Ebenezer Doane 
Ebenezer was born on July 5th, 1733 in Wrightstown, Bucks Co., PA. Ebenezer's father was Joseph DOAN and his mother was Mary Carter. His paternal grandparents were Daniel DOANE and Mehitable TWINING; his maternal grandparents were John Carter and Grace WHITE. He had four brothers and four sisters, named Joseph , John, James , More on Joseph, Mary, Martha, Mehetabel and Grace. He died at the age of 85 on November 21st, 1818 in York, Ontario, Canada.General Notes
Ebenezer Doan Sr. was born 5 July 1733 in Wrightstown, Bucks County, son of Joseph and Mary Carter Doan. Joseph was a Quaker carpenter. Mary died in 1744. Joseph, burdened with a number of young children for whom he could not care, left them with relatives in Wrightstown in 1747 and moved to Cape Cod searching for work. Ebenezer Doan was thus raised by relatives until he married, in 1754, a German immigrant, Anna Savilla Sloy. Anna Sloy had been born in Germany in 1732, and sailed to America in 1744 with her parents, who died en route. Anna was not a Quaker, and Ebenezer Sr. was temporarily disowned for this marriage. It was not until 1777, when he demonstrated to the Buckingham Monthly Meeting that his children were being raised according to Quaker standards, that he and his children were re-admitted as members of the Society of Friends. Ebenezer Sr. was a farmer, owning a farm on Knowles Creek below the present village of Brownsburg, Pa.; it was adjacent to the farm on which George Washington camped for a day and a night before crossing the Delaware river. Anna died on 15 Oct. 1803 in Bucks County. As Ebenezer and Anna’s children matured and married, they were forced to look increasingly farther away for cheap farm land; oldest daughter Martha moved to Catawissa, Pa., and Ebenezer Jr. to Savanagh, Georgia. Attempting to keep the family together, a 75 year old Ebenezer led his children in a migration north to Upper Canada, or Ontario in 1808, where they settled on Yonge Street, near Newmarket. Cheap and abundant land was only one draw for the family; the government had also promised the pacifi st Quakers an exemption from militia duty (a promise they quickly forgot once war was declared in 1812). Ebenezer settled with his unmarried children William and Mary on Lot 92, west side of Yonge St., near the Yonge Street Quaker meeting house. He died there on 21 Nov. 1818.
Ebenezer DOAN and Anna SLOY were married outside the Society of Friends as reported by the Wrightstown Meeting. Both of Anna's parents had died en route to America from Hanover Germany in 1744.
On December 25 1776, the colonial army under General George Washington encamped on land adjacent to Ebenezer's farm, before crossing the Delaware river to attack Trenton, New Jersey.
The following year, 1777, Ebenezer requested his children be taken under care of the Buckingham Monthly Meeting.
On April 4 1808, the family, including Ebenezer and children William, Joseph, Mary, Mahlon, and Ebenezer Jr. travelled with their families to join the Yonge Street Friends, north of Toronto, Ontario, CANADA, where daughter Martha lived with her husband Amos ARMITAGE. They traveled in canvas covered wagons during June, by way of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania over the Alleghenies.
On July 14 1808, they were received at the Yonge Meeting. Ebenezer settled with his son William Doan and daughter on 400 acres of Lot 92 in King Township, Ontario.
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- b.abt 1540/50 in England
- b.~ 1590 in England d.21 Feb1685 * in Eastham, Barnstable, MA
- b.1636 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA d.20 Dec 1712 in Old Town Grove, Eastham, Barnstable Co., MA
- b.1596 in England d.~ 1645 in Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
- b.1666 in Eastham, Barnstable Co., MA d.01 Sep 1743 in Newton Twp., Bucks Co., PA
- b.1578 in St. Dunstan, Stepney, Meddlesex, England d.09 May 1599 in Hoxton, Middlesex, Eng
- b.1599 in London, Wotton Under Edge, Gloucester, England d.15 Nov 1676 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
- b.1580 in Stepney, Middlesex, England
- b.1646 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA d.btw 1680/82 in Eastbarn, Barnstable Co., MA
- b.~ 1578 in Hursley, Hampshire, England d.btwn 6 June and 17 July 164 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Ma
- b.1605 in Hursley, Hampshire, England d.Oct 1677 in Eastham Co., MA
- b.1584 in (probably) Hampshire, England d.09 May 1613 in Hursley, Hampshire, England
- b.22 Feb 1696/97 in Middletown, Bucks Co., PA d.1783 in Alamance Co., NC
- b.20 May 1599 in Gloucester,England d.15 Apr 1659 in Eastham,Barnstable Co,MA
- b.25 Oct 1619 in Gloucester,Gloucestershire,England d.04 Nov 1703 in Newton,Bucks Co,PA
- b. in England d.~ 1619 in Gloucester,Gloucestershire,England
- b.08 Mar 1661 in Eastham, Barnstable, MA d.~ 1710 in Newton, Bucks Co., PA
- b.~ 1598 in Ufford, Pettistree Co., Suffolk, England d.06 Oct 1634 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA
- b.abt 1629/30 in Plymouth,Plymouth Co,MA d.28 Dec 1708 in Newton, Bucks Co., Pa
- b.1565 in Houghton, Lancaster, England, England d.~ 1618 in Leiden, Zuid Holland, Netherlands
- b.23 Feb 1603 in Ufford, Suffolk, England d.28 Dec 1687 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA
- b.~ 1584 in Ufford, Suffolk, England d.15 Jul 1631 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co. MA
- b.05 Jul 1733 in Wrightstown, Bucks Co., PA d.21 Nov 1818 in York, Ontario, Canada
- b.1560 in Garston, Hereforshire, England d.1623
- b.~ 1607 in Garston, Hertfordshire, England d.1653
- b.1575 in Garston, Hertfordshire, England
- b.~ 1646 in , Hatsfield, Hertfordshire, England d.~ 1689 in Bucks, Pennsylvania
- b.~ 1580 in Hertfordshire, England d.~ 1610 in Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1611 in Hertfordshite, England
- b.1611 in Hertfordshire, England d.~ 1643 in Lincolnshire, England
- b.1677 in Pa d.17 May 1710 in Bucks Co., Pa
- b.10 Jan 1703/04 in Middletown, Dauphin Twp.,Bucks Co., PA d.01 Mar 1743 in Bucks Co., PA
- b.1635/1640 in UNKNOWN d.28 Jul 1893 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA
- b.1680 in , Bucks Co., Pa
- b. in Canterbury, England
- b.~ 1642 in Marsh Gibbons, Buckinghamshire England d.23 Feb 1719 in Bucks, PA
- b. in Canterbury, England
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