John Doane

John Doane ( – 1685/6) was a politician in English Colonial North America. He arrived in Plymouth Colony on an unknown ship sometime between 1628 and 1632. During his long life he is considered a person of note in Plymouth Colony serving in many government capacities associated with the colony government, such as government committees and deputy for Plymouth as well as Assistant Governor in 1632/33. He left government service for a time in the 1630s to serve as deacon in the Plymouth Church. English origins John Doane stated he was born in England and in his 1678 will he stated he was about eighty-eight years of age, making his birth year to be about 1590. Nothing else is known of his English ancestry. There is no record of John Doane being in Leiden, Holland, although he was a Plymouth church deacon. In Plymouth Colony In 1632/33 he was Assistant Governor. Records show that on January 2, 1632/33 William Bradford, Myles Standish, John Alden, John Howland, Stephen Hopkins, Samuel Fuller, and John Doane and other notables were ordered by the court to assess taxes on the colonists payable in grain or the equivalent.