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Genealogical, Historical
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Biographical
EDITED BY
WILLIAM MONTGOMERY CLEMENS
VOLUMES ONE AND TWO
SIX NUMBERS
JANUARY 1916, TO APRIL 1917
WILLIAM M. CLEMENS
PUBLISHER
NEW YORK
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PRINCIPAL CONTENTS
Page
Benjamin Lincoln of Hingham, Mass 45
Connecticut Lincoln Families 89
Connecticut Marriages 25-87
Damon's Lincoln Sermon 49-65
Keene, N. H., Families 29
Lincoln, Abraham's Pedigree 4
Lincolns in the Revolution 60
Lincolns of Tennessee 7-17-33-56
Lincoln Lines of Descent 16-32
Maine Lincoln Families 21
Maine Marriages 64
Mary Todd Lincoln 84
Massachusetts Marriages 14-30-39-74-90
New York Marriages 23
Ohio Marriages 86
Pennsylvania Marriages 55
Rhode Island Marriages 58
Thomas Lincoln of Hingham, Mass 73-81
Vol. I JANUARY, 1916 No. 1
The
LINCOLN FAMILY
Magazine
Genealogical, Historical and Biographical
Edited by William Montgomery Clemens
Published Quarterly Two Dollars per Year
Single Copies Fifty Cents
WILLIAM M. CLEMENS
PUBLISHER
56 & 58 Pine Street New York City, N. Y.
CONTENTS.
The Name of Lincoln Page 1
An Early Lincoln Letter 2
The Abraham Lincoln Pedigree 4
The Lincoln Governors 5
Thomas Lincoln, the father of Abraham Lincoln . . 6
The Lincolns of Tennessee 7
Will of Isaac Lincoln 10
Will of Mary Lincoln 11
Early Massachusetts Marriages 14
Brief Lincoln Lines of Descent 16
The Lincoln Family
MAGAZINE
JANUARY. 1916
THE NAME OF LINCOLN.
The town of Hingham in Massachusetts is the vir-
ginal home of all the Lincolns in America. From the
pioneers of Hingham all the Colonial families of Lincoln
are descended and from County Norfolk in old England
came the American pioneers.
The variants of the name — Linkhorn, Linkon, Lincon
and Linkehorne were common in Hingham, England, just
as they became common in the early New England settle-
ments.
To one of the Hingham pioneers the ancestry of the
Great Abraham has been traced, much more satisfactorily
in the earlier stages than in the later, for the generations
of Lincolns from 1750 to 1850, as applied to the martyred
president, have never been fully detailed, nor have all the
facts and data been fully known.
Of Lincoln genealogies, good, bad and indifferent,
there have been published seven or eight volumes from the
seven paged lineage by Shackford to the 212 paged book
by Lea and Hutchinson, but there remains much that is
vague and obscure.
The Lincoln Family Magazine will endeavor to pre-
serve from the records of the past, the essentials in Lin-
coln history, biography and genealogy and will present
many new and valuable facts, not only as regards the family
of Abraham Lincoln, but of the other Lincoln families in
this country, whose descendants number many thousand.
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In addition to historical and biographical facts and
data, we purpose to print in forthcoming issues of this
small magazine, not only wills, deeds, birth and death
records, but as nearly as possible, a most complete register
of all the Lincoln marriages in America, for from the mar-
riage root all genealogical trees are grown.
In this initial issue we give some new and highly in-
teresting facts concerning the immediate relatives of
Abraham Lincoln, who were among the early pioneers of
Tennessee, and in future numbers, equally valuable and
heretofore unpublished material will be presented. To
the descendants of the Lincolns in America and to the
lovers of Lincoln literature The Lincoln Family Maga-
zine will endeavor to make a place for itself, at once perma-
nent and authoritative.
AN EARLY LINCOLN LETTER.
Before he was president of the United States, Abra-
ham Lincoln wrote a genealogical letter to a relative in the
South, which will prove of great value to members of the
Lincoln family and to the public generally.
This letter was written by President Lincoln to David
Lincoln, of Virginia, the original of which is in possession
of Prof. Abraham Lucius Lincoln, of Elton College, North
Carolina.
"Washington. April 2. 1848
"Dear Sir: —
"Last evening I was much gratified by receiving and
reading your letter of the 30th of March. There is no
longer any doubt that your uncle Abraham, and my
grandfather was the same man. His family did reside in
Washington County, Kentucky, just as you say you
found them in 1801 or 1802. The oldest son. Uncle
Mordecai, near twenty years ago, removed from Kentucky
to Hancock County, Illinois, where within a year or two
afterwards he died, and where his surviving children now
Hve. His two sons there now are Abraham and Mordecai,
and their post office is 'LaHarp.'
"Uncle Josiah, further back than my recollection,
went from Kentucky to Blue River, Indiana. I have not
heard from him in a great many years, and whether he is
still living, I cannot say. My recollection of what I have
heard is, that he has several daughters and only one son,
Thomas. Their post office is 'Corydon,' Harrison Coun-
ty, Indiana.
"My father, Thomas, is still living in Coles County,
Ills., being in the seventy-first year of his age. His post
office is Charleston, Coles County, Ills. 1 am his only
child. I am in my fortieth year, and live in Springfield,
Sangamon County, Ills. This is the outline of my grand-
father's family in the west.
"I think that my father has told me that grand-
father had four brothers, Isaac, Jacob, John and Thomas.
Is this correct? And which of them was your father?
Are any of them alive? I am quite sure that Isaac re-
sided on the Watauga, near a point where Tennessee and
Virginia join, and that he has been dead more than twenty,
perhaps 30 years. Also that Thomas removed to Ken-
tucky, near Lexington, where he died a good while ago.
"What was your grandfather's christian name? Was
he or not a Quaker? About what time did he emigrate
from Berks County, Pennsylvania to Virginia. Do you
know anything of your family (or rather I may now say
our family) further back than your grandfather?
"If it be not too much trouble to you, I shall be much
pleased to hear from you again. Be assured that I will
call on you should anything ever bring me near you. I
shall give your respects to Governor McDowell, if you
desire. "Very truly yours,
(Signed) A. Lincoln."
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THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN PEDIGREE.
I.
Samuel Lincoln, of Norfolk Co., England, came to
Massachusetts in 1637, at the age of 18 years. His
brother, Thomas, preceded him about 1633 and settled in
Hingham.
Samuel married Martha , and had issue
ten children, among them Samuel, through whom came
the governors, Levi Lincoln, father and son of Massa-
chusetts, and Enoch Lincoln, governor of Maine. The
fourth son Mordecai Lincoln was born at Hingham, Mass.,
17 June, 1657.
II.
Mordecai Lincoln married at Hull, Sarah Jones,
daughter of Abraham and Sarah (Whitman) Jones. They
removed to Scituate about 1704. Their children were:
Mordecai, Jr., born 24 April, 1686.
Abraham, born 13 January, 1689.
Isaac, born 21 October, 1691.
Sarah, born 29 July, 1694.
Elizabeth,
Jacob, by a second wife.
Mordecai, Jr., and Abraham removed to Monmouth,
Co., N. J.
III.
Mordecai Lincoln, Jr., married Hannah Salter,
daughter of Richard and Sarah (Bowne) Salter, of Free-
hold, Monmouth Co., N. J., prior to 14 September, 1714.
His will is dated Springfield, Chester Co., Pa., 15 April,
1745. He left issue:
John Hannah
Mordecai Mary
Thomas Ann
Sarah
IV.
John Lincoln, eldest son of Mordecai and Hannah,
removed to Augusta Co, Virginia, about 1758, where he
married Moore. They had children, John,
Thomas, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and several daughters.
V.
Abraham Lincoln, son of John, married Mary Ship-
ley-,- of North Carolina. They had issue:
Mordecai Nancy
Josiah Mary
Thomas
VI.
Thomas Lincoln, son of Abraham, married Nancy
Hanks near Springfield, Ky. 23 September 1806, and
had Abraham Lincoln, born 12 February, 1809, the future
president of the United States
The foregoing facts taken from the New England
Historical and Genealogical Register for April 1887, com-
prise the known data, regarding the ancestry of Abraham
Lincoln.
THE LINCOLN GOVERNORS.
Levi Lincoln, of Boston, the governor of the Common-
wealth of Massachusetts, was the son of the previous
governor, Levi Lincoln, and was lieutenant governor when
Governor Sullivan died, thereby becoming governor.
Governor Levi Lincoln, the elder, died at Worcester, April
14, 1820, aged 71. His widow, Martha, died at the same
place, April, 1828, and was followed to the grave by two
sons, both of them governors — Levi, Governor of Mass-
achusetts, and Enoch, Governor of Maine. There is prob-
ably no instance on record where a mother, and she the
widow of a governor, has been followed to the grave by two
sons, themselves then governors of two States in our Union.
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THOMAS LINCOLN.
The Father of Abraham Lincoln
In 1782, Abraham Lincoln the grandfather of the
16th president of the United States, migrated from Vir-
ginia to Mercer Co., Ky., (then a part of the original state
of Virginia). He entered a tract of 400 acres of land on
the south side of Licking creek, under a government
land-warrant, and built a log-cabin, near Fort Beargrass,
on the site now occupied by the city of Louisville. In the
second year of this settlement, Abraham Lincoln, while at
work in his field, was slain by an Indian from an ambush.
Thomas, the younger of the brothers, was seized by the
savages, but was rescued by Mordecai, the elder brother,
who shot and killed the Indian.
Of his father, Thomas, the president subsequently
said: "My father, at the time of the death of his father,
was but six years old, and he grew up literally without
education." Thomas Lincoln was a tall and stalwart
pioneer, and an expert hunter. While a lad, he hired him-
self to his uncle, Isaac Lincoln, living on Watauga creek,
a branch of the Holson river, in Tennessee. He married
Nancy Hanks, 23 September, 1806, and settled in Larue
county, Ky. They had three children: Sarah, Abraham
and Thomas. Sarah married Aaron Grigsby and died in
middle life. Thomas, who was two years younger than
Abraham, died in infancy. In 1816 the Lincoln family
removed to Spencer county, Ind., where they built and
lived in a log-cabin, where Mrs. Lincoln died October 5,
1818, at the age of thirty-five. In the autumn of the fol-
lowing year Thomas Lincoln married for his second wife,
Mrs. Sally Johnson (nee Bush). The family moved once
more, in 1830, this time to Illinois, where they built another
log-cabin, near Decatur, Macon Co. After assisting his
father to build the cabin, split rails, and fence and plough
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fifteen acres of land, Abraham Lincoln struck out for him-
self, hiring himself to any who needed manual labor. His
father finally settled in Goose-Nest Prairie, Coles Co.,
111., where he died in 1851, at the age of seventy-three.
THE LINCOLNS OF TENNESSEE.
A descendant of the Tennessee Lincolns, writing under
date of May 1915, furnishes the following: "1 am sending
you copies of the wills of Isaac and Mary Lincoln of Ten-
nessee. My great-grandmother was Louise Carrigers
(nee Ward) whose sister Mary Ward married Isaac Lin-
coln, great uncle of President Lincoln. Thomas Lincoln,
father of Abraham, worked as a farm hand for his uncle,
Isaac.
