Notes:

Birth:


Buried:
Small white monument/ son of Jesse & Waite Anne.

Notes:

Jesse is the son of Elizabeth Stockdale & John Doan / Doane.

Jessie Doanne first wife was C E Roadhouse.

. Born on Yonge St. near Newmarket, Ontario.
Jesse married2, Waite Ann Brooker on Dec. 31, 1834 in Sharon, & resided in Sharon, Ontario. Mr. Doan was an accomplished musician & for 30 years was leader of the Sharon band. He, like some of his cousins, participated in the MacKenzie Rebellion, 1837-1838. He was arrested as a rebel sympathizer & spent several months in a Toronto prison, during which time the leaders, Lount & Matthews, suffered the death penalty.
Jesse was a farmer. After harvest was over, he would visit Boston, MA, then the musical center of the continent. All the best of the new music was introduced there. After each concert, he would return to his room & write down the theme or air to any he considered good. After the concerts, about 2 weeks, he would return home & write out parts for the different instruments of his band. In this way, Sharon Temple had all the latest new good music long before Boston had released it for publication.
Ref: Doane Family Association book. 

. To Sir Franics Bondhead, Lieut. Govenor of Upper Canada
Petition of Jesse Doan, late of Twp. of East Gwilliambury, Home District, Yeoman.
Your Petitioner is now a prisoner in Home District Gaol (Toronto), charged is High Treason in which he has been indicted, but has not yet been arraigned.
That your petitioner was unfortunately led to take a part in the rent treasonable insurrection by the artifices used by desperado & unprincipled persons by those persuasions he was unhappily seduced from his Allegiance. He is petitioning for pardon of Her majesty’s mercy. He has a wife & 1 child whole dependent on him for support.
Signed, Jesse Doan, Received Court of Petitions, 17 March 1838.
Envelope: In Council 5 May 1838. to be transported for 7 years to the Colony of Van Diemen’s Land.
29 May,1838, Ordered to the Penitentiary for 7 years.
Ref: UCS, C6899, image 108575/ Pg. 1521. Archives of Ontario.

. 1866 Jan 19, East Gwillimbury Council, elected of the Township, James Parnahm, Jesse Doan etc, assembled at the Mansions House, Sharon on Monday last, after than had made the necessary declarations, Mr. Doan moved & second by Mr. Holborne, that James Parham, Esq., be Reeve the the current year & Jesse Doan, Esq. be Deputy Reeve for the current year. Carried.
Ref: Newmarket Era Newspaper.

In Memory of Jesse Doan ESQ,
Who Died Dec. 23, 1868 54 Yrs 2 Mo. & 24 Dys.

This marble tomb our father dear
Shall thy rare genius long display
Thy melodies have charmed the ear
On many a social hallow day.
May we thy faculties retain
On generations still descend
Thy talents bright with us remain
While chords of music sweetly blend. - - -

Birth:
Born on Yonge St.

Died:
Aged 54y 2 24d.

Buried:
White marble monument.

Jesse married Waine Ann BROOKER on 31 Dec 1834 in Sharon, E. Gwillimbury, York Co., Ontario. Waine was born on 1 Jan 1818 in East Gwillimbury Twp., York Co., Ontario; died on 17 Feb 1878 in York Co., Ontario; was buried in Sharon Burial Grounds. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Monument reads
In Memory of Wait Ann,
Wife of Jesse Doan,
who died Feb 17, 1878, AE 60 y's, 1 Mo, 16 ds

In death"s cold arms lies sleeping here
A tender parent, a companion dear
In love she lived in peace she died,
Here life was asked but was denied. - - -

Died:
Aged 60y 1m 16d =1.1.1818

Buried:
White marble monument with 2 hands

Notes:

John is the son of Anna Savilla Sloy & Ebenezer Doane.

. 1812 - John done supervised construction of the Quaker Meeting House, Lot 92, Yonge Street.

