Aquilla Lane

DAR Ancestor #: A068550

There's no evidence that either he or his brother, Tidence, had the middle name "Van Bibber" or anything else, contrary to what Find a Grave and many family trees say. None of the primary source records list a middle name. He signed his will "Aquila Lane."

Aquilla Lane was born May 18, 1753 in Virginia, and died November 24, 1819 in Jefferson Co., Tennessee. He married (1) Unknown Epps. He married (2) Agnes Fitzgerald February 01, 1780, in Washington District, North Carolina. She was born January 18, 1763, in Washington County, Tennessee, and died 1822 in Jefferson County, Tennessee.

Aquilla Lane enlisted in 1779 as a private in Captain Russell's company, Colonel Christian's Virginia regiment, and in 1781 in Captain Anthony Belcher's Company, Colonel Israel Shelby's regiment. He participated in Shelby's campaign against the Chickamauga Indians in 1779 and was with the Overmountain men who accompanied Col. John Sevier to the Battle of King's Mountain. At the close of the Revolution, he received a grant of 240 acres of land from the state of North Carolina in that part of Greene County which was later formed into Jefferson County, Tennessee, on which he lived until the time of his death which occurred on 24 Nov 1819. He was appointed an Ensign, 4th regiment of Hawkins County on 23 November 1810. His will was made on 26 April 1816 and was probated on 13 May 1820 in Jefferson County, Tennessee.
Mother: Hester VAN BIBBER
Father: TIDENCE LANE

The Chattanooga Times: Chattanooga, Tenn., Sunday, May 30, 1934:

Aquilla Lane, fourth son of the Rev. Tidence Lane, the pioneer Baptist minister, and Esther Bibbins, his wife, was a gallant soldier of the Revolution, and was himself and early settler on Watauga, where many members of his family moved to make their homes during the War for Independence.

Lieut. Aquilla Lane was a member of Capt. William Bean's company, which is mentioned in Ramsey's "Annals of Tennessee," as having driven the tories from the Watauga and Nolachucky reions in 1778. He participated in Col. Evan Shelby's campaign against the Chickamauga Indians in 1779 and was with the overmountain men who accompanied Col. John Sevier to the Battle of King's Mountain.

The children of Aquilla and Agnes (Fitzgerald) Lane were: 1. Esther Lane, born Nov. 7, 1780. 2. Garret Lane, born June 18, 1782. 3. Ranson Lane, born Oct. 17, 1784. 4. Jane Lane, born March 6, 1787. 5. Tidence Lane, born April 18, 1789. 6. Theney Lane, born Sept. 29, 1791. 7. John King Lane, born Jan. 7, 1794. 8. Clear Lane, born April 4, 1796. 9. Anna Lane, born April 4, 1798. 10. Pleasant Lane, born April 20, 1800. 11. Adelina Lane, born Sept. 17, 1802. 12. Thomas Jefferson Lane, born Oct. 9, 1804.

Source: Bev Gillihan. "Van Bibber Family History & Genealogy" (https://www.ancientfaces.com/surname/van-bibber-family-history/1522... : accessed 10 Jun 2024), entry for AQUILLA (VAN BIBBER)LANE.
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Bibliography

Burnett, J.J., Sketches of Tennessee's Pioneer Baptist Preachers, first series, Vol. I, Nashville: Marshall and Bruce, 1919.

Toomey, Glenn A., Bi-Centennial Holston: Tennessee's First Baptist Association and Its Affiliated Churches, 1786-1985, Johnson City, Tennessee: (privately published), 1985.

White, Virgil, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Abstract Files, National Historical Publishing Company, Waynesboro, 1990.

Ramsey, J.G.M., The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century, Walker and Jones, Charleston, SC, 1853, reprinted by the East Tennessee Historical Society, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1967.
Source for all of the above: Find A Grave (online database and images, accessed 20 Apr 2024), record for Acquilla Van Bibber Lane. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32743085/acquilla-van_bibber-lane.

Pension application of Aquilla Lane R6116 Agnes fn63NC
State of Tennessee Jefferson County

    Personally appeared before me William Coffman at an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, Agnes Lane widow of Aquilla Lane a resident citizen of saidCounty aged eighty-two years who being unable to attend Court from bodily infirmity after being duly sworn according to law made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of theAct of Congress passed July 7th 1838 granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows.

