Elizabeth Finley

Elizabeth married Peter Hay on 30 Jan 1794. Peter was born on 17 May 1770 in Boston, Massachusetts; died after 1810 in of, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Property: 17 Nov 1767, Middle River, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Residence: Abt 1772, Washington Co, Virginia

Notes:

Baptized January 30, 1742/43 Augusta Co, Virginia,
Deeded 179 acres by John and Thankful, "a part of John Finleys land he now lives on," for 5 shillings, 17 November 1767 (Augusta County DB 14:104). George and wife, Jane, deed this property to Robert Clendenen in 1772 (Augusta Co. DB 18:btains grant for 35 acres on Middle River (same area - see DB 27:268).
In Washington County prior to 22 October 1785 when John Finley patents 312 acres on Wallaces branch of Holston River; deed references George Finley (Washington Co. DB 1:305).
Buys and sells property between 1788 and 1801; wife always named Jean or Jane (Washington Co. DB 1:140, 1:407, 1:408, 1:409, 2:201, 2:467).
Final deed dated 5 July 1805 shows George and Jane Findley living in KY (Washington Co. DB 4:165).
George wrote his will 22 August 1810 in Logan County, KY. Names daughters Rachel, Elizabeth and Mary and husbands James Glenn, Peter Hay, Hugh Orr respectively. James
Glenn was witness to Washington County deed in 1799 (2:201).
(See Carmen J. Finley, "The George Finleys of Augusta County, VA," The American Genealogist, 64 (October 1989):216-225.)

Property:
On 17 November 1767, John and Thankful deeded 179 acres of their property to their son, George, for five shillings. George, however, soon moved to Washington County about 170 miles to the southwest and sold his Middle River property to Robert and Margaret Clendenen for 9C16, less than five years after it was given to him. The Clendenens, in turn, sold it back to John and Thankful three years later for five shillings.

George married Jane Lyle about 1770. Jane was born about 1742; died after 1810 in of, Logan Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Between 1737 and 1739, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Religion: 1740, Tinkling Spring Church, Tinkling Spring, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Property: 1 Dec 1740, Cathey's River (now Middle River), Augusta Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: 13 May 1746, Augusta Co, Virginia; indenture
• Religion: Feb 1748, Brown's Meeting House, Middle River, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Property: 15 Oct 1751, Cathey's River (now Middle River), Augusta Co, Virginia
• Property: 17 Nov 1767, Middle River, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: Mar 1768, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: 20 Jul 1768, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: 5 Nov 1771, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: 1773, Middle River, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: 16 Mar 1773, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Other-Begin: 1 May 1782, Middle River, Augusta Co, Virginia; Personal Property Tax list
• Census: 1787, Augusta Co, Virginia
• Will: 7 Aug 1791, Augusta Co, Virginia; written

Notes:

John and Thankful (Doak) Finley, were among the earliest settlers of the Shenandoah Valley in what is now Augusta County, Virginia, most likely having come from Pennsylvania. Like their early neighbors, they were Scotch-Irish Presbyterian farmers. John was also a cooper. From land records and other documents we can get some feel for his life in this early Virginia settlement.

John and Thankful lived on Middle River, a branch of the Shenandoah. While his property is not shown on the settlement map of Beverley Manor, one can make a pretty good estimate of his location as being just across the manor line near the property of Robert Davis.

We cannot be sure whether John Finley and Thankful Doak were married in Pennsylvania or in Virginia. The Doaks were also early settlers in this region and it is possible that John and Thankful met after both families arrived in the area. Thankful s brothers, Samuel and David Doak, had properties about ten miles due south of John s Middle River property. Her sister, Ann Doak, was married after the Doaks moved to Augusta County.
Carmen Finley, Ph.D., C.G.
http://www.joepayne.org/finley2.html

Property:
We cannot be sure whether John Finley and Thankful Doak were married in Pennsylvania or in Virginia. The Doaks were also early settlers in this region and it is possible that John and Thankful met after both families arrived in the area. Thankful s brothers, Samuel and David Doak, had properties about ten miles due south of John s Middle River property. Her sister, Ann Doak, was married after the Doaks moved to Augusta County.

