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Title: The Doane family: Year: 1902 (1900s) Authors: Doane, Alfred Alder, 1855-1918. [from old catalog] Doane, Gilbert Jones. [from old catalog] Subjects: Doane family. [from old catalog] Publisher: Boston Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Text Appearing Before Image: f strong character and the strictest integrity. His remains wereplaced in the Doane Tomb, No. 12, under Kings Chapel, corner of *Houord fr. Louisbourg, Mar. 20, 1746 I am informed by Capt. Doane that your Honor Requires from me something in writingRelating to his Son having an Ensign Commission in his Company, all I know of the affairCapt. Doans Company is the largest in this Regiment and 1 always understood until ofLate that his son had an Ensign Commission before he came away from N. England, but asI understand it Gouvnour Sherley was here when Capt. Doan came from X. England andatt Capt. Doans arrival here Gouvnour Sherley left this place by reason of which andCapt. Doans sickness I understand there was no Commission granted. Notwithstandinghe hath acted In that Capacity ever sence and I think ought to be Intitled to the wages ofa commission from your Honor If you think proper. Your Humble Obedient ServantTo Wm. Pepperell. John Gokham. (From Pepperrell Papers, Mass. Hist. Society).

Text Appearing After Image: (Page 139.) MRS. ANN (DOANE) GREENOUGH. Great-granddaughter of Dea. John Doane. (From an oil painting.) DESCENDANTS OF DEA. JOHN DOANE. 139 Tremont and School streets, Boston. His first wife, Hope, was bur-ied in the Duck Creek burial-ground at Wellfleet. She was a gentlewoman, universally respected, whose death was lamented by all, es-pecially by the poor, to whom she was a great friend. His widow, Ann, married second, May 11, 1784, David StoddardGreenough, born July 31, 1752, son of Thomas and Sarah (Stoddard)Greenough, of Boston. After the War of Independence they movedto Jamaica Plain, then a suburb of Boston. The house in whichthey lived is still occupied by their descendants, and is one of thefew surviving historic landmarks of that period. It was built in 1760by Commodore Loring, then the chief of the British forces in Massa-chusetts, and during the siege of Boston was occupied by GeneralGreene as his headquarters. The only child of David Stoddard andAnn Doane Greenough was Dav

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