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In an account that may date to 22 July 1682, "Josia" Lane was one of a group of men who appear to have paid for land to be bought by John Tower from the town in exchange for wood from (Couper's) Island. Josiah paid £1. SR 15 His first wife Mary died 4 October 1671.1      

child of Josiah Lane and Mary:2

Mary, b. 29 September 1671

children of Josiah Lane and Deborah Gill:

Josiah, b. 27 January 1674/75
George, b. 22 June 1677
Deborah, b. 21 November 1679
Sarah, b. 12 February 1681/82
Thomas, b. 29 May 1684
Peter, b. 21 December 1687
Peter, b. 2 March 1689/90, d. 2 June 1690
Peter, b. 15 July 1691
Ruth, b. 26 July 1696

vital records sources:

1. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," familysearch.org database online (Salt Lake City, UT: 1972), Hingham, Births, marriages and Death, 1635-1844, image 24 of mss vital records vol. 1635-1780, p. 24; image 29, p. 34; image 32, p. 40; image 37, p. 51; image 40, p. 55; image 44, p. 62; image 57, p. 89; image 55, p. 84; image 65, p. 103. Peter (1687) appears in ibid, Hubbard's Journal, with Births, Marriages, and Deaths, images 41 (7 July), 48 (29 May).
2. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," familysearch.org database online (Salt Lake City, UT: 1972), Hingham, Births, marriages and Death, 1635-1844, image 24 of mss vital records vol. 1635-1780, p. 24.