"My grandmother's sister, Mary Lincoln Carriger
was named for her aunt, Mary. In her will Mary Ward
Lincoln gave ten negro slaves to my great-grandfather
Christian Carriger, who was well to do, and did not need
them. She gave all her remaining property to her
nephew, William Stover (son of her sister, Phoebe Ward)
and Daniel Stover, when poor "Abe" was so very poor and
needy. Would it not have changed the history of these
United States if Abraham Lincoln had only received what
was bequeathed to William Stover. Perhaps Abraham
Lincoln was predestined to be poor as was his father before
him. Had he been made the heir of Aunt Mary Lincoln,
perhaps the illustrious Abraham would not have strug-
gled in proverty, and would never have amounted to 'a
row of pins,' Had Thomas Lincoln remained in the em-
ploy of his uncle Isaac how different his life would have
been."
The name Carriger was originally spelled Kercher.
The Carrigers came from Pennsylvania to Tennessee.
Christian Carriger represented Carter County for fourteen
years in the State Legislature. He removed to Missouri,
and died en route to California. He has numerous grand-
children now living on the Pacific coast. The Thomas A.
R. Nelson, mentioned in Mary Lincoln's will was a brother
of James White Nelson, who married Elizabeth Carriger.
In a country graveyard in the beautiful Watauga
Valley, in Carter County, Tennessee, there are two graves,
the tombstones of which bear the following inscriptions,
viz.: —
Sacred
to the memory of
Isaac Lincoln
who departed this life June the 10th,
1816,
Age about 64 years
Sacred
to the memory of
Mary Lincoln
who departed this life August 27, 1834,
Age about 76 years
"The Isaac Lincoln, mentioned here, was the great
uncle of Abraham Lincoln. Isaac Lincoln and Daniel
Stover, Sr., married sisters, their maiden names being
Ward. To the union of Isaac and Mary Lincoln no chil-
dren were born, but to Daniel Stover and wife several
children were born, and one of these, named William
Stover, lived with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Lin-
coln, and inherited their estate, which consisted of four
fine farms in the Watauga valley and a large number of
slaves and other property.
"William Stover's son, Col. Dan Stover, married a
daughter of the late President Andrew Johnson, and a son
of Col. Dan Stover. Andrew Johnson Stover, who now
lives in Carter County, Tennessee, and Hon. Andrew
Johnson Patterson, of Greenville, Tennessee, are the only
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living grandsons of Andrew Johnson. It was here at the
Stover farm that Andrew Johnson, while on a visit to his
daughter, Mrs. Daniel Stover, died, July 31, 1875.
"It was also at the Stover farm, when it was the prop-
erty of Isaac and Mary Lincoln, that Thomas Lincoln, the
father of Abraham Lincoln, worked for a while as a farm-
hand for his Uncle Isaac. (See Holland's Lije of Lin-
coln, and Nicolay and Hay's Lije of Lincoln.)
"Tradition says that it was here, in the beautiful
Watauga Valley, so rich in history, that the young Thomas
Lincoln first met and wooed the gentle Nancy Hanks,
whose name was destined to become immortal through the
achievements of her illustrious son. Tradition further
says that for a while before Thomas Lincoln and Nancy
Hanks left for Kentucky they lived for a time together
as common law husband and wife in a little cabin on Lynn
Mountain, which overlooks the Watauga Valley. I have
been informed that old people in that vicinity still recall
the site of what was known as the Tom Lincoln cabin, and
traces of the spot where the cabin stood still remain in the
way of stone foundations.
"It is also the tradition in that vicinity that when
Thomas Lincoln, Nancy Hanks and other members of the
Hanks family left for Kentucky they went by what was
then and now known as the Stony Creek trail. Thomas
Lincoln and Nancy Hanks were legally married in Ken-
tucky.
"It seems a little singular that the life of Andrew
Johnson in a way should be interwoven with the name of
Lincoln, whom he succeeded as President of the United
States. When he married Miss Eliza McCardle, at Green-
ville, Tenn., it was Squire Mordecai Lincoln, a relative of
Abraham Lincoln, who performed the ceremony. His
daughter, Mary, married Col. Dan Stover, the great-
nephew of Isaac Lincoln.
"There is no spot on American soil more historic than
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the Watauga Valley. It was here that the Watauga as-
sociation set up the first free and independent government
upon the continent. It was here that King's Mountain
boys gathered from the valleys and hills to go and fight
one of the decisive battles of the American revolution.
"If tradition be true, it was here that the father of
Abraham Lincoln first met Nancy Hanks. It was here
that Andrew Johnson died. It was in Carter county that
Admiral S. P. Carter was born. It was here that the be-
loved Robert L. Taylor learned his first lessons in elo-
quence and patriotism. It is a country of exquisite vales
and majestic mountains, where the people have the in-
dependence of the eagle and the courage of mountain lions.
The Will of Isaac Lincoln.
In the name of God Amen. I, Isaac Lincoln of the
County of Carter and State of Tennessee being sick and
weak of body, but of sound mind and disposing memory,
(for which I thank God) and calling to mind the uncer-
tainty of human life, and being desirous to dispose of all
such worldly substance as it hath pleased God to bless me
with, I give, devise and bequeath the same in manner fol-
lowing, that is to say
1st. I desire that all my just debts and funeral ex-
penses be paid out of my perishable property, by my
Executrix herein after named.
2ndly. After the payment of my debts and funeral
expenses, I give, devise and bequeath to my wife, Mary
Lincoln, all my real and personal estate to dispose of as
she may think proper.
3rdly and lastly, I do hereby constitute and appoint
my beloved wife, Mary Lincoln, my sole executrix of this
my last will and testament, hereby revoking all others or
former wills or testaments, by me heretofore made, in wit-
ness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this the
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22nd day of April in the year of our Lord One Thousand
Eight Hundred and Sixteen.
Signed, sealed, published and declared to be the last
"will and Testament of the above named Isaac Lincoln
in the presence of us, who at his request and in his presence
have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses to same.
(Signed) Isaac Lincoln
Ceo. W. Carter
Godfrey Carriger
Daniel Stover
Christian Carriger
Will of Mary Lincoln.
I, Mary Lincoln, of the County of Carter and State
of Tennessee being of sound mind and memory, though
■weak of body, and being anxious to dispose of such worldly
property as my Creator has blessed me with, do hereby
make, ordain and establish this as my last will and Testa-
ment, I give my soul to God who created it, hoping that He
■will receive and bless me in a world of happiness hereafter;
and when I shall have departed this life, I desire that my
■executor hereinafter named shall give my body a decent
and christian burial.
First. I will, give, devise and bequeath to Campbell
Crow, the lower plantation, it being the one on which he
now lives, adjoining the lands of Alfred M. Carter on the
west and south and of John Carriger on the east.
Second. I will, give and bequeath to Phoebe Crow,
wife of Campbell Crow my negro girl Margaret, and her
four children to-wit, Lucy, Mina, Martin and Mahala.
Third. I will, give, devise and bequeath to William
Stover the plantation on which I now live with all the
hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging,
the said plantation supposed to be composed of two dif-
ferent parcels and adjoining John Carriger's home planta-
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tion and believed also to adjoin the land of Alfred M.
Carter on the south and bounded on the east and north by
Watauga River.
I give the said plantation to the said William Stover
to have, hold and enjoy during his life and at his death to
descend to his heirs.
Fourth. I will, give and bequeath to William Stover
the following negroes, to-wit: Patsy (a negro girl) and her
two children, Cynthia and Landon; also negro woman
Jane and her two children, Sam and Tom; also negro
woman, Mary and her six children, to-wit; Elizabeth,
Campbell, Margaret, Charlotte, Delphy, and Bill; also
Caesar and Lucy, who I desire the said William Stover to
permit to remain during their lives on the plantation which
I have hereinbefore bequeathed to him. It is my will that
the said Stover so long as the said Caesar and Lucy con-
tinue to live shall clothe and support them. I also give
and bequeath to the said William Stover three other ne-
groes, to-wit; George, Phoebe, Eliza, children of Lucy,
whom I wish the said William Stover to permit to remain
on the home plantation that they may take care of the
aforesaid negroes, Caesar and Lucy, during their lives.
I also give and bequeath the following other negroes
to the said William Stover, to-wit: Esther, and her seven
children, that is to say Lavisa, Violet, Juba, Lucinda, Mary,
Lewis and Phoebe. I also give and bequeath to the said
William Stover two other negroes to-wit: William and
Isaac, children of Lucy.
Fifth. I also give, devise and bequeath to the said
William Stover all my horses, cattle, hogs and sheep, my
wagon, all my farming utensils, my household and kitchen
furniture and all the debts, dues and demands which may
be owing to me at the time of my decease.
Sixth. I also, will, give and bequeath to Campbell
Crow my interest in any crop which he may have attended
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for himself upon my land, or which he may be attending
for himself upon my land at the time of my decease.
Seventh. I also will, give and bequeath to William
Stover, all the grain of every description which I own at
the time of my death.
Eighth. I will, give and devise and bequeath to
Christian Carriger, Senior, the following negroes, to-wit:
negro woman, Lettie and five of her children, to-wit:
Christy, Tennessee, Mordecai, Nathaniel and also said
Letty's youngest child.
Ninth. I will, give and devise to Mary Lincoln Car-
riger, daughter of Christian Carriger, Senior, three negro
girls, children of Letty, to-wit; Sarah, Saraphina and Ann.
Tenth. I will, devise, give and bequeath to
William Stover all other real and personal estate, not here-
inbefore specially named of which I may be possessed or
the owner at the said time of my decease.
Eleventh. I require the said William Stover out of
the estate herein bequeathed to him, to pay and discharge
all of the honest debts or claims which I may be owing or
which may be against me at the time of my death.
Lastly. I do hereby constitute, nominate and appoint
the said William Stover, the Executor of this my last will
and testament, and it is any will that the said William
Stover be not required to give my security for the discharge
of his duties as executor of this my last will and testament.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and seal this the 27th day of April in the year of our Lord
One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-four.
her
Mary X Lincoln (Seal)
mark
Signed, sealed and acknowledged in the presence of
Thos. A. R. Nelson.
A. M. Carter. A. W. Taylor
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EARLY MASSACHUSSETTS MARRIAGES.
(From Original Records.)
Lincoln, Abial, Jr., and Hannah Wetherell, 5 April, 1770,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Abial, Jr., and Lois Smith, 22 January, 1778,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Abial, Jr., and Anna Smith, 10 December, 1795,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Abiathar and Mary Bebbit, 24 August, 1 783,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Abigail and Thomas Deaman, 21 November, 1804,
Warren, Mass.
Lincoln, Abigail and Abiezer Field, 16 May, 1784, Norton,
Mass.
Lincoln, Abigial and Mathew Lincoln, 1 November, 1725,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Abigail and Ephriam Tucker, 25 March, 1779,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Abijah and Lydia White, 5 November, 1787,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Abner and Rebecca Smith, 8 May, 1808, Oakham,
Mass.
Lincoln, Abner and Nancy C. Wheeler, 22 October, 1850
New Salem, Mass.
Lincoln, Abner and Zerviah Eddy, 5 November, 1795,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Adeline and Daniel Treadwell, 6 October, 1831,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Alanson and Laura Graves, 9 September, 1818,
Athol, Mass.
Lincoln, Albert W. and Mary A. Blair, 17 November,
1841, Palmer, Mass.
Lincoln, Alonzo and Elizabeth M. Dean, 2 April, 1837,
Oakham, Mass.
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Lincoln, Amasa and Betsy Liscomb, 16 September, 1786,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Amasa W. and Mary C. Paige, 10 June, 1845,
Barre, Mass.
Lincoln, Amasa and Susan Wilbur, 7 December, 1841,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Amasa and Susan Fisher, 14 December, 1837,
Templeton, Mass.
