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- Rev. B. E. Hanes 4 May 1931 Elkins, W. Va.
My Dear Sir
Replying to your letter to my brother, Secretary of Labor Doak (Will N. Doak, Cabinet of Herbert Hoover), I am very glad to give you the following information concerning our family.
Robert, Samuel and David Doak came from the North of Ireland to Chester County, Penn., thence to Augusta County, Virginia, arriving about 1740.
The Rev. Samuel Doak of Tennessee is not a lineal ancestor of ours, though of the same family, he being a descendant of Samuel, Sr., and his wife, Janet Mitchell, while we descend through the brother David, Sr., and his wife, Mary. The third brother, Robert, who lived and died at old Mt. Airy is correctly referred to by Mr. Smith.
Our line runs
1. David Doak (wife Mary).
2. John (born 1762) wife Rebecca Wilson married 1805.
3. Audley (Edley) Doak (born 1807 died 1897) wife Elizabeth Creger, 1821-93.
4. Canero Drayton Doak (1843-1919) m. 1865 Eliz. Durton, 1844-1931.
5. William N. Doak, etc.
David's will, probated October 2, 1787, Montgomery County, Virginia
mentions wife Mary; sons, David, Samuel, Nathaniel, William, James, Robert,
Thomas, Alexander, John and daughters, Elizabeth, Jane, Mary, Margaret.
Our home is a part of the original tract known as Black Lick (sometimes Black Buffalo Lick) comprising a large part of what is now Wythe County,Virginia. Deeds to hundreds of acres of this plot to David and Mary Doak were made as early as 1768 and since then my immediate family have owned the
land....
With best wishes, I am,
Yours very truly,
(Mrs. D. P.) Lula Doak McCarty.
(furnished by Lee Bain via Doak mailing list 4/8/2014)
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