{"1": {"fulltext": "F 258\\ncopy 1 JOEL LANE,\\nPIONEER AND PATRIOT.\\nA BIOGRAPHICAL. SKETCH.\\nINCLUDING NOTES ABOUT THE LANE FAMILY AND\\nTHE COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY\\nOF WAKE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.\\nMARSHALL DELANCEY HAYWOOD.\\nREMEMBER THE DAYS OF OLD\\nRALRHiH, N. C.\\nAlpohi), Hyni m iSc CiiRiSTOi UKRs. B()ol :iml .I li rrintcrs.\\n190U.", "height": "3605", "width": "2153", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "TWO COPIES RKCElVeiD,\\nL iurary cf CSRgr08%\\nOffleo of tlii\\nAPR 1900\\nKegitt\u00c2\u00abr of Copyrlghfft\\n61035\\nCopyrighted, March, 1900,\\nby Marshall Del^neey Haywood.\\nSECOND COPY.", "height": "3725", "width": "2049", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "TO\\nMY NATIVE HEATH\\nTHE (lOOI) OLD COUNTY OF WAKE\\nTHESE PAGES\\nARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.", "height": "3725", "width": "2049", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3631", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "JOEL LANE,\\nA PIONEER AND PATRIOT OF WAKE COUNTY\\nNORTH CAROLINA.\\nHOUGH comparatively few of tlie name now re-\\n^^main in the State, tlie family of Lane was one of\\nthe most numerous, as well as influential, in the\\nprovince of North Carolina. It is said to be collater-\\nally descended from Sir Ralph Lane, who, with Sir\\nRichard Grenville and other bold adventurers, sailed\\nfrom Plymouth, England, in 1585, and founded (in\\nwhat is now North Carolina), the Colony of Roanoke,\\nof which Lane became Governor the first English\\nGovernor in America. This Colony, as is well known,\\nhad no permanent existence, and Governor Lane re-\\nturned to Great Britain where he died in Ireland\\nin 1G04, three years prior to the first permanent Amer-\\nican settlement, at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. The\\nfather of this Sir Ralph was Sir Ralph Lane, of Or-\\nlingbury, whose wife, nee Parr, was a first cousin of\\nKatherine Parr, the sixth Queen of that exemi^lary old\\nMormon, King Henry VIII.\\nNot many years after Jamestown was founded, sev-\\neral other members of the Lane family came to Vir-\\nginia, and their descendants aided in the permanent\\nsettlement of North Carolina.\\nThis alleged connection between Sir Ralph and the\\nLanes of Colonial Virginia, from whom spring the\\nLanes of North Carolina, is vouched foi* only by tra-", "height": "3694", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "6\\nclition, but this tradition exists in many separate and\\ndivergent branches of the family. Whether it should\\nbe taken cum grano sails, let the reader judge.\\nI cannot tell how the truth may be\\nI say the tale as twas said to me.\\nAfter removing to North Carolina, the Lanes lived\\nj)rincipally in the eastern section of the State. They\\nwere useful members of society and adherents of the\\nChurch of England. In Halifax County quite a num-\\nber of the family settled, and there was born Joel\\nLane, the subject of this sketch. His father, Joseph\\nLane, of Halifax, married Patience McKinne, a daugh-\\nter of Colonel Barnabas McKinne, Jr.\\nOf this Colonel McKinne the writer is unable to\\nspeak further than to observe that he was a resident of\\nNorth Carolina and died in the year 1736, leaving\\nquite a number of descendants, several of whom bore\\nhis full name. Through him the name of Barnabas\\nwas also introduced into the Lane family.\\nThe above mentioned Joseph Lane, of Halifax (who\\ndied about 1774), had five sons, all of whom left issue.\\nThey were Joel, of whom this sketch will treat at\\nlength; Joseph,* who married Ferebee Hunter, and\\ndied in Wake County in 1798 James, f who married\\nLydia Speight, and died in Wake County on January\\n6, 1805; Jesse, t who married Winifred Aycock, and\\n*Joseph left a son and a grandson, both named Joseph. They should not be con-\\nfused with General Joseph Lane, of Oregon, who, as hereinafter mentioned, was a\\ngrandson of Jesse Lane.\\n+There seems to have been a superfluity of James Lanes: (1) James Sr., above\\nmentioned Col. Joel s brother; (2) James, son of Col. Joel; (3) James, son of an-\\nother Joel, and grandson of James, Sr, I think there were some Lanes in other\\nparts of the State, who also bore this given name.