Aquilla Lane - Col. Isaac Shelby's NC Reg - Whiteburg, TN - American Revolutionary War Veteran Graves on Waymarking.com

The small "Lane" cemetery is in an accessible farm field off of Whitesburg Pike road.

Aquilla Lane was born 18 May 1753. He resided in Orange County, North Carolina when he first enlisted in the service of the Revolution, but by Feb 1780, when he married Agnes Fitzgerald, was living in Washington County, North Carolina (now Tennessee). Had ten children. (Rev. War Pension File No. R6116)

Aquilla Lane enlisted in 1779 for the Revolutionary War in North Carolina as a private in Captain Russell's company, Colonel Christian's Virginia regiment and in 1781 in Captain Anthony Belcher's Company, Colonel Israel Shelby's regiment. He participated in Shelby's campaign against the Chicamauga Indians in 1779 and was with the Overmountain men who accompanied Col. John Sevier to the Battle of King's Mountain. At the close of the Revolution he received a grant of 240 acres of land from the state of North Carolina in that part of Greene County which was later formed into Jefferson, on which he lived until the time of his death which occurred on 24 November 1819. He was appointed an Ensign, 4th regiment of Hawkins County on 23 November 1810. His will was made on 26 April 1816 and was probated on 13 May 1820 in Jefferson County, Tennessee. (Book 2, page 215).

The extra "c" in his first name on the gravestone appears to be in error.

Location type: Single Grave Date of Birth: May 18 1753 Date of Death: Nov 24 1819 Cause of death: Died Later Grave Marker Text: Acquilla Lane North Carolina Col. Isaac Shelby's Regt Rev War May 18 1753 Nov 24 1819 Ranks: Private in Rev War Ensign (and Colonel?) in War of 1812 (per DAR publication Volume 50, Page 66)

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