| 4. | Captain James Wilson Doak, Sr. was born before 1740 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania or Augusta Co, Virginia (son of John Doak, (Immigrant) and Mary Wilson(?)); died on 3 Feb 1806 in Guilford Co, North Carolina; was buried in Alamance Presbyterian Church Cem, Greensboro, Guilford Co, North Carolina. Other Events and Attributes:
- Property: Rutherford Co, Tennessee
- Residence: 1761, Rowan Co, North Carolina; tax list
- Residence: Abt 1775, Guilford Co, North Carolina
- Will: 8 Dec 1805, Greensboro, Guilford Co, North Carolina; written
- Property: 5 Aug 1816, Rutherford Co, Tennessee; registered
Notes:
Ancestry message board:
I've pretty much given up on these message boards - too much unreliable data being presented as 'gospel' - but just thought I'd make clear that (Capt) James Wilson Doak was the son of John Doak and a Mary who is said to have been a Wilson: there's simply no evidence I'm aware of as to her parentage.
Also, it's only an hypothesis that John's father was Robert - personally, I think Robert's son would have been too old to have been the John Doak (my gtgtgtgtgdfather) who made no less than 3 new pioneer starts between about 1740 & 1760.
http://boards.ancestry.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=237&p=surnames.doak
Ralph Doak 8 Apr 2009
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James Doak, son of John, of Alamance Church, bought of Rebecca, James and Jean Boyd a farm on Reedy Fork and located there in 1799. He had married Mary, daughter of William Paisley, Sr., in 1775. Their children were Eleanor, Mary, John, Jean, Martha, William P., Robert and James W. Eleanor married Thomas Blair, Jr., 1800; Mary married Alexander Whem. All of these with the exception of James W. went to Tennessee to lands willed them by their father. James Doak, Sr., died in 1806.
Guilford County, NCGenWeb
Buffalo Presbyterian Members Part 2
http://ncgenweb.us/nc/guilford/buffalo-presbyterian-members-part-2/
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Property:
Revolutionary war land grant in Rutherford County, Tenn., near Murfreesboro where some of his sons relocated.
Residence:
John on Rowan Co, NC, tax lists - with 2 taxables in 1759 but with Roberd & Jeames named in 1761
Residence:
He and his wife Polly had eight children and moved down the Shannandoah Valley to Guilford County, N.C. by 1775.
Will:
We also have a will for this James Doak, recorded in Greensboro, Guilford County, NC, dated 8 Dec 1805 (File #0108, recorded in Will Book A, at Page 108) and proven at the February, 1806 term of Court.
As noted from the original document by Robert Edward Oakley
the will refers to "all my beloved children" before listing John, Jean, Martha, William P., Robert, and James W. The will leaves to his children, ?my land in Tennessee on west bank of Stones River? and stipulates that his wife Mary is to have first choice of land.
James Wilson Doak is listed by DAR as having received a land grant for service of 1569 acres on the West Fork of Stone River, Rutherford Co, TN
The apparent omission of Eleanor and Mary from their father's will is possibly due to the fact that they were both already married ? their dowries may have been their due portions of their father's estate. There are records of both these marriages.
(from Ralph Doak)
Property:
from Ralph Doak
26 Mar 2013
The court-ordered division of James Wilson Doak, Sr.'s
1569-acre Granville Grant in Rutherford County, Tennessee, was finally registered with the Rutherford County court clerk on August 5, 1816--a full 10 years after his death--and tracts were platted, described, and conveyed to the following
people:
(1) Lot No. 1, 350 acres -- Jane Doak
(2) Lot No. 2, 250 acres -- Shadrack Idolett (Aydelott)
(3) Lot No. 3, 224 acres -- Robert Doak
(4) Lot No. 4, 148 acres -- John Doak
(5) Lot No. 5, 148 acres -- James Wilson Doak, Jr. (he never moved to Tennessee to occupy this land)
(6) Lot No. 6, 148 acres -- Thomas Blair (husband of Eleanor)
(7) Lot No. 7, 301 acres -- Alexander McKeen (husband of Mary)
(as submitted by Robert Edward Oakley to Ralph)
Buried:
He had married Mary, daughter of William Paisley, Sr., in 1775. Their children were Eleanor, Mary, John, Jean, Martha, William P., Robert and James W. Eleanor married Thomas Blair, Jr., 1800; Mary married Alexander Whem. All of these with the exception of James W. went to Tennessee to lands willed them by their father. James Doak, Sr., died in 1806.
findagrave
James married Mary "Polly" Paisley on 7 Feb 1775 in Guilford Co, North Carolina. Mary (daughter of William Paisley, (immigrant) and Eleanor McLean) was born in 1750 in Philadelphia Co, Pennsylvania; died on 3 Jun 1837 in Coffee Co, Tennessee; was buried in Old Grove Cem, Beechgrove, Coffee Co, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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