Lincoln, Ambrose, Jr., and Loas Smith, 26 January, 1783,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Amity and Isaac Woodward, 30 September, 1825,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Amity and Jonathan J. Standley, 29 March, 1842,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Amos and Elizabeth Reveere, 24 May, 1797,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Amos and Martha Robb, 4 July, 1805, Boston,
Mass.
Lincoln, Ann M. and Alden B. Chaffee, 30 November
1846, Warren, Mass.
Lincoln, Anna and William Moor, 9 December, 1806,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Anna and Charles C. Phipps, 14 October, 1810,
Waltham, Mass.
Lincoln, Anna B. and John Binney, 10 April, 1839, Wey-
mouth, Mass.
Lincoln, Anne and Calvin S. Locke, 6 June, 1865, North-
boro, Mass.
Lincoln, Annis A. and Nancy Arnold, 18 May, 1826,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, ApoUos R. and Lois R. Daggett, 1 June, 1833,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Asa and Esther Miller, 9 February, 1788, Warren,
Mass.
(To be continued.)
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BRIEF LINCOLN LINES OF DESCENT.
Stephen Lincoln, born Rehoboth, Mass., 1751, died
Oakham, Mass., 1840, married Lydia Foster.
Lydia Lincoln, daughter of Stephen, married Adin
Davis.
Nathaniel Lincoln, born Taunton, Mass., 1744, died
1809, married Ruth Delanor.
Lemuel Lincoln, son of Nathaniel, married Mary
McEntyre.
Lemuel Rixford Lincoln, son of Lemuel, married
Louisa de la Cave Marchand.
Lemuel L. Lincoln, son of L. R. L., married Adrienne
Hellwin.
Mary Lincoln, daughter of L. L. L., married Otto Fur-
binger.
Joseph Lincoln, born Massachusetts, 1753, died 1816,
married Susannah Marsh.
Joseph Lincoln, son of Joseph L., married Anne Lamb.
Albert Lamb, son of J. L., married Ann Eliza Stoddard
Annie Lamb Lincoln, daughter of A. L. L., married
Ariel Boyden Crocker.
Benjamin Lincoln, born Hingham, Mass., 1733, died
there 1810, married Mary Gushing.
Theodore Lincoln, son of Benjamin, married Hannah
Mayhew.
Hannah Lincoln, daughter of Theodore, married
Ichabod R. Chadbourne.
James Lincoln, born Hingham, Mass., 1731, died
there 1804, married Susanna Humphrey.
Perez Lincoln, son of James, married Deborah Loring.
Susanna Lincoln, daughter of Perez, married David
P. Rowe.
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56 & 58 Pine Street New York City, N. Y.
CONTENTS
The Tennessee Lincolns Page 1 7
Burials at Albany, Vt
The Lincolns of Maine
New York Marriages
Boston in 1 789
Mrs. Lincoln's Letter
From a Lincoln Bible
Connecticut Marriages
Lincoln's Stepmother
Family Notes
A Lincoln -Boone Marriage
Keene, N. H., Families
Early Massachusetts Marriages .
Little Tad Lincoln
Connecticut Old Folks
Brief Lines of Descent
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The Lincoln Family
MAGAZINE
APRIL. 1916
THE TENNESSEE LINCOLNS
(Contributed by a Lincoln Descendant)
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Isaac Lincoln, grand uncle of Abraham Lincoln,
lived in Carter County, on the Watauga River, about
four miles east of Elizabethton, Tenn. Mr. Lincoln's wife
was Miss Mary Ward, who came of a splendid family.
There was born to them one child, a son, who was drowned
when only a few years old. Isaac Lincoln maintained a
sugar camp on his farm, not far from his home. The
little boy started to the camp and was lost. A rain storm
came up, and when the child was found, he was lying
face down in a pool of water, dead! He had fallen into
the water and drowned!
Mr, and Mrs. Lincoln then took William Stover,
son of Phoebe Ward (sister of Mrs. Lincoln), who had
married Daniel Stover, and reared William as their own
child. They also reared Phoebe Williams, daughter of
Mordecai Williams and Elizabeth Stover. William Stover
inherited most of their property. Phoebe WiUiams and
her husband, Campbell Crowe, also inherited a goodly
share. Mrs. Mary Ward Lincoln also remembered her
brother-in-law. Christian Carriger, who had married her
sister Levis Ward, quite generously by willing him some
slaves. She also remembered her namesake, Mary
Lincoln Carriger, daughter of Christian Carriger and
Levisa (Ward) Carriger, giving her several slaves.
Mrs. WiUiam Stover nursed Mrs. Mary Ward Lin-
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coin during her last illness. Mrs. Lincoln died of a cancer
of the breast. Mrs. Stover said Isaac Lincoln was pretty
"close," and used to dress in home-made flax suits, with
a hat band of old tow string. He used to keep his money
in a secret drawer under the bottom of a large chest. He
never seemed to count his money, but just packed it
away. Mrs. Stover gave the old chest to a girl who
lived with her. Mrs. Mary Ward Lincoln was a widow
when she married Isaac Lincoln and was considered
wealthy. Most of the money came by her. Some say
her first husband was a Mr. Beshears.
It is stated that Isaac Lincoln owned land in Mitchell
County, N. Car., known as "Old Fields of Tow." Col.
Dan Stover and Dr. Murray Stover sons of William
Stover, used to go to that section to look after the lands
inherited from their great uncle, Isaac Lincoln. Also,
Isaac Lincoln owned land near Flag Pond Station, and in
Carter County. There are traditions that Thomas
Lincoln lived on the Isaac Lincoln farm, and some be-
lieve that Abraham (later president of the United States)
was born here, but that cannot be established. All of
the older Carrigers believed that Thomas Lincoln lived
here. The Carrigers were in a position to know a great
deal about the Lincolns, because the two families were on
very intimate terms, owned land joining each other, and
Christian Carriger and Isaac Lincoln married sisters.
Dr. Nat. E. Hyder, who was well informed about
our early history, but who has been dead many years, be-
lieved that Abraham Lincoln was born in Tennessee.
Dr. Hyder said that Thomas Lincoln lived in a cabin on
the Isaac Lincoln farm with his wife, Nancy Hanks
Lincoln, and that they left this section for Kentucky.
Dr. Hyder stated that an old man of the name of Lewis
has told him many years ago that he was living on Stony
Creek, a young man, when Thomas and Nancy Hanks
Lincoln left this section for Kentucky, and that they
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went by Stony Creek trail, and that Abe was a little
babe in his mother's arms.
John J. Morrell's mother used to live with Mrs.
Mary Ward Lincoln when she was a little girl. Old
people used to say they had seen the cabin in which
Thomas Lincoln lived. Solomon Stover, a brother of
William Stover, remembered the old cabin. There was a
saying in the Carriger and Stover families, that Thomas
Lincoln lived on Isaac Lincoln's farm, but that Thomas
was a shiftless fellow, and he and Isaac could not get
along. There is a story to the effect that Tom Lincoln
and his wife Nancy Hanks Lincoln came to Tennessee
with Johnathan Hampton, a horse trader.
Isaac Lincoln lived in a large log house, which has
long since disappeared. David Lincoln Stover, son of
WilHam Stover, built a large frame house near the site
of the old Lincoln home. This house still stands. People
who are living now remember seeing the old cellar of
the old Lincoln house. It was walled with Hmestone
rock. After Isaac Lincoln's death, the negroes dug all
around over the old place, looking for money, and some
was found. Isaac Lincoln seems to have been a modest
man who attended strictly to his own business, and stayed
near his own home, and only went on business trips to
his various farms and lands. Isaac Lincoln war of a
retiring disposition, and did not mix much in poHtics,
and that is the reason we know so little of his life and
works. He met with congenial companions in his
brothers-in-law, the Carrigers, as they were of the same
modest retiring dispositon, shunning the limelight, and
giving their attention to agriculture and the manufacture
of iron, and not mixing in politics, although Isaac Lincoln's
brother-in-law. Christian Carriger, represented Carter
County for many years in the State Legislature, and his
brother Godfrey Carriger, Jr., was County Register
from 1796 to 1827, the year of his death. The Carrigers
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had grants for land. I do not know how Isaac Lincoln
obtained his lands, whether by grants or whether he
bought the land. Isaac Lincoln, the Wards, Stovers
and Carrigers were refined and cultured people. Some
of the descendants speak now of the great culture and
refinement of the older members of these families.
As to the religion of Isaac and Mary Ward Lincoln
1 have been unable to find out their religious convictions.
Evidently Isaac Lincoln's wife, Mary, was a Baptist, as
we have record that her sisters, Mrs. Daniel Stover and
Mrs. Christian Carriger were Missionary Baptists.
Christian Carriger was a Lutheran, but no doubt affiliated
with ths Baptists as his wife was a Baptist. Daniel
Stover, the brother-in-law of Isaac Lincoln was an active
Baptist and his home was an assembling place for the
Baptist ministers. He possessed a Bible, and there were
but few Bibles in those days, and the Baptist clans
would gather to hear him read the Word. Mrs. Nancy
Tipton Johnson, who died several years ago, and was
near eighty years of age, said that as a girl she often
went to Daniel Stover's home to preaching, and at times
they would often build arbors to preach under. There
is no doubt that the Baptists were pioneers here and were
hunting a place where they could worship without moles-
tation. Daniel Stover's son, William, the heir of Mary
Ward Lincoln, after his marriage with Miss Sarah Murray
Drake, affiUated with the Presbyterians.
M. 0. McM.
(To be coatinued)
BURIALS AT ALBANY, VERMONT
Lincoln, Samuel, son of Samuel Lincoln and Mary P.
Vance, died 24 September, 1857.
Infant daughter died 2 August, 1860.
Mary P. Vance, wife of Samuel Lincoln, born 13
May. 1822. died 10 July, 1860.
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THE LINCOLNS OF MAINE
(By W. L. Lowell)
The Lincolns are descendants of Stephen, who with
wife and child, Stephen, came to New England in 1638, and
settled in Hingham, Mass. Stephen's wife Margaret
died in Hingham, 13 June, 1642. Stephen died 11 Octo-
ber, 1658. Nearly all in America by name of Lincoln
came from the Hingham branch.
Welcome Lincoln, a farmer of Hingham, born 6
November, 1729, married 11 November, 1754, Sara Gill
daughter of Thomas and Sara Hanker Gill. She was
born at Hingham, February, 1735, and died there 29
October, 1802. He died 25 June, 1814, aged 84 years.
Moses, son of Sara and Welcome Lincoln, born
27 January, 1762, married, 31 March, 1788, Sara,
daughter of Capt. Theo. Wilder, and they moved to
Perry, Me., where he died 28 September, 1850, aged 89,
His brother, Jacob, born 19 Mairch, 1767, moved to
Eastport, Me. Their descendnnts are now living in
towns of Perry and Dennysville, Me.
Eben, a brother of Moses, born in Hingham, 20 March,
1775, married 28 October, 1798, to Elizabeth Hersey,
daughter of Peleg and Lucy Holbrook Hersey of Hing-
ham. He resided in Bath, Me., where he died in 1852.
She died 31 May, 1846, aged 67 years.
Abner Lincoln of Hingham, born 17 July, 1766,
married Hannah, daughter of Gen. Benj. and Mary Gush-
ing Lincoln, 9 May, 1791. She was born 26 October, 1773,
and died in Boston, 1828. He died 13 January, 1826.