\\ntin the State Records, Vol. XVI., p. 1101, it appears that a Jesse Lane enlisted for a\\nthree j ears term of service on March 1, 1777, in Cai)tain Jacob Turner s Company,", "height": "3631", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "died in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1804; and Barnabas,\\nwho died about 1775. Barnabas had three children\\nMartin, Barnabas, Jr., and a daughter, Jean. His\\nson Martin born 1755, died 1825 served in the Rev-\\nolutionary war, was one of the earliest landowners in\\nRaleigh, and died in Giles County, Tennessee, leav-\\ning descendants.\\nGeneral Joseph Lane, the Marion of the Mexican\\nWar, who was Governor of Oregon and United States\\nSenator, as well as a distinguished soldier, was the\\nson of John Lane and his wife Betsey Street. This\\nJohn was a son of Jesse and a nephew of Joel.\\nWhen General Lane was a candidate for Vice Pres-\\nident of the United States in 1860, he visited Raleigh\\nin July of that year and was entertained at the coun-\\ntry-seat of his kinsman, the late Henry Mordecai, just\\nnorth of the city. To this entertainment every mem-\\nber of the Lane connection, who could be found, was\\ninvited. Mr. Mordecai s residence was originally built\\nby his grandfather, Henry Lane, eldest son of Joel\\nbut afterwards, in 1824, was added to and remodeled\\nunder the supervision of AVilliam Nichols, who also\\naltered the architecture of the old Capitol, which was\\ndestroyed by fire on the 21st of June, 1831.\\nIt has sometimes been stated that the late Governor\\nThird North Carolina Continontals. Captain Turner was kilh d at tlu* Battlo of (ier\\nmantown in the following October. After Jesse s enlistment had expired, he af?ain\\nentered the service; for I)}- n-ference to the manuscript books, entitled Army Ac-\\ncounts, in the office of the State Auditor, at Ralei/^h, Vol. lU, Section A. A., p. 50.\\nwill be found the entrj^: Allowed Jesse Lane for pay to tlie first of January, 17b2,\\nincluding interest, the first day of Auf?ust, 1783 175. 11. K (iovernor Swain, in\\nthe letter presently given, says that Jesse moved to Georgia before this (in 1779).\\nQufere Were there two Jesse s, or did Jes.se of Wake send his family to Georgia,\\nand follow them later?\\n*See abstract of the will of his grandfather, Co Barnabas McKinne, Jr., in tlie\\nNorth Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Vni. l.,ii, 61, (January, lUdo).", "height": "3637", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "8\\nHenry Smith Lane, of Indiana, was descended from the\\nLanes of Wake County. This, as the writer learns\\nfrom a member of the family in Indiana, is a mistake;\\nthough the Governor was probably of the same stock,\\nfor his ancestors were of Virginia origin, as were also\\nthe Lanes of North Carolina.\\nAfter General Joseph Lane, of Oregon, had won a\\ngreat reputation in the war with Mexico and was gain-\\ning distinction in national politics, a gentleman in\\nTennessee, desiring to know something of the history\\nof the Lane family, wrote in 1859 to ex-Governor\\nSwain (then President of the University of North Car-\\nolina, and a first cousin of the General), for the infor-\\nmation desired. Governor Swain s reply was pub-\\nlished in the Memphis Avalanche^ and was afterwards\\ncopied in the North Carolina Semi- Weekly Standard,\\na paper x^nblished at Raleigh, in its issue of July 21,\\n1860, when Lane was a candidate for Vice President.\\nCommenting upon it, the editor of the Standard ob-\\nserved that in old Buncombe where General Lane was\\nborn, there was a Lane s Pinnacle, a Lane s Mine\\nHole Gap, and Lane s Iron Works, named for his\\nfamily.\\nThe letter of Governor Swain is so rej lete with in-\\nformation concerning the whole connection that we\\ngive it in full\\nOiTAPEL Hill, October 23rd, 1859.\\nDear Sir: Your letter of the 14th, owing to my absence in the dis-\\ncharge of official duties, did not reach me until a day or two since,\\nand I avail myself of the earliest practicable opportunity to reply.\\nThere is probably no family whose authentic history can be more\\nclearly traced through every period of the annals of North Carolina\\nthan that of General Lane s. In proportion to numbers, compara-\\ntively few of its members have aspired to or obtained political dis-", "height": "3631", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "9\\ntinction, or indeed distinction of any kind. On the other hand there\\nare probably few tliat have enjtiyed greater averaj^e res])ectability.\\nCJeneral Lane s great-grandfather, Joseph (who signed his name Jo-\\nseph T.ane, Jr., in 1727), died at his residence near Halifax, on the lio-\\nanoke, in 1776.* His three sons Joel, Joseph, and Jesse were pi-\\noneer settlers in the neighborhood of Raleigh, in 1741. Of these. Col-\\nonel Joel was the wealthiest and most conspicuous. He conveyed to\\nthe State 640t acres of land, the site of the present City of Raleigh.