COLUMBIA AND MONTOUR COUNTIES T he Doncs o f Cheshire were the most promi nent, being spoken o f as a race o f warriors from ffic time o f K in g John. The name ap pears in the Domesday Book, where a number of them arc mentioned as knights. Some of the coats o f arm s indicate that they were in the Crusades with Richard Cocur de Lion, and the name appears on the ro)).s of the battles of Flodden Field, Agincourt and Blackhealh. In the year 1 199 Richard Done resided at the old hall o f Utkinton, one mile north o f T arpoley, CTieshirc, durine the reign o f K ing John. In the reign of Ilcn ry 111. H enry Done married Jan e, fourth daughter of Richard de Kyngslic. In the forty-fourth year of the sam e king Richard Donne niarri«^ Elizabeth, daughter o f S ir John Venables. In the eighth year of the same king’s reign Richard Donne married Joan, daughter o f S ir Peter Gerard. In the fortv-fourth year of the reign of E/lward H I, Kichard Doanc married Anne, daughter o f William dc Clottcn. In the fif teenth year of the reign o f Henry T John Donne married Annie, daughter o f Richard de Heaton. In the thirty-eighth year of the same reign S ir John Done married Cicily, daughter o f S ir John Troutbcck. In the twentieth year of the reign o f Henry V I I S ir lohn Done niarricd Elizabeth, daugh ter o f Tnom as dc W evcr. In the fourth year of the reign o f F.lizabcth. S ir John Done, aged fifteen years, was buried at T a l l e y ( 1 5 6 1 ) and his estate w as settled on Ralph Done, o f R acyard s. In the reign o f Jam es I. S ir John Done, knight, was buried at T arpoley (16 2 9 ). H e had been knighted at Utkin ton, Cheshire, in 16 17 . and married Dorothy, daughter o f Thom as Wilbraham, of Woo<llcy. T h e Done motto, attached to the portrait of S ir John Done, In Tarpolcy church, reads as fo llo w s: “ Omnia-Mci-Dona-Dei.” T he first of the family to come to .America w as John Doanc, who landed at Fastham, Mass., then in the jurisdiction o f Plymouth, in 1630. with the I-eyden Company of Colon ists. He w as assistant to the governor, and through his connection with Plymouth Church w as called “ Deacon" Jedin. He w as one of Ihc Seven Founders o f Easthain, Cape Cod. H e w as bom in 1590 and died Feb. 2 1, 1685. D r. Daniel Doan, son o f Deacon John, bom in 1636, died in 17 12, at Eastham. Daniel Doan, J r ., son o f Daniel I>oan, S r.. w as bom at Eastham, and died at Newton, Bucks Co., Pa., in 1743. Joseph Doan, son of Daniel, was bom in Rucks county, Pa., in 1697. and died at Cane Creek, N . C / F.bcnezcr Doan, son of Joseph, was bom at W rightslown, Pa., in
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1733, and died near Toronto. Canada, in 18 18 . Jonathan Doan, S r., son o f Ebenezer, bom in Bucks county in 1756, died in New Y o rk City in 18 18 . l i e w as first married to M ar^ Beans, daughter of Tim othv Beans, o f Tinicum, Bucks county. They had five children: Jonathan, J r ., Aaron, David, Rebecca and C rathia. B y nis second nurriagc, to M ary ifig gins, of N ew Y o rk City, he had one child, tjeorgc W., mentioned W o w . H is last wife died III Burlington, N . J .. at the age o f eightyfour. George W. Doane, bishop o f New Jersey, w as bom in Trenton M ay 27, 1799, and ilied in Burlington, N . J ., A pril 17, 1859. H e mar ried in Boston, in 18 :^ . Elizabeth Green (C al lahan) Perkins, widow of Jam es Perkins, and their children were George Hobart and W il liam Croswell, mentioned below. G coigc Hobart Doanc was bom Sept. 5> 1830. Tic was appointed vicar general of the diocese o f Newark, N . J ., in 1873. by Bishop Corrigan, became administrator of the diocese, and was finally transferred to New Y o rk City, as coadjutor o f Cardinal McCloskcy. William Croswell Doane wa.s bom in Bos ton March 2, 1832. H e g ra d iu lc d from B u rl ington College in i8 jo, .and on Nov. 24. 1853, he married Sarah Catherine Condit. In the same year he w as ordained deacon by his father on March 6th. in St. M ary's Church, Burlington, and in 1856 w as elevated to the priesthood. H e is-as rector o f St. Peter's Church from 1865 to 1869. w as chosen first bishop o f Albany. N. Y .. in December, 1868, and consecratcil Feb. 2. 1869. by Bishops Ho ratio Potter. Ncclv Robertson and Littlejohn. Old records o f flucks county. Pa., stale that in 1691 Francis Done received a grant o f land near Newtown from W illiam Penn. Israel Doan was a son o f Joseph Doan, whose son Elijah was the father o f Benjamin Doan, who was bom Nov. 12, 1770. in Bucks county. Pa. In lyt/l Benjamin Doan was married to Hannah Iddings, a member of the Society o f Friends. T h eir children were as follow s: Jo sep h; Elizabeth; W illiam, who married M a i^ r c t Fitzgerald; Amelia, who died yo u n g; Elijah, who married Wilhelmina M oyer; Jan e, who married Stephen M. G il m ore; Benjamin Groves, who married Lucy M o yer; Hannah, who married George B ro w n; Sarah Ann. who married John T . D av is; and H arriet, who married Joseph W olfe. ElizalKth (D oan) "Jackson w as bom in 1796. and w as married to Jo el Jackson, a resi dent of the State o f New Y ork. T heir chil dren were as follow s: Mordecai WiUiam;
