Doane, a son of John Doan and Ruth Dixon, " was born at Cane Creek, N. C, 1759, 10, 23^[1] and died at Wilmington, Ohio, 1838, 5, 28.^[2] He married at Cane Creek, 1780, 11,5, Jemima Vestal^[3] who was born 1762, 5, 8 and died at Wilmington, 1832, 7, 23, the daughter of John and Elizabeth Vestal. Becoming dissatisfied with the institution of slavery in the South, Mr. Doane sold his southern plantation and moved his family to Clinton Co., Ohio, arriving 1804, 11,4. There he purchased two hundred and thirty-eight acres of land on Todd's Fork, at one dollar and a half per acre, and built the first brick house in the county...

He was a county commissioner from 1810 to 1818 ; he donated the two lots upon which the schoolhouse at Wilmington was built and employed the first teacher, Isaac Garretson. He was one of the committee employed to build the first Court House and, in 1836, two years before his death, he is on record as security for the man building the new Court House and jail. The old Wilmington records speak of Mr. Doane as "a man of genial presence who enjoyed life." Both he and his wife were members of the Society of Friends all their lives, and their first ten children are recorded on the register of the Cane Creek Monthly Meeting.."^[4][5]

• Fact: Other (liv abt 1736) Hamilton Co., Ohio
• Fact: census (1790) Chatham Co., NC
• Fact: Residence (1820) Clinton, Ohio, United States
• Fact: Residence (1830) Union, Clinton, Ohio, United States
• Fact: Burial (after 28 May 1838) Wilmington, Clinton, Ohio, United States
• Fact: Residence (1840) Clinton, Ohio, United States

Sources

1. ↑ Hinshaw, William Wade, et al., compilers; Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Volume 1, (1936–1950, Reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1991–1994) pg. 351
2. ↑ Headstone
3. ↑ North Carolina Yearly Meeting Minutes- Marriages, Vol 01, 1756-1840, (Hege Friends Historical Library, Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina.) pg. 92
4. ↑ Doane, Alfred Alder, The Doane Family and Their Descendants (A. A. Doane, Boston Mass., 1902) pgs. 223-224.
5. ↑ 1820 United States Federal Census, (NARA microfilm publication M33, 142 rolls; Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29; National Archives, Washington, D.C.) Census Place: Union, Clinton, Ohio; Page: 5; NARA Roll: M33_90; Image: 17.

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