The first record found for John appeared in Augusta County records of 1 December 1740 when he received a patent for 183 acres on a branch of Cathey's River called Finley's Branch (now Middle River). Since the actual receipt of a patent was the third step in a process that normally took several years, we can assume they were probably in that location by 1737 or 1738.
http://www.joepayne.org/finley2.html

Other-Begin:
James Hughes 2005-12-20 16:46:38
George Robinson to John Finley, 892 acres in Beverley Manor, 13 May 1746, Augusta County, Virginia, DB 1:75.

THIS INDENTURE made this twelfth day of May in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty six between George Robinson of the County of Augusta of the one part and John Finley of the County aforesaid of the other part WITNESSETH that the said George Robinson for and in Consideration of the sum of five Shillings Current Money of Virginia to him in hand paid by the said John Finly at or before the Sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged HATH granted bargained and Sold and by these presents doth grant bargain and sell unto the said John Finly all that tract or parcel of Land containing Eight hundred and ninety two Acres more or less part of Beverly Mannor granted by William Beverly Esq. to the said George Robinson by Deed of Lease and Release bearing dates the twentieth and twenty first days of February in the Year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and thirty Eight relation there unto being had may more fully and at large appear BEGINNING at a hiccory and two Ellms on Shannandore river and runeth thence North Seventy degrees West one hundred and forty two poles to one white oak thence South twenty degrees West twenty Six poles to two red oaks thence North Seventy degrees West one hundred and forty two poles to one white oak and one hiccory thence South thirty degrees West two hundred and Ninety Six poles near a white oak in a payson(L?) frold(?)--thence South Seventy degrees East one hundred and Eighty four poles thence East two hundred and thirty two poles to two pines in the line of the old Patton of the said Manner thence with the Lines of the said pattent to two pines in said Line thence North Sixty Seven degrees West to two white oaks on Shannadore River thence down the several Courses of the said River to the beginning, and all houses buildings Orchards Way Waters Watercourses profits Commodities Hereditaments and appurtances whatsoever to said premises hereby granted or and part thereof belonging or in any wise appurtaining (?) the Reversion and Reversions and Remainder and Remainders Rents Issues and profits thereof TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said Tract or parcel of Land and all and Singular other the premisses hereby granted with the appurtenances unto the said John Finly his Executors Administrators and assigns from the day before the Date hereof for and during the full term and times of one whole Year from the one next ensuing fully to be compleat ended YIELDING and paying therefore the rent of one pepper Corn on Lady day next if the same Shall be lawfully demanded to the Intent and purpose that by Virtue of these presents and of the Statutes for transferring uses into possession the said John Finley may be in actual possession of the premisses be thereby enabled to accept and take a grant and Release of the Reversion and inheritance thereof to him and his heirs IN WITNESS whereof the said George Robinson hath hereunto Set his hand and Seal the day and Year first

above Written Sealed and delivered in the presence of Geo Robinson (seal)

Robert Renick
John Trimble
James Price
Silas Hart

At a Court continued and held for Augusta County the 13th day of May 1746 George Robinson acknowledged this his Lease for Land indurd to John Finly on his Motion is admitted to record and Martha the Wife of the said Robinson being first privately Examined relinquished her right of Dower to Land in said Deed Mentioned which also is admitted to record

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Religion:
North Mountain Meeting House (later Hebron), which was the church nearest the Middle River neighborhood, had originally been Old Side Presbyterian and held only sporadic services until the mid-1740s when the New Side revivalist Presbyterians stepped in. Brown, not pleased with this turn of events, joined with his neighbors to build a meeting house near his home. Brown s Meeting House officially opened its doors 16 February 1748. This, perhaps, explains why John and Thankful s children were baptized at Tinkling Spring, some twelve miles away, until December 1746.


