Lanters have been in every War, and they are listed in the Veterans Section. In the photo gallery, there is a picture of a Lanter Historical Home, the Lanter Family Cress, Lanter Coat of Arms, Lanter's Star, Lanter Road, and the Lanter Ducking Pond.

If anyone would like to know who their Lanter ancestors are, please email me, and I will see if I have your family information in my files. Email me at: wlanter@hotmail.com

WELCOME TO THE LANTER FAMILY GENEALOGY

"Lanter" - the name originally come from the word Land-Herr, the German word for Land Lord.

There have been three families of Lanters that have immigrated to the USA, from Europe. Thomas and Isabella, were thought to have come in about 1697, through Virginia. Their descendants make up the majority of Lanters in the US today. Dominique Lanter born in 1800 came to the US in 1852, from Herange, France, and settled in Southern Illinois, (French Village, Illinois) Mascoutah, Illinois. August Lanter born in 1862 came to the US in 1882, from Herange, France, and his brothers Joseph and John followed him later. These are the "Belleville, Illinois Lanters".

(The following notes were put together on the Lanter Family by William Gibson Adams, who has done much research on the family.)

The Lanter family most probably began in the Americas in Middlesex County, Virginia. The parish register of Christ's Church located in that county provides the earliest references to the Lanter
family

 

Christ Church

The parish baptismal records show that Thomas and Isabella Lanter had five children (Margaret, Thomas, Mary, John, and Peter) between 1698 and 1709. Peter later lived in Caroline County, Virginia, where he operated a grist mill. A ducking stool was built at Lantor's Pond, where the grist mill was located. The ducking pool was built to provide proper punishment for women who erred in the sight of the law of the Anglican Church.

Caroline County, Virginia.
There is no record of the ducking pool being used, apparently all the Lanter females were obedient to the church law, or shrewd enough not to get caught.  Peter had three sons - Jacob, Peter, and Thomas. They served in the Orange County, Virginia Militia and participated in several battles that took place in Virginia in the Revolutionary War.The three brothers married girls from Orange County after the War. Thomas and  Mary Walker were married on August 28, 1783, by Rev Aaron Bledsoe, a Baptist preacher. Jacob and Peter married sisters. Jacob married Polly Webb on Decmber 20, 1787, and Peter married Hannah Webb on May 31, 1787. Mildred Lanter, a sister of the three men married a John Webb. The daughter of Mildred and John Webb later married Alex Lanter in Madison County, Ky. The Webb family may have had a considerable influence on the Lanter family, at least those among our immediate ancestors. The Webbs were a prominent Orange County family and active Baptists.  They donated the land on which the Blue Run Baptist Church of Orange County was built. Jacob Lanter, Rev Aaron Bledsoe, and Elijah Craig, migrated as a group, to the Sugar Creek area of Garrad County, Kentucky, about 1787. Elijah Craig (Jacob's neighbor) was credited with the discovery of Bourbon, and later became a prominent Kentucky landowner and businessman.

The precise date of the arrival of the Lanter family in Kentucky has not been established.  There was a steady stream of migrants from Orange County into Kentucky from the 1780s into the early 1800s.  Thomas Lanter and his sons were undoubtedly acquainted with many of them.  Some members of the Webb family had acquired land grants in Bourbon County and were there in the early 1790s. Sometime around 1800 Jacob, Peter, and Thomas and John Webb, along with their families, must have traveled the Wilderness Road into Kentucky.  Jacob settled in Harrison County and the Lanters in northern Kentucky are his descendants. Peter was mentioned in an early census of the Montgomery County and later in Garrud County, while Thomas was reported in Harrison, Montgomery, and finally in Madison County.

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