1838 JUN 8 -
. 1835 June 5, Hope Village. David Willson to Sir Geo. Arthur regarding his loyalty, Signatures of David Willson, John Doan, Wm. Reid Sr., Mahlon Doan, Samuel Hughes, Wm. Graham, Job Hughes, Geo. Hollinshead, Peter Lepard, Chas. Doan, Murdoch McLeon, Israel Lundy, Jacob Lundy:

. 1830 Mar 27 - (Abbreviated) Statements of David Wilson, John Doan, Hugh Willson, Jesse Doan;

. The Truth events compel me to believe in the impressions of my own soul, spring of actions of light. …general tribulations that Israel arise. Jacob’s sorrows are my sorrows & [Multiple religious quotes.] … the Queen would provide over all the Canadas… I will atone. Signed, David Willson.
. John Doan, (Mar 27 1838), The foregoing is a copy of a testimony written for the benefit of the congregation & not intended to go to public. But finding the the author has been accused (by individuals unknown to us) of being of a seductious character & of purchasing & writing doctrines of a rebellious nature & that he was a principal instigator of the revolt. He (David Willson) both in church & state discipleship a stone advocate for king & constitution, I have never known him to vary from it at no time. … They say that many who were as deeply implicated in the rebellion as themselves, would make no confession & was set at liberty, while they had to endure a long confinement in prison & 2 of the members are yet confined & for what cause I now not, Hugh Willson & Jesse Doan perhaps were as small dealer in politics as any in the place. They were managing their own proper business, until they were taken in the troop with the rest. [Multiple religious quotes.]
Signed, John Doan.
. There is no man between Toronto & Home that has done so much against rebellion as may say, before the fatal day …

Applications hand hath bore upon us
To teach us errors of our own
I pray Oh God & heaven save us
Our country & the British throne. Signed, David Willson.

The above testimony & many others were written by David Wilson to his children in prisons, which may not be unsatisfactory to some of ourselves informed rulers. The tree is known by its fruit, or a many is known by his work. I could produce many testimony from his works of the like of these, in various parts of his life & I know not that he has changed his sentiments at any time.
Signed, John Doan.

. John Doan, encloses extract of testimonial written by David Willson to his sons in prisons.
Hope, 5 February, 1828, (Three page sermon) on Ecclesiasticus 1st Chap & 18th Verse. David Willson.
Ref: Upper Canada Sundries, Index C9824, Image 902; C6899, page 108575-92/ Image 1525.

Monument white rectangular marble stone, 18” wide, 28” high & 1.75” thick

Inscription:
JOHN DOAN SEN.
departed this life [Nov.] 18th 1852
Aged 84 Years. 8 mo. & 8 Days.

To a great age my life has been
Although my body's gone;
My mind was like the olive green
& fruit was seen thereon.
[O?] may my prayer forever live
In my redeemer's mind:
And may the Lord a blessing give
To those I leave behind. - - -

Died:
Aged 84y. 8m 8d.

John married Elizabeth J STOCKDALE on 15 Oct 1794 in Buckhamshire Co., Pennsylvania. Elizabeth was born on 21 Jul 1743 in Buckhamshire Co., Pennsylvania; died on 2 Mar 1843 in Sharon, E. Gwillimbury, York Co., Ontario; was buried in Sharon Burial Grounds. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Monument white rectangular marble stone, 18.5” wide, 35” high & 1.75” thick.

Inscription:
ELIZABETH J. DOAN,
departed this life March 2nd 1843.
Aged 69 Years 7 mos & 12 Days.

Oh come dear children to my tomb
And see your mother's lonesome home
Where you must to your mother come
When all the toils of life are done.
Mourn not for my departing day
My feet walk'd in a goodly way,
And peace was in my beating breast,
That' s left this world and gone to rest. - - -

Birth:


Died:
Aged 69y 7mo 12 days.

Buried:
White sandstone monument, excellent condition.

Notes:

Ebenezer is the son of Mary Carter & Joseph Doane, b. Bucks Co. Penn & d. 1783 North Carolina. The had 4 children. Quakers.

. The master builder of«this Temple was Ebenezer Doan whoc ame to Canada from Pennsylvania in 1808. He had set out with his family in a covered wagon, the box of which was built like
a boat and sealed to make it water-tight; This boat like box was not fastened to the running gear but was set in a frame so that it would float while crossing streams if the water was deep. Ebenezer drove a cow on the journey & before leaving the U.S.A. he cut a young poplar stick to keep the cow going. When he turned into his farm off Yonge Street, he stuck the gad in the ground where it took root & grew. A switch from that tree was taken to the Queensville farm when the family
moved & poplar trees from that gad are still growing at the gate.

