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Excerpt from The Doane Family
I am one of the generation of Yonge Street Doanes whose great, great, grandfather fought the fields from the hold of the forest, built his log cabin and planted his first crop in soil last ploughed by the Polar Ice Cap. Although I grew up on the original home stead, I spent all my adult life in the cities of Hamilton, Toronto, and Ottawa but my roots are rural and the homestead was my second home. It is interesting to note that Ebenezer's great, great, grandson is still the occupant and owner of a portion of the original crown grant, Lot 92, King Township, Yonge Street.
In this attempt at a genealogical search for descendants of Ebenezer's five sons, who came to Canada with him in 1808, I have endeavoured to commence where A. A. Doane's history of 1902 finished and also trace many persons who had not been recorded in his publication. The descendants of James Hartley and Judah are excellent examples.
My opening introduction of Ebenezer5 has been copied from A. A. Doane's 1902 publication and is for the benefit of many who may not have a copy of his book. The following data has been divided into five sections, each section headed by a son, in chrono logical order: William, Joseph, John, Mahlon, and. Ebenezer. Therefore, anyone knowing the name of Ebenezer's son from whom they are descended, should Without difficulty, trace their ancestral lineage.
This record would not be complete Without mentioning The Doane Centennial honouring our Ebenezer. The occasion was held at the Friends Meeting House, Yonge Street on Saturday, July 18, 1908, when descendants of Ebenezer Doane celebrated the hundredth anniversary by unveiling a tablet (in form of headstone) in the Quaker Cemetery which adjoins the Meeting House and the farm where he settled in 1808. This reunion was a gathering of over four hundred. Of his descendants who joined together for a social good fellowship. The dedicatory address was by R. W. Doane of Toronto, followed by Rev. Frank Cornell, Elias Rodgers and Sir William Mulock, a neighbor and the Postmaster General of Canada.
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