Visitor Information
- Colonel Joel Lane
- Descendants
- Ancestors and Siblings
- Will
- Estate Inventory
- Enslaved People in 1794
- Enslaved People in 1795
- Estate Sales of 1795
- Indenture Bond signed by Joel Lane
- Apprentice Bond Signed by Joel Lane
- Joel Lane and the Enslaved People Who Lived on His Plantation
- Williams Lane’s Bible Entries
Descendants
Joel Lane’s descendants today are scattered across the United States. Many have visited their ancestral home to research their origins. We invite you to join so many who have come before.
We are also interested in adding to our genealogical databases, so if you have information on descendants you’d like to share, please contact us!
We are particularly interested in finding an image of Joel Lane. We suspect that someone as important as he was had his portrait painted at some point in his life and that it is either in an attic or is proudly hung in a descendant’s home.
LANE DESCENDANTS
Joel Lane married twice. Both of his wives were daughters of the Revolutionary soldier and statesman, Col. John Hinton and his wife Grizelle Kimbrough.
On December 9, 1762, Joel married Martha Hinton (born c. 1745). They had three children. Martha died on September 9, 1771.
l. Henry (b. March 6, 1764) - He married his first cousin Mary Hinton (. Joel Lane gave him 2,000 acres of land and 16 slaves. The “old” portion of the Mordecai House is “Harry’s” (nickname) house. His descendants lived in the house until the city of Raleigh bought it for an historic park.
2. James (b. October 7, 1766) - James went west to Tennessee and then to Hamilton County in Illinois. His great grandson, Johnson Lane, was a prominent lawyer there. James married Mary Phipps from Tennessee in 1792. He died 1846.
3. William (b. October 15, 1768) - The Lane Family Bible which is displayed in the parlor belonged to William.
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In 1772 Joel Lane married his first wife’s sister, Mary Hinton (born 1755). They had nine children. Mary died on April 3, 1795. Joel died March on 29, 1795.
4. Nancy (b. July 22, 1773) - no known information, not in Joel Lane’s will of 1794.
5. John (b. March 6, 1775) - He married Sarah Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Nathaniel Jones, of White Plains, Wake County, and left descendants. He moved to Marshall County, Tennessee, and died there in 1864.
6. Martha (b. February 19, 1778) - She married twice: first to Dugald McKethen; second to Jonathan Brickell.
7. Elizabeth (b. August 6, 1780) - She married Stephen Haywood of Raleigh. She died at the age of 24 on March 7, 1805.
Elizabeth Lane from the 1963 North Carolina Portrait Index. The image is from a miniature on ivory and describes Elizabeth as having “long hair, curls with straight bangs; blue eyes; black dress with white lace and vest; white sash or belt.”
8. Mary (b. January 1, 1783) - Not mentioned in Joel’s will.
9. Thomas (b. September 12, 1785) - He married his cousin Nancy Lane, daughter of his cousin and guardian, Martin Lane. Thomas inherited Joel Lane’s house, but he sold it to his sister Dorothy’s husband. Thomas moved to Giles County, Tenn. (This area was Bedford County before 1836) where he died on March 29, 1832.
10. Dorothy (b. December 13, 1787) - She married Dr. Allen W. Gilchrist on May 29, 1806. She and her husband lived in her father’s house from 1808-1813.
11. Joel Hinton (b. October 11, 1790) - He married Mary Freeman. He was a volunteer from Wake County, North Carolina, in the War of 1812. Later moved to Tennessee and died in Giles County, Tenn. on June 22, 1832.
12. Grizelle (b. June 13, 1793) – She married George Ryan and died March 4, 1868. They had no descendants.