Elizabeth Lincoln, a daughter, born 17 May, 1800,
married Theodore Lincoln of Dennysville, Me., 6 Septem-
ber, 1823, and their descendants are living there now.
7adock Lincoln, son of Samuel and Mary Bates, of
Scituate and Hingham, born 18 December, 1744, moved
to Bath, Me., where he settled. His father Samuel was
a sea captain and died in Hingham, 10 December, 1788.
He had two wives and a large family.
Mary Lincoln, daughter of Herman and Elizabeth
Waterman of Hingham, Mass., born 22 October, 1786,
married in Boston, 8 October, 1811, to Wm. O'Brion of
Machias, Me. She died in Beverly, Mass., 5 April, 1882,
aged 95 years. Her sister, Sally, married Calvin Hayden
of Boston, 27 June, 1790.
Judge Theo. Lincoln of Dennysville, Me., was a
Harvard graduate in 1784, and he built the first house
there in 1787, where he settled.
Capt. Jacob Lincoln of Eastport lived to be over 80
years of age, and was the last of the original settlers of
Eastport; died 1847.
The early settlers of Dennysville, Me., were the Ho-
barts, Kilbys, Heneys, Wilders and Lincolns.
Jacob Lincoln, from Hingham, Mass., settled in
Eastport, Me. He was a brother of Moses. He married
12 March, 1792, Sara Clark and 2nd Mrs. Rebecca Par-
sons of Eastport, 27 September, 1840. He died 14
March, 1850, was a captain in Revolutionary war.
Otis Lincoln, son of Wm. and Mary Otis, and Rachel
Otis of Hingham, was born 17 September, 1768. He
moved to Perry, Me., and had a large family.
Otis 2, married Elizabeth, daughter of Archibald
Thompson, and had ten children, some born in Hingham.
Elizabeth, born 10 August, 1794, married 1st Capt
Samuel Shackford of Eastport, Me. He died in South
America, 31 August, 1820, aged 32 years, leaving a son,
Capt. Samuel Shackford, who went to Chicago in 1853.
His widow married Sylvester Appleby of Eastport, and
died there 28 April, 1 884, in her 95th year. Her father, Otis
Lincoln, died in Perry, Me., 10 October, 1846, aged 83
years.
Jacob Lincoln had a daughter, Mary, who married
Wm. Shackford of Eastport, and had a son Capt. Wm.
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Shackford, who in 1 883, was in charge of Jay Gould's
yacht.
Theodore Lincoln, of Benj. and Mary Gushing of
Hingham, born 30, December, 1763, settled in Dennys-
ville. Me., died there 15 June, 1852; was one of eleven
children.
NEW YORK MARRIAGES
(From Original Records)
Lincoln, Agnes and John Swan, 26 December, 1808
New York Gity.
Lincoln, Ann and George Goodheart, 7 August, 1796,
New York Gity.
Lincoln, Anslem and Hannah Glapp, April, 1832, Malone,
N. Y.
Lincoln, Gatherine and Isaac J. Stagg, 25 April, 1795,
New York Gity.
Lincoln, Henry and Maria AUsavel, 14 July, 1827, Bruns-
wick, N. Y.
Lincoln, Hosea and Ely Garroll, 21 November, 1772,
State Licence.
Lincoln, John and Mary H. Fuller, 18 October, 1870,
Malone, N. Y.
Lincoln, Lydia and Thomas Wilson, 23 December, 1786,
New York Gity.
Lincoln, Rufus P. and Garoline G. Tyler, 20 August,
1869, New York Gity.
Lincoln, Stella A. and Sidney A. Kent, 25 September,
1864, Oswego. N. Y.
Lincoln, Susan and Thomas Harding, 23 January, 1802,
New York Gity.
BOSTON IN 1789
Recorded in the Boston, Mass., Directory, for 1789,
were:
Daniel Lincoln, corflwainer, Fish Street.
Amos Lincoln, housewright. Middle Street.
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MRS. LINCOLN'S LETTER
A letter written by the widow of Abraham Lincoln
was recently sold at auction in New York. It was
written on mourning paper, dated Frankfurt-am-Main,
Germany, 16 December, 1869, and was signed in full
"Mary Lincoln." The letter reads as follows:
"A late London paper published about two days
since announcing that Mrs. Lincoln, the widow of Presi-
dent Lincoln, was soon to be married to the Baden Count —
with an unpronounceable name that I could not attempt
to remember. The same evil spirit is evident again at
work and in the most malignant form too — probably
anticipating that by this time Congress might be turning
their attention to my sad and unfortunate case. In
my indignation last evening, if means had allowed, I
would have sent a telegram to our good friend Col.
Forney that 'Mrs. Lincoln was unacquainted with such
a person,'
FROM A LINCOLN BIBLE
(Contributed)
A resident of North Windham, Conn., is in possession
of an old family Bible containing valuable Lincoln records.
The entries were made by John Linkon (son of Samuel
Linkon and his wife, Ruth Huntington). He was grand-
son of Samuel Linkon and his wife Elizabeth Jacobs.
"John Linkon, born 29 July, 1726, married 1753 to
Rebecca Fenton, buried my wife 26 March, 1758.
Married, 30 May, 1758, to Annah Stoel.
Hannah Linkon born 21 January, 1759.
Jonah and Jerusha were born 1760.
Olive Linkon born 24 June, 1763.
Brother Eleazer Linkon died 13 November, 1754.
My mother, Ruth Linkon, died 26 October, 1757.
Hannah my wife died 3 February, 1791.
John Linkon died the 7th of June, 1810, aged 84."
All entries were made by this John Linkon, except
this last record of his own death.
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The lineage of Ruth Huntington is as follows: Simon
(1) Huntington, born about 1583, married Margaret
Beret, born about 1593; Christopher (2) Huntington
died 1691, married Ruth Rockwell, born August, 1633;
Capt. Thomas H. (3) Huntington, born 18 March, 1664,
died 7 November, 1732, married 10 February, 1686,
Elizabeth Backus, who died 1728; Ruth (4) Huntington,
born 8 August, 1699, married 22 August, 1723, Samuel
Linkon.
CONNECTICUT MARRIAGES
(From Original Records)
Linkham, Hannah and Joseph Russell, 13 May, 1742,
Ashford, Conn.
Lincoln, Jacob and Abigail Mason, 28 April, 1736, Wind*-
ham. Conn.
Linckhorne, Lydia and William Chapman, 1702, New
London, Conn.
Lincoln, Samuel and Elizabeth Jacobs, 2 June, 1692,
Windham, Conn.
Lincoln, Samuel and Ruth Huntington, 22 August, 1 723,
V/indham, Conn.
Linkon, Samuel and Experience Lamb, 14 November,
1729, Norwich, Conn.
Lincoln, Samuel and Mary Austin, 14 March, 1758,
Windham, Conn.
Lincoln, Thomas and Prudence Lamphear, 12 Septem-
ber, 1738, Windsor, Conn.
Lincoln, William W. and Marcia C. Fenton, 24 January,
1864, Mansfield, Conn.
Caleb Lincoln, born Taunton, Mass., 1757, died there
1822, married Marcy Thayer.
Nancy Lincoln, daughter of C. L., married Isaac
Redd.
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LINCOLN'S STEPMOTHER
(Contributed)
Sarah Bush, the stepmother of Abraham Lincoln, was
born in Kentucky about 1785. Little is known of her
early life. Though entirely without education, she
was a woman of strong character, and intelligence. She
was blessed with sterling good sense in an uncommon
degree, and had a wonderful faculty of making the best
and most of everything. Such qualities eminently fitted
her to bring order and comfort into the disorderly and
cheerless home of Thomas Lincoln. She had known him
when a young woman; had indeed, refused his offer of
marriage, and accepted his rival, Johnstone.
After the death of Nancy Hanks, the wife of Thomas
Lincoln, some thirteen months later in fact, the father of
Abraham Lincoln sought out his early love, Sarah Bush
Johnstone, who was still living in Kentucky, a widow,
with three children, and for that time and region in very
good circumstances. He began the siege in this character-
istic fashion:
"Well, Mis' Johnstone, I have no wife, and you have
no husband. I cam on purpose to marry you. I knowed
you from a gal, and you knowed me from a boy. I have
no time to lose, and if you are willing, let it be done
straight off."
She replied that she had no objections to marrying,
but that she was in debt, and must first attend to that
matter. It appears that this was not an affair of diffi-
culty, for on the following day they were married, and
started for his home in Indiana, with a four-horse wagon
containing her property. This wedding journey to hij
distant cabin occupied several days.
Little Abe never forgot the surprising riches and
delight the new mother brought to their wretched home.
For her, also, there was a surprise in store, as her new
home was not what her husband's fancy had painted it
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to her in his wooing. She was not a woman to be lightly
dismayed, and at once set to Work to reform her hus-
band and civilize the household. She persuaded her
husband to replace the earthen floor with one of wood,
and the cabin was gradually made comfortable, and her
husband, shamed into greater industry, provided better
for the wants of his family. Her lot was not an easy one;
the nearest spring of good water was a mile away, and
cleanliness, under such conditions, was a virtue which
must have ranked next to godliness.
It was characteristic of her that, disappointed as
she was at the indolence of her husband, and the poverty
of her new bode, she set herself cheerfully to the task of
making the best of things; and unselfishly devoted her
entire strength of mind and body to making a home, in
the best sense, and to training the children in habits of
self-respecting conduct. At once a strong friendship
sprang up between her and the little Abe, who was igno-
rant, but loving and sweet-tempered. Years only deep-
ened their regard. In after years Abe called her his
"angel of a mother" and said she was the first person to
make him feel like a human being. She died 10 April,
1869.
LINCOLN FAMILY NOTES
William Leavitt Lincoln, born West Townsend, Mass.,
5 August, 1824, died 29 November, 1889. He was a phy-
sician, and graduated from Harvard in 1852.
William C. Lincoln, born Philadelphia, 14 June, 1845,
died Fergus Falls, Minn., 26 February, 1908. He served
in the Civil War.
Isaac Lincoln, born Barnstable, Mass., 17 January,
1823, settled in Minnesota in 1856.
David Lincoln, of Allegheny Co., Penn., married
Thankful Vickery. Their children were Jane, Rachel,
Lucy, Martha, Nathan, William, Cyrus and Almira. The
latter was born 20 May, 1823.
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A LINCOLN-BOONE MARRIAGE
(From Quaker Records)
Sarah Lincoln, wife of William Boone, the New
Jersey Quaker, was born in 1723. She was a daughter of
Mordecai Lincoln, who died in 1736, and Mary Robinson.
She had a younger brother, Mordecai, and another,
Abraham, whose wife was Anne Boone, daughter of
James Boone. She also had an elder half brother, John
Lincoln, and he was the great-grandfather of President
Lincoln, through his son, Abraham, and his grandson,
Thomas.
Sarah Lincoln appears not to have been a member
with Friends by birth, but was received in 1747. In
1748 she married William Boone. Their daughter Abigail,
born 28 May, 1767, married Adin Pancoast (married at
Exeter) son of John and Mary Pancoast, of Mansfield Town-
ship, New Jersey.
The Pancoasts appear to have been members of
Burlington Monthly Meeting, New Jersey, as Abbie's
certificate, after marriage, was sent to that meeting.
In 1769 William Boone and wife, with their children
Mordecai, William, Mary, George, Thomas, Jeremiah
and Hezekiah, moved to Fairfax Meeting, Virginia.
It has always been understood from Friends that
the Boones of Exeter were all descendants of Squire
Boone, brother of Daniel.