Property:
On 15 October 1741, he received another patent for 300 acres on a draft of Cathey's River. This property was described as being adjacent to land owned by Alexander Breckenridge, whose son, George, married Thankful s sister, Ann Doak, the next year.


Property:
On 17 November 1767, John and Thankful deeded 179 acres of their property to their son, George, for five shillings. George, however, soon moved to Washington County about 170 miles to the southwest and sold his Middle River property to Robert and Margaret Clendenen for 9C16, less than five years after it was given to him. The Clendenens, in turn, sold it back to John and Thankful three years later for five shillings.


Other-Begin:
James Hughes 2005-12-20 16:52:39
John and Margaret Brown to John Finley et al, 2 acres for Brown's Meeting House, March 1768, Augusta County, Virginia DB 14:450.

March 1768 - John Brown and Margaret, his wife, to John Trimble, John Finley, William McPeters, Jr., George Berry and Hugh Young, representatives, Commissioners appointed by the Congregation of the meeting House late called by the name of Browns; under the incumbency of the Reverend Charles Cummins; for 1 pound 5 shillings, a lot containing 2 acres including a Stone Meeting House by a branch of Meadow Run, a branch of Middle River of Shanandore and bounded as followeth (description ... Glebe Road); belonging to the Congregation.
Witnesses: Jas. Brown, James Crow(?), Pat Martin. Signed: John Brown, Margret Brown.
Proved 18 May 1768. Augusta County DB 14:450.

Note: All grantees listed are in Middle River neighborhood of John Finley.

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Other-Begin:
James Hughes 2005-12-20 16:54:00
John Finley's Patent for 238 acres, 20 July 1768,
Virginia State Land Office, Patents 37, 1767-1768, Reel 37, p. 281.

GEORGE the Third TO ALL KNOW YE that for divers good causes and considerations but more especially for and in consideration of the sum of TWENTY FIVE SHILLINGS of good and lawful money for our use paid to our Receiver General of our Revenues in this our Colony and Dominion of Virginia WE HAVE given granted and confirmed and by these presents for us our Heirs and Successors Do give grant and confirm unto John Finley one certain Tract or parcel of Land containing two hundred thirty eight Acres lying and being in the County of Augusta on a Branch of the middle River of Shanando joining to the land he lives on; and bounded as followeth, to wit, BEGINNING at a white oak by a draft a corner of his other Land and North thirty degrees West one hundred and thirty poles to a white oak and
black oak on a ridge thence North fifty two degrees West forty eight poles to two Hickories and white oak by a draft thence South West forty two poles to a white oak by said draft and thence South twenty one degrees West one hundred and fifty four poles to a pine and white oak on Limestone ridge South sixty nine degrees East twelve poles to two white oaks and black oak saplins thence South twenty one degrees West one hundred and thirty poles to a pine on a high ridge thence South thirty six degrees East one hundred poles to near a black oak and North forty degrees East fifty four poles to a white oak a corner of his old Survey and North thirty five degrees East two hundred and thirty two poles with said line to the beginning WITHALL (?) TO HAVE HOLD (?) TO BE HELD (?) YIELDING (?) PAYING (?) PROVIDED (?) IN WITNESS (?) WITNESS our trusty and well beloved John Blair esquire President of our Council and Commander in Chief of our said Colony and Dominion at Williamsburg under the seal of our said Colony the twentieth day of July one thousand seven hundred and sixty eight In the eighth year of our Reign.

Examd. John Blair

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Other-Begin:
named as brother-in-law in will of Samuel Doak - to advise executors.

Other-Begin:
John and Thankful were both named in an accounting of Samuel Craig, who served as a guardian for John Black, orphan of Anthony Black. John received 9C5 and Thankful received 9C5 6s. for services or goods. Three of the persons with whom John is associated in these documents, John Brown, Hugh Young, and John Trimble, can be found in the extreme northwestern corner of Hildebrand s map of The Beverley Patent. They lived either on, or close to, the Manor line and near Middle River. This gives us a good indication of the location of John and Thankful s property as being just outside the Manor line along Middle River.


