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- 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. - - -
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1733 - 1818 (85 years)