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Revolutionary War Tidence Lane and Sons of Early Tennessee

ISAAC LANE, son of Tidence and Esther BIBBIN or BIBBER Lane, (according to his Revolutionary War
pension file), was born on 14 Feb 1760, and lived in Pittsylvania County, Virginia when he first enlisted

in the service of the Revolution, later removing to Watauga County, North Carolina [sic, but Washington

County, North Carolina, parent county of Tennessee, and earlier known as Watauga], According to Ramsey,

 Isaac and Aquila Lane (his brother) were members of a Washington County militia company

"of whigs" that included Captain William Bean, James Robertson and John Sevier when, in 1778,

they drove Isam Yearley, a loyalist on Nollichucky, out of the country, and afterward pursued a

party of Tories who "under the lead of Mr. Grimes, on Watauga, had killed Millican, a Whig,

and attempted to kill Mr. Roddy and Mr. Grubbs. The latter they had taken to a high pinnacle

on the edge of the river, and threatened to throw him off. He was respited under a promise

that they should have all his property. These tories were concealed high up Watauga in the

mountain, but Captain Bean and his whig comrades ferretted them out, fired upon and

wounded their leader, and forced them to escape across the mountain. Capt. Grimes was

hung after King's Mountain battle, in which he was taken prisoner."*

* Ramsey adds that other members of Bean's company were Joseph Duncan, John Condley, Thomas Hardiman,

William Stone, Michael Massingale, John and George Bean, Edmond Bean, James Roddy, and Samuel and Robert

Tate. He does not give his source.

Isaac served as a Lieutenant under Col. John Sevier at the battle of King's Mountain on 7 Oct 1780.

(Burnett and Ramsey. Alderman's Overmountain Men places both Isaac and Tidence at King's Mountain,

with Tidence as a Captain).

In 1783, Isaac is on the Greene County Tax List, and in 1797, both an Isaac and a Tidence Lane are on a 1797

Grainger County, Tennessee Intruder List. In 1799, Isaac Lane is on the Grainger County Tax List of Capt. Lane

(believed to have been Isaac himself), his land in that part of Grainger County that became Claiborne County in 1801.

In 1802, Isaac gave the land on which was built the meeting house of the first Baptist church organized in

Claiborne County, at Big Springs, now Springdale. Isaac applied for his Revolutionary War pension in 1832,

by then a resident of McMinn County, declaring that he then to Grainger County, Tennessee, then to Claiborn

County, Tennessee, then finally to McMinn. He had married May 1782 to Sarah RUSSELL in Washington

County, North Carolina, and had served under a Captain George RUSSELL (relationship to Sarah, if any,

not stated). He died on 9 Nov 1851 in McMinn, and his widow applied there on on 18 Aug 1852, aged 92.

She also applied there for BLW on 14 Apr 1855, their children mentioned, but only son Tidance C. Lane,

of McMinn County in 1844, was named in the calim. A Russell Lane was also mentioned, but no

relationshipo was stated. A Mary JARNAGIN, widow of Noah JARNAGIN, was aged about 88 when

she made an affidavit on 6 Oct 1853 in Grainger County, Tennessee, about the wedding of Isaac and

Sarah. (Rev War Pension File No. R6137, BLW File #1243-300-14)
 

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Bibliography

Burnett, J.J., Sketches of Tennessee's Pioneer Baptist Preachers," first series, Vol. I, Nashville: Marshall and Bruce, 1919.

Toomey, Glenn A., Bi-Centennial Holston: Tennessee's First Baptist Association and Its Affiliated Churches, 1786-1985,
Johnson City, Tennessee: (privately published), 1985.

White, Virgil, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Abstract Files, National Historical Publishing Company,
Waynesboro, 1990.

Ramsey, J.G.M., The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century, Walker and Jones, Charleston, SC, 1853,
reprinted by the East Tennessee Historical Society, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1967.