ID: I2156
Name: Daniel DOANE
Sex: M
Birth: 1666 in Eastham, Mass
Death: 1 SEP 1743 in Newtown, Bucks Co., Pa.
Note:
The Doane Family and Their Descendants, Third Ed., 1976, p. 53

Daniel Doan (Daniel, John) was born doubtless at Eastham Mass but
there is no record of his birth. He died at Newtown, Bucks Co., Pa., Sept
1, 1743. He was twice married, but of his wives little his known. His
first wife was Mehitabel. It is supposed that she was the daughter of
William Twining who had a duaghter Mehetabel and who also removed from
Cape Cod to Bucks County before 1700. His second wife was Mary and it is
thought she was the daughter of James Yates, from whom he purchased his
farm in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Doan was of a self-reliant, independent, inquiring mind, and was
led to study the teachings of the Firends 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 appled 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 propsered 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 parpers, 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, Elijah
Doan, 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 wife
Mary 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:
Daniel, b. 1687-8, 11, 23
Lydia, b. 1690-1, 10, 30; m. 1715, 8, 5, in Firends Meeting at
Middletown, Thomas Stradling, husbandman; about 1725
took certificate from Middletown to Buckingham. Children
1. Mary b. 1716, 5, 21; m. 1740, 2, 2 at Falls to John Smith, Jr.
2. Thomas b. 1718, 2, 4; m. 1744, 12, 30 Elizabeth b. at Buckingham,
1725, 7, 14 dau of John and Elizabeth Scarborough
Fisher; he d. about 1758, and widow m 2nd Joseph Lees.
3. Elizabeth b. 1719, 12, 20
4. Daniel b. 1721-2, 1,5; d. 1796, 1, 29; m. 1746, 2, 7, Sarah
Scarborough who d. 1801, 1, 19
5. Rebecca, b. 1724, 4, 11
6. Joseph b. 1726, 9, 16
7. Lydia b. 1729, 6, 15.
8. Mehetabel, b. 1731, 1, 2
9. Sarah
Eleazer, b 1691-2, 12, 21
Elijah, b 1694, 4, 3
Joseph b 1697, 2, 23
Israel, b 1699, 3, 20
Elizabeth b 1701, 8, 20 m at Middletown 1722, 8, 10 George Randall
Rebecca b ___; m at Middletown, 1722, 8, 10 Joseph Randall,
a brother of George

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. 70-71

children of Daniel and Mehetabel:

Daniel 24 11mo 1687/8 Middletown MM
Eleazar 21 12mo 1691/2 Middletown MM
Elijah 3 4mo 1694 Middletown MM
Elizabeth 20 8mo 1701 Middletown MM
Israel 20 3mo 1699 Middletown MM
Joseph 2 2mo 1697 Middletown MM
Lydia 30 10mo 1690/1 Middletown MM

Henry C. Mercer, "The Doanes Before the Revolution", Bucks County
Historical Society, Vol 1, p. 174

John 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."

Father: Daniel DOANE b: ABT. 1636 in Plymouth, Mass
Mother: Constance SNOW
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Marriage 1 Mary PRICE
Children
 Samuel DOAN
 Mary DOAN
 Thomas DOAN
 Sarah DOAN
 Ebenezer DOAN

Marriage 2 Mehetabel TWINING
Married: 1686
Children
 Rebecca DOAN
 Daniel DOAN b: 23 NOV 1687
 Lydia DOAN b: 30 OCT 1690 in Eastham, Mass
 Eleazer DOAN b: 21 DEC 1691
 Elijah DOAN b: 3 APR 1694
 Joseph DOAN b: 23 FEB 1696/97 in Bucks Co., Pa.
 Israel DOAN b: 20 MAR 1698/99
 Elizabeth DOAN b: 20 AUG 1701