The names of Abraham and Mordecai Lincoln
appear among the signers as witnesses of marriage of
Adin Pancoast and Abigail Boone.
David Lincoln, born Hingham, Mass., 1734, died
there 1814, married Eliz. Fearing.
David Lincoln, son of D. L., married Lucy Felton.
David Lincoln, son of D. L., 2nd, married Hannah
Souther.
Mary Wallace Lincoln, daughter of D. L., 2nd, married
Dr. Franklin Nickerson.
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KEENE. N. H., FAMILIES
(From Vital Statistics)
Children of Daniel and Pedy Lincoln:
Pedy, born 6 March, 1786.
Daniel, born 6 December, 1787.
Nabby, born 14 June, 1790.
John Harvey, born 27 August, 1792.
Barney, born 5 May, 1795.
Rozzel, born 30 September, 1797; died November, 1800.
Levi, born 23 October, 1799.
Eli, born 23 October, 1799.
Children of James and Rhoda Lincoln:
Asa, born 2 August, 1779; died 1 February, 1842; mar-
ried Sarah Sumner, 3 December, 1805.
James, born 5 March, 1782; married Lucy Whitcomb,
28 November, 1803.
WilUam, born 16 April, 1784.
Rhoda, born 30 September, 1786; died 20 November,
1803.
Simeon, born 30 May. 1789,
Samuel, born 10 March, 1793.
Hannah, born 25 February, 1798.
Deaths:
Gilbert F. Lincoln, died 7 March, 1853, aged 47.
Mrs. Sally Lincoln, died 4 December, 1839, aged 65.
Sally Lincoln, died 31 January, 1842, aged 1 year, 5
months.
Zenas Lincoln, born Cohasset, Mass., 1757, died there
1820, married 1781, Mary Lincoln, born 1760, died 1822.
Thomas Lincoln, son of Zenas, born 1791, died 182fi,
married 1811, Nancy Norcross.
Myra Lincoln, daughter of Thomas, born 1812, died
1882, married 1832. Caleb Souther, born 1802. died 1843.
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EARLY MASSACHUSETTS MARRIAGES.
(From Original Records)
Lincoln, Asa and Sarah Carpenter, 7 June, 1774, Norton,
Mass.
Lincoln, Benjamin and Mary Lewes, 17 January, 1694,
Hingham, Mass.
Lincoln, Benjamin and Mary Cushing, 15 January, 1756,
Pembroke, Mass.
Lincoln, Benjamin and Dency Field, 7 November, 1853,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Benjamin, 3d and Elizabeth White, 17 May,
1764, Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Benjamin, 3d and Sophia Makepeace, 15 June
1817, Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Benjamin R. and Lucy Horton, 30 June, 1847,
Templeton, Mass.
Lincoln, Benjamin T. and Sarah A. Hooker, 28 July, 1849,
Sturbridge, Mass.
Lincoln, Betsy and Robert Sprout, 17 September, 1781,
Hardwick, Mass.
Lincoln, Betsy and Alonzo Daily, 1 December, 1836,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Betsy and Thomas White, 1 March, 1790,
Warren, Mass.
Lincoln, Betsy and Bela Cushing, 5 November, 1820,
Weymouth, Mass.
Lincoln, Betsy and Daniel Austin, 29 July, 1807, Norton,
Mass.
Lincoln, Betsy and Luther Hunter, 6 May, 1813, Oakham,
Mass.
Lincoln, Betsy and Nathaniel Newcomb, 31 October,
1822, Norton. Mass.
Lincoln, Betsy, widow, and Reuben Woodward, 21 July,
1832, Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Betsy and Robert B. McLaughlin, 27 August,
1843, Pembroke, Mass.
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Lincoln, Betsy and Ansel Handy, 28 February, 1821,
Rochester, Mass.
Lincoln, Betsy and Joseph R. Gifford, 14 April, 1826,
Rochester, Mass.
Lincoln, Betsy, widow, and Michael Cunningham, 26
July, 1835, Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Betsy B. and Jason White, 21 May, 1837, Norton,
Mass.
Lincoln, Beza and Sarah Ward, 21 November, 1782, Wey-
mouth, Mass.
Lincoln, Burt and Mary Powers, 15 June, 1814, Peter-
sham, Mass.
(To be continued)
LITTLE TAD LINCOLN
A letter written by Robert T. Lincoln in 1882, to
Noah Brooks, thus speaks of his brother Tad Lincoln:
"Poor Tad was a good boy and extraordinarily af-
fectionate and firm in his friendships. After you knew
him he studied diligently and overcame the defect in his
speech. He was only eighteen when he died but he was
so manly and self reliant that I had the greatest hopes
for his future. These were cut off by his death after a
torturing illness, he not being able to recline, but sitting
for six weeks in the chair from which he was taken, dead.
Such suffering I never saw, but it was all borne with
marvellous fortitude."
CONNECTICUT OLD FOLKS
(Contributed)
The following aged persons were living in Con-
necticut in the year 1884:
Laura Lincoln, at Ashford, aged 90.
Elizabeth Lincoln, at E. Hartford, aged 89.
Thomas L. Lincoln, at Middletown, aged 84.
Austin Lincoln, at Windham, aged 83.
Maria Lincoln, at Willimantic, aged 95.
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BRIEF LINCOLN LINES OF DESCENT
John Lincoln, born Massachusetts 1735, died 1811,
married Lydia Jacob.
Lydia Lincoln, daughter of John, married Thomas
Loring.
Joshua Lincoln, born Massachusetts, 1737, died 1810
married Lamar Sprague.
George Lincoln, son of Joshua, married Betsy French.
Daniel Lincoln, son of George, married Priscilla Cain.
Ellen M. Lincoln, daughter of Daniel, married Jacob
F. Healey.
Lot Lincoln, born Taunton, Mass., 1762, died Digh-
ton, Mass., 1814, married Sally Hathaway.
Marshall Lincoln, son of Lot, born 1803, married
Mary Forsam, born 1810.
Goerge F. Lincoln, son of Marshall, married Deborah
L. Thomas.
Helen M. Lincoln, daughter of George, F. L.
Elkanah Lincoln, born Norton, Mass., 1747, died
Westmoreland, N. H., 1816, married Susannah Torrey.
Susanna Lincoln, daughter of Elkanah, born 1769,
died 1833, married 1789, William Thayer, Jr.
Nedebiah Lincoln, born Massachusetts, 1758, died
1834, married Sarah Lincoln.
Henry Lincoln, son of N. L.
Sally Lincoln, daughter of Henry L., married James
Angell.
Simeon Lincoln, born 1757, married Huldah Porter.
John Riley Lincoln, son of S. L., born 1781, died 1803,
married Eliz. Booth, born 1783, died 1873.
Eliza Riley Lincoln, daughter of J. R. L., married Ira
Stanley, Jr.
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Vol. I JULY, 1916 No. 3
The
LINCOLN FAMILY
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CONTENTS
The Tennessee Lincolns Page 33
Lincolns of Westminster, Mass " 38
Silas Lincoln's Family " 38
Massachusetts Marriages " 39
An English Law Case " 44
Dorchester, Mass., Records " 44
Military Career of Col. Benjamin Lincoln of Hingham . " 45
Hanson, Mass., Families " 48
Perez Lincob Line " 48
Changed His Name " 48
The Lincoln Family
MAGAZINE
JULY. 1916
THE TENNESSEE LIMCOLNS
(Contributed by a Lincoln Descendant)
III
Mrs. Mary Ward Lincoln, the wife of Isaac Lincoln,
was an excellent business woman, for the reason that the
property was well managed after her husband's death.
She prospered, and at her death owned a vast property.
She willed away thirty negroes, and provided for all of
the old negroes, and seems to have been a very kind woman
to her slaves. There are descendants of the Lincoln
slaves still living in this country. In the early days,
settlers came to this section in search of liberty and equality
as they had left the old world on account of religious perse-
cution, and they were of a fine class, and early made laws
to govern themselves. One of the first people on the
continent to draw up laws were the settlers of the Watauga
and "Watauga Agreement" is one of the oldest of our
agreements. This valley (Watauga) has played a promi-
nent part in the history of the state and nation. Some
of the oldest most aristocratic families and the very best
blood of the South were to be found here. Some distin-
guished men of national reputation were born and reared
here. It was the home of Landon C. Haynes, the "Silver
tongued" orator of Tennessee, who was a prominent
politician and a member of the confederate cabinet;
of Thomas A. R. Nelson, the "Poet Lawyer of Tennessee"
whose first speech in Congress was declared by the Lon-
don Times to be the highest product of American oratory.
There are old men living today who recall the speeches
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of Landon C. Haynes and Thomas A. R. Nelson when
they were candidates for Congress in 1859. The Nelson-
Haynes debates will be remembered until time is no
more.
Thomas A. R. Nelson was Mrs. Mary Ward Lincoln's
lawyer. Through his second marriage, Mr. Nelson is
connected with the immortal John Sevier. This valley
was the home of the Carrigers, Tiptons, Carters, Taylors,
Nelsons and others who have left their mark on our
country's history. Senator Robert L. Taylor was proud
of his birthplace, and was ever ready to tell that he was
born in the beautiful Watauga Valley. Admiral Samuel
P. Carter was born and reared here. He had the distinc-
tion of being Rear-Admiral in the Navy and General in
the Army, which no other American citizen ever enjoyed.
Mr. Campbell Buckles, who was reared by Christian
Carriger and his wife, Levisa Ward Carriger, once said
that Nancy Hanks sewed and wove for the Lincolns.
Thomas Lincoln courted Nancy Hanks, her family
moved to Kentucky, and Thomas Lincoln either went
with them, or followed them, and married Nancy Hanks
in Kentucky. Squire Mordecai Lincoln of Greeneville,
Tenn., was a brother of Isaac Lincoln. Mordecai Lincoln
married Sophia Heiskell, of a very fine family, and still
noted throughout Tennessee. To them were born two
daughters, Sarah Amelia and Mary. Sarah Amelia Lin-
coln married Dr. William Barton, a northern man. The
last heard of Mrs. Barton's descendants they were living
at Nashville. Mary Lincoln married William Brown.
Three children are living in Greeneville. Mrs. Mordecai
Lincoln was a very refined, cultured woman, but rather
peculiar. '
Dr. Samuel Murray Stover, a grand nephew of Mary
Lincoln, was a physician in the army of General Robert
E. Lee. His brother, Colonel Dan Stover, who married
Mary Johnson, daughter of Andrew Johnson, went with
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his father-in-law Andrew Johnson, and was a Colonel
in the Second Tenn. (Federal). The rest of the Stovers
were Southern.
The Carrigers removed from Tennessee to Missouri
in 1840. On 27 April, 1846, the Carrigers started from
Round Prairie, Missouri for California. Christian Car-
riger died 26 September, when crossing the Sierra Nevadas.
Their place of destination was Sonoma. At the time of
their arrival all the young and able-bodied men had
joined Freemont. Nicholas Carriger, son of Levisa
Ward Carriger, nephew of Mary Ward Lincoln, entered
the Navy, under Lieut. Revere. Nicholas Carriger
served in this branch of the service under Lieut. Maury,
who succeeded Revere. During this term of his service,
Nicholas Carriger in the ordinary routine of duty carried
the mail on horseback between Sonoma and San Rafael,
California. Dr. Carriger located in the Pueblo of Sonoma
and built the first wood building ever erected in Sonoma
Valley.
The Ward sisters were considered very beautiful.
