Titus Doan (1727 - 1803)

Born 29 Mar 1727 in Wrightstown, Bucks, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Deborah (Willson) Doan — married 12 Aug 1751 in Hunterdon, New Jersey

Descendants

Died 7 Mar 1803 at age 75 in Crowland, Welland, Ontario, Canada

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Titus Doan migrated from United States to Canada.

Biography

Titus was a Friend (Quaker)

Titus Doane, the son of Elijah Doane and Catherine ______, was born March 29, 1727 near Wrightstown, Pennsylvania and died March 7, 1803 in Crowland, Welland, Ontario. He married, Deborah Willson on either August 12, 1751^[1], or November 12, 1745^[2], or October 10, 1751^[3] in Hunterdon, New Jersey. He was a farmer, near the Delaware river in New Jersey, between Trenton and New Hope, but sold his farm in 1787^[4] and removed to Ontario with his family of seven sons and one daughter, his son Elijah's wife and two small children. They settled in Crowland, on a spot now known as Doan's Ridge, about twelve miles southwest of Niagara Fails, one of the most fertile regions of the country, where the sons became known as The Seven Brothers of Crowland.^[5][6]

Sources

1. ↑ Maxwell F. Doan, Doan Families of South-Western Ontario, (Aylmer Express, Aylmer, Ont., 1999) pg. 17: citing Richard Eugene Willson, The Willson Family Supplement, 1959-1979
2. ↑ The Doane Family Association, The Doane Family Volume 2, (D.F.A., 1975) pg. 16: citing J. W. Lequear, Tradition of Hunterdon, (Flenmington, 1957) pg. 107
3. ↑ James W. Moore, Records of the Kingwood Monthly meeting of Friends, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, (H. E. Deats, Flemingdon, New Jersey, 1900) pg. 10.
4. ↑ Upper Canada Land Petition of Titus Doan of the Township of Stamford dated at Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake) on 12 Aug 1795 “Humbly Sheweth, That your Petitioner came into this Province in the year 1787—with his Family, of a wife and Seven Children, that he has never applied for Land, for himself or Family, but that two of his Sons have received each 200 acres—Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays your Excellency will be pleased to grant him and Family such a part of the vacant Lands of the Crown, as to your Excellency may seem meet, and your Petitioner as in Duty bound will ever pray—[Signed] Titus Doan” Received by the Executive Council on 12 Aug 1795 and read in Council of 14 Aug 1794. Ordered recommended for 400 acres as family Lands and 200 acres for himself if it does not appear by the Surveyors Books that he has received any.[Upper Canada Land Petitions LAC “D” Bundle 1, Petition Number 28]
5. ↑ Alfred Alder Doane, The Doane Family and Their Descendants, (A. A. Doane, Boston, Mass., 1902) pg. 123.
6. ↑ Maxwell F. Doan, Doan Families of South-Western Ontario, (Aylmer Express, Aylmer, Ont., 1999) pg. 17.

See Also:

• https://sites.google.com/site/niagarasettlers/petitions-devine-to-doan

• http://archives-library.quaker.ca/en/friendsintheniagara.html