Agnes Fitzgerald

Agnes was born on 18 Jun 1763, possibly in Virginia. She was supposedly a daughter of Garrett Fitzgerald, but there are no direct primary sources for her place of birth or the names of her parents. She married Aquilla Lane on 1 Feb 1780, and they had 13 children according to Agnes' Revolutionary War widow's pension application, which also listed her dates of birth and marriage. Agnes and Aquilla's first son was named Garrett, possibly after her father.

Indirect evidence that Garrett was Agnes' father comes from land records. Both Garrett Fitzgerald and Aquilla Lane were granted 100 acres of land each on the south side of the Holston River in Sullivan County, then part of North Carolina, on 24 Feb 1779. Then on 21 Oct 1783, Aquilla Lane was granted 100 acres and Garrett Fitzgerald was granted 600 acres, both in Greene County, North Carolina.

Agnes was still living on 1 Feb 1845 when she submitted her pension application in Jefferson County, Tennessee. Her date of death is not known, but on 29 Jan 1852, her youngest son, Thomas J. Lane, executed a power of attorney in which he stated "that his mother had died 'some 4 years since,'" putting her year of death at about 1848.

References

• "American Revolutionary War Rejected Pensions" (Rejected or Suspended Applications for Revolutionary War Pensions, n.p., Washington, D.C., 1852; online database, Ancestry, accessed 10 Jun 2024), record for Agnes Lane, widow of Aquilla, for proof from the South Carolina records, or two witnesses. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=4329&h=7890&indiv=try.
• Bureau of Pensions. "U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900" (National Archives, Washington, D.C.; digital images, Ancestry, accessed 9 Jun 2024), rejected pension application for Aquilla Lane, R6116, citing NARA microfilm publication M804, Archive Roll 1519. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1995&h=34387&indiv=try.
• Graves, William, transcriber. Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements & Rosters (online database, RevWarApps, accessed 9 Jun 2024), pension application of Aquilla Lane, R6116, and Agnes Lane, fn63NC. https://revwarapps.org/r6116.pdf.
• James, Larry A. The Lane Family: The Descendants of Maj. Samuel Lane, four volumes (Neosho, Missouri: self-published, 1986-1989; digital images, FamilySearch, https://libcat.familysearch.org/Record/2030212, accessed 19 Mar 2024), part 2, p. 11.
• Tennessee Division of Archives, Land Office, and Museum. "Tennessee, U.S., Early Land Registers, 1778-1927" (Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee; digital images, Ancestry, accessed 11 Jun 2024), warrant 1244 for Aquila Lain and Garrett Fitsgarrell. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=3658&h=167475&indiv=try.
• Tennessee Division of Archives, Land Office, and Museum. "Tennessee, U.S., Early Land Registers, 1778-1927" (Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee; digital images, Ancestry, accessed 11 Jun 2024), warrant number 8 for Aquilla Lain, and warrant number 10 for Garret Fitzgerald. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=3658&h=121526&indiv=try.
• "Tennessee Probate Court Books, 1795-1927" (digital images, FamilySearch, accessed 11 Jun 2024), Index to wills and probate 1792-1921 Wills (and settlements) v. 2 1792-1826, digital folder 004776321, images 357-358, pp. 215-217, will of Aquila Lane. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S7WF-SKNK-19?i=357&cc=1....
• "Tennessee, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1779-2008" (Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee; digital images, Ancestry, accessed 10 Jun 2024), Jefferson County, Will Books, 1792-1844, transcribed will of Aquilla Lane. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=9176&h=3239260&indiv....
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