The description given by Mrs. EHzabeth Carriger Nelson
of her mother, Levisa Ward Carriger is this: "Hair as
black and glossy as a raven's wing. Dark blue eyes
Hke a pansy. Complexion very fair, with a dainty, deli-
cate color like an apple blosson."
Mrs. Elizabeth Carriger Nelson and her son. Judge
Christian Carriger Nelson, were, perhaps, the best Bible
students in East Tennessee. All their lives they made
it a habit to read, pray and memorize a portion of the
Scripture each day. One could mention the most ob-
scure verse in the Old or New Testament, and they would
tell you where it was found, and quote the whole chapter.
One could not say or do anything that they could not
quote a portion of Scripture to suit the occasion. Judge
C. C. Nelson, in his long career as City Judge and Re-
corder of Knoxville, would quote a portion of Scripture
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and offer a prayer for the offenders. Those tried, said they
did not mind the fines he imposed, but they could not
stand the lectures. Judge Nelson was very fond of the
violin. (Had sixty-two in his collection a few years
before his death.) Between court session he whiled away
the time by playing on his violins, a number of which he
kept at the City Hall. Many an old offender, awaiting
trial, has been moved to tears by hearing the strains of
"Where is my Wandering Boy Tonight?" played by the
venerable Recorder.
Judge T. A. R. Nelson, brother-in-law of Mrs.
Elizabeth Carriger Nelson, own niece of Mary Ward
Lincoln, was counsel for President Andrew Johnson, when
he was impeached. As soon as President Johnson was
impeached he sent for T. A. R. Nelson to advise him.
Mr. Nelson did not know until an hour or so before he
rose to address the Senate, that he would take part in
this memorable argument. The speech did not show
the elaborate finish which always characterized Mr.
Nelson's speeches. The argument that he made before
the Senate did not satisfy him, and to the day of his
death he criticised it with undue severity. It was almost
an impromptu argument. The speech, nevertheless, was
an admirable one, and will continue to reflect great credit
on its author. The father of Judge Nelson, David Nelson,
was postmaster at Elizabethton for a great many years.
The Wards and the Carrigers were always noted for
their great courage and bravery. A granddaughter of
Mrs. Elizabeth Carriger Nelson, niece of Mary Ward
Lincoln, says: "Grandmother Nelson was the bravest
woman I have ever seen or ever expect to see. Fear
seems to have been omitted entirely in her composition.
One of the first things I ever remember hearing her say
was: "Nothing will ever hurt you. Why are you
afraid?" As an instance of her great courage, Mrs.
Nelson and her daughter, Eveline Carter Nelson lived
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alone at the beginning of the Civil War. One morning
a number of soldiers came to their home and demanded
breakfast. A bountiful repast was set before them. As
the soldiers were leaving the dining room, Mrs. Nelson
came into the room. She saw a soldier pick up the
silver molasses pitcher from the table and conceal it
under his coat. She walked up to the soldier, took the
pitcher away from him, struck him over the head with
the pitcher, and gave him a good lecture about his want
of manners, and his ingratitude to her in repaying her
hospitality in such a base manner. The soldier drew his
pistol and started to shoot Mrs. Nelson, but she did not
flinch, and peace was restored. The other soldiers did
not approve of the conduct of their comrade, and pre-
vailed on him to leave the house.
Mrs. Sallie Stover Tipton, the oldest child of David Lin-
coln Stover and Johanna Gaines, his wife, granddaughter of
William Stover and Sarah Murray Drake, his wife,
great-granddaughter of Daniel Stover and Phoebe Ward,
his wife, says: "Aunt Mary Lincoln was a Ward. I have
heard my grandmother, (Sarah Drake Stover) speak of
this frequently, and was always stated that my grand-
father's (William Stover) mother was a Ward and a
sister to Mary Ward, who married Isaac Lincoln.
Mrs. Sallie Stover Tipton visited at the White House
when Andrew Johnson was president. She was a niece
of Daniel Stover, who married Mary Johnson, daughter of
Andrew Johnson. Mrs. Andrew Johnson was an invalid,
and her daughters. Mrs. Patterson and Mrs. Daniel
Stover looked after the affairs of the White House, Mrs.
Johnson not being able to appear at social functions.
Mrs. Sallie Stover Tipton spent quite a time there as the
guest of her aunt Mary Stover and her cousins Lillie
and Sarah Stover. The Stover children Lillie, Sarah
and Andrew Johnson, were very popular at the White
House. M. 0. McM.
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LINCOLNS OF WESTMINSTER, MASS.
(Contributed)
Heman Lincoln of Westminster, Mass., was a son
of Jeremiah of Hingham. He had a wife Elizabeth,
and children as follows: Heman, Elizabeth, Pyam
(Percy?) Mary, Hannah, Sally, Emma, Lucy Lane. He
died early in 1803, his will having been dated 3 February
and probated 5 April of that year. The five younger
children were minors at the time, and had guardians ap-
pointed. The family removed to Boston not long after-
ward.
Daniel Lincoln, nephew of Heman, married Chloe,
daughter of Stephen and Mercy (Beal) Marsh of Hing-
ham, and had two children, Caleb and Daniel, born in
that town. In March, 1801, he removed to Westminster.
He had a daughter Hannah Beal, born 27 June, 1802.
His son Daniel, married Martha Robbins, of Westford,
28 April, 1816. He had a son Isaac Lorenzo, born 5
April, 1818.
Rev. Varnum Lincoln was a son of Abel and Phebe
(Griffin) Lincoln, born Chelmsford, 25 September, 1819.
He married Emmeline Sprague of Hudson, N. H., 17
May, 1844. Their children were:
Edwin Hale, born 2 January, 1848.
Charles T., born 24 October, 1849, died 14 June, 1879.
Alfred v., born 25 August, 1852.
Emma J., born 26 September, 1854.
Henry C, born 21 July, 1857. died 13 May. 1859.
SILAS LINCOLN'S FAMILY
(Contributed)
Silas Lincoln married in Beckett, Mass., 2 January,
1774, Hannah Luce, born 26 March, 1800. daughter of
Simeon Luce. Jr., and Susanna Kingsley. Their children
were:
1. Mary, born 25 April. 1775.
2. Abiah. born 13 November, 1776.
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MASSACHUSETTS MARRIAGES
(Continued from page 31)
Lincoln, Abiel and Abigail Badger, 2 December, 1761,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Abigail and Robert Miller, 26 February, 1772,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Adeline E., and William S. Kennedy, May, 1883,
Cambridge, Mass.
Lincoln, Amos and Debby Reviere, November, 1780,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Anna and William Praddox, 13 December, 1808,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Benjamin, Jr., and Mary Otis, 1 February, 1785,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Benjamin and Elizabeth Clark, 9 October, 1794,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Bradford and Becky A. Atwood, 21 November,
1799, Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Caleb and Rachel Bates, 8 May, 1684, Hingham,
Mass.
Lincoln, Caleb and Patty Whiting, 14 June, 1790, Barre,
Mass.
Lincoln, Caleb and Nancy Bicknell, 25 September, 1804,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Caleb and Lucy Wilder, 6 December, 1815,
Winchendon, Mass.
Lincoln, Caleb W. and Rhoda J. Reed, 12 April, 1845,
Framingham, Mass.
Lincoln, Calvin and Ruth Lincoln, 29 November, 1817,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Calvin and Almira L. Fales, 1 January, 1822,
Shrewsbury, Mass.
Lincoln, Celia and Abner G. Conant, 21 October, 1840,
Sutton, Mass.
Lincoln, Charles and Mary Farnum, 10 July, 1728»
Boston, Mass.
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Lincoln, Charles and Martha B. Minot, 15 November,
1821, Dorchester, Mass.
Lincoln, Charles and Abigail B. Phillips, 4 October, 1827,
Abington, Mass.
Lincoln, Charles A. and Louerza A. Stone, 24 November,
1874, Douglas, Mass.
Lincoln, Charles L. and Maria L. Dyer, 3 September,
1841, Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Charles 0. and Mary Bullard, 13 September,
1838, Athol, Mass.
Lincoln, Charlotte and Warren Wild, 1 April, 1827,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Chloe and Ebenezer Snow, Jr., 13 October, 1821,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Christina and Josiah Lovett, 29 November, 1832,
Beverly, Mass.
Lincoln, Christopher and Elizabeth Williston, 9 February,
1805, Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Content and Obadiah Reed, 4 January, 1760,
Abington, Mass.
Lincoln, Content, Jr., and Benjamin Highland, 1 October,
1778, Pembroke, Mass.
Lincoln, Cynthia and Daniel Shepard, 28 March, 1811,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Daniel and Sarah Nichols, 16 April, 1687,
Scituate, Mass.
Linkhon, Daniel and Abigell Nicols, 18 June, 1711,
Rochester, Mass.
Lincoln, Daniel and Martha Robbins, 1 October, 1816,
Westford, Mass.
Lincoln, Daniel and Abigail M. Farrington, 1 January,
1838, Upton, Mass
Lincoln, David and Lydia Beals, 25 December, 1718,
Hingham, Mass.
Lincoln, David and Deborah Crossman, 1 November,
1750, Norton, Mass.
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Lincoln, David and Elizabeth Jones, 25 November, 1753,
Hull, Mass.
Lincoln, David and Sarah Porter, 18 January, 1770,
Weymouth, Mass.
Lincoln, David, 3rd and Bethiah Dean, 25 May, 1800,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, David and Abigail Makepeace, 6 October, 1805,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, David and Mary A. Smith, 25 September, 1834,
Hopkinton, Mass.
Lincoln, David A. and Mary J. Bailey, 21 June, 1865,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Deborah and John Sylvester, 25 November,
1757, Hingham, Mass.
Lincoln, Deborah, 2nd and Assell Deane, 13 February,
1780, Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Deborah and Obed Crosby, 30 June, 1844,
Brewster, Mass.
Linkon, Desire and Joseph Wood, 23 November, 1772,
Sharon, Mass.
Lincoln, Desire and Jonathan Thatcher, 30 March, 1846,
Brev^^ster, Mass.
Lincoln, Dina and Nathaniel Wetherell, Jr., 4 August,
1737, Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Ebenezer and Sarah Willis, 21 March, 1802,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Ebenezer and Sary Loring, 6 June, 1751, Hull,
Mass.
Lincoln, Eddy and Lydia Leonard, 15 June, 1834, Nor-
ton, Mass.
Lincoln, Edwin A. and Amanda Drury, 4 September,
1833. Warren, Mass.
Lincoln, Eleanor and Cornelius W. Lothrop, 20 February,
1831, Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Electa and Daniel Johnson, 4 February, 1822,
Templeton, Mass.
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Lincoln, Eli and Polly Bliss, 19 July, 1807. Warren, Mass.
Lincoln, Eli K. and Rosetta K. Harwood, 2 May, 1849,
Sturbridge, Mass.
Lincoln, Elijah and Patience Bates, 10 March, 1815,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Elijah and Martha Marstins, 8 November, 1825,
Milton, Mass.
Lincoln, Elijah D. and Phebe Gresho, 29 April, 1836,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Elisha and Rachel Tirrell, 14 November, 1718,
Abington, Mass.
Lincoln, Elisha and Melia Whitcomb, 10 January, 1721,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Elisha, 3rd and Tabithy Whitman, 24 December,
1763, Abington, Mass.
Lincoln, Elisha, 3rd and Batheba French, 14 November,
1772, Abington, Mass.
Lincoln, Elisha, 3rd and Molly Gurney, 13 November,
1777, Abington, Mass.
Lincoln, Elisha and Tabitha Reed, 5 October, 1779,
Abington, Mass.
