Person:John Lane (107)

HERE LYES INTER'D
THE BODY OF Mr.
JOHN LANE OF
GLOCESTER AGED 86
YEARS DECd JANry ye 24
1737/8

The book of Eastern claims, now among the Massachusetts archives in the State
House, was made about 1700, and was the claims of men dispossessed by the Indians

Transcription

John Lane of Glocester Claimes in right of his ffather James Lane Jn North Yarmouth vizt: Sixty acres of Land bounded Nor: west of Little River and so runing up Northerly to a Creek Joining to Henry Daniells possessions as pr' Deed from John Burrell dated ye 20th May: 1673. neither acknowledged nor Recorded — Also Claimes his ffathers Possessions insd Town bounded pr Ryalls River as appears by a Torn & Defaced Deed, and by ye Testimony of John Cossens taken before Edward Rishworth Justs Peace -----

Also another pr'cell of Land being an Island Comonly Called Reddings Jsland being on the Eastward side of Mare point Neck, Together wth all ye pr'cell of Land being upon Mare point Neck, bounded wth the Land formerly inye possession of Ncholas White Comonly known by ye name of Sandy point Together wth' all the Marsh & Marsh grounds formerly in ye possession of Thomas Redding, being Sixty acres more or less as pr Deed from John Cleares Dated the 15th of May 1673: acknowldged & Recorded Item.


Another Island known by ye name of Arnolds Jsland or Mosiers Jsland wth a Neck of Marsh ground containing 3 or 4 Acres lying up ye River called the Little River, as pr Deed from James Mosier and John Mosier Dated 28th Decembr 1669. neither acknowledged nor Recorded

Jt sd Jno Lane Claimes in his own Right a grant of a parcell of Land fromye sd Town of ffalmouth Contains about 50 or 60 acres lying onye Northerly side of Pond Cove, & ye he did quietly possess & Jmprove sd Lands Severall years pr the Testimony of Josiah Wallis and James Wallis, taken before John Newman Just, peace —

Sd Jno Lane pr Jno Brown brings a Deed belonging to John Brown of Glosester for 50 acres of upland and marsh Ground lying inye Town of ffal mouth bounded South Easterly by ye River Nortertly by the Land of Richard Martyn westerly by Nathanll Wallis & his Son John Wallis as pr Deed from Thomas Blashfield Dated the 20th March 1681. acknowledged —

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Probate was administered by son Deacon James Lane. Beneficiaries:

Widow Dorcas
Grandchildren Eliphalet and Sarah Day
Daughter Mary and her husband Joseph Thurston
Son Benjamin Lane
Son Josiah Lane
Grandson, child of daughter Sarah and Daniel Griffin
Caleb Woodbury, for his children with Hebzibah Lane, daughter of John Lane.
Grandchildren Thomas and Dorcas Wharf
Son Joseph Lane
Son Job Lane
Grandchildren John Roberts, Jr. and Mary Roberts
Daughter Dorcas and her husband William Tucker
Grandson David Lane, son of John Lane, Jr.
Granddaughter Mary Finson
Granddaughter Sarah Riggs

John Lane was bom about 1653 ; and, with his wife and children, came to Gloucester, about the close of the seventeenth century, from Falmouth, Me. ; driven thence, probably, on the second destruction of that place by the Indians. He was son of James Lane, and went, in 1658, with his father, from Maiden to Casco Bay ; where they lived till driven away by the Indians in the first Indian War. His father was killed in a fight with the Indians ; and, besides John, left sons Henry, Samuel, and Job.
John Lane received from the town a grant of a common right in 1702 ; and, in 1704, ten acres of land at Flatstone Cove, where he had already settled, and to which his own name was subsequently given. He married a daughter of John Wallis, an early inhabitant of Falmouth. Her baptismal name was Dorcas, if she was the wife that accompanied him to Gloucester. The children recorded as bom to them here are — Hepzibah, bom in 1694 ; Mary, 1696 ; Joseph, 1698 ; Benjamin, 1700 ; Deborah, 1703, died in 1729 ; and Job, 1705. Besides these, there were James, John, Dorcas, Josiah, Sarah, and David. Five of the sons were living when their father died. He was living in 1734, at the age of eighty-one; but the date of his death is not known.


John Lane's Second Deposition: 1733

"The deposition of John Lane, of Gloucester, aged about eighty two years, testifieth and saith that about seventy five years since he removed with his Father, James Lane, from Maulden to a Place since called North Yarmouth, in Casco Bay, and there lived till driven from thence by the Indians in the first warr, and that he was well acquainted with John Couzens and Richard Bray who were settlers there all the time above mentioned, and well remembers that said Bray and Cousins possessed two certain Islands called Cousens's Islands, by building Houses, cutting Timber and improving Land from the time he first weut there, above mentioned, till drove from thence by the Indians in the first war, and that the said Islands at that time were accounted said Bray and Cousins Islands : one of the said Islands, being the greatest Island, lyes about one half mile from the neck of Land on which John Maine & John Holman formally lived at the nearest place, and the other Island, being the lesser Island, lyes about fourty or fifty Rodds from the great Island and on the South East side." _ 2 July 1733.