My Maine Heritage - June 2023 - Person Sheet
NameDea. John Doane
Birth Date1591
Birth PlaceCheshire, England
Death Date21 Feb 1686 Age: 95
Death PlacePlymouth, Plymouth Co., MA
Misc. Notes
From:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=gwindor&id=P-879683758John Doane rated highly in the estimation of Govenor William Bradford and Thomas Prence. His name appears many times in the old records of the colony. He held many offices and s mentioned frequently on various committees. He had charge of settling many estates and handling the legal affairs of numerous minors.
Following a practice common in those days, John and Ann bound out two of the Bryant boys to good friends. Thomas went to Mr. Eddy and Stephen went to John Shaw. This practice offered the boys financial opportunities and connections independent of and supplementary to those which their own parents could offer them as they grew up.
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Misc. Notes
From:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=gwindor&id=P-879683758“The truth is that the parentage of Stephen Bryant, Sr. is unknown except for the fact that his mother widow Ann Bryant married John Doane in England. Then she and John along with her children from her first marriage and his (six altogether) sailed on the "Handmaid" and 2 months later, 29 October 1630, arrived in Plymouth Colony.”