Lincoln, Elisha and Lones Bowlen, 28 March, 1802, Abing-
ton, Mass.
Lincoln, Elisha and Jane Churchill, 30 November, 1803,
Abingdon, Mass.
Lincoln, Elithy S. and Otis Dean, 14 October, 1835,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Eliza and Oliver C. Danforth, 27 September,
1818, Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Eliza and Danforth Keyes, 8 September, 1843
Warren, Mass.
Lincoln, Eliza J. and Samuel Mendall, 29 January, 1832'
Rochester, Mass.
Lincoln, Elizabeth and Elisha Bonney, 10 December, 1729,
Pembroke, Mass.
Lincoln, Elizabeth and Thomas Nichols, 3 December,
1741, Boston, Mass.
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Lincoln, Elizabeth and Micah Pratt, 12 March, 1748,
Weymouth, Mass.
Lincoln, Elizabeth and David Waterman, 4 February,
1786, Weymouth, Mass.
Lincoln, Elizabeth and Thomas Cleverly, 2 December,
1826, Weymouth, Mass.
Lincoln, Elizabeth and John Ellis, 9 June, 1844, Rochester,
Mass.
Lincoln, Elizabeth and Nathaniel Bicknell, 22 December,
1748, Abington, Mass.
Lincoln, Elizabeth W. and Alfred E. Burt, 27 November,
1843, Oakham, Mass.
Lincoln, Elkanah, Jr., and Susan Torey, 25 May, 1768,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Emily and Charles E. Gleason, 28 April, 1836,
Warren, Mass.
Lincoln, Emory and Elizabeth F. Keep, 15 November,
1842, Oakham. Mass.
Lincoln, Enos, Jr., and Lucy Bosworth, 15 February,
1832, Petersham, Mass.
Lincoln, Enos and Mary D. Pratt, 27 December, 1838,
Weymouth, Mass.
Lincoln, Ensign and Sophia 0. Larkin, 21 January, 1808,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Eunice and John Killey, 25 February, 1771,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Experience and Jonathan Stearns, 24 May, 1727,
Dorchester, Mass.
Lincoln, Ezekial and Miriam Terrill, 9 November, 1758,
Abington, Mass.
Lincoln, Ezekial and Mary Woodward, 6 June, 1776,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Ezekial and Betsy Fillebroun, 9 November, 1808,
Boston, Mass.
(To be continued)
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AN ENGLISH LAW CASE
(From Original Records)
In the matter of Lincolne vs. Gurney and others.
Bill (13 July, 1641) of Henry Lincolne of Swanton
Morly, County Norfolk, yeoman.
Answer (18 October, 1641) of Robert Gurney, gent.,
and Anne, his wife, and William Gunthorp and Elizabeth
his wife.
Concerning copyholds of the manor of Swanton Morly
surrendered by Richard and Anne Lincoln to the use of
themselves for life, with remainder to John Small, son
of the said Anne Lincoln, charged with certain payments
by the said John Small to his half sisters.
Anne, as the widow Small had one son John when
she married Richard Lincoln. The children of Richard
Lincoln and the widow Small were:
1. Henry Lincoln
2. Anne Lincoln, who married Robert Gurney, gent.
3. Elizabeth Lincoln, who married William Gun-
thorp.
DORCHESTER, MASS., RECORDS
(From Vital Statistics)
Marriages
Experience Lincoln and Jonathan Sterns, 24 May, 1727.
Charles Lincoln and Martha B. Minott, 15 November,
1821.
Births
Charles R., son of Charles Lincoln, born 1806.
Thomas, son of Caleb and Nancy Lincoln, born 2 Septem-
ber, 1810.
Samuel, son of Caleb and Nancy Lincoln, born 20 March,
1814.
Deaths
Eleazur Lincoln died 19 June, 1808.
Nancy Lincoln died 19 July, 1814, wife of Caleb.
Child of Mr. Lincoln, drowned 29 May, 1825.
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MILITARY CAREER OF COL. BENJAMIN
LINCOLN OF HINGHAM
(Contributed)
Benjamin Lincoln, famous general of the Revolu-
tion, and a familiar figure in Massachusetts history, was
forty years of age at the commencement of the American
revolutionary war in 1775. At that time he held the
office of lieutenant colonel of militia. He was elected a
member of the provincial congress, one of the secretaries
of that body, and also a member of the committee of
correspondence. The council of Massachusetts appointed
him a brigadier in 1776, and soon after a major general,
when he employed himself industriously in arranging
and disciplining the militia at the head of a body of
whom, he joined the main army at New York in October.
By the recommendation of General Washington congress
appointed him a major general in the continental forces.
In July, 1777, General Lincoln was despatched to
the northern army, under Gates, to assist in opposing
Burgoyne. Stationed at Manchester, in Vermont, Lin-
coln received and organized the New England militia
as they joined him. A detachment of 500 men from his
troops, under colonel Brown surprised the English at
the landing at Lake George, took 293 men, and released
100 American prisoners. He then joined general Gate's
army of which he was second in command. Here he was
wounded in the leg, and his wound confined him at Al-
bany for several months. After suffering the removal
of a part of the main bone, he was conveyed to his resi-
dence at Hingham. In the following August, he repaired
to the headquarters of General Washington, and was
designated by congress to conduct the war in the southern
department.
He arrived at Charleston in December, 1778, when
he found his duties on that station to be of the most
difficult nature. An army was to be formed, organized
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and supplied, that he might be enabled to contend with a
veteran enemy. With the design of protecting the upper
part of Georgia, Lincoln proceeded to Augusta in April;
but the British commander, Prevost, marching upon
Charleston, General Lincoln pursued the same route, and
on arriving at that city found that the enemy had re-
tired from before it the preceding night. On 19 June, he
attacked about 600 of the enemy entrenched at Stone
ferry, but was repulsed. French forces arrived with the
fleet under count D'Estaing in the early part of Septem-
ber, 1779. Prevost having possessed himself of Savannah,
an expedition was projected against that place, in con-
junction with the French commander. For this purpose,
nearly 3000 of the foreign auxiliaries were landed, to
which General Lincoln added 1000 men from his own
troops. The enemy, however, used every exertion to
strengthen the defences, and was reinforced, while the
commander was preparing the articles of capitulation to
D'Estaing. A regular siege was then attempted; but
various considerations urging the necessity of speedy
operations, a general assault was made by the combined
French and American forces, under D'Estaing and Lin-
coln on the morning of the 9 October, Occurrences en-
tirely accidental frustrated their hopes, and after plant-
ing two standards on the parapets, the allies were re-
pulsed, the French having lost 700, and the Americans
240 in killed and wounded.
After this unfortunate but bold assault. General
Lincoln entered Charleston, and in order to put it in a
proper posture of defence, importuned congress for a
reinforcement of regular troops with additional supplies,
but his requisitions were but partially granted. General
Sir Henry Clinton arrived in February, 1780, and hav-
ing debarked a strong force in the neighborhood, en-
camped before the American lines, 30 March. Notwith-
standing the great superiority of the enemy. General
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Lincoln determined to attempt the defence of his post,
and accordingly to a demand of unconditional surrender,
returned an immediate refusal, but was obliged to capitu-
late, 12 May, by the discontent of the troops, and the
inhabitants, the great superiority of numbers on the
part of the enemy, and the expenditure of his provisions
and ammunition, after a constant cannonade had been
kept up for a month. For a fortnight previous to the
surrender he had not undressed to sleep.
His reputation was too firmly established to be
shaken by the disastrous termination of his southern
campaign, and credit was given him for having for three
months withstood the power of the British commanders,
and so effectually retarded the execution of their future
plans. Owing to the delay, North Carolina was saved
for the rest of the year 1780. In November following
General Lincoln was exchanged for General Phillips, who
had been taken prisoner at Saratoga.
In the campaign of 1781, Lincoln commanded a
division, and at Yorktown performed a conspicuous part.
At that place the army of Cornwallis capitulated to the
combined forces of France and America, on similar terms
to those which had been granted to General Lincoln at
Charleston. On the latter was conferred the office of
receiving the submission, and directing the distribution
of the conquered troops; and the day succeeding the
surrender his services were commended in the general
order of the commander-in-chief.
In October, 1781, he was appointed by congress
secretary of war, still retaining his military rank. He
tendered his resignation of this office three years after-
wards, which was received by congress with an expres-
sion of their approbation of his conduct, both in the
field and cabinet. He was appointed by the governor of
Massachusetts, commander of a body of militia, des-
patched to suppress an insurrection in that state in the
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years 1786 and 1787. His dexterity and vigor in this
transaction happily effected the object in view, with very
little bloodshed, a few persons only being killed in a
slight skirmish.
In May, 1787, he was elected lieutenant governor of
his native state. He was a member of the convention
for ratifying the federal constitution; and in the summer
of 1789, was appointed by president Washington, col-
lector of the port of Boston. He died 1810, aged 77.
HANSON, MASS., FAMILIES
(From Town Records)
Rufus Lincoln, born 1812, married in Hanson, Mass.,
10 January, 1836, Lucy D. Cook, daughter of John Cook.
She was born 6 November, 1819. Their son, Rufus
W., was born 8 July, 1845. Their daughter Emeline,
born 1838, died 12 July, 1847.
Levi Lincoln, born 1773, and Diadema Barker, born
1777, daughter of Gideon, were married in Hanson, 25
November, 1822. He died 27 May, 1846. She died
10 January, 1845.
PEREZ LINCOLN LINE
(Contriliutedj
1. Perez Lincoln of Wrentham, Mass., married
Polly Bragg, born 1776, daughter of Ariel Bragg and
Sarah Fisher.
2. Perez Lincoln, married Harriet Patty Hopkins,
daughter of Timothy S. Hopkins and Nancy Ann Kerr.
3. Charles Perez Lincoln, married Mary Anne
Lawrence Price.
CHANGED HIS NAME
Alonzo H. Hoar had his name changed to George
Lincoln, by an act of the Massachusetts legislature. He
was a son of William Hoar and Adah Upton, and was
born 14 April, 1815, in Westminster, Mass. He married
Aseneth Trafton, and died in Leominster, Mass., 20
July. 1872.
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Vol. 1 OCTOBER, 1916 No. 4
The
LINCOLN FAMILY
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CONTENTS
Damon's Lincoln Sermon Page 49
Heirs to Estates " 54
Pennsylvania Marriages " 55
The Lincolns of Tennessee " 56
Rhode Island Marriages " 58
Seth Lincoln's Family " 59
Pittston, Maine, Births " 59
Soldiers of the Revolution " 60
Maine Marriages '• 64
The Lincoln Family
MAGAZINE
OCTOBER. 1916
DAMON'S LINCOLN SERMON
(Over a half a century ago, in the Seaman's Chapel, Honolulu, on 14
May, 1865, the Reverend S. C. Damon preached the following sermon on
the assassination of Lincoln. It was pubUshed in The Friend of 1 June,
1865, and is republished at this time as a chapter of historic and religious
literature that should not be forgotten.— Editor.)
IN THE ADMINISTRATION of the affairs of this
world God is ever doing and permitting things to be done
the reasons for which cannot be seen by shortsighted
mortals. Such is God's method of proceeding that we are
continually compelled to take many things on trust.
Faith in Him is the great lesson which He is ever teaching
mankind. He has drawn an impenetrable veil before our
eyes, shutting out the future from our view. "Ye know
not what shall be on the morrow," or "what a day may
bring forth." How impressively these scriptural declara-
tions and those of my text are illustrated by events which
have recently transpired on the other side of the globe.