\\nHis dwelling-house, at the period of its erection the best within a\\nhundred miles, is the present residence of William Boylan, Esq. All\\nthree were Whigs during the Revolution, and Colonel Joel and Jesse\\ndid service in the army, the latter as a private*.\\nJesse was the grandfather of General Joseph Lane and of myself.\\nHe was born in Halifax, July 4th, 1733, and married Winifred Acock.\\nThey had sixteen children eight sons and eight daughters all of\\nwhom lived to rear families. In 1779 my grandfather emigrated to\\nWilkes, now Oglethorpe County, Gai, where he resided until 1800;\\nthen he removed to St. Louis, where he died in 1804.\\nGeneral Lane is the son of John Lane, the eighth child and fourth\\nson of our grandfather Jesse. At the time of the removal of the fam-\\nily to Georgia (1779), Wilkes was a frontier County, and, during a\\nseries of years subject to frequent incursions from the Creeks and\\nCherokees. There were no members of the family able to bear arms,\\nwhose services were not put into requisition, and no one male, or\\nfemale, who were not familiar with the horror of savage warfare. My\\nmother beguiled many an hour during my infancy, in the recital of\\nhair-breadth escapes, which, delicate woman as she w^as, rendered her\\npersonal history one of remarkable suffering and adventure.\\nI have no recollection of my grandfather or uncle John. The former\\nvisited my father on his way to Missouri, and thelatter was an inmate\\nof our family for some time previous to and subse(]uent to my birth.\\nI heard much of him in my boyhood, and sui)pose that in all respects\\nthe son is a counterpart of the father, brave, enterprising, and gen-\\nerous. He was a universal favorite in the midst of the men who\\nfought at the Cowpens and King s ]\\\\Iountain, and who considered a\\nforay among the Indians as little less than a pastime.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Error\u00e2\u0080\u0094 he died in the winter of 177:}- 7l.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. DkL. H.\\n+At a hiter (lute, MM, (governor Swain makes n more accurate .statement (in liis\\nTucker Hall Address) of the amount of land sold by Lane, to-wit l.(JO acres, 4tH)\\nicres of which were laid off into lots and the remainder held, for the time Ijeing,\\ni.y the State.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. DkL. U.\\nJSee last note on p. 0, ante. M. DkL. II.", "height": "3694", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "10\\nGeneral Lane s mother was Betsy, daughter of James Street, the\\nfirst Sheriff of my native County (Buncombe). The descendants of\\nthe sixteen children of Jesse are dispersed through all of the Western\\nand Southern States.\\nI enter into these particulars simply to satisfy you that whilst the\\nfamily of General Lane have no just pretensions to the pride of her-\\naldry, there is no cause, on the other hand, why they should blush for\\nhis ancestry or his connections.\\nI write in unavoidable haste, but will be ready at any time to com-\\nmunicate more special information if it shall be called for.\\nYours very respectfully,\\nD. L. SWAIN.\\nMany years before Wake County was formed, Joel\\nLane liad settled at the point wliicli afterwards became\\nits county-seat, and was later tlie capital of tlie State.\\nHis place of residence was called Bloomsbury, and was\\nthen within the territory of Johnston Connty. Land\\nwas taken from Orange and Cumberland, as well as\\nJohnston, for the formation of Wake, and Mr. Lane\\nwas one of the commissioners who laid out its boun-\\ndaries. The new county was established by the colo-\\nnial assembly in December, 1770, with a proviso that\\nthe act of creation should not take effect until March\\n12, 1771. Governor Tryon, for whose wife, neeWsike\\nand not Esther Wake it was named, formally\\nsigned the charter on May 22, in the latter year.\\nThe first court was held on the 4th of June, 1771.\\nTheophilus Hunter was chairman, and Joel Lane and\\nhis brother Joseph were among the members of this\\ntribunal. t The other justices were Benjamin Hardy,\\nJames Martin, Hardy Sanders, Abraham Hill, Thomas\\nWooten, James Jones, Tingnall Jones and Thomas\\nCrawford.\\n*Colonial Records, Vol. VIII., pp. 299, 333, 334. Copy of charter in court-house of\\nWake County. Chapter 22, Laws of 1770.