Notes for Samuel Lane

Notes for Samuel Lane

!The Lane Family, The Descendants of Maj. Samuel Lane, Part 1, Compiled by Larry A. James, 1986:
Major Samuel Lane, son of Richard and Alice Carter Lane was born about 1628 in London. Samuel traveled with his parents to the Isle of Providence in 1635 but returned to England by 1657. Major Samuel evidently removed to Virginia by 1663 when he moved from Virginia to Maryland. Records state he was "transported to Maryland by Thomas Vaughn," at which time he was 35 years of age and apparently unmarried.
His double cousin John Lane left him 120L. John Lane's will was made on September 8, 1670, in London and lists Samuel as a clerk. The term clerk usually refers to a clergyman. Another reference indicates that Samuel Lane was a minister at Long Houghton, Northumberland and married to Barbara Roddam. Evidently a difference of opinion occurred in the church at Long Houghton and Samuel Lane was "ejected in 1662." His wife was evidently dead when he came to Maryland.
Major Samuel Lane appears in a number of references in Maryland records.
In September 1681, Maj. Samuel Lane was head of the militia opposing the Seneca Indians. He had served as Major of Military forces of Colony of Maryland from 1674 to 1682. He was also a Justice and a Commissioner. During his lifetime, he was referred to as: gent, chirurgeon, doctor, doctor of physick, commr. of Anne Arundel county, justice of Anne Arundel County, gentleman of the quorum and major.
In 1669, he married Margaret Mauldins Burrage, widow of John Burrage, a quaker who came to Anne Arundel Co. in 1649. She was a daughter of Francis and Grace Maulden.