    That she is the widow of Aquilla Lane who was a private soldier in the Army of the revolution. That her husband of Aquilla Lane entered service in 1779 in Captain Russell's [?]Company and Colonel Christian [William Christian?] Regiment against the __ Indians and served six months which service was performed before their marriage -- and in the latter part ofAugust or September 1781 after her marriage he entered the service under Captain Anthony Belcher and Colonel Shelby's Regiment in the State of North Carolina and served six months. She further declares that she was married to her husband the said AquillaLane on the first day of February 1780 in Washington County Tennessee then North Carolina and was married by publication and that she has a record of her marriage and the birth of her children and her husband's own handwriting which is here with annexed & that her Husband died on 24th day of November 1819.

    Sworn to and subscribed before me the first day of February 1845 

S/ Wm Coffman, JP S/ Agnes Lane, X her mark
[fn p. 6: family record]
Births
Aquila Lane was born on the 18th day of May 1753
Agnes Lane was born on the 18th of June 1763
Esther Lane was born on the 7th of November 1780
Garrett Lang was born on the 18th of June 1782
Ranson Lane was born on the 17th of October 1784
Jane Lane was born on the 6th of March 1787
Tidence Lane was born on the 18th of April 1789
Theney Lane was born on the 29th of September 1791
John King Lane was born on the 7th of January 1796
Clear Lane was born on the 4th of April 1796
Anna Lane was born on the 4th of April 1798
Pleasant Lane was born on the 20th of April 1800
Adelina Lane was born on the 17th of September 1802
Thomas Jefferson Lane was born on the 9th of October 1814
Mary Catherine was born the 6th of August 1815

    1805

Marriages
Aquila Lane and Agnes Fitzgerald was married on the first of February 1780
Pleasant W. Lane and Mary H. Coltharp was married August the 21st 1823
Mary Catherine Daughter of P. W Lane & Mary H. Lane was born the 25th of December 1823
Thomas J. Lane and Vany Pangle was married July the 25th 1822
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State of Tennessee Jefferson County: February 1st 1845
This day personally appeared Samuel Lane a reparable witness aged seventy-four yearsBefore me William Coffman a Justice of the Peace in the County of Jefferson and State aforesaid and after being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that Aquilla Lane did entered the service in the year 1779 in Captain Russell's company and Colonel Christian's Regiment against the __ Indians and served six months and in 1781 he entered the service again under CaptainAnthony Belcher Company in Colonel Isaac Shelby's Regiment and served six months which latter service was performed in the State of South Carolina he states that he is the brother of Aquilla Lane but was too young to be in the service -- but that his recollection as to the time of the aforesaid Aquilla Lane's service is correct to the best of his knowledge, recollection and belief.

    Sworn to and subscribed before me the date above written.

S/ Wm H. Coffman, JP S/ Samuel Lane, X his mark
[fn p. 5]
on January 29th 1852 and Jefferson County Tennessee, Thomas J. Lane, who describes himself as the youngest son of Aquilla Lane executed a power of attorney in favor of Edward Smith of Washington City to pursue the claim due his mother Agnes Lane, the widow of said Aquilla. He states that his mother had died "some 4 years since."
Source: Graves, William, transcriber, Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements & Rosters (online database, RevWarApps, accessed 9 Jun 2024), pension application of Aquilla Lane, R6116, and Agnes Lane, fn63NC. https://revwarapps.org/r6116.pdf.

Aquilla signed his will on 29 Apr 1816 in Jefferson County, Tennessee, and it was proved in March 1819, so he must have died between those dates. Agnes said he died on 24 November 1819 in her widow's pension application, but it wasn't submitted until 1845, so she must have been mistaken.
Source: Tennessee Probate Court Books, 1795-1927 (digital images, FamilySearch, accessed 11 Jun 2024), Index to wills and probate 1792-1921 Wills (and settlements) v. 2 1792-1826, digital folder 004776321, images 357-358, pp. 215-217, will of Aquila Lane. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S7WF-SKNK-19?i=357&cc=1....