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State of Service: MA
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: 1758 Death: 1825
Additional References:
46th-55th Annual Reports DAR. Senate documents (United States Congress, Senate). Government Printing Office: Washington, DC
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Children from Eastham records: 1. Zenas 2. Lot 3. Crowell 4. Allen 5. Joel 6. Noah 7. Randall Rice
DOANE, ZENAS. Private, Capt. Benjamin Godfrey’s co., Col John Cushing’s reg’t.; service from Sept. 26, 1776, 1 mo. 28 days, at Rhode Island; roll dated Newport, and sworn to in Barnstable Co.,; also, Capt. Isaiah Higgin’s co., Maj. Zenas Winslow’s reg’t.; service from Sept. 9 to Sept. 13, 1778, 4 days, on an alarm at Falmouth. MA sailors.
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. 808
ZENAS DOANE was born at Eastham, Mass., Jan. 19, 1761 and died there Dec. 20, 1825 (gravestone, Herring Pond burial-ground). He married, in 1785, Mercy Crowell, who died at Eastham, Nov. 28, 1837, the daughter of Capt. Lot Crowell, of South Yarmouth, Mass. He lived in Eastham, near Long Point.
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. 153.
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