\\n+Court Records of Wake County.", "height": "3646", "width": "2132", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "11\\nIn the early si ring of 1771, when Governor Try on\\nraised an army to snppress the insnrrection of the\\nReguhitors, the principal place of rendezvons for his\\nforces was AYake Cross Roads, Avhere Raleigh now\\nstands. Colonel John Hinton, Lane s father-in-law,\\nthen commanded the connty militia and marched nn-\\nder Tryon to the scene of action, in wiiicli he bore a\\nconspicuous part.* Of Colonel Hinton s conduct on\\nthis occasion, and afterwards at the battle of Moore s\\nCreek Bridge, during the Revolution, Governor Cas-\\nwell says: In both instances I was an eye-wit-\\nness and can venture to assert he behaved with be-\\ncoming bravery and resolution. At Alamance the\\nRegulators were routed in the battle fought on May 16,\\n1771. AVhile waiting for reinforcements during that\\ncampaign, Governor Tryon located his headquarters\\nnear the present Fayetteville road at Hunter s Lodge,\\nthe residence of Theo^^hilus Hunter. This was some\\ndistance southeast of Spring Hill, later the home of\\nTlieophilus Hunter, Jr. For three days, from the 5th\\nto the 8th of May, the army remained there. As\\nthe old road was too rough to carry artillery over,\\nTryon had a new one cut in the direction of the\\nRegulators country. After a town in Kent, Eng-\\nhmd, he called it Ramsgate Road. That classic\\nh cality near Raleigh, now known as Raincat, derives\\nits name from this circumstance. When the army\\nmarched l)ack from Alamance, Colonel Hinton s de-\\ntachment was disbanded at Wake Court-IIouse on the\\n22nd of June. On the day before this, Governor Tryon\\nl)ade his army farewell, and Id t for New York, liav-\\n*Colonial Records, Vol. VIII., pp. fiTrt, 7 U.\\nfState Records, Vol. XII., p. 707.", "height": "3694", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "12\\ning been appointed Governor of that Province.* He\\nwas succeeded, as Governor of North Carolina, by\\nJosiah Martin, who remained in office until driven out\\nduring the Revolution. AVhether Joel Lane served\\nin the Alamance campaign is not known, but he prob-\\nably did, for his name appears as Lieutenant-Colonel\\nof Colonel Hinton s Regiment on a roster made out in\\n1772. t\\nFor many years Colonel Lane was a Justice of the\\nCounty Court of Wake and during the war for Inde-\\npendence, he was at one time its presiding Justice.:}:\\nThroughout the entire conflict with Great Britain, he\\nserved with fidelity in many imjiortant civil stations.\\nTogether with John Hinton, Michael Rogers, Theoph-\\nilus Hunter, Tingnall Jones, John Rand and Thomas\\nHines, he represented Wake County in the Provincial\\nCongress at Hillsborough in August, 1775, and that\\nbody, on Sej)tember 9, elected him a member of the\\nCommittee of Safety for the Hillsborough District.\\nJohn Hinton and Michael Rogers were likewise elec-\\nted members of this Committee. On September 9, 1775,\\nthe above named Congress also elected militia officers\\nfor Wake County as follows John Hinton, Colonel\\nTheophilus Hunter, Lieutenant-CoLmel John Hin-\\nton, Jr., First Major; Thomas Hines, Second Major.\\nWhen the militia was reorganized, on April 22, 1776,\\nthese officers were continued in the same rank.Tf\\nMichael Rogers succeeded Hunter in 1778 for, by\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Colonial Records, Vol. VIII., pp. C75, 676.\\nfOolonlal Records, Vol. IX., p. dU.\\nJCourt Records of Wake.\\nlIThis gentleman (whose signature I have seen) wrote liis lirst name as here\\ngiven, but I think his son and namesake signed himself Tignall or Tignal.\\n$Oolonial Records, Vol. X., pp. 106. 215.\\nirColonial Records, Vol. X., pp. 207, 582.", "height": "3631", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "18\\nthe minute docket of the Court of Pleas and Quarter\\nSessions in that year, it appears that on the 19th of\\nFebruary, Michael Rogers, Esq produced into Court\\na commission from His Excellency Richard Caswell,\\nEsq Governor, constituting him Lieutenant Colonel\\nfor the County of Wake; came into Court and quali-\\nfyed agreeable to law. Hardy Sanders likewise held\\nthat rank at a later period, and James Hinton was\\neither a Colonel or a Lieutenant Colonel.\\nIn the Provincial Congress which assembled at Hal-\\nifax in- April, 1776, Colonel Lane again represented\\nWake County. His colleagues in this body were\\nJohn Hinton, John Rand, Tingnall Jones, and William\\nHooper. The last named, though put down as a del-\\negate from Wake, was not a resident of the county,\\nbut came from the eastern part of the State. He was\\none of those, who, a few months later, made their\\nnames immortal by signing the Declaration of Inde-\\npendence at Philadeli:)hia. While a member of this\\nProvincial Congress, Mr. Hooper was also a member\\nof the Continental Congress.