Doan, Jonathan

  • Quakers who were U.E. Loyalists by: Randy Saylor @ https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~saylormowbray/genealogy/quakerloyalists.pdf
    • BIRTH 16 MAR 1765 • Plumstead, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA
    • DEATH 22 SEP 1847 • Yarmouth, Elgin County, Ontario, Canada
    • Jonathan Doan (1765-1847) – request for UE status denied
    • There is an excellent comprehensive biography titled Jonathan Doan, the Patriarch of Yarmouth by Donald Anger in the Canadian Quaker History Journal.
    • Jonathan Doan first appears in the Quaker minutes in 5mo 1806 when “Black Creek Reports Jonathan Doan, Requests to Come under the Care of friends.” A committee is formed and five months later in 10 month 1806, the committee reports, “One of The Committee in Jonathan Doans Case made Report they an opertunity with him and find no thing to Obstruct his Reception, This meeting Receives him into membership…
    • This means that he was new to being a Quaker. At the time he was living in Wainfleet Township. Jonathan Doan states in his petition from 1813 that he was born in New Jersey, was 48 years old (thus born about 1765) and arrived in Upper Canada as a settler in 1789 and was a Quaker. In 1813 he had 14 children. He stated that he, “has bargained with James Baby Esq for considerable tract of land lying in the Township of Yarmouth south of the lands appropriated to accommodate the street commonly known as Talbot street and as he has bargained with his friends who can be well recommended now living in Pennsylvania and the state of New York who contemplated with their families and your petitioner with his to settle on said tract …
  • Loyalist in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=9456
  • Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46799290/jonathan-doan