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New England Historical and Genealogical Society, disk #7, Vol. 127, April 1973, page 102. '
The authority for naming Constant SNOW as the first wife of Daniel DOANE appears to be a notebook on Eastham families kept by Josiah PAINE, for half a century the town clerk of Harwich. The notebook is now in the possession of the Eastham Public Library. Mr. PAINE did not cite the sources of his information unless it came from individuals, so it may be assumed that he found some evidence for his statement; however no one had discovered where he found it. It should be noted that the MAYFLOWER SOCIETY doesn NOT accept lines of descent through the first wife of Daniel DOANE..' For some reason the marriage of Daniel and Constance and their children were not recorded in the Eastham, Barnstable Massachusetts records. Again, see the NEHGS disc's vol 47, January 1893 page 83.. In talking about Nicholas SNOW and Constance HOPKINS.. there are 13 children of this couple, with only 12 named.. one is un-named. That would have to be our Constance.. [my thinking or wishing as you may say] Nicholas SNOW and John DOANE are among the first at Eastham. Nicholas does not mention his daughters in his will... which can be found in the above vol 47 page 85. In the 'Cape Cod Library' by Leonard H. SMITH jr vol 1 p806-809 under Deacon John DOANE..as you can see he was mixed up when he says on page 808 2nd column: 'Daniel 2d son of Deacon John married Hepsabeth COLE and had Constant, the only child found recorded to them. He was a physician and resided in this vicinity.' He didn't know about his first wife and the 9 children they had.. all born Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts: The children were found in the DOANE family reprinted 1984 p30.. I had it on a loan from NEHGS. 1. an un-named son DOANE b abt 1665 died Sep 1667 2. Joseph DOANE b 1668/1669 d 1757 Eastham, md 8 jan 1690 at Eastham to Mary GODFREY 3. Constance DOANE b 7 mar 1670 md 8 Jan 1690 to George SHAW, [same day as her brother and Mary GODFREY..] 4. Israel DOANE abt 1672 8th gr gp 5. Daniel DOANE b 1673/4 d 1 Sep 1743 md 1686 at Eastham, to Mehitable 3) TWINING [Mehitable 3, Wm 2, Wm 1 TWINING] 6. Abigail DOANE b c 1675, ch 1680 d July 1764 Windham, Windham, Connecticut.. md Feb 1702 at Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut to Timothy 3) DIMMOCK. Timothy 3, Shubael 2, Edward 1) DIMMOCK.. 7. Nathaniel DOANE b c 1678 8. Rebecca DOANE b c 1680 9. Ruth DOANE b c 1689 d bef 15 mar 1772 at Eastham, md 13 July 1710 at Eastham to Nathaniel MAYO. Then looking further I have found this... NEHGS vol 127 p 102 under the GODFREYS of Chatham, Massachusetts '.... to the erroneous statement in the first installment of the above article that Joseph DOANE, husband of Mary 2 GODFREY (George 1), was a son of Hepzibah (COLE) (CRISP) DOANE (The Register 126:236). The mother of Joseph DOANE, son of Daniel, was Daniel's first wife, identity uncertain but presumed to have been Constance or Constant, daughter of Nicholas and Constance (HOPKINS) SNOW. Daniel DOANE did not marry Hepisbah (COLE) CRISP until after 28 July 1682, when her fist husband George CRISP, died. George CRISP named her in his will and made her executrix asking his brother Israel COLE and his neighbor, Goodman Daniel DOANE, 'to be helpful to my wife as overseers.' She was living 9 oct 1712 when Daniel DOANE called her 'loving wife Hepsibah' in his will see A.A. DOANE, The Doane Family 1802 pp 26-30. It goes on to say what I have typed above about the authority for naming Constant SNOW as the first wife of Daniel DOANE.......... Still working on this line and hoping there will be more proof found that Constance SNOW was indeed the d/o Nicholas and Constance (HOPKINS) SNOW. Wilma Fleming Haynes gencon@harborside.com Daniel Doane married Hepzibah (Cole) Crisp in 1682, after ten of his children had been born, so it seems he must have had at least one earlier wife. I am descended from his son Daniel, who had his first child (another Daniel) in 1688, only six years after his father's marriage to Hepzibah. Dan Treadway postal: P. O. Box 72, Gilbert IA 50105 email: treadway@netins.net; web: http://www.netins.net/showcase/treadway
# Birth: ABT 1646 in Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA.3
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