\\nColonel Lane did not serve in the Provincial Con-\\ngress which met at Halifax in November, 1776. The\\ndelegates from Wake County in that body werB Ting-\\nnall Jones, Michael Rogers, James Jones, Britain Ful-\\nler, and John Rice.f\\nFrom February, 1778, till September, 1779, Joel\\nLane was Entry Taker ;:j: and, for thirteen terms, rep-\\nresented Wake County in the State Senate, At that\\ntime the Legislature met annually, and sometimes\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Coloniul Rocords. Vol. X., p. 501.\\n+Coloiiial Krcords, Vol. X., p. fll5.\\nJ Court Records of Wake.", "height": "3694", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "14\\noftener. During the Revolution, James Jones was the\\nfirst to hold the office of Senator, in 1777. The follow-\\ning year, Michael Rogers succeeded him and held until\\n1782, when Colonel Lane was elected. Up to the year\\nof his death (with the exception of one term when his\\nbrother-in-law, James Hinton, defeated him in 1793),\\nColonel Lane continued to serve. Those who repre-\\nsented Wake County in the House of Commons dur-\\ning the Revolution were John Rand, Tingnall Jones,\\nLodowick Alford, Hardy Sanders, Thomas Hines, John-\\nHinton, Jr., Nathaniel Jones, the elderf (of Crab tree),\\nJohn Humphries, Burwell Pope, James Hinton, and\\nTheophilus Hunter. :t\\nOn June 23, 1781, while the war was raging with its\\ngreatest fury, the Legislature met at Wake Court-\\nHouse.\u00c2\u00a7 For want of a more commodious edifice, Col-\\nLane s residence was used as the place for assembling.\\nAt this session, Thomas Burke was elected to succeed\\nAbner Nash as Governor.\\nA ludricrous reminder of the depreciation in x^aper\\ncurrency caused by the gloomy prospects for the suc-\\ncess of the American cause, is the official record! that\\nwhen Colonel Lane was paid for the house-rent, pas-\\nturage for horses, etc., used by the above Legislature\\nduring this session of less than one month s duration,\\nthe amount voted him was fifteen thousand pounds\\nnVheeler s History of North Carolina, Part II., pp. 421, 422.\\nfThere were three gentlemen in Wake County bearing the name of Nathaniel\\nJones: (1) Nathaniel Jones, of Orabtree (2) his father, Nathaniel Jones, Sr., men-\\ntioned above (3) Nathaniel Jones, of White Plains. The last named was not con-\\nnected with the Jones family of Orabtree except by marriage. In old county rec-\\nords they were usuallj distingxiishcd by placing the letters G. T. for Orabtree, and\\nW. I for White Plains, after their names.\\ntWheeler s History. Part II., pp. 421. 422.\\n$State Records, Vol. XVII., pp. 794,877.\\nllState Records, Vol. XVII., pp. 876, 977.", "height": "3631", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "15\\nor about thirty thousand doUars (a pound was then\\nonly two dollars). This was many times as great as the\\nsum paid by the State for the Lane plantation (where\\nRaleigh is built) after the war, when money was worth\\nmore than the paper it was i^rinted on.\\nDuring the Revolution those who occupied the office\\nof High Sheriff of Wake (then a station of great im-\\nportance) were Thomas Hines, from June, 1775, till\\nJune, 1777 Thomas AVooten from June, 1777, till\\nSeptember, 1780 Hardy Sanders, from Sei3tember,\\n1780, till September, 1782 Britain Fuller, from Sep-\\ntember, 1782, until after peace was declared.\\nAfter the end of hostilities, Colonel Lane exerted\\nevery effort to allay the bitterness which had arisen\\nwhile the war was in j^rogress, and befriended many\\nLoyalists who were objects of hatred to a less generous\\nelement of the Whigs than that to which he belonged.\\nAmong other Tories, who had reason to be thankful\\nfor his good offices, was Colonel John Hamilton, whom\\nhe probably knew before the war, as both were from\\nHalifax County. Hamilton was one of the bravest\\nand most active officers siding with the King, and a\\nman of character, who had treated American prisoners\\nwith more than ordinary kindness, though even this\\n(lid not save his estates from confiscation. For some\\nyears after the Revolution, he was British Consul at\\nNorfolk, Virginia, and finally went to England, where\\nhe died. Serving on Hamilton s staff was a young en-\\nsign, Dugald McKethen, who became a useful and re-\\nspected citizen of Raleigli al tei the return of peace,\\nand married one of Colonel Lane s daughters.