New England Ancestors of Spaulding/Perry/Gale/Nickersons:Information about John Doane
John Doane (b. Abt. 1590, d. February 21, 1685/86)
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DOANE, JOHN-John Doane was born ca. 1590 (he called himself aged about eighty-eight in his will, dated 16 May 1678, given below).He arrived at Plymouth probably between 1628 and 1632.There is no record of him being at Leiden, but he served as a deacon in the Plymouth Church.He was an Assistant in 1632/33, but he was "freed from the office" on 2 January 1633/34 so that he could devote his full time to his church functions. He still served on various government committees, including the one that revised the laws in 1636, and he later became a deputy for Plymouth.In 1636 he shared an allotment of hay ground with the widow Ellen Billington, and this might have led to his suing her the same year for 100 pounds for slander; she was sentenced to pay him 5 pounds and to sit in the stocks and be whipped (PCR 1:40-42).He was usually given the honorific title "Mr.," and in one document he referred to himself as "Gent., Tayler" (DawesGates, 2:305).He had business connections with Mr. John Atwood, though the exact relationship is unclear.He acted as Atwood's agent in obtaining the indenture of Walter Harris as a servant in 1633, and in 1636 Atwood bought Doane's share of a house and land at Plain Dealing which they had held in partnership (PCR 1: 12, 47).Doane was granted a license to sell wine in 1639, and in 1640 he was presented for selling wine contrary to the court's order, though this apparently was a misunderstanding, and the charges were dropped (PCR 1: 127, 156). He was one of the men appointed to buy land at Nauset from the Indians, and he became one of the ftrst settlers there (PCR 2:144, 154, 168).
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His earliest known wife was called Ann in a 1648 deed, but in a later deed (of 1659) his wife was Lydia (Dawes-Gates 2:304; MD 13:232).His inventory in 1686 was sworn to by an Abigail Doane, whom some have taken as a third wife, though Dawes-Gates 2:305 has good arguments to show that Abigail was more likely his daughter.Torrey suggests that wife Ann might have been a Perkins.In his will dated 18 May 1678, inventory taken 21 May 1686 and sworn to by Abigail Doane 29 May 1686, he named his "loving wife," daughter Abigail, sons John, Daniel, and Ephraim, and granddaughter Margaret Hicks, and he left the remainder of his estate to "all his sons and daughters" (MD 3:177).He described himself in the will as "aged eighty and eight or there about," and in the inventory he was said to have died 21 February 1685/86, "aged about a hundred years"thus in eight years he had aged twelve years, which is a typical overstatement of age which occurred in these times as someone began approaching the century mark.His daughter Lydia married Samuel Hicks; Abigail married Samuel Lothrop (in 1690-she was unmarried in 1686 when Doane's will was sworn to); son John married (1) Hannah Bangs and (2) Rebecca Pettee; Daniel married (1) unknown and (2) Hepsibah (Cole) Crispe; and Ephraim married (1) Mercy Knowles and (2) Mary (Smalley) Snow (Dawes-Gates 2:305, which carries the line of Daniel 2 Doane forward two more generations).Dawes-Gates 2:302 gives good reason for believing that John Doane's ward, Joseph Harding, was his nephew, and Joseph's mother, the widow Martha Harding, was Doane's sister.In addition to the account in Dawes-Gates 2:299-313, another good account of what is known of his life and family is given in Moore Families, p. 233-43.
Source:Plymouth Colony Its History & People 1620 - 1691 by Eugene Aubrey Stratton
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[Freeman 1:173] reports he moved from Plymouth to Nauset about 1644. [Freeman 1:206-7]: Apr 1, 1653sent by town of Eastham as deputy to represent town and meet magistrates. Met Apr 6, 1653 with other delegates from the colony "to agree on military affairs". [Freeman 1:258]: A grant to John Doane of 100 acres at Pottannumaguett Neck & 6 acres of meadow, in court case at Plymouth Oct 31, 1666 (arraignment of William Nickerson).
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JOHN DOANE
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1630
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
REMOVES: Eastham 1645
OCCUPATION: Yeoman, innkeeper. (On 4 June 1639 "Mr. John Done is allowed to draw wine until the next Court, that further order may be taken therein" [PCR 1:127]; on 2 June 1640 "we present Mr. Done for selling wine contrary to order made by the Court. It was mistaken by the grand inquest, and so he was discharged by the Court the 3d September 1640, and appointed by the Court to be thus erased out" [PCR 1:156]. On 7 January 1644/5, Doane agreed to let James Cole "take off those wines he now hath in his hands" [PCR 2:79-80]).
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: 2 January 1633/4: "Mr. John Done, being formerly chosen to the office of a deacon in the church, at the request of the church & himself was freed from the office of an Assistant in the commonwealth" [PCR 1:23].On 18 April 1642, John Done, agent for the church of Plymouth, purchased from Mr. Ralph Smith a house, buildings, and garden plots in Plymouth, also six acres of upland in the new field [PCR 12:79-80]. The same year, Doane turned this property over to "Mr. John Reynor their teacher" [PCR 12:87].
FREEMAN: In "1633" Plymouth list of freemen, ahead of those made free 1 January 1632/3 [PCR 1:3]; in lists of 7 March 1636/7 [PCR 1:52]; in Plymouth section of Plymouth colony list of 1639 (as "Mr. John Done"), from which he was erased and reentered in the Eastham section of the same list [PCR 8:173, 177]; in Eastham section of lists of 1658, 29 May 1670 and 1 [blank] 1683/4 [PCR 5:278, 8:201, 208].
