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