Person:Edmund Doane (1)

Marraige: Edmund was married by his uncle Joseph Doane Esq.Wife: Elizabeth Paine, widow of William Paine and William Myrick.Residences: In the autumn of 1761, Edmund and his family set sail from Orleans, MA for the Cape Sable District. They embarked at what was then known as "Nathaniel Mayo's Landing" which was a landing or cove a little south of the present Congressional Church at East Orleans. Being driven off their course by unfavorable winds they arrived at Liverpool where they spent the winter. The following spring, they returned to the Cape Sable District and were among the earliest settlers to the township of Barrington. The first people of English descent to fix their abodes at the head of coves and harbors around the shores of southwestern Nova Scotia were fisherman, mostly from Cape Cod and Nantucket in Massachusetts. They were not refugees for loyalty's sake but simply "hard liners" and net men, who had found out by their fearless cruises in "pink stern" craft, that fish abounded in these waters. When Edmund lived in Barrington, he kept a general store where the chief articles of trade were rum, flour by the pound, salt by the hogshead, molasses, sugar, medicine, dry goods, hardware, etc. It is understood that he received his goods from his brother-in-law John Homer, a merchant in Boston, shipping him in return, the alewives, herring, and other fish found in Nova Scotia Waters. Tiring with the hard conditions of his life in the new settlement and perhaps meeting with business reversals, Edmund sold his property in Barrington intending to return with his family to New England; but on petition of a large number of the townspeople, a grant was made of town land, at Johnson's Point to his wife Elizabeth in consideration of her valuable medical services. On this grant, they settled and spent their remaining days. In the petition Elizabeth was described as being "destitute of accomodation of land to set a house upon".Source: Doane Genealogy

1.   Dockstader, Sally persians@northnet.org. Sally Dockstader: Snyder Family in NY & PA. (ancestry.com gedcom updated 20 Sep 2002).
2. ↑ Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, in Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Descendant: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy, History and Biography
   8:245.

   Edmond Doane the son of Israel and Ruth Doane was Born at Eastham on the 20th day of april anno dom 1718.