Job Lane

Abt 1620 - 1697  (~ 77 years)

• Name	Job Lane  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Birth	Abt 1620	Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England   [7, 8]
  Gender	Male
  Death	23 Aug 1697	Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [7]
  Person ID	I30792	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	5 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	James Lane,   b. of Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England d. Bef 1654
  Family ID	F2379	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Sarah Boyse   d. 14 May 1659, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Marriage	1647	England   [7]
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Lane,   b. Abt 1655   d. 21 Oct 1746, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 91 years)
  Family ID	F18281	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Nov 2020

  
  

  Family 2	Anna Reyner   d. 30 Apr 1704, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Marriage	2 Sep 1660  [7, 9, 10]
  Children	+ 1. Col. John Lane,   b. May 1661, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 17 Jan 1715, Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 53 years)
  Family ID	F8595	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Nov 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Described variously as a master-carpenter, housewright, and bridge-builder. In 1664 he purchased a large tract of land in Billerica from Governor John Winthrop. His second wife Anna Reyner owned land in England, and rent from tenants on that land enabled Job to import in-demand goods from England to New England. "[F]rom near the dates 1662 to 1816 inclusive, or over one hundred and fifty years, the Job Lane family received a yearly rental from the English estates -- an instance wholly unparalleled in New England history." [Lane Genealogies, citation details below.] He appears to have been in England when his kinsman, Thomas Howell of Marshfield, Massachusetts, named him his executor. Lane refused the appointment.

  
  

• Sources

  [S660] Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire by Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939. [S1617] Abandoning America: Life-Stories from Early New England by Susan Hardman Moore. Woodbridge, Sussex: The Boydell Press, 2013. [S1726] Maxine Stansell, "The Middlebrook Sisters: Mother and Mother-in-Law of Michael Wigglesworth." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 156:309, 2002. [S1781] Maxine Stansell, "More on the Reyners." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 156:323, 2002. [S4819] The Avery, Fairchild, and Park Families of Massachusetts, Connecticut, & Rhode Island by Samuel Putnam Avery. Hartford, Connecticut, 1919. [S4820] The Warren, Little, Lothrop, Park, Dix, Whitman, Fairchild, Platt, Wheeler, Lane and Avery Pedigrees of Samuel Putnam Avery, 1847-1920 by Samuel Putnam Avery. New York: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1925. [S1719] Lane Genealogies, Volume III: English Family, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, 1542-1758; Job Lane, Malden, Mass., 1649; James Lane, Casco Bay, Maine, 1650; Edward Lane, Boston, Mass., 1657 by James Hill Fitts. Exeter, New Hampshire: The News-Letter Press, 1902. [S1939] Alice C. Ayres, "The Whitmores of Medford and Some of Their Descendants." The Medford Historical Register 8:64, July 1905., date only. [S2127] John Insley Coddington, "The Mother-in-Law of the Reverend Peter Prudden With a Pedigree of the Boyse Family." The American Genealogist 19:135, 1942., month and year only. [S660] Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire by Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939., month and year only.