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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: 15 May 1761 Amherst / / VA Death: 13 Apr 1845 / Blount / TN
Qualifying Service Description:
1779-1780, he served as a Private in the company of Captain James Burton and Captain Ambrose Madison, commanded by Colonel Francis Taylor. Service of two years.
Additional References:
Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War. Micropublication M881, roll 1087. Washington: National Archives.
Graves report submitted by Joel Davenport, TNSSAR
Spouse: Lucy XX: Children: Payton;
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Gravestone photo used with permission of Joel Davenport, TNSSAR
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
Very visible from the parking lot at the cemetery
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Author: Patriot Legacies - Christy Martin
This biography has been written by a team of Revolutionary War researchers, genealogists, and local historians. For more information about Patriot Legacies exhibits, contact the Blount County Historical Museum at blountcountyhistoricalmuseum1@gmail.com
John (Laine) Lane was born in Rappahannock, Virginia, in 1761, the son of Thomas and Mary (Chauntler) Lane. Like many others during that time period, the last name Lane has many spellings: Laine, Layne, Lyon, etc. Like many of his early settler counterparts, John Lane frequently spelled it differently at different times.
John grew up in Virginia. His ancestors may have operated a barge, hauling tobacco on the James River.
Records indicate that he joined the Revolutionary War as a Private in Taylor’s Regiment and was on the payroll for two months in 1777 and 1778. He would have been 16 and just eligible for regular service. Another payroll shows him in April 1779.
Descendent George Lane says that John and his father served in the 6th Virginia Line, and they went to New York with Colonel Daniel Morgan at Saratoga in October 1777. The conflict included two crucial battles, fought eighteen days apart, and was a decisive victory for the Continental Army and a crucial turning point in the Revolutionary War. It was there that the British General Burgoyne surrendered to the Continental Army.
In 1783, John Lane lived in Amherst, Virginia.
On 21 March 1789, he married Lucy Ballow (Bellrow) in Amherst, Virginia.
In 1810 he was in Nelson County, Virginia. He moved to what was then Greene County Tennessee in 1812 to an area known as Limestone. In 1814 he bought 311 acres of land on Gallaher Creek in Blount County, where he stayed for several years. By this time, he was 53 years old. His wife may have passed by then. There is no record of her death or her burial place.
According to a descendant, John’s family were Seceder Presbyterians. The church split occurred in 1733 when the clergy and membership seceded from the Church of Scotland, where the Seceders reserved the right to choose their own pastor. That Presbyterian line followed the settlers as they put down roots in the county's early years.
John Lane was 69 years old when he moved to Monroe County in 1830 and then to Bradley County three years later, in 1833. According to descendants, he was attempting to purchase Native American land to resell to early settlers. No records exist that he purchased land in either area.
There are two known descendants of the union of John and Lucy Ballow. They include:
Edith “Edy” was born in 1792
Payton was born in 1796 and married Margaret Love.
The Patriot died in 1845 after a move back to Blount County. According to descendants, there is some dispute about his actual final resting place. Still, he shares a marker with his son Payton and Payton’s wife Margaret at Big Springs Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
Author: Joel Anthony Davenport
John Lane was born on 15 May 1761 in Amherst, Virginia. He served as a Private in Captain Ambrose Madison's Company of Foot in the Regiment of Guards at Albermarle Barracks commanded by Francis Taylor in April and May 1779, and January and February 1780.
He married Lucy Lavendar on 21 March 1789 in Amherst, Virginia. They migrated to Fredricksville Parish, Albermarle County, Virginia, by the 1790 Census, then Anne Arundel, Maryland, by 1800. His son, John Payton Lane (born 1796) died on 27 February 1845, and John died shortly afterward on 13 April 1845. He was buried next to his son and the family marker has he, his son, and his daughter-in-law named on it.
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