This Lane family seems to have rained a foothold in the Americas by first arriving in the Caribbean.
There is an interesting duplicate use of the the place name <New Providence> . This was used both in the Bahamas (main island) and for the the founding of the township at the Perkiomen, then New Providence township. Perhaps there is a connection to the trading wealth of the Lanes, Richardsons, Gambiers, and Robesons. All of these families were rich and intermarried frequently ~• {MMvB, geni curator May 2022}
Ecclesiastically, the Lanes were "convinced" by the Quaker faith in the 17th century, they then returned to the Church of England fold and co-founded the Saint Jamea Perkiomen parish under the auspices of the SPG and its emissary, Rev. Evan Evans. (see the <panoply."" project. See, in particular, Rev. Evans and Rev. William Currie.

Bristol England: Bought (1681) 500 acres near Germantown (PA) from William Penn. Did not come to America
His descendants were Quaker for a while but returned to the P.E. Church and gave land for the future parish of St. James P.E. Church in Montgomery County, PA

SEE: The autobiography of a Pennsylvanian by Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_autobiography_of_a_Pennsylvanian...
"My grandmother, through her mother, Mary Lane, had her part in a great pedigree. The name of Lane occurs in Battle Abbey. Edward Lane, to whom William Penn frequently refers in terms of friendship and to whom he entrusted some correspondence to be brought across the Atlantic, son of William Lane of Bristol, England, lived on the Perkiomen, where he owned seven thousand five hundred acres of land and where he founded St. James' Episcopal Church""""". He married Ann, daughter of Samuel Richardson, member of assembly, provincial councillor, judge of the Philadelphia court of common pleas and the first alderman of that city. Next to Samuel Carpenter, he was the richest man there and owned all of the land on the north side of Market Street from Second Street to the river. George Keith said he was lascivious, but Keith was a very bitter partisan with a long tongue. He had only one son, Joseph, who also went to the Perkiomen where he bought one thousand acres at the junction of that creek and the Schuylkill, in a region bearing the Indian name of Olethgo. There was another intermarriage. Sarah Richardson, the granddaughter of Joseph, married Edward Lane, who had fought under Braddock, the grandson of Edward. The Friends' Meeting records of Gwynedd say that he had another wife, a statement hinting at a long forgotten scandal which cannot now be probed. Mary Lane was their daughter. When Joseph Richardson married Elizabeth, the daughter of John Bevan, in 1696, there was an elaborate settlement recorded in Philadelphia in which lands and £200 in money were given them by their fathers. John Bevan lived on land in Glamorganshire, Wales, which he had inherited from Jestyn ap Gwyrgan in the eleventh century. He displayed a coat of arms showing descent from the royal families in England and France, the earliest assertion of such a right made in America. In Philadelphia he was a member of assembly and a judge of the court of common pleas. A contemporary biography says he was “Well descended from the ancient Britons.” His wife, Barbara Aubrey, came from Reginald Aubrey, one of the Norman conquerors of Wales, and was nearly related to the William Aubrey who married Letitia, daughter of William Penn. Elizabeth Bevan, therefore, could prove her descent from Edward III, John of Gaunt, Warwick the King Maker, the Fair Maid of Kent, the loss of whose garter led to the establishment of the ancient order, and many other historical characters. The blood of Mary Lane was consequently English and Welsh. I have an indistinct recollection of her. The Lanes were a short-lived stock, but she reached an age of over eighty years. She long suffered from rheumatism, which twisted her hands, but she retained her skill in needlework and made very pretty silk pincushions. I have two of them and her long knit garter."

Research

A profile earmarked " said to be Abraham Lane " and his father Jean Laine present an interesting situation for developing the pedigree. fAbraham had a dau. Hannah who married a Robeson at Trappe while we also see that William's descendant Eleanor Lane married a Roberson of the same line in the same general neighborhood: See: Ellinore Robeson These lines seem to have been ignored by Lane family genealogists as they were, on the whole, loyal to the Crown during the Revolution. Ellinore Robeson (Lane's) dau. married into the historically significant Gambier family which administrated the Bahamas on behalf of King George III.

It should be noted that the Lane's had acquired a good part of their Perkiomen acreage from a grant that had been held by the Robeson family. Surely all these Lane - Robeson connections cannot be coincidental.

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