Captain Tidence Lane and his sons, Isaac and Tidence, Jr., were all three both Revolutionary Soldiers and
Revolutionary Reverends, among the earliest Baptists in East Tennessee:

TIDENCE LANE, Sr., born near Baltimore, Maryland on 31 Aug 1724 (christened Tidings at St. Paul's
parish in that city), was the son of Richard and Sarah LANE, grandson of Dutton and Pretitia TIDING Lane,
and great-grandson of Major Samuel LANE, an officer in the King's service in the Province of Maryland in 1680.
The family moved to Lunenburg County, Virginia (where a Tidance LANE is found on the 1748 list of tithables
returned by William Caldwell), but according to Burnett, Tidenc was already in Randolph County, North Carolina
when he married Esther BIBBIN or BIBBER on 9 May 1743. A Tidance LANE is on the 1779 tax list of
Randolph County, North Carolina, where Tidence had earlier been converted to the Baptist religion by
Shubael STERNS of the Sandy Creek Baptist Church Circuit in North Carolina. He came to Tennessee in the 1770s
as part of a group of Baptists from Sandy Creek who settled on Boone's Creek in Washington County, and in 1779,
it was under the leadership of Tidence LANE that the Buffalo Ridge Church was built in that county, the oldest church
in the state of Tennessee. Ramsey concurs with this date, stating that in 1779, "Tidence Lane, a Baptist preacher,
organized a congregation this year [1779]. A house of worship was erected on Buffalo Ridge." (Tidence was also the
first moderator of the Holston Association of Baptist Churches at "Cherokee meeting-house" in Washington County,
on the "Saturday before the fourth Sunday in October, 1786").