\\n*Court Records of Wake.", "height": "3694", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "16\\nIn the time treated of by tliis sketch, Wake County\\nabounded in large game, and hunting was a favorite\\npastime. Just inside, and westward of the southern\\nentrance, of Capitol Square in Raleigh, there is still\\nliving a large sassafras tree, which was a famous deer-\\nstand. The writer learned this from his father, the\\nlate Dr. Richard B. Haywood, who personally remem-\\nbered one of Colonel Lane s nephews, Edmund Lane,\\nwho himself claimed to have killed nearly forty deer\\nthere.\\nBefore the Revolutionary war, and during that\\nstruggle, the caj)ital of North Carolina was some-\\nwhat migratory. It was, as a rule, located where\\nthe Governor happened to reside, for that functionary\\nusually summoned the Legislature to meet at the x)lace\\nwhich best suited his convenience. So, after inde-\\npendence had been achieved, the State Convention,\\nwhich met at Fayetteville in 1788, gave the General\\nAssembly instructions to fix permanently the capital,\\nprovided it should be within ten miles of Isaac Hunter s\\nj)lantation in Wake County, which radius was chosen\\non account of its central location. Nine Commission-\\ners were appointed to purchase a site, but only six\\nattended the meeting which was held for that purpose.\\nThose present were Frederick Hargett, Chairman,\\nWilliam Johnston Dawson, Joseph McDowell, James\\nMartin, Thomas Blount, and Willie Jones. The mem-\\nbers of this board were from different x)arts of the State.\\nThey had to choose from seventeen tracts which were\\noffered. In reference to their decision, the Honorable\\nKemp P. Battle, in his 1892 Centennial Address on Ral-\\neigh, says that the Hinton tract on Neuse river received,\\non the first ballot, three of the six votes cast the tract", "height": "3631", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "17\\noffered by Joel Lane received two and the other vote\\nwas cast for land owned by Natlianiel Jones, of AVhite\\nPlains, near the present village of Gary. As a major-\\nity was not received by either tract on this baUot, the\\nboard adjourned until next day. Continuing his ad-\\ndress. Dr. Battle says\\nWillie Jones was a master of the art of persua-\\nsion and was an intimate friend of Joel Lane. Lane\\nliimself was a man of influence, who had served tlie\\nState in the Colonial Congress and as Senator for ten\\nyears in succession. Very i)robably he offered new\\ninducements as to j^rice. At any rate, on Friday, the\\n8()th of March, a second ballot was taken, with the\\nresult that Wake Court House received five votes, and\\nthe llinton land received only one vote. Possibly\\nLane was adversely criticised for his tactics in win-\\nning tlie contest. There was abundant room for un-\\npleasant talk on account of his entertaining the Com-\\nmissioners at his house. They were acting as judges,\\nand were certainly, notwithstanding their high char-\\nacter, liable to the criticism that they ate the bread of\\none of the litigants. I cannot find their accounts of\\nexpenses, but it is altogether pro])al)le that they, paid\\nfor their entertainment. I notice that Lane was Sen-\\nator from 1782 to 1702, l)()th inclusive, but that in the\\nnext year James Hinton had his place. This is some\\nevidence that the Hinton family resented his success\\nin the negotiation and that the people took their side.\\nIf so, the displeasure was evanescent, for he was Sen-\\nator again in 1704 and 171)r).\\nJames Iredell (afterwards a .ludge of the United\\nStates Supreme Court) introduced the Convention or-\\ndinance requiring the capital to be located in Wake", "height": "3694", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "18\\nCounty, and the name Raleigh is said to have been\\nfirst suggested for the new city by Governor Alexander\\nMartin.\\nAs Colonel Lane s residence was the most important\\nhouse at Bloomsbury, or Wake Cross-Roads, before\\nRaleigh was laid out, he was often inconvenienced by\\nthe number of travellers who claimed his hospitality.\\nTo get rid of those who were not his personal friends,\\nhe caused to be erected a small ordinary or of nary\\nas it was called by the natives. This old inn was\\nafterwards turned into a school-house, and is now used\\nas an out-building to a residence on the north side of\\nHillsborough street, between McDowell and Dawson.\\nIt is about three-quarters of a mile in an easterly di-\\nrection from where the old Lane homestead stands,\\nand somewhat resembles the architecture of that build-\\ning.