Joseph Bane

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Husband Joseph Bane ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Bane

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About the year 1768 five brothers-Jesse, Nathan, Isaac, Ellis, and Joseph Bane-came to Amwell township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, whither they had emigrated from the West Branch of the Potomac River in Virginia, to which section they had migrated from New England. The father of this family was a native of Scotland, and the mother was from Wales.
Four of the brothers settled upon adjoining farms one mile west of Amity village, in Amwell township, but Joseph preferred the life of a hunter and did not invest largely in land.
The Bane families were all Baptists, and were the prime movers in the organization and establishment of the church of that denomination, called the Ten-Mile Baptist Church, one and one-half miles west of Amity.

He was elected captain of a company of militia, and one time with his company followed a band of Indians to the west side of the Ohio River, crossing the stream below Wheeling, West Virginia. They overtook and attacked the enemy, but the battle resulted in victory for the Indians. Bane and his men beat a hasty retreat, but Bane was shot. He was carried by his men five days on horseback back to Amity village, where he soon recovered and went to Kentucky. On his way out he killed two Indians and took their scalps, which he sent to his friends in Amwell township.

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 652.

2 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 653.