| 4. | Robert* Doak, (immigrant) was born about 1670 in Ballynure, Co Antrim, Ulster, Ireland; died in 1753 in Augusta Co, Virginia. Other Events and Attributes:
- Immigration: 3 Nov 1718, The Elizabeth, Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts; warned out
- Residence: 1728, Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania
- Emigration: Bef 1738, Ulster, Northern Ireland
Notes:
(Also spelled Doach, Doage, Doack)
"The most likely number of immigrant Doak brothers was four (David, John, Robert & Samuel) together with perhaps three sisters: definitely 'the original Thankful Doak', and, probably, also Ann & Mary. A brother Nathaniel and a sister Julia are to be discounted - they appear to have made their entrance courtesy of one Janie P C French, vol 6 (Doak) in a series entitled Notable Southern Families. To be polite, that should have been published by, say, Balderdash, Bunkum & Claptrap (under license from Hogwash Inc) - it's probably the single 'greatest' source of conventionally-published misinformation concerning Doak genealogy, and there is regrettably strong competition for that 'accolade'.
"The year of immigration is a seriously-vexed question: 1704 is a perennial favourite but arises from a mistaken reading of a source which never offered that date as anything other than speculative. 1740, which some have quite seriously preferred as a 'typo' revision of 1704, is demonstrably too late, probably by at least 12 years (see below), although it is by no means certain that the Doaks and the Mitchells arrived in America even in the same year, let alone on the same ship.
"1718 is one strong contender, with a ship called the Elizabeth having become almost Ark-like as the fons et origo for all the immigrant Doaks - but, according to one deafeningly-trumpeted hypothesis, only if the parents are Robert & Margaret rather than James & Elizabeth ... or Samuel & unknown, or unknown & the Widow Doak, or James-Samuel (desperation setting in there, I've always suspected) and so on and so on, ad nauseam almost ad infinitum - hey, guys, relax, will youse ... there's nothing at all wrong about not being sure until you really can be, OK? Bit of a downer about the 'and perhaps we never will be sure', bit, admittedly, but if that's the way it is, to my mind those as-yet-unidentified ancestors deserve the honesty of uncertainty rather than to be 'honoured' by demeaning delusional squabbles among a bunch of gamblers.
"[minor outbreak of fulmination ends]
"Samuel Doak and Jane Mitchell almost certainly married in Lancaster Co, PA, not long before they set out for the Shendandoah Valley - and the same applies to Samuel's brother-in-law John Finley and Samuel's sister, Elizabeth Thankful Doak. Lancaster Co was until 1728 part of Chester Co and the 1728 petition which brought about the creation of Lancaster Co was signed by Thomas Mitchell (Jane's father, who died in 1734) and a James Doke, who may have been father of the immigrant Doak brothers. There is a will surviving for Thomas Mitchell which provides corroboration as to the identification of both Jane and her mother but, alas, no such record regarding James."
http://www.cwcfamily.org/idl/robtdoak.htm
(Ralph Doak)
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"Bible Records & Marriage Bonds" gives James and Elizabeth Doak as parents of the immigrant Doaks; Thankful born on ship coming over, about 1704.
French in "Notable Southern Families" gives father as Samuel; arrival date as about 1740 (to Northern Neck). Says Samuel Doak received grant in Beverly Manor 23 September 1741.
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Rootsweb tree of Carmen J. Finley, Ph.D., C.G.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=finleyc&id=I1441
ID: I1441
Name: Samuel Doak
Sex: M
Birth: Abt 1690 in Antrim,Ulster,Ireland
Death: in Antrim,Ulster,Ireland
Note:
!Acklen in "Bible Records & Marriage Bonds" gives James and Elizabeth Doak as parents of the immigrant Doaks; Thankful born on ship coming over, about 1704. French in "Notable Southern Families gives father as Samuel; arrival date as about 1740. Says Samuel Doak received grant in Beverly Manor 23 September 1741.
