LAYNE-LAIN-LANE GENEALOGY Being a compilation of names and historical information of male de­ scendants of sixteen branches of the LAYNE-LAIN-LANE family in the United States, gathered from legal records and other available sources. Compiled and Published by FLOYD BENJAMIN LAYNE Los ANGELES., CALIFORNIA PRINTED 1962 BY THE BOOKMAN PRESS Los ANGELES, CALIFORNIA U.S.A. PREFACE Information contained in this book has been collected during the past fifty-one years by Laynes, Lains, and Lanes interested in their family history. In 1911 William Robert Layne, then living in Los Angeles, be­ gan the systematic collecting of data by writing letters and making personal contacts. Some of the replies to the early letters are in the possession of the publisher. Dr. R. H. Lane of Washington, D.C. has given hundreds of hours of his time to extensive research in official records for locali­ ties indicated in an effort to verify family tradition. Recognition must be give Miss Emma Sue Williams of Athens, Tenn., for her work in the Public Records of Eastern Tennessee. It was found impossible to follow family groups by staying with a single spelling i.e. Layne, Lain, or Lane. Many were illiterate in early times and there were estrangements within families, some not wishing to claim kinship with other members of their family. Some documents examined used more than one way of spelling for the same individual and some used only a (X) for their signature. In the interest of family history, members of families named Layne, Lain, or Lane are urged to send data on· their family to "Layne, Lain, Lane Genealogy", 2236 San Marco Dr., Los Angeles 28, California. It is hoped we will be able to put together some families not now connected. Floyd Benjamin Layne Los Angeles, California INFORMATION Concerning numbers before and after names contained in this book of Genealogy. Large numbers in parenthesis after a name indicates the number of the generation away from the first generation. As an example, in Chapter A James Trimble Layne (7) was son of James Witten Layne (6), who was son of William Henry Layne (5) who was son of James Shannon Layne (4) who was son of William Layne (Wag­ oner) (3) who was son of William Layne (2) who was son of William Layne (1). An asterisk ( *) before the number of an individual indicates that individual has descendants having that number shown later. The very small numbers shown after a name is that individual's number in the Chapter and can be found by turning to the number indicated in his Chapter. ABBREVIATIONS b-born d - death, died m-married dau - daughter Co-County c-about TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Chapter A ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 Descendants of William, of Amherst County, Virginia Chapter B _________ . ____________ . __________ .... _________________ . _____ . ________ . ____ _____ ______ ___ 75 Descendants of John, of Sequatchie Valley, Tennessee Chapter C ________________________________________________________________________________________ 121 Descendants of Thomas, of Hanover County, Virginia Chapter D ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------166 Descendants of W John, of North Carolina, Tennessee and Illinois Chapter E _________ . ____________________________________________________ . ___________________ . _____ l 56 Descendants of James, of Goochland County, Virginia Chapter F -------------------------------------------------··-------------------------------------198 Descendants of James William, of Illinois and Arkansas Chapter G ________________________________________________________________________________________ 204 Descendants of Robert, of Tennessee and Kentucky Chapter H ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------226 Descendants of Thomas, of Kentucky Chapter I __________________________________________________________________________________________ 232 Laynes of Kanawha County, West Virginia Chapter J ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------237 Descendants of Jacob, of Campbell County, Virginia Chapter K ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------247 Descendants of Thomas, of Surry County, Virginia Chapter L ___ . ____________ . __________________________________________________________ .. ___________ 273 Descendants of John, of Blount County, Tennessee Chapter M ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------276 Descendants of Samuel, of Monroe County, Tennessee Chapter N ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------278 Descendants of John, of Putnam County, Indiana Chapter O ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------282 Descendants of William, of Blount County, Tennessee Chapter P ___ . ___________________________________________________________________________________ .284 Descendants of the Doctors William M, Samuel D and Ross, of Blount County, Tennessee Chapter Q ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------289 Some Laynes of England and Australia Index --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------301 Not included in this volume are the descendants of John Layne of Goochland County, Virginia. An ex­ haustive history of this family will be printed shortly by Dr. Ralph Lane. LAYNE-LAIN-LANE GENEALOGY CHAPTER A Descendants of William Lain-Layne of Amherst County, Virginia In connection ,vith the construction of an addition to the county court house at Amherst, Virginia, in 1961, some lost Court Order Books were found. The many court actions recorded therein­ most of which were small suits-do much to reveal life as it ,vas lived nearly two hundred years ago along the Tye River [a branch of the James River], by the Lane-Laine-Layne families, the fam­ ilies of Lavender, Tandy, Shannon, Stratton, Robertson, Bowman, Gatewood, Arrington, Wright and others. The Reverend Bailey Davis of Amherst searched these lost Court Order Books and found much that is important in tracing these early Virginia families. 1 WILLIAM LAINE SR: b cl 700; m ___; in Goochland co Va 1733 was a witness of Thomas Dawson and as defendant in suit for debt; undoubtedly he had come west from the coast; he was still in Goochland co in 1746 as next neighbor of Daw­ son, on West Lickinghole, with 5 slaves; issue: *2 William Laine Jr: b cl 720 *3 Thomas Laine: b cl 725 4 John Laine: Lived with William Laine Jr, where he was a tithable in 1766; at that time, all three were part of the citizens' committee for keeping up the road in their own region: [the new road from John Cabell's ferry to the rolling road near Fenley's Gap, crossing at the middle ford of Tye River and up Joe's Creek about a mile and then into Key's path into the gap]; John Cabell sued John Laine 1767; in 1767 Henry Key sued John and William Jr (his brother) and William (his nephew, the wagoner) in a rather involved case which began with the wagoner as de­ fendant and the other two as securities-all ending in a judgment of only £2 and interest from 6 Jan 1766; 4 Feb 1771 John deeded to John Edmonds and Thomas Wilsher, for £11.14.6 a bay horse, 3 head of cattle and a rifle-[possibly to satisfy a debt]; his witnesses included Monroe Wright, a neighbor; Car­ ter & Trent sued John and Jesse Wright in May 1774 for £4.12.1 with interest from 1 Dec 1772 and re- 7 ceived judgment; John Laine evidently died in July, 1778, for William Lane was named his administrator on 3 Aug 1778, under customary bond of £100, signed by William Lane, wagoner; John Laine's inventory, although not filed until 5 Oct 1778, was taken im­ mediately by William Alford, Achilles Wright, Robert Robinson and Minos Wright; it consisted of only a shirt, pair of britches, another pair, a coat, hone and strop, 2 stools and a bucket, a reap hook, a damaged blanket and a damaged pott - worth altogether £13.10.6; he held no land. 2 WILLIAM LAINE JR (2) WILLIAM SR1 (1): b c1720; d Amherst co Va fall 1792; m (1) probably in Henrico co Va by 1745 Susannah Porter ( dau of William Porter [ d Henrico County 1750 naming her in his will], granddau of Samuel Porter [d Norfolk co Va 1717-18 leaving a will]); m (2) as a widower, Amherst co Va lie 5 May 1788 Hannah Garvin; on 11 Mar 1747 William was sued in Albemarle co Va [before Amherst co was cut off from Albemarle] by John Pleasants, the judgment on 16 Jul 1748 calls him William Lane Jr; Wil­ liam was sued several times in 1743-46 in Goochland co; the locations of these suits hint at a westward movement trend; the next mention of William follows the erection of Amherst County in 1761; in 1766 he was a tithable in Amherst and a juryman, as well as security for William jr (his son, the wagoner); he served on a jury with Thomas Laine (father of William, waterman); in 1767 he lived near Minos Wright, Solomon Stratton, John Stratton, Thomas Ballow and Alex­ ander Chisnell (who.se families later were involved in his own family); he made a deed (now lost) with John Snyder in 1767; in 1776 he was administrator of John Lavender estate (secur­ ity: John Stratton); in 1778 he was administrator of John Lane, his brother, (security: William Laine, wagoner (son)); he had 9 tithes (perhaps including slaves) in 1780; no doubt exempt because of age, he is missing from tax lists beginning 1782, which show no land for him,