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- ↑ Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts.: Essex Institute, 1917)
1:581.
Riggs: Lydia, d. Aaron and Thomasine, Dec. 11, 1728.
- ↑ Aaron Riggs, in Massachusetts, Probate Court (Essex County). The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1916, 1917, 1920)
Case # 23681 p 6 Lydia Lane's letter stating her father's death date, 1789-1799.
link "My father being dead 10 years last December and my brother Aaron Riggs as administrator on his estate for several years past..." Gloucester 30 Mar 1799 Lydia Lane (X) Mark 23681:6
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Nathaniel Lane Taylor, Three Calebs and a 'Lara': Untangling Gloucester Lanes, in NEHGS Nexus. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
16:106+@16:108, 1999.
link Caleb4 Lane (Joseph3, John2, James1), son of Joseph and Deborah (Haraden) Lane was born at Annisquam - the third parish of Gloucester 16 Nov 1729 and died there 10 Feb 1783. He married with intention recorded 15 Nov 1752, Lydia Riggs who was born 11 Dec 1728 and died 21 Mar 1812 daughter of Aaron and Thomasine (Wentworth) Riggs. Caleb and Lydia (Riggs) Lane's fine slate gravestones in Bayview cemetary in Lanesville, Gloucester. They were transcribed by Fitts. He served in the revolution with his eldest son Caleb 20 Jan 1776 - 18 Nov 1776 in the coastal defense militia. Babson stated he had 10 children only three births were recorded (Lydia, Caleb and Zaccheus) by the town but the bp of the rest are recorded at the church at Annisquam.
Four Lanes including Celab Lane married a woman of Royal Descent. Lydia Riggs wife of Caleb4 Lane was a great-grandaughter of Elder Wiliam1 Wentworth of Exeter, New Hampshire. Lydia (Riggs) Lane's parentage is proven by her extant letter of complaint about her brother's parsimonious handling of their late father's estate in Aaron Rigg' probate file (Essex Probate 23681.She died 21 Mar 1812 Gloucester [citing gravestone recorded in Rev. James Hill Fitts, Lane Genealogies (1900-2) 3:208 see also 1:61]. Caleb5 Lane cited family bible records as well. Her estate was probated 5 Jan 1813 [Essex Probate 16332].
- ↑ Lydia Lane, in Massachusetts, Probate Court (Essex County). The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1916, 1917, 1920)
Case # 16332 Lane Lydia 1813 Jan. 5, 5 Jan 1813.
5 Jan 1813: Bond of Aaron Lane mariner of Gloucester as administrator of Lydia Lane late of Gloucester Widow deceased Intestate.
22 Feb 1813: Memorial of Jesse Saville, an appraisor of the estate, that Aaron Lane mentions that Lydia's son Wenthworth R Lane gave her some money when she was about 80 years of age which he expected would be enough for her support, and any surplus should be divided as his estate was divided. He also gave his younger brother Zacheus half a barn and enjoined Zacheus to move into the house and take car of Lydia but he refused after Wenthworth died. Aaron being administrator of both estates is at a loss where to put the $159 in Lydia's inventory.
22 Feb 1813: Inventory of Widow Lydia Lane late of Gloucester: personal: $67.70, cash on hand: $159.82 [added by administrator], by Jesse Saville, Winthrop Sargent, James Dennison.
- Alvy Ray Smith, PhD, FASG. Edwardian Rigges of America V: Thomas Riggs (1633-1722) of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and His Descendants to 2006 v6.1. (Berkeley, CA: Ars Longa)
#69 p 25-6 index 57-8.
a PDF of over 500 pages register style published by a FASG However, Alvy Ray Smith, must have missed the NEHGS Nexus article above because he does not include all their childrn.
- ↑ Find A Grave: Bayview Cemetery, Gloucester, MA, in Find A Grave
Lydia Riggs Lane.
In Memory of
Lydia Lane
Widow of
Caleb Lane
died March
[rest unreadable, memorial gives 21 Mar 1812, cites non genealogical portion of inscription, which is also unreadable, "From scene to scene our fleeting moments go."]
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