Erica Howton
Sorry for the delayed response. After challenging assumptions by which the Lanning family has been constructed, I have disconnected my earliest confirmed Lanning ancestor from the immigrant ancestor previously claimed, John-1 Lanning. Others should probably do the same :(
Here is my now-pruned Lanning ancestry in the Family Tree:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/landscape/K83Q-K2H
From the Brief Life History:
ALERT! Richard Lanning (1730–1786): End-of-Line Ancestor!
ALERT! NOT a child of Richard and Sybil (Rose) Lanning!
From William C. Armstrong, Pioneer Families of Northwestern New Jersey, p. 225:
"Richard Lanning, a teacher, married Sybil Rose, sister of Stephen Rose. They had seven [sic, eight] children: David (a guide to Gen. Washington at the Battle of Trenton), married Mary Palmer, 1764-1862, daughter of Philip Palmer, Phoebe, blind, unmarried; Zenas married Rachel Garretson; Hannah (Mrs. Joseph Green); Rachel (Mrs. Joseph Knowles); Sarah (Mrs. Ralph Hart); Rhoda (Mrs. O'Neil) of Washington, D.C."
https://books.google.com/books?id=TfAXaYYUAecC
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Robert Lanning of Sussex County, New Jersey and Guernsey County, Ohio (1757-1841) was reportedly the husband of Sarah Miller (1757- ) and the son of Richard and Julia Ann (Miller) Lanning who married 4 November 1751. No original documents have been found to verify the identities of Robert’s wife and parents. Some of Robert’s descendants thought that his father was an English immigrant but one author implied that Robert descended from an Irish immigrant. Any help in confirming or refuting either possibility will be greatly appreciated.
=== Q. Was Robert Lanning’s father an English immigrant? ===
Below is a verbatim excerpt from Biographical and Historical Record of Jay and Blackford Counties, Indiana (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887), page 799:
Robert Lanning, general merchant, Millgrove, was born in Sussex County, New Jersey, January 15, 1820, a son of Isaac and Lydia (Fuller) Lanning, who were also natives of Sussex County, New Jersey, both dying in Guernsey County, Ohio. The father was eleven years older than his wife, and his death occurred eleven years before she died, her death occurring in 1884.
Our subject's grandfather, Robert Lanning, was born in New Jersey, and died in Guernsey County, Ohio, aged eighty-four years. His father was an Englishman by birth, and on coming to America, settled in New Jersey. …
Below is a verbatim excerpt from Biographical Memoirs of Blackford County, Ind. (Chicago: The Bowen Publishing Company, 1900), page 615:
Moses W. Lanning, of Mill Grove… born March 26, 1850… His father, Robert Lanning [sic, Isaac Lanning], was a native of Sussex county, New Jersey, being born there January 15, 1820, and was married to Lydia Fuller, also a native of that county. Both them died in Guernsey county, Ohio, he in 1873, and she in 1884. He was a son of Robert Lanning, who was born in New Jersey and died and Guernsey county, Ohio, at the age of eighty-four. The father of the latter, Robert Lanning, was an Englishman, but little appears to now remembered of his life.
=== Q. Did Robert Lanning descend from an Irish immigrant? ===
William Clinton Armstrong’s Pioneer Families of Northwestern New Jersey evolved from “a series of weekly articles which appeared in the Hackettstown Gazette beginning with the issue of February 16, 1934. There were ninety-four installments." Below is a verbatim excerpt from page 36:
The Lannings who settled at Chester, Trenton and Burlington [New Jersey] were Welsh. But there are in the United States many Lannings who are of entirely different stock… English Lannings… Dutch Lannings… There are Irish Lannings, for instance, Isaac Lanning who was born in Ireland in 1750 and has descendants living in Guernsey County, Ohio.
