Ancestors

Job Lane

Job Lane, of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, England, where he inherited property that paid him an annual income for the rest of his life. In America he was a carpenter, called in the records an artificer and a housewright. On 2 August 1664 he bought the Winthrop farm at Billerica from Fitz John Winthrop of New London for two hundred and thirty pounds, and paid for it by erecting a mansion for Winthrop. He built himself a house on it at once, the only house in Billerica south of Ralph Hill's at the time of King Philip's War. He lived at Billerica about twenty years, moved to Malden, and died in 1697.

In 1647 he was in England. Thomas Howell of Marshfield, in Plymouth Colony, set out his wishes on his deathbed on 6 June 1647 and "Appointed Job Lane, his kinsman, now in England, his executor," asking Edmond Weston to act in trust until he returned. Job declined the executorship in a letter to the Governor dated 19 October 1647. The record of it describes him as a carpenter of Dorchester and a nephew of Howell, and says he "was in Old England at the time of his decease."

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Cite: Heirology, "Job Lane (1620-1697)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/job-lane-1620-1697-59258d.