Tydings Lane (1724 - 1806)

Born 31 Aug 1724 in St Paul's Parish, Baltimore County, Maryland

Ancestors

Husband of Hester (Van Bibber) Lane — married 9 May 1743 in Frederick, Maryland

Descendants

Died 30 Jan 1806 at age 81 in Whitesburg, Jefferson County, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Rev. Tidence Lane, son of Richard Lane and Sarah Fuller Lane, was born 31 Aug 1724 in St Paul's Parish, Baltimore County, Maryland.^[1] He was a grandson of Dutton Lane and Pretitia Tydings.

On 9 May 1743 married Hester (or Esther) Bobby (aka Bibbin, Van Bibber) in All Saints' Parish, Frederick County, Maryland.^[2] The birth and marriage records spelled his name Tydings, but almost all other records spell his name "Tidence," including his will. He was probably named after the Tydings side of his family.

His family followed the drift of populations in colonial times from Maryland southward, first into Virginia and then into North Carolina, where they settled on the Yadkin River.^[1] The following is a quote from Tidence Lane:

"When the fame of Mr. Stearns' preaching reached the Yadkin where I lived, I felt curiosity to go and hear him. Upon my arrival I saw a venerable man sitting under a peach tree with a book in his hand and the people gathering about him. He fixed his eyes upon me immediately, which made me feel in such a manner as I had never felt before, I turned to quit the place, but could not proceed far. I walked about, sometimes catching his eyes as I walked. My uneasiness increased and became intolerable. I went up to him, thinking that a salutation and shaking of hands would relieve me; but it happened otherwise. I began to think he had an evil eye and ought to be shunned, but shunning him I could no more effect than a bird can shun the rattlesnake when it fixes its eyes upon it. When he began to preach my perturbations increased so that nature could no longer support then and I sank to the ground."^[3]

James^[4] indicates that Tidence Lane and family had settled in the Boone's Creek area of Tennessee prior to 1778, where he established the Buffalo Ridge Baptist Church, the first congregation of any denomination organized in Tennessee. Six years later on August 2, 1784, Tidence sold his estate on Boone's Creek to Solomon Stansberry of Baltimore County, Maryland. In June 1785, Rev. Tidence Lane and William Murphy organized the Bent River Church in Jefferson County, Tennessee.^[5]

Having made his will July 2, 1805^[6], Rev. Tidence Lane died 30 Jan 1806 near Bent Creek (now Whitesburg) community in what is now Hamblen County, Tennessee (formerly Jefferson County).

Children listed in will:

• sons:
  • John
  • Aquilla
  • Richard
  • Tidence (and wife Mary Cude)
  • Dutton
  • Samuel
• daughters:
  • Sarah
  • Senea (Susannah?)

A transcription of the will is available online.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} James, Larry A., The Lane Family: The Descendants of Maj. Samuel Lane, four volumes (Neosho, Missouri: self-published, 1986-1989; digital images, FamilySearch, https://libcat.familysearch.org/Record/2030212, accessed 19 Mar 2024), part I, p. 16; part II, p. 1.
2. ↑ Maryland Marriages, 1666-1970 (digital images, FamilySearch, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99XH-V77D?i=83&cc=2385204 : 4 Apr 2024), film 007575963, item 2, citing All Saints Parish Register, Frederick, MD., image 84, p. 11, marriage of Tydings Lane and Hester Bobby, 9 May 1743.
3. ↑ James (1986) pt. 2, p. 2.
4. ↑ James (1986) pt. 2, p. 4.
5. ↑ James (1986) pt. 2, p. 5.
6. ↑ Probate: Tennessee, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1779-2008 (digital images, Ancestry Sharing Link - https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=9176&h=4061715 : accessed 4 April 2024), Tidence Lane will 5 July 1805, Jefferson County, Tennessee..
7. ↑ "Reverend Tidence Lane, Revolutionary War Soldier and Early Tennessee Minister" (online, Greene County Genealogical Society, https://www.greenecountytngenealogicalsociety.org/_files/ugd/41711f_dfe04294c8b34ad4bb04bf82242dee25.pdf, accessed 4 Apr 2024).

• Burnett, J. J., Sketches of Tennessee's Pioneer Baptist Preachers (Nashville: Press of Marshall & Bruce, 1919; digital images, Google Books, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sketches_of_Tennessee_s_Pioneer_Baptist/2QlpzgEACAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA318&printsec=frontcover, accessed 4 Apr 2024), pp. 318-322.
• North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, (digital images, Ancestry Sharing Link - https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/3554091:61157?ssrc=pt&tid=186997463&pid=232485684204 : accessed 4 April 2024), citing NSDAR Lineage Book, Volume 137 1917-1918, p. 191, entry for Tidence Lane.
• Williams, Samuel C. “Tidence Lane—Tennessee’s First Pastor.” Tennessee Historical Magazine, vol. 1, no. 1, 1930, pp. 40–48. (digital images, JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42638052 : accessed 4 Apr 2024).