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Born in Billerica on September 27, 1718, Job Lane served with the Bedford Minutemen under Captain Jonathan Wilson and was severely wounded on April 19, 1775 when a musket ball entered his side and lodged in his hip during the British retreat, somewhere between Meriam\u2019s Corner<\/a>, Concord<\/a> and Fiske Hill<\/a>, Lexington<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lame for the remainder of his life, Lane was pensioned by the government and received special compensation from the Town of Bedford<\/a> including an abatement on his poll rates for every year since the war began and fourteen pounds for his military service.<\/p>\n

Lane\u2019s monument is prominently sited in Bedford\u2019s Old Burying Ground<\/a>. The inscription reads:<\/p>\n

TO KEEP IN REMEMBRANCE
\nTHE PATRIOTIC SERVICE OF
\nJOB LANE
\n1718 \u2013 1796
\nSon of Job Lane and Martha Ruggles
\nA PROVINCIAL MILITIAMAN
\nOF BEDFORD
\nWHO WAS WOUNDED IN
\nCONCORD FIGHT APR. 19, 1775.
\nThis stone is placed here by his descendants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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