\\nTwo blocks north of Capitol Square, in Raleigh,\\none of the city s thoroughfares, running east and west,\\nis called Lane Street in honor of the former owner of\\nthe soil.\\nColonel Lane was one of the first Trustees of the\\nUniversity of North Carolina, and (on November 5,\\n1792,) offered that institution a gift of six hundred\\nand forty acres of land, near the plantation of Nathan-\\niel Jones, of AVhite Plains, on condition that it should\\nbe located there, but the offer was declined.\\nHinton James, the first graduate of .the University,\\nwas a nephew of Mrs. Lane, whose father. Colonel\\nJohn Hinton, had two daughters who married mem-\\nbers of the James family. Hinton James was the son\\nof Captain John James, of the Revolution, and his\\nwife Alice Hinton. Alice s sister, Elizabeth, married\\nThomas James.", "height": "3631", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "19\\nColonel Lane was twice married. Both of his wives\\nwere daughters of the well known Revolutionary sol-\\ndier and statesman, Colonel John Hinton, of AVake\\nCounty, and his wife, Grizelle Kimbrough.\\nTo his first wife, Maktha Hinton, Colonel Lane was\\nmarried on the 9th of December, 1762. She died on\\nSeptember 9, 1771, leaving three sons. They w^ere\\nI. Henry Lane, born March 6, 1764^ w^ho married his\\nfirst cousin, Mary Hinton (daughter of Major John\\nHinton, Jr., of Wake County), and left descendants.\\nHe died in Wake County in 1797.\\nII. James Lane, who was born October 7, 1766.\\nIII. William Lane, who w^as born October 15, 1768.\\nMary Hinton, the second w^ife of Joel Lane, to\\nwhom he was married in 1772, bore him nine children,\\nas follows\\nI. Nancy Lane, born July 22, 1773.\\nII. John Lane, born March 6, 1775, w^ho married Sa-\\nrah Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Nathaniel Jones, of\\nWhite Plains, Wake County, and left descendants.\\nHe removed to Marshall County, Tennessee, and died\\nthere in 1864.\\nIII. Martha Lane, born February 19, 1778, who was\\ntwice married (first), to Dugald McKethen, hereto-\\nfore mentioned (second), to Jonathan Brickell. She\\nwas Mr. Brickell s second wife. Her death occurred\\nin Raleigh, May 20, 1852. She had children, but no\\ndescendants are now living.\\nIV. Elizabeth Lane, born August 6, 1780, who was\\nthe first wife of Stephen Haywood, of Raleigh, where\\n*Whorf the inarriaf?( S of Coloiu l Lane s cliildren are not jjlven, it is l)PC aus( I\\nhave been unable to ascertain wlioni tiiey married. Some of his children may liave\\ndied 3 ounj^. James and William were living in 17\u00c2\u00ab4 when their fatiu r madi- liis\\nwill. As to other James Lanes, see note, page tt, ante.", "height": "3694", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "20\\nshe died March 7, 1805. She has descendants, but none\\nare now living who bear the name of Haywood.\\nV. Mary Lane, born January 1, 1783.\\nyi. Thomas Lane, born September 12, 1785, who\\nmarried Nancy Lane, daughter of his cousin and guar-\\ndian, Martin Lane, heretofore mentioned. Thomas\\nremoved to Giles County, Tennessee, and died there\\nMarch 29, 1832, leaving issue.\\nVII. Dorothy Lane, born December 13, 1787, who was\\nthe second wife of Dr. Allen W. Gilchrist, and left\\ndescendants. Her marriage took place on May 29, 1806.\\nDr. Gilchrist was from Halifax County, North Caro-\\nlina, but afterwards removed from the State.\\nVIII. Joel Hinton Lane, born October 11, 1790, who\\nmarried Mary Freeman, and died without issue, in\\nGiles County, Tennessee, June 22, 1832. He was a vol-\\nunteer from Wake County, North Carolina, in the War\\nof 1812.\\nIX. Grizelle Lane, born June 13, 1793, who married\\nGeorge Lillington Ryan, and died without issue, in\\nRaleigh, March 4, 1808.\\nJoel Lane s second wife, Mary, survived him less\\nthan a week, and died on the 3rd of April, 1795.\\nIn things spiritual, Colonel Lane was most exem-\\nplary, and enforced strict religious observance upon\\nall within his household. It has been noted that his\\nancestors were adherents of the Church of England\\nso, when this sturdy pioneer came to the wilds of Wake\\nCounty, the Book of Common Prayer came also. Un-\\nder the English Church Establishment of that time,\\nthe territory embraced in Wake was known as the\\nParish of St. Margaret. Though the adjacent coun-\\ntry was too thinly settled for the Church to thrive, the", "height": "3631", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "21\\nLane residence always remained the home of religion\\nas well as of hospitality. Not only was the family\\ncalled daily to prayer, but Colonel Lane himself ob-\\nserved each fast and other devotional exercise pre-\\nscribed by the Church, in which he remained a com-\\nmunicant up to the time of his death. At inter-\\nvals, some regularly ordained clergyman would pass\\ntlirough; and, on these occasions, younger members\\n(d the family were baptized. Among other clerical\\nvisitors, was Parson Micklejohn, of Hillsborough,\\nwhom Shocco Jones describes as a high Cliurch-\\nluan in religion and a high Tory in politics. When,\\nsome years after the Revolution, Bishop Ravenscroft\\ncame to Wake County to revive, under its new name,\\nthe Church of England, the Lanes could boast that in\\none quarter, at least, it had never been dormant.