Ref: East Gwillimbury in the Nineteenth Century.


. Ebenezer Doane was bom at Wrightstown, Bucks Co., Pa., 1733, 7.5 -died Sharon 1818, 11.21. He married about 1754 or 1755, Anna Savilla Sloy, who was born in Hanover, Germany, 1732, 12.13. & died in Bucks Co., 1803, 10.15.
After the death of his mother, Ebenezer Doane with the other children appears to have been apprenticed, or otherwise placed for care among their relatives. His wife, who was born in Germany, embarked in 1744 for America with her parents Henry & Catherine Sloy. The parents died on the voyage. In consequence of this marriage Ebenezer was disowned by the Society of Friends to which he belonged. In 1777, however, he applied to the Buckingham Society to accept his children who were yet under age, under the care of the Meeting. Jonathan being over 21 made the same request for himself & both were granted. All of these children, except Jonathan, removed to Canada. Ebenezer remained till 1808 when, in the 75 year of his age, he joined the children in Canada & there in the family of one of his sons, living on Yonge street about 30 miles north of Toronto, where he died.
The location of Ebenezer's residence in Bucks County is somewhat accurately settled by the statement of his son Joseph, that a part of Washington's army was encamped on a farm adjacent to his father's, for a day & night prior to crossing the Delaware river which encampment it is understood was near the mouth of Knowles Creek, below the present village of Brownsburg.
Ebenezer Doane was firm in the faith & practice of the Friends, of which sect he was a member, and before leaving Pennsylvania obtained the usual certificate of removal dated at the Meeting in Buckingham on 4th of 4th mo., 1808, which was presented & accepted at the Yonge Street Meeting on the 14th of 7th month 1808. Similar certificates were read on behalf of William, Joseph, Ebenezer & wife with their 3 children, also for Mahlon & wife Rebecca their 6 children; also for his daughter Mary Doane, all of which certificates were approved and the applicants accepted in membership.
Having made a selection of land for themselves, Ebenezer together with his son William & daughter Mary, both of whom were single, formed a joint household & so remained until after the death of Ebenezer. Ebenezer & his family took up 400 contiguous acres on Yonge St., and in a few years the wilderness had been transformed into a garden & a farm. - extract form Mrs. Emily McArthurs's letter & gives a more precise statement of the migration to Canada.
Ref: Doane Family Supplemnt 1.

Inscription:
IN MEMORY OF EBENEZER DOAN
DIED Feb. 3, 1866,
Æ. 93 Y's. 4 M's 24 days
Native of Bucks Co.

Ebenezer married first Anna Savilla Sloy,
he married second to Elizabeth Paxson. - - -

Buried:
White monuments with two clasped hands.

Ebenezer married Anna Savilla SLOY in 1754. Anna was born on 13 Dec 1732 in Hanover, Germany; died on 15 Oct 1803 in Buckhamshire Co., Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Anna is the daughter of Catherine & Henry Sloy who both died on the voyage to America.

. Ebeneser & Anna Doan's children are:
Jonathan, 1775= 6.5.1830 Bucks. Co., Penn.
Martha Doan Armitage, 1758 Feb 15, Wrightstown, Penn-Oct 18, 1840, Ontario
William Doan, Dec 30, 1760 Wrightstown, - Jan 6 1844 Newmarket, Ontario
Mary Doan, 1762 Dec 7 Bucks - 1827 Apr 6, Ontario, Canada, married Samuel Huges
Joseph Doan, Mar 13 1765 Wrightstown -1841 York Co., Ontario, married Mary Cunnard.
John Doan, Oct 3, 1768 Bucks - Nov 8, 1852 Newmarket, ON, married Elizabeth Stockdale;
Mahlaon Doan, Aug 20 177 Bucks - Feb 20 1852, Ontario married Rebecca Hartley;
Ebenezer Doan.2nd, Sep 9 1772 Bucks - Mr 3 1866 Sharon, Ontario, married Elizabeth Paxson. - - -