Ancestors

Edward Lane

Edward Lane is called the founder of the Perkiomen settlement in Philadelphia County, now Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

He was a son of William Lane, a Quaker grocer of Bristol in England, and Cecil Love. His father was one of the first purchasers of Pennsylvania land from William Penn, buying 500 acres in 1681. A first purchaser was one of the men who bought land from Penn in England before the colony was settled. Age kept William from crossing, and he conveyed the 500 acres to Edward.

In 1694 Edward married Ann Richardson, a daughter of Samuel Richardson, a member of the provincial council. The council was the body that governed Pennsylvania with the proprietor's governor. In 1698 Edward bought 2,500 acres on the Perkiomen Creek.

In 1704 he went back to England to visit his father. On the return he carried a letter from William Penn to James Logan, Penn's secretary in the province.

He and Ann had six children: William, Samuel, James, Eleanor, Elizabeth and Anne. He died about March 1710. His will left his son Samuel the land west of the Perkiomen. Samuel stayed on it and served St. James's Church, Perkiomen, as warden and vestryman in the 1730s. Ann married again, to Edmund Cartledge of Conestoga.

His parentage comes down through one manuscript pedigree of the family, kept by Judge Samuel W. Pennypacker, a descendant, and printed in 1895 and 1910.

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Cite: Heirology, "Edward Lane (d. 1710)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/edward-lane-1710-2f0db8.