Doane (Y-DNA)
Contents
Status summary
Completed as of April 10, 2026:
- Recruiting additional direct male-line (Dea.) John Done descendants for further SNP testing. Individuals who believe they are patrilineal descendants should Read me First
Still to do as of April 10, 2026
- Identify subclades below FT69930 and where in the tree the originated.
IMPORTANT: Read me First
Biography
First Generation
(Dea.) John Done[1] (later Doane) was born England abt 1590[2] date, place and parentage currently unknown. He died Eastham 21 Feb 1685[/6]. He married twice, first Ann ____ then by 1 Apr 1659 Lydia ____ (no ch.) By his first wife he had five children: Lydia (c1625), Abigail (c1631), John (c1635), Daniel (c1637) and Ephraim (c1642).
Second Generation
John Doane (II) was born Plymouth abt 1635 and died Eastham 15 Mar 1707/8. He married twice, first Eastham 30 Apr 1662 Hannah Bangs then Eastham 14 Apr 1684 Rebecca Pettee (no ch.) By his first wife he had eight children (Eastham): John (1662/3-1663), John (1664), Ann (1666), Rebecca (1668), Hannah (1669), Isaac (1670), Samuel (1673) and David (c1675).
(Dea.) Daniel Doane was born Plymouth abt 1637 and died Eastham bef 26 Sep 1712.[3] He married twice, first abt 1665 Constance ____[4] then Eastham aft 28 Jun 1682 Hepzibah COLE Crisp (widow of George Crisp). By his first wife he had eight children (Eastham): Daniel (1666), Constant (son 1669), Joseph (1669), Constance (1670/1), Israel (son c1672), Rebecca (c1672), Nathaniel (1680) and Abigail (c1682). By his second wife he had two more children (Eastham): Hepzibah (1683) and Ruth (c1690).
Ephraim Doane was born Plymouth abt 1642 and died Eastham abt 19 Apr 1700. He married twice, first 5 Feb 1667/8 Mercy Knowles, then Eastham aft 20 Apr 1692 Mary SMALLEY Snow (widow of John Snow) (no ch.) By his first wife he had eight children (Eastham): Patience (1668-1675), Apphia (1670), Hezekiah (1672), Thomas (1674), Ebenezer (1676), Nehemiah (1680-1684), Patience (1682) and Ruhamah (1685).
Third Generation
John Doane (Esq.) was born Eastham 29 May 1664 and died Boston (Long Wharf) 22 Nov 1755. He married thrice, first 3 Jun 1686 Mehitable Scudder, then bef 1696 Hannah Hobart and finally Hull 20 Jul 1732 Jane Collier. By his first wife he had only one child (Eastham-Billingsgate, now Wellfleet): John (1687). By his second wife he had two children (Boston): Joshua (1696) and Solomon (1698). By his last wife he is said to have had five children: John (1734), Hannah (1737), Jane (1738-1739), Jane (1743) and Ann (1744).
Isaac Doane was born Eastham 2 Jun 1670 and died there 29 Dec 1755. He married Eastham (prob. now Orleans) 2 Dec 1700 Margaret Atwood and they had six children (Eastham): Isaac (1700), Hannah (1702/3), Jerusha (1704/5), Huldah (c1706), Margaret (1711) and Anne (1715).
Samuel Doane was born Eastham 21 Mar 1672/3 and died there 15 Aug 1756. He married Eastham 3 Dec 1696 Martha Hamlin and they had eight children: Samuel (1697), Sarah (1699), Dinah (1700), Dorcas (1703), Solomon (1705), Simeon (1708), Martha (c1712) and Keturah (c1715).
(Dr.) David Doane was born Eastham abt 1675 and died there 18 Nov 1748. He married twice, first Eastham 30 Sep 1701 Dorothy Horton then Eastham 9 Jan 1738 Sarah Rich (no ch.) By his first wife he had eleven children (Eastham): Jonathan (1702), Hannah (1704), Keziah (1706), David (1708), John (1708), Nathan (1710), Abigail (1711), Eleazer (c1712), Joshua (1714), Rachel (c1716) and Enoch (c1718).
Constand Doane likely a "phantom" and never existed
Fourth Generation
DNA results I2a2b-FT69930
Previous Y-DNA testing
The Doane DNA Project Group: "I2a2b-L39 Plymouth, MA" contains a significant number of individuals. The project currently does not list the Most Distant Known Patrilineal Ancestor (MDKPA) but it is believed most members of this group are patrilineal descendants of (Dea.) John Done.
NGS/WGS testing
The above project currently has 24 individuals in the group who have the Doane surname and have taken the Big Y-700 test. They all fall under the following clade (forming several subclades): I2a2b-L38>S2606>S24121>Y16521>S21118>S22679>FGC36959>FT70156>FGC36962>BY25360>BY25379>BY25367>FT69930
References & External Links
- Anderson, Robert Charles, The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 2004) pp, 171-177.
- ↑ Virtually all of the early references to this individual spell his surname Done. It is only with his male line descendants that the surname morphed into Doane.
- ↑ Called himself aged "eighty and eight years or there about" in his will dated 18 May 1678.
- ↑ While his gravestone states he died 20 Sep 1712, the inventory of his estate was taken on 26 Sep 1712 and his will was presented to probate on 7 Oct 1712.
- ↑ She was NOT Constance Snow.
