Person:Richard Lane (4)

Richard was a member of Merchant Taylors Company of London, Carribean planter, Carribean explorer & councilor of the Island of Providence. After his death, Lord Cromwell issued his widow a pension of 11 shillings per week for Richard's services to England & her sufferings^[1].

Richard, his wife and first 3 children were part of a group that emigrated from England to the Island of Providence (West Indies) in 1635:

'16 Aprilis 1635 / Theis p'ties hereafter expressed are to be transported to the Island of Providence imbarqued in ye Expectacion Cornelius Billinge Mr, having taken the oaths of Allegeance and Supremacie: As likewise being conformable to the Church of England; whereof they brought testimonie from the Ministers and Justices of Peace, of their Abodes. ...

Richard Lane 38
Alice Lane 30
Samvell Lane 7
Jo: Lane 4
Oziell Lane 3 ...'^[1][2]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Hollowak, Thomas L., and Robert Barnes. Maryland Genealogies: A Consolidation of Articles from the Maryland Historical Magazine. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980)
   2:129-35.

   2:129 baptism and parents
   2:130 Merchant Taylors Co.
   2:132 transportation to the Island of Providence
   2:133 mentioned in Providence Island records in Mar 1641; drowned in Eleuthera before August 7, 1657
   2:134 widow's pension
   2:135 referred to as deceased in his brother John's Oct 1654 will

2. ↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   14:350-51.