Joseph Doan (1759-1838)

Joseph Doan was born 23 October 1759 in Cane Creek, Chatham County, North Carolina, United States to John Doan (1731-1811) and Ruth Dixon (1733-1764) and died 23 July 1832 Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio, United States of unspecified causes. He married Jemima Vestal (1762-1832) 5 November 1780 in Cane Creek, Chatham County, North Carolina, United States.

Children

Offspring of Joseph Doan and Jemima Vestal (1762-1832)
Name	Birth	Death	Joined with
Thomas Doan (1781-)
John Doan (1783-)
Ruth Doan (1785-1870)
William Doan (1789-)
Elizabeth Doan (1791-1863)
Joseph Doan (1792-1861)	25 May 1792 Cane Creek, Chatham County, North Carolina, United States	18 February 1861 Wilmington, Clinton County, Ohio, United States	Eliza Carpenter (1802-1873)
Jesse Doan (1796-)
Jonathan Doan (1798-)
Jacob Doan (1801-)
Rachel Doan (1803-1880)
Elisha Doan (1806-)
Mary Doan (1809-c1821)

Residences

Doane, 1902, pp. 223-224, says:

Becoming dissatisfied with the institution of slavery in the South, Mr. Doane sold his southern plantation and moved his family to Clinton Co., Ohio, arriving 1804, 11, 4. There he purchased two hundred and thirty-eight acres of land on Todd's Fork, at one dollar and a half per acre, and build the first brick house in the county. He donated the lands for the public buildings of Wilmington in 1810, and by his energetic spirit of enterprise, developed the resources of the new country, and increased the prosperity of himself and family, until its members were recognized as the leading spirits of Clinton county.

He was a county commissioner from 1810 to 1818; he donated the two lots upon which the schoolhouse at Wilmington was built and employed the first teacher, Isaac Garretson. He was one of the committee employed to build the first Court House and jail. The old Wilmington records speak of Mr. Doane as "a man of genial presence who enjoyed life." Both he and his wife were members of the Society of Friends all their lives, and their first ten children are recorded on the register of the Cane Creek Monthly Meeting.