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LANE

Fred Lane of Craven County, North Carolina left his LWT there in 1798, naming his children.

• William Lane b. 9/20/1752 Craven Co., N. C. d. 1/6/1834 Green Co., N. C. William lane applied for a revolutionary pension (#R6140) on 12 February 1833, aged 81. He entered service under Col. Samuel Campbell, volunteering for 3 months. In 1776 he went to Craven Co., N. C.; his term expired August 1776. Then, he became a substitute for Rutherford Nelson for 3 months under Capt. Silas Stevenson and marched to Wilmington and Brunswick. He volunteered again for 3 months under Capt. Blackard and was in a skirmish near the house of the Captain near the mouth of the Cape Fear River when his Captain was killed. Then he returned home and volunteered under Capt. Battle for 3 months, going to Georgetown, S. C. He volunteered again for 18 months, marching to Halifax under Major Blount and Major Coleman. He was sent to General Washington to dispatch letters, and when he returned had been injured by a wagon; discharged after 4 months. This was in 1779.
  
  In 1780 he was in Newbern, N. C. Under Capt. Green guarding prisoners for 2 months; discharged. Lost his papers when his house burned in 1786.
  
  His application for pension states that he was born in Craven Co., N. C., about 25 miles from Newbern on 9/20/1752. The application of Elizabeth Jackson, aged 59 on 12/26th next, dated at Duplin Co., N. C. on 10/18/1847 stated that she was the only surviving child of William Lane, deceased, late of Green Co., N. C., who died 1/6/1835 without a living widow or any children.
  
  Another application, this time of William T. Jackson, dated 10/17/1848 in Duplin Co., N. C.,aged 47, stated that he was the grandson of William Lane, deceased, who died 1/5/1834 - his grandmother h aving died before he could recollect and his grandfather left two children, viz: Lucretia Suggs, a widow who died in about 12 months hereafter, leaving two children, one who was dead and the other, Lydia, who intermarried with William Wilson, residents of Onslow Co., N. C. Elizabeth Jackson, her mother, now living in Duplin Co., N. C. That two of the sons of William Lane, James and Laban, emigrated to Kentucky 40 odd years ago and it is over 20 years since they were heard from and 8 or 10 years before the death of Jackson's grandfather they had not been heard of.
  
  Children:

  1. James Lane b. ca 1776 Craven Co., N. C. m. Dolly Phipps 18 May 1793.
  2. Laban Lane b. 1780/1790 Craven Co., N. C. d. 9/1833 Madison Co., Ga. Migrated to Kentucky ca 1808, and then to Madison County, Georgia before 1817. He was listed on the 1817 Madison Co. Tax Digest, and was found on the 1830 Madison Co. Census (no listing for 1820 census) There was a deed of Laban Lane dated 16 October 1823, from Laban Lane to Brunnell J. Wiley, Madison Co. Deed Book E, p. 356. William M. Lane was appointed the guardian of James E. Lane and Harrison G. Lane, minors of Laban Lane, with James Carrithers and Whitmell on 2 Sept. 1833, Madison Co. (See below)
  3. Lucretia Lane b. ca 1782 Craven Co., N. C. d. 1848 Duplin Co., N. C. m. Mr. Suggs.
  4. Elizabeth Lane b. 12/26/1788 Craven Co., N. C., d. Duplin Co., N. C. m. Mr. Jackson.

• Ann G. Lane b. ca 1759 Craven Co., N. C.
• John S. Lane b. ca 1760 Craven Co., N. C.
• Henry B. Lane b. ca 1762 Craven Co., N. C.
• Mary B. Lane b. ca 1764 Craven Co., N. C.
• Daniel Lane b. ca 1768 Craven Co., N. C.
• Shine Lane b. ca 1772 Craven Co., N. C.
  br> Laban Lane(1780/90-1833, son of William Lane, had children:

  1. William M. Lane b. 1802 Jackson Co., Ga. m. Elsey C. Curroughs on 27 Dec 1827.
  2. Minerva Lane b. 1813 Madison Co., Ga. m. William B. Williams on 4 March 1835.
  3. John D. Lane b. 2/16/1814 d. 12/1/1846 Paulding Co., Ga. m. Emily Allen on 15 Nov 1838. As John D. Lane died in 1846, his widow, Emily, was listed on the 1850 Madison Co., Ga. Census with their children.
  4. James C. Lane b. 4/26/1818 Madison Co., Ga., d. 6/20/1896 Dallas, Paulding Co., Ga. m. Nancy Williams on 12/27/1839. Born and raised in Madison Co. where he met his wife. He went to Paulding County during the 1840's. They lived near Dallas, Ga. and are buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
     
     
  5. Harrison Lane b. 1825 m. Judith Leak Maddox on 15 Sept. 1844.

Ref: Madison County Estates, Deeds & Marriages; Paulding Co. Estates & Marriages; Craven Co., N. C. Wills; Revolutionary War Pensions; Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Dallas, Ga.; Paulding Co. Deeds; 1850 Madison Co. Census; Paulding Co. Wills, Book A (1813-1845), p. 40.

Paulding Co. Deeds

10 December 1859, Henry Co., John C. Gillman to James Lane of Paulding Co., land in 2nd dist., 3d section of originally Cherokee, now Paulding Co., Lot No. 437, 40 acres.

17 November 1881. J. C. Lane to Fredric Thompson, land in 2d Dist. of 3rd Section of Paulding County, being 5 acres, in the northwest corner of lot of land, No. 136.