\\nThe death of Joel Lane occurred on the 29th day of\\nMarch, 1795. In an address delivered in Raleigh, on\\nAugust 24, 1867, Ex-Governor Swain (Colonel Lane s\\ngreat- nephew) refers to the last resting place of the old\\npatriot, saying that his remains moulder in the midst\\nof other unrecorded dead beneath the shade of a mul-\\nberry on his ancient domain. There, indeed, is. his\\ngrave, of which no vestige now appears. The spot is\\nin an open field (upon which the town is fast closing\\nin), and lies a few feet east of Boylan Avenue, about\\nthirty-live yards south of Morgan street.\\nAfter the death of Joel Lane, his son Thomas, to\\nwhom he l)equeathed his residence,* sold it on Decem-\\nber 31, 1808, to Dr. Allen W. Uilchrist who married\\nColonel Lane s daughter. It was afterwards bought\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6The Randall Ktc hin Co., f Rah-iKli. i?* nv propariiiK. mid will soon have for\\nBale, an etching of this Imilding.", "height": "3694", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "22\\nby Peter Browne, a native of Scotland, who was an\\nable lawyer, but withal a miser and utilitarian, re-\\nspecting nothing above its value in dollars and cents.\\nFinding that the burying ground (where, also, many\\nother early citizens, besides the Lanes, were interred)\\nwas an unprofitable x)iece of property, he had it plowed\\nup and planted in cabbages! If one leaves this spot, and\\nwalks about a mile and a half eastward along Morgan\\nStreet to what Raleigh people now call the Old Grave-\\nyard, there he will find the slab which marks the\\ngrave of Browne himself. It states that he died Octo-\\nber 26, 1833, aged 6711 years. Verily, one may\\nthink, Methuselah would turn green with envy, and\\nfeel youthful, could he read this. What means it\\nmay be asked by another, less credulous. The solu-\\ntion is this Originally the inscription read, 67\\nyears and some vandal, with a good knowledge of\\nstone-cutting, did the rest by adding the two other\\nfigures. Thus the grave of this desecrator has not itself\\nescaped desecration.\\nBefore concluding our sketch, further mention\\nshould be made of the house in which Colonel Lane\\nlived, and which was built by him. It still stands, and\\nis the oldest house in Raleigh much older than the\\ncity itself. William Boylan, editor of the Minerva^\\nbought it from the aforementioned Peter Browne, in\\n1818, and it has been in possession of the Boylans ever\\nsince. It faces east on the avenue named for that\\nfamily. To one of the present generation, it is an un-\\nimposing structure but, when built, was considered\\nquite palatial. Two stories, low in pitch, with a\\nsteep double-slanting roof and a small wing on the\\nsouth side, is the house as it stands. But it seldom", "height": "3631", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "28\\nfails to attract attention. Its quaintness of architec-\\nture speaks of a generation now passed into history\\nof Tryon, marching witli liis army against the Regu-\\nlators of Burke, Spaight, Lenoir, and their compa-\\ntriots in the Revolutionary assembly which met be-\\nneath its roof; of the Hintons, Hunters, and Jones s,\\nof early Wake.\\nA kind of old Hobgoblin Hall,\\nNow somewhat fallen to decay,\\nWith weather-stains upon the wall.\\nAnd stairways worn and crazy doors.\\nAnd creaking and uneven floors.\\nAnd chimneys huge, and tiled and tall\\nA region of repose it seems,\\nA place of slumber and of dreams", "height": "3694", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "LE N 10", "height": "3631", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3694", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3631", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3694", "width": "2064", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "LIBRftRY OF CONGRESS\\n014 419 502 4", "height": "3631", "width": "2101", "jp2-path": "joellanepioneerp00hayw_0028.jp2"}}