Job Lane Sr. (1667 - 1744)

Born 1667 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Fassett) Lane — married about 1703 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 19 Sep 1744 at about age 77 in Bedford, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Job Lane Sr. was born in about 1667^[1][2] probably in Wescustogo (North Yarmouth), Massachusetts Bay Colony, on Casco Bay in what is now Maine. He was the son of James Lane and Ann (___).^[3] His father James was killed in an Indian attack on the Casco Bay settlements in about 1675 or 1676.^[4][5]

His siblings were...

1. John Lane (~1653 - 1737)
2. Henry Lane (1657 - 1690)
3. Samuel Lane (~1660 - 1724)
4. James Lane (~1669 - )

Job married Mary Fassett (1683 - 1746) in 1703 in Billerica.^[6]

Their children were...

1. Joseph Lane Sr. (1706 - 1737)
2. Mary (Lane) Ingalls (1707 - )
3. Sarah (Lane) Miller (~1710 - 1764)
4. Job Lane Jr. (1714 - )
5. Elizabeth (Lane) Bacon (1722 - ).

Job died at age 77 on 19 September 1744 in Bedford, Massachusetts.^[1] He is buried in the Old Burying Ground in Bedford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Death: Vital Records of Massachusetts to 1850; 
   Middlesex County; Bedford; Deaths; Page 127
    https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Bedford/Images/Bedford_D127.shtml
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Burial:Find a Grave, database and images
   (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25176133/job-lane : accessed 12 November 2021),
   memorial page for Job Lane (1667–9 Sep 1744),
   Find A Grave: Memorial #25176133,
   citing Old Burying Ground, Bedford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA ;
   Maintained by Bill Boyington (contributor 46800933).
3. ↑ James Phinney Baxter, ed. Documentary History of the State of Maine, Collections of the Maine Historical Society, 2d ser., 24 vols. (Portland, Maine: 1869-1916), 6:386-7 (brothers John, Henry, Samuel and Job identified themselves as the "soons of James Lane: of North Yarmouth" in a joint petition on 17 April 1688 seeking confirmation of their late father's lands in Maine after his death).
4. ↑ See profile for James Lane.
5. ↑ Nathaniel Lane Taylor, Two More Daughters and an Earlier Arrival for James¹ Lane of Malden, Massachusetts, and Casco, Maine, NEHGR 176 (2022): 353-63, at 361-2.
6. ↑ Marriage: Vital Records of Massachusetts to 1850; 
   Middlesex County; Billerica; Marriages; Page 283
    https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Billerica/Images/Billerica_M283.shtml
   Note: record has no dates, just the fact they were married.

See also:

• Lane Genealogies: Chapman, Jacob, 1810-1903; Fitts, James Hill, 1829-1900
  Lane genealogies ..: Pub: 1891, Exeter NH;
  Volume 3, Pages 190-192
  https://archive.org/details/lanegenealogies03chap/page/190/mode/2up (NOTE: James Fitts' profile contains some errors and should be used with caution. See profile for James Lane for a detailed discussion of the recent research contradicting some of Fitts's claims.
• Harris, Gale Ion. Patrick and Sarah Fassett of Billerica, Massachusetts, NEHGR (NEHGS, Boston, 2023) Vol. 177, Page 52-53.