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From: Ralph Doak
Date: 10/17/16 10:49:01
To: Doak List
Subject: Londonderry, Ulster, 1719
Thanks to the unwelcoming Selectmen, we know that Robert Doak(e) was, along with 29 others, 'warned out' from Boston, MA, on November 3rd 1719
The names were not arbitrarily selected - they were 'heads of household' travelling on the ship 'Elizabeth' from Londonderry in Ulster and all were labelled 'farmers'
All were also probably labelled 'pox-riddled' to boot, as a Massachusetts Resolve dated November 4th makes clear - the 'Elizabeth' was carrying smallpox in addition to its passengers, and treatment for said infestation required more than Spectacle Island and the established 'pest-house' could provide - hence that Resolve dated November 4th 1719
We do not know the nature of the treatment and nor do we know the fate of the party headed by Robert Doak(e), but we do know that he and two sons, James and John, were in 1720 granted land at Nutfield, later Londonderry, NH, and that Robert, a weaver, and his wife Margaret, sold their Londonderry, NH, land to John Campbell of Boston, MA, in December 1725 ... or, perhaps, in December 1724, when John Doak, then of Donegal, PA, sold his half-share of 60 acres at Londonderry, NH, to his brother James, then ALSO of Donegal, PA
Donegal, PA, was then in Chester County, PA, but in 1729 it became part of Lancaster County, PA - we have access, courtesy of the State of Pennsylvania archives, to a copy of the petition, signed it seems by one 'Jas Doke'
The tax list of 1726-7, for the year ending on March 24th 1727, for Chester Co, PA, includes John Doak 'and Mother' in a section headed 'Donegal rate' ... but that is the ONLY surviving record of Mother Doak in PA, although it is possible that she was named Margaret and was the wife, or by then perhaps the widow, of Robert Doak(e), 'warned out' from Boston, MA, November 3rd 1719 by Selectman John Mar(r)ian
From Lancaster Co, PA, we have surviving records of John and Samuel Doak, and from the court in Augusta Co, VA, in 1746 we have evidence that John and Samuel Doak were brothers
Our dna evidence confirms that 3 Doak lines come from John, Samuel, and David (i) Doak (1710-87), all of which trio can be placed in Augusta Co, VA, in the 1740s ... and both John and Samuel can also be shown in Lancaster Co, PA, in the 1730s
According to one 'scholar', we are blighted with the unwholesome taint of Welsh ancestry, but my x4gtgdfather John Doak mayhap be to blame there - he settled at last and died in 1770 at Bleating House, Bleating Creek, Rowan County, North Carolina
We are sure our ancestors arrived in America from 'the North of Ireland' - the anciente province of ULSTER - and, probably, that Scotland was 'home' before Ulster came a'calling them
We are certain that a weaver named Robert Doak(e), his wife Margaret, and sons James and John, arrived at Nutfield, later Londonderry, NH, in time to be granted land there in 1720
We are also certain that Robert Doak(e) was a passenger on the 'Elizabeth', captain/sailing-master Robert Homes, which sailed to 'Hull and Boston' in time to be 'warned out' by the puritanical inhospitality of John Mar(r)ian, Selectman of Boston, MA, from Londonderry in Ulster, Ireland, late in July or early in August of 1719 ... and I very strongly suspect Robert Doak(e) of having been father to James, John, Samuel, David, Thankful, Ann, and perhaps also Mary ..... and my own x5greatgrandfather
Ralph
From: Ralph Doak
Date: 10/24/2016 5:39:49 PM
To: Sherry
Subject: The Patriarch
Robart Doake, weaver
Sailed into 'Hull and Boston', MA, on 3 November 1719 on the 'Elizabeth' with wife Margarett, sons James, John, Samuel, and David, also daughters Thankful, Ann, and perhaps a Mary
Ralph
Immigration:
Robert Doak arrived Nov 1718 with his family, but was "Warned Out" and had to leave. He went 40 miles north/west to Londonderry to farm.
