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Author: CDR Robert Forrest Doughty
Elisha Doane was born November 25, 1724 in the village of East Town (now Eastham) located on the easternmost shore of Cape Cod, Massachusetts on the Atlantic Ocean. Elisha is a child of Jonathan Doane and Martha Higgins [1]. Elisha is said to have been a blacksmith.
Elisha Doane married his first wife Mary about 1753; Mary’s maiden name has yet to be discovered. Elisha and Mary had at least six children: Oliver; Amos; Nathan; Elisha Jr.; Martha; and Lucy. The family lived in East Town until about 1790.
December 5, 1775, Elisha’s father Jonathan made his will in which he named Elisha as one of the executors.
April 20, 1776 Elisha Doane was commissioned a Captain of the 6th (2nd Eastham) Company, 2nd Barnstable County Regiment of Massachusetts Militia [2].
January 24, 1780, Elisha’s father Jonathan died at Eastham. Jonathan’s will was probated February 8, 1780, and Elisha, named as one of the executors, declined to act as such, stating: "As I live remote and my business is such, that I resign acting as executor."
By 1790 Elisha Doane and family had left Cape Cod and moved nearer to Boston in the coastal village of Cohasset, Massachusetts [3].
By 1800 Elisha Doane's first wife Mary had passed away; Elisha had relocated 70 miles inland to Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts [4] where, toward the end of 1800 [5], Elisha married his second wife, Mrs. Martha [nee Johnson] Allen. After their marriage, Elisha and Martha settled in Spencer, Worcester County, Massachusetts, a few miles east of Brookfield. They had no known children together.
Elisha Doane made his will, October 23, 1804, in which he mentions, in this order: wife Martha Doane; son Nathan Doane; daughter Martha Doane; daughter Lucy Flagg; four sons: Oliver; Amos; Nathan; and Elisha Jr.
Elisha Doane Sr. died at Spencer, Massachusetts July 13, 1810, age about 86 [6]. His remains rest in the Evergreen Cemetery, East Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts [7].
Elisha Doane’s second wife Martha (Johnson)(Allen) Doane died November 10, 1837, probably at Spencer, Worcester County, Massachusetts [8]. Her remains also rest in the Evergreen Cemetery [9], East Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts next to her second husband, Elisha [10].
Worthy of note: Elisha Doane’s second wife Martha, first married Jason Allen, a Revolutionary War soldier who died September 15, 1777 on active duty. Martha Doane, as the widow of Elisha Doane, and former widow of Jason Allen, applied for a widow's pension May 4, 1837 at age 88, for Jason Allen's service as a Revolutionary War soldier. Martha received her widow’s pension (No. W22960) based on the military service of her first husband Jason Allen, not on the military service of her second husband Elisha Doane as cited in some Doane family histories.
References:
[1] Thomas Rogers Society genealogy, April 2010.
[2] Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Volume 4, Page 805.
[3] 1790 US Census, Massachusetts, Norfolk County, Cohasset.
[4] LDS Microfilm No. 0547195, Massachusetts Marriages: Captain Elisha Doane married Mrs. Martha Allen, November 27, 1800 at Brookfield.
[5] LDS Microfilm No. 0874027, Massachusetts Marriages: Martha Allen married Captain Elisha Doane, December 9, 1800 at Spencer.
[6] Find a Grave Memorial #168638083.
[7] Evergreen Cemetery, An alphabetical Listing of information taken from Stones by Bertina H. Brennan.
[8] Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Application File, W22960.
[9] Evergreen Cemetery, An alphabetical Listing of information taken from Stones by Bertina H. Brennan.
[10] Find a Grave Memorial #99527665.
Author: Nils Eric Danielsson
Elisha Doane, son of Jonathan and Martha (Higgins) Doane
SAR Ancestor #: P-148641 DAR Ancestor #: A032623
Service: Massachusetts Rank: Captain
Birth: 24 Nov 1742 Place: Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Spouse(s): (1) Mary X (2) Martha Allen Married: 9 Dec 1800, Spencer, Massachusetts
Children: Oliver Amos Nathan Elisha Martha Lucy
DAR Service Description: 2ND BARNSTABLE CO REG
Elisha Doane. Captain, 6th (2d Eastham) co., 2d Barnstable Co. reg’t. of Mass. Militia; list of officers chosen in said regiment, as returned by Joseph Doane; ordered in Council April 20, 1776, that commissions be issued; reported commissioned April 20, 1776.
Source: Ancestry.com. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War (Images Online) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: Massachusetts. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War. Vol. 1-17. Boston, MA, USA: Wright & Potter Printing, 1896-1908. P. 805.
Elisha Doane was commissioned captain of 6th (2nd Eastham) Co., 2nd Barnstable Regt. Of Mass. Militia, Apr. 20, 1776. His commission was in the possession of his descendants until within late years ….He was a blacksmith and probably learned the trade in his father’s shop at Eastham.
Source: Ancestry.com. The Doane family : I. Deacon John Doane, of Plymouth, II. Doctor John Done, of Maryland, and their descendants : with notes upo [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
Original data: Doane, Alfred Adler,. The Doane family : I. Deacon John Doane, of Plymouth, II. Doctor John Done, of Maryland, and their descendants: with notes upon English families of the name. Boston, Mass.: A.A. Doane, 1902. P. 100-101.
Marriage Information Title: Vital Records of Spencer, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849
Publication: 1909. Worcester, Ma: Franklin P. Rice [online]http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Worcester/Spencer/Page: 151
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