4. Elizabeth Lantern, born say 1730, testified in Kent County, Delaware, on 22 November 1769 that (her son?) Peter Lantorn, who was assessed as a tithable the previous year, was born on 8 April 1750 and therefore should not have been tithable [Kent County Levy Assessments, 1768-84, Reel no.3, frame 38]. She married Robert Game before September 1782 when Robert named her (called Elizabeth Lanthorn) and her daughters Mary and Sarah in his Murderkill Hundred, Kent County, Delaware will [WB L-1, fol. 267-8]. She was the mother of
i. Peter2, born 8 April 1750, had an illegitimate child by Keziah Dean in Little Creek Hundred, Kent County, Delaware, about December 1773 [DSA, RG 3505, MS case files, May 1774 Indictments; RG 3805.003, 1735-1779, frame 580]. He was tithable in Little Creek Hundred in 1772 and 1773, in Dover Hundred in 1778, in Little Creek in 1779 and 1780, and a delinquent Duck Creek Hundred taxable in 1781 and 1782 (called Peter Lantern/ Lanthron). In May 1785 he and Francis Day, laborers, were charged with stealing 200 pounds of flour from John Pernell and 400 pounds of bacon from Joseph Harper in Murderkill Hundred on 4 April 1785 [DSA, RG 3805, MS May 1785 Indictments]. He was head of a Murderkill Hundred household of 3 "other free" in 1800 (called Peter Lanteron) [DE:126].
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