http://fragilethings.fr.yuku.com/topic/2430/Map-of-Boston-1772#.WBCNkWWECcQ (see attached)
From: Ralph Doak
Date: 10/24/2016 5:39:49 PM
To: Sherry
Subject: The Patriarch
Robart Doake, weaver
Sailed into 'Hull and Boston', MA, on 3 November 1719 on the 'Elizabeth' with wife Margarett, sons James, John, Samuel, and David, also daughters Thankful, Ann, and perhaps a Mary
Ralph
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Robert Doak(e) was, along with 29 others, 'warned out' from Boston, MA, on November 3rd 1719
The names were not arbitrarily selected - they were 'heads of household' travelling on the ship 'Elizabeth' from Londonderry in Ulster and all were labelled 'farmers'
All were also probably labelled 'pox-riddled' to boot, as a Massachusetts Resolve dated November 4th makes clear - the 'Elizabeth' was carrying smallpox in addition to its passengers, and treatment for said infestation required more than Spectacle Island and the established 'pest-house' could provide - hence that Resolve dated November 4th 1719.
Ralph
Residence:
Lancaster Co was until 1728 part of Chester Co and the 1728 petition which brought about the creation of Lancaster Co was signed by Thomas Mitchell (Jane's father, who died in 1734) and a James Doke, who may have been father of the immigrant Doak brothers.
(Ralph Doak)
Emigration:
from Ralph Doak (2/7/2013)
The Doaks of Augusta Co, VA
We (f)actually know very little of the prior activities in America of the Doak siblings who came into the Shenandoah valley ca 1738.
We know even less about their parentage and provenance - in these matters there is essentially just those oral traditions which constitute the minefield known as Doak "family lore" .. at least in polite circles.
One otherwise worthy antiquarian has even made the assertion that the Doaks are Welsh - marginally preferable to the vile slander that we might be English, but a low blow for a' that
The imbalance of improbabilities suggests the following:
The Doaks are of Scots stock, but probably Lalland rather than Hieland - alluring though the notion of my ancestors as Celtic warriors is, and will remain.
Some Doaks went into the North of Ireland during the Plantation of Ulster and it is from these that the Augusta Co, VA, Doaks descend.
Where in Ulster did they live before emigrating to America?
Cos Antrim, Derry & Down have all been nominated for that dubious honour but Antrim has been - and for me remains - the clear favourite for too many years to be cast aside
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"The Mathews (Mathes) Family in America" by I.C. Van Deventer -- Alexander Printing Co., 1925.
Alexander Mathews came with the Doak family in the Scotch-Irish immigration from Northern Ireland to Pennsylvania,
James Doak, his wife Elizibeth, and five children, Samual, David, John, Robert and Thankful emigrated from North of Ireland to America, landing in Newcastle, Delaware in 1708 and settled in Chester Co., PA.
( strongly disputed)
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from Ralph Doak (2/7/2013):
One unfortunate aspect:
Ms Ida Christabelle Van Deventer (pub. 1925) expects readers to believe that the ship landed its illustriously ancestral cargo in America in 1708. So sorry - not - Ms Van-Denter, but that's just not the way it was.
Only a few groups of Ulster Scots emigrated to America before 1718 and it takes only a few of the few facts we know to show that our 'Doaks of interest' were of the rule rather than of the exception thereto.
At this point I feel the need to bring up my heavy artillery so, to the sound of elephants tap-dancing, enter William Henry Foote, who in 1846 published a work entitled, for the sake of brevity "Sketches of North Carolina:"
During the course of this work it is disclosed that Samuel, father of Rev Samuel Doak (1749 - 1840) emigrated 'very young'
Game over..
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Robert* married Margaret* (..) Doak about 1706 in Ireland. Margaret* was born about 1690 in Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland; died after 1741 in Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Bef 1735 - Bef 1796 (~ 61 years)