Other-Begin:
On 16 March 1773, John was bound, along with his neighbors, William McPheeters, Jr. and George Berry, in the settlement of the estate of William McPheeters, Sr.

Other-Begin:
James Hughes 2005-12-20 16:59:33
Personal Property Tax, Augusta County, 1782, LDS film #0029288; 1 May 1782

John Finley
Note: this list contains names from the Middle River Neighborhood

Census:
p. 110, Augusta County, list "A"

Finley, Benjamin 0 0 0 0 0

p. 121, Augusta County, list "B"

Finley, John 0 1 0 9 13
Finley, David - - - - -
son of John (above)
Finley, John 1 1 0 6 15
- wheelright
Finley, John 1 1 0 11 25
Finley, Robt. 0 1 0 10 23
Finley, William - - - - -
- Robert pays tax
Finley, William 0 0 3 6 20
- [Capt.)
Finey, Robert 0 0 0 2 2

Will:
John wrote his will on 7 August 1791 naming in order;
wife, Thankful;children, David, George, Robert, Margaret Shields, James, John, Jean, and Thankful McKarter; and grandson, John Trimble, son of Jean.
David received the lion's share of the estate. Thankful received all household furniture except "one old bed and furniture," his Negro woman, Hannah, and a saddle and horse, with maintenance out of the estate willed to David.
George, Robert, and Margaret Shields received five shillings each.
James received £120 "with interest from this date," to be paid by David out of the estate.
John was to receive one bed and furniture upon the death of Thankful.
Jean was to receive a mare and Negro woman upon the death of Thankful, while her son, John Trimble, was left a saddle and bridle.
Thankful McKarter was left six shillings.
David, probably the youngest son, was also named executor
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Contributed by: James Hughes

URL: http://www.angelfire.com/biz/finleyfindings/VOL2.html
URL title: finleyfindings Vol. 2
Note:
"In the Naim of God -- Amen. The Seventeenth day of August 1791. I John Finley of the Colony of Virginia and the County of Agusta former being in a low state of health but of perfect mind and memory thanks be to god. Therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men onst to die do make and ordain this my Last will and Testiment -- that is to say principaly and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God that give it, and my body to the Earth, to be buried in a Christian Descent maner at the Descretion of my Executors and Unto him of such worldly estate where with it pleases God to bless me in this Life.

"I give Demise and dispose of the items in the following manner and form, first all my Lawful Debts and funeral Expences to be payed out of my real Estate, also I give and bequeth unto my dearly beloved wife Thankful, all my houshold furniture to be at her Disposal, Except one bed and furniture and my Negro woman, Hannah During her life and a good hors and sadle Likewis a good Deasent room and Deasent mantainence to be found her out of the part of my Estat I have willed to my son David. Item I give and bequith unto my beloved sons George, Robert and my Daughter, Marget Shields, Eatch of them five shillings Virginia Currancy to them and heirs.


"Item I give and bequith unto my beloved son James one hundred and twenty pounds Virginia Currancy with interest from this Date to him and his heirs for ever to be payd by my son David out of the part I now will to him.


"Item I give and bequith unto my beloved son John one bed and furniture at my beloved wifes Decese to him and his heirs. Item I give and bequith unto my beloved Daughter Jean one negro womman at my wifes death and to her son John Trimble my sadle and bridle to them and their heirs forever.


"Item I give and bequith unto my beloved son David all my lands and tenements and in every part of my Estate not herein separately willd to others to him and his heirs or asignes forever, Item I give and bequith unto my beloved Daughter Thankfull McCarter six shillings Virginia Currancy to her and her heirs forever, and I Likewise constitute make and ordain my son David sole Executor of this my last will and testiment.


