http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Eoriginal13/index.htm The Original 13 Settlers of Germantown, PA http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~original13/research.htm Includes LINKS for Mennonite and for German-American Culture. Violet Moore Guy ----- Original Message ----- From: <JYoung6180@aol.com> To: <QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 3:09 AM Subject: Re: [Q-R] John LANE (Sr.) from ? to MD to PA > > In a message dated 3/26/2005 8:06:51 PM Eastern Standard Time, > CageyCat@aol.com writes: > >> Hi Joan, >> >> The only Scots-Irish mention is the Bio/History about John's grandson, > Jacob >> D. Lane. Same bio said John left his parents because he was opposed to >> slavery and the parents had slaves. Whether the bio is right or not is > unproven >> either way. >> >> I looked at the Lehn family, but I thought -- am I wrong? -- that John, >> Jacob and Peter LEHN sold their mill in Fred Co MD, went to York (a >> couple > times >> back &forth to York &Fred Cos)... and finally all 3 stayed in York Co >> PA?? > >> We researched part of LEHN as far as we could in Fred Co &as much as we > could >> through professional searchers in York Co PA. IF we could tie our Johnn > to a >> missing John in the LEHN family, great. But I don't want to latch onto > the >> wrong family either. Do you know what happened to the John in the >> will? >> >> The LEHNs fit the bio in terms of John's father supposedly being in Rev > War >> -- I think Peter or Jacob LEHN was in Rev War. >> >> Arnolds were also in Brethren Church, as were the York Co LEHNs. Do >> you >> know in York any other Brethren families that lived in the same area? >> >> Do you know if the LEHNs in York Co were ever slaveholders? >> >> It's so hard figuring this out. I know we have no Peter in our LANE >> line >> anywhere after our John LANE. (b. ca. 1780) >> >> Do you know anything I could try to prove anything connecting John LANE >> to > >> LEHN? >> >> Thank you, >> >> Judy > > > > > Judy- > > The John LEHN/LANE in my files had brothers Henry, Cornelius, and Peter > who > lived in Lancaster County, PA and who are found in the records of the > *Moravian Church* where it states the family is of *Mennonite* origin. > This John > married in Lancaster County about 1745 to a widow Catherine Weidman (I > don't have > her maiden name--only that she is the widow of Martin Weidman). About > 1754 > John is marrying another widow in York County--Margaretta, widow of > Frederick > Alderf. She was from Lebanon Twp. in what was then Lancaster County. > > The reason we know that the John LEHN who settled in York County is the > same > one from Lancaster County is that his will probated in 1783 mentions > money > owed him by brother Cornelius -- who we know is part of the Lancaster > County > family. > > There was no mention of any slave ownership in any wills or other > documents > pertaining to this family. John LEHN owned mills at the juncture of > Beaver > Creek and the Conewago in what is now the border area between York and > Adams > counties (around East Berlin). > > On April 1, 1775 John LEHN, Sr. conveyed title to his mills to his second > son John LEHN, Jr. He also had an older son Peter (who had previously > obtained > land in the area) and 4 daughters. > > Peter was born about 1730 and married Jane/Janet IRVIN/ERWIN. As far as > I > know Peter LEHN continued to live in the York/Adams county area until his > death in 1795. Peter had a son John LEHN who married Catherine DEVLIN who > was > born in 1751 in Ireland. (Perhaps this is the origin of the belief of > Irish > descent?) John and Catherine had 12 children--the oldest of which was a > son > John. John and Catherine migrated to Somerset County, PA where they > died. > The move to Somerset County took place at least by 1803. I have no idea > whether son John made the trip with them--or might possibly have moved to > Frederick > County, MD. > > Peter's younger brother John LEHN, Jr. who was working the mills in PA > sold > them sometime around 1792 and migrated to Pipe Creek, Maryland. He bought > a > 64 acre tract in Pipe Creek Hundred, Frederick County (now Carroll > County). > He is listed on the 1800 census alone. His will written 9 Aug. 1801 > mentions > a son Jacob LANE and daughter Anna and a granddaughter but no wife. The > will was probated 22 Oct. 1801. The family was probably still associated > with > the Brethren faith as there are no baptismal records for them--I don't > have > any indication they were Quakers. > > There was apparently a second John LANE in Frederick County as there is an > inventory of an estate Inventory Book GM2, pages 301-302 (11 June 1793) > which > mentions 60 pounds, 11 shillings collected by Rebecca LANE, administrator, > from 39 men who had owed John LANE money. It isn't specified whether > Rebecca > was John's widow or daughter or what the relationship was. > > Joan > > > ==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > Visit The Quaker Corner - http://www.rootsweb.com/~quakers > >