EDUCATION: Appointment to committee to revise laws indicates considerable education.
OFFICES: Plymouth Colony Council, 1 January 1632/3 [PCR 1:5]. Committee to divide meadow ground, 1 July 1633, 2 October 1637 [PCR 1:14, 67]. Committee to assess taxes, 2 January 1633/4, 2 March 1635/6 [PCR 1:26, 38]. Committee to collect money for building a mill, 5 July 1635 [PCR 1:35]. Committee to regulate prices and wages, 5 January 1635/6 [PCR 1:36]. Committee to revise laws, 4 October 1636, 6 May 1639 [PCR 1:44, 121]. Committee on trade with the Indians, 7 March 1636/7 [PCR 1:54]. Committee to lay out highways, 2 May 1637, 1 February 1640/1 [PCR 1:58, 2:7]. Committee on beaver trade, 7 June 1637 [PCR 1:62]. Coroner's jury, 5 June 1638 [PCR 1:88].Plymouth deputy to General Court, 4 June 1639, 7 June 1642, 27 September 1642, 6 June 1643, 29 August 1643, 10 October 1643, 5 March 1643/4, 5 June 1644 (but did not attend) [PCR 1:126, 2:40, 45, 57, 59, 60, 63, 68, 72]. Deputy for Nawset, 6 June 1649, 4 June 1650 [PCR 2:144, 154]. Deputy for Eastham, 5 June 1651, 6 April 1653, 7 June 1653, 7 June 1659 [PCR 2:168, 3:24, 32, 162]. Auditor, 7 September 1641, 3 March 1644/5 [PCR 2:24, 82]. Grand jury, 2 June 1640, 2 March 1640/1 [PCR 1:155, 2:11]. Petit jury, 7 March 1636/7, 2 October 1637, 2 January 1637/8, 6 March 1637/8, 4 September 1638, 3 March 1639/40, 5 October 1640, 6 September 1641, 7 December 1641, 3 Mary 1642, 1 November 1642, 5 November 1644, 3 March 1644/5, 1 March 1652/3, 2 October 1660 [PCR 3:200, 7:5, 7-9, 16, 17, 23, 25, 28, 29, 32, 38, 40, 64].On 24 January 1641/2, "Mr. John Done" was one of four men elected to head committees to supply six muskets with shot, powder, and swords every Lord's day "ready for service if need require" [PCR 2:31].On 1 June 1663 the court appointed Mr. John Doane to "administer marriage in Eastham for the next year, also to administer oath to witnesses before grand enquest, and other witnesses" [PCR 4:43].In Plymouth section of 1643 Plymouth Colony list of men able to bear arms [PCR 8:188].(It is very likely that the following service belongs to his son of the same name: Eastham selectman, 5 June 1677, 5 June 1678, 3 June 1679, 1 June 1680, 7 June 1681, 6 June 1682, 6 June 1683, 3 June 1684, 2 June 1685 [PCR 5:230, 257, 6:10, 35, 59, 84, 108, 129, 164, 168, 186]. Eastham constable, 7 June 1676 [PCR 5:196]. Eastham highway surveyor, 5 June 1672, 3 June 1673, 5 June 1677 [PCR 5:93, 115, 232]. Deputy for Eastham, 6 June 1682 [PCR 6:85].)
BIRTH: About 1590 (based on age given when he wrote his will).
DEATH: Eastham 21 February 1685[/6] [MD 3:178, citing BarnPR 1:11], "aged about a hundred years" [sic].
MARRIAGE: (1) By 4 December 1648 Ann _____ (and by 1625 if she was the mother of his children) (signed a deed dated 4 December 1648 [Dawes-Gates 304, citing Eastham TR]); she died by 1659.(2) By 1 April 1659 Lydia_____ [MD 13:232, citing PCLR 2:2:20]. She was living on 18 May 1678 when she was named in her husband's will, but was presumably deceased by 23 December 1681 when property he left to her in the will was deeded by him to his daughter Abigail [PCLR 5:89].
COMMENTS: On 28 October 1633 "John Done" presented the inventory of Martha Harding [PCR 1:18], and on 11 November 1633, with Stephen Hopkins, the inventory of Godbert Godbertson and Sarah his wife [PCR 1:19].
On 11 November 1633 Mary Brown, daughter of PETER BROWN, deceased, was placed with "Mr. Joh. Done" for nine years [PCR 1:18]. On 10 October 1644, when Mary Brown had reached seventeen, her portion, which had been in Doane's hands, was ordered given to John Browne of Duxbury [PCR 2:76].
On 7 June 1636 "John Done, yeoman, entereth an account of slander, & layeth it in an Ð100, against Helin Billington, widow" [PCR 1:41]; the defendant was fined Ð5 and ordered "to be set in the stocks & be whipped" [PCR 1:42].
A "John Done," sixteen years old, sailed from London for New England on the True Love in 1635, and Pope thinks this is the son of the immigrant, but 1635 is very close to the year of birth of the son of the immigrant, so the 1635 passenger must be someone else.
SOURCE:The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33
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Record Change: January 26, 2004