"I Do hereby utterly Disalow revoik and Disanul all and every other former Testiments wills Legities bequests and Executors by me in ani wies before naimed willed and bequithed ratifying and confirming this and know other to be my last will and testiment in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and sail the Day and year above mentioned."


The will was signed by John FINLEY Jr. and witnesses David MC NAIR, John THOMAS and John WILSON. Attached to the will is the following, "At a court held for Augusta County September 20th 1791, This last Will and Testament of John Finley deceased was presented in Court by David Finley the Executor therein named and proved by the Oaths of David McNair, John Thomas and John Wilson witnesses thereto and is ordered to be recorded. And on the Motion of the said Executor who made Oath according to Law certificate is granted him for obtaining probat thereof in due form, he having given security as the Law directs."

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inventory:
James Hughes 2005-12-20 17:11:48
John Finley Inventory, 20 December 1791, Augusta County, Virginia WB 7:431.
A List of the personal Estate and Slaves of John Finley deceased

David McNair
James Willson At a Court held for Augusta County December John Thomas 20th 1791.
This appraisement of the Estate of John Finley deceased was returned in Court and ordered to be recorded.

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John married Thankful Doak, (Immigrant) on 10 Apr 1724 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania. Thankful (daughter of Robert* Doak, (immigrant) and Margaret* (..) Doak) was born in 1707; died after 20 Sep 1791 in Staunton, Augusta Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

some researchers show her name as Elizabeth Thankful.

(Vol 2 #1871)
She married John Finley on 10 April 1724 in Chester Co, Virginia.
Notes for THANKFUL DOAK:
Born *at sea on the way to America, probably 1704-6. Lived in East Nottingham township, Chester Co., PA. Had brothers Samuel, David, John and Robert. Brothers also migrated to Augusta Co., VA - said to have migrated to VA by 1740. Brother John had daughter, Thankful, baptized 1743, said to have married Maj. Wm. Hall.

* Note: theory of Thankful being born at sea 1704 seems to have been disproven.

1740: Received patent for 183 acres and one for 300 acres in 1741 on a branch of Cathey's River ... also called Middle River (VA Land Office, Patent #19,reel 17, p. 852; Patent #20, reel 18, p. 83).

1742: Only Finley listed in Augusta County Militia in 1742 in Company No. 1, James Patton,
Col. and John Smith, Capt. (William Armstrong Crozier, "Virginia Colonial Militia," Baltimore: Southern Book Co., 1954, p. 91).

1745: John Finley assigned to open road from Andrew Hamilton in Calf Pasture through Jennings Gap to John Finlas, 9 December 1745 (Chalkley I:13).

1746-1778: In Middle River area.
(Chalkley I:18, III:255, III:271, II:433, II:436, III:276, II:442, II:440, III:358, III:462, III:470,
II:407, I:177, III:128, II:408, I:200,)
Including: 1767: A deed from John and Thankful Finley to son, George for 176 acres on 7 November 1767 (Chalkley II:462) and payment to Thankful Finley by Samuel Craig on 17 March 1773 (Chalkley III:128).

1783: He appears on tax list in Middle River area, Capt. McKittricks Co., taken
10 April 1783. (LDS film #00292288).

1786-87 He also appears on personal property tax list of 1786 and 1787 with son David. This must be the John Finley who wrote his will 17 August 1791 (WB 7:404), naming son, David, as executor. David subsequently sells the property first patented by this John Finley in 1741 and 1768 (DB 28:268).

Died:
It is not known how much longer Thankful lived. However, David sold his entire holdings on 1 October 1794 to John Johnston for 9C1,100 and moved on, suggesting, perhaps, that Thankful had died prior to that time.

James married Elizabeth Patterson on 10 Jan 1705 in St. Peters, Dublin, Ireland. Elizabeth was born before 16 Mar 1689 in Dublin, Ireland; was christened on 16 Mar 1689 in Dublin, Ireland; died in Franklin Co, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Emigration: 1740, Co Derry, Ulster, Ireland

Notes:

"Elizabeth" as the wife's name is more tradition than proven.