All the loyal people of that great country, stretching from
the shores of the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Gulf
to the Lakes, were preparing for such a day of thanks-
giving and jubilee as never had been witnessed on the
western continent. The national feeling, which, during
the four years of civil war had been repressed, was rising,
and about to burst forth in such scenes and shouts of re-
joicing as would have made the "welkin ring." The dove
of peace which had, during those four long years, been con-
fined to the ark, rocked and tossed upon the troubled
waters of civil strife, political contentions and cruel war,
had now been released, and with the olive branch in her
mouth, was winging her flight over mountains and valleys,
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broad savannahs and boundless prairies. The good news
was flashed with lightning speed over the land and the
world. The dark clouds were rolling away, and the sun
of the nation's glory was beginning to shine, and the rain-
bow of peace was distinctly seen spanning a continent,
as in days of yore, when lo! from the receding black clouds
of secession, treachery and slavery, there darted forth a
fiendish arm, holding in its hand an assassin's dagger.
The whole scene is instantly changed. For a moment the
pulse and heart of the nation cease to beat, but the next
instant there follows a sigh of anguish and wail of sorrow.
Abraham Lincoln, our beloved president, is dead! I do not
believe, since the creation of the world, so many hearts,
in so short a space of time, ever mourned over the death
of a single human being. There is no disputing or gain-
saying the fact, Abraham Lincoln had gradually been
winning for himself a place in the hearts of the American
people second only to that of Washington, the father of his
country. But will not the people now call him the savior
of the country, when the life of the nation was threatened?
This most tragic event is not an accident. It is not
the work of chance. We do not live in a world ruled over
by blind fate. Never before did I realize there was so
much force and intensity of meaning in those words of our
Savior: "But the very hairs of your head are all num-
bered," and even a sparrow "shall not fall on the ground
without your Father." I do not think there ever was a
public man who recognized more clearly and fully this
doctrine of God's special providence than did our lamented
President. Gathered as we now are in the house of God
on this first Sabbath morning after having received the
news of his death, how can I more appropriately employ
the usual time allotted to a discourse than by directing
your minds to some of those moral and spiritual lessons
taught by this most sad and melancholy event. The
telegraphic intelligence which has reached the Island is
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quite sufficient to disclose the naked facts, but insufficient
to portray the effects upon the country at large. Under
these circumstances, perhaps I may be allowed to dwell
uii^pn the religious features of Mr. Lincoln's character.
He was a public man, and had been called to occupy a
most responsible and trying public position. He fully
realized this fact from the very moment that he stepped
forth from the sphere of a private American citizen to
occupy the highest position within the gift of his country-
men. His brief address on leaving his home at Springfield,
Illinois, is inimitably beautiful: "My Friends: — No one
not in my position can appreciate the sadness I feel at this
parting- To this people I owe all that I am. Here I have
l|ved more than a quarter of a century; here my children
were born, and here one of them lies buried. I know not
how soon I shall see you again. A duty devolves upon me
which is perhaps greater than that which has devolved
upon any other man since the days of Washington. He
never would have succeeded except for the aid of Divine
Providence, upon which he at all times relied. I feel that
I cannot succeed without the same Divine aid which sus-
tained him, and on the same Almighty Being I place my
reliance for support. I hope you, my friends, will pray
that I may receive that Divine assistance without which
I cannot succeed, but with which success is certain. I
bid you all an affectionate farewell."
During the delivery of this short address the audience
was much affected and when it closed there was the hearty
response, "We will pray for you." During his progress
to Washington he uttered similar sentiments at Columbus
and Steubenville, in Ohio, ever expressing the hope that
he should be sustained by the prayers of the American
people. In this address we have the keynote to all his
subsequent addresses, letters, proclamations and public
documents. I cannot recall a single one in which he did
not fully and frankly recognize God's agency in the man-
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agement of the affairs of this world. His allusions to an
overruling Providence were not in a half-apologistic and
semi-infidel style, as if he wished to conciliate the feelings
of Christians, while at the same time he had no very clear
and definite idea of what he was saying or writing. Read
his second inaugural, on the 4th of last March. The
staunchest and most orthodox divine could not have given
utterance to more evangelical doctrines or religious senti-
ments. He quotes and comments upon the very words
of our Divine Savior, in the eighteenth chapter of Matthew,
"Woe unto the world because of offences." Then, too,
with what masterly emphasis he quotes the words of the
Psalmist David, prefacing, "If God wills that the war con-
tinue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hun-
dred and fifty years of unrequited toil, shall be sunk, and
until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid
by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thou-
sand years ago, so still it must be said, 'The judgments
of the Lord are true and righteous altogether." " Noble
utterances and sublime language, which will live as long
as the English language shall be spoken. Such truthful
sayings will go forth from the Chief Magistrate of a great
people to break asunder the fetters of slavery throughout
the world. His name through all coming time will be
associated with that most important of all his state docu-
ments — his Emancipation Proclamation. It may well be
compared with the imperial ukase of the Emperor Alex-
ander, giving liberty to twenty millions of Russian serfs.
From the time and circumstances under which it was is-
sued it must ever be viewed as marking the transition
point from slavery to freedom, in the history of the Re-
public of America. I cannot stop to dwell upon Mr. Lin-
coln's efforts and labors in behalf of the slaves and the
colored people of America. It was noble and philan-
thropic, and it doubtedless accorded him unfeigned pleas-
ure, during the latter months of his eventful life, to learn,
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in so many ways, that they appreciated his services. This
was apparent when he received a copy of the Holy Bible
from the loyal colored people of Baltimore as a token of
respect and gratitude. They hailed him as the "friend
of universal freedom." It never will be known in time
how many millions of earnest prayers went up for "Massa
Linkum" from the Uncle Tom cabins scattered all over
the slave States, from the Potomac to the Rio Grande.
Those sincere but enslaved people took hold of the arm
that sustained the universe. America stands forth today
disenthralled and saved, not merely by the achievements
of our noble soldiers and the masterly statesmanship of our
cabinet ministers, senators and representatives, but there
was a power behind all these outward manifestations.
That power was prayer — the prayers, too, of the poor.
Says the son of Sirach, "A prayer out of a poor man's
mouth reacheth to the ears of God, and His judgment
Cometh speedily." "He will hear the prayer of the op-
pressed." "The prayer of the humble pierceth the clouds,
and till it come nigh he will not be comforted, and will not
depart till the Most High shall behold to judge righteous-
ly and execute judgment." Mr. Lincoln recognized that
power of prayer, as I have already shown, when he left his
home for the White House at Washington.
How intensely interesting the fact that while he was
thus occupied with the great and momentous affairs of
thirty millions of people — of whom four or five millions
were in open rebellion, and a million more were girded
as soldiers, yet even amidst all these cares he did not
neglect the poor who were his neighbors, as the following
incident will show:
A newspaper correspondent from Chicago one day
dropped in upon Mr. Lincoln and found him busy count-
ing greenbacks. "This, sir," said the President, in his
cheerful way, "is something out of my usual line; but a
President of the United States has a multiplicity of duties
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not specified in the Constitution or Acts of Congress.
This is one of them. This money belongs to a poor negro
who is porter in one of the departments (the Treasury),
who is at present ill with the small pox. He is now in the
hospital and could not draw his pay because he could not
sign his name. I have been at considerable trouble to
overcome the difficulty and get it for him, and have at
length succeeded in cutting red tape, as you newspapermen
say. I am now dividing the money and putting by a
portion labeled, in an envelope, with my own hands, ac-
cording to his wish." Such unostentatious acts of kind-
ness need no comment. Our Savior said, when upon
earth: "And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of
these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a
disciple, verily I say unto you he shall in no wise lose his
reward." I doubt not that the good man is now reaping
his reward In glory for befriending the poor colored porter
who could not write his name — sick with the smallpox
in the hospital. It is an interesting fact that the American
citizen at home and abroad, however humble his lot, was
not forgotten by him. When it was reported at Wash-
ington through the correspondence of our minister, to Mr,
Seward, that a sailor had been ill-treated at the Marquesas
Islands, Mr. Lincoln immediately directs that five hun-
dred dollars in gold be devoted to the purchase of presents
to be distributed among Hawaiian missionaries and others
who had rescued the unfortunate man.
(To be concluded)
HEIRS TO ESTATES
The following members of the Lincoln family have
been advertised for by attorneys and administrators dur-
ing the past twenty-five years. These names refer only
to American estates or money in this country awaiting
heirs.
Lincoln, Mary M„ New York, 1910.
Lincoln, Sophie, Augusta, Maine.
Lincoln, Timothy W., Boston, Mass, 1870.
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PENNSYLVANIA LINCOLN MARRIAGES
(From Original Records)
Lincoln, Abraham and Elizabeth Schrank, 13 November,
1788, Philadelphia, Penn.
Lincoln, Benjamin and Ann Cowan, 19 May, 1806,
Philadelphia, Penn.
Lincoln, Daniel and Mary Medley, 2 June, 1742, Phila-
delphia, Penn.
Lincoln, Elizabeth and John Hart, 7 July, 1791, Phila-
delphia, Penn.
Lincoln, Isaac and Mary Shute, December, 1746, State
Licence.
Lincoln, Jacob and Ann Rambo, June, 1747, State Li-
cence.
Lincoln, Jacon and Mary Taylor, 1 1 April, 1 792, Phila-
delphia, Penn.
Lincoln, John and Elizabeth O'Neal, 8 October, 1781,
Philadelphia, Penn.
Lincoln, Margaret and James Gregory, 17 July, 1763,
Philadelphia, Penn.
Linckhorn, Maria and Benjamin Evans, 6 July, 1786,
Philadelphia, Penn.
Lincoln, Moses and Barbara Kinch, 19 March, 1795,
Philadelphia, Penn.
Linking, Rosina and John F. Fuchs, 25 November, 1746,
New Hanover, Penn.
Lincoln, Rebecca and Joseph Rush, 19 September, 1750,
Philadelphia, Penn.
Lincoln, Rebecca and James Carter, 7 March, 1763,
Philadelphia, Penn.
Lincoln, Sarah and Samuel Pastorius, 28 November, 1771,
Philadelphia, Penn.
Lincoln, Thomas and Mrs. Alice Gohin, 23 October, 181 1,
Reading, Penn.
Lincoln, William E. and Mary B. Porter, 7 June, 1877,
Pittsburgh, Penn.
(To be continued)
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THE LINCOLNS OF TENNESSEE
IV
Godfrey Carriger's Will
In the Name of God, Amen:
I, Godfrey Carriger, Senior, of the County of Carter,
in the State of Tennessee, being weak and frail of body,
but of perfect and sound mind and memory, do make,
publish and declare this my last Will and Testament in
manner and form following, that is to say:
First: I give and bequeath to my son, Nicholas Car-
riger, the plantation whereon he now lives on Stoney
Creek, for which I have heretofore executed to him a deed
of conveyance; also give and bequeath to my said son,
Nocholas, one negro wench named Sail and her child
"Will" and the increase of the said Sail. I also give and
bequeath to my said son, Nicholas, the sum of two thou-
sand and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents to him
and his forever.
Secondly: I give and bequeath unto Godfrey Car-
riger, Polly Carriger, Anny Carriger and Betsy Carriger,
heirs and heiresses of Michael Carriger, deceased, the sum
of two thousand five hundred and sixty-six dollars and
sixty-six cents.
Thirdly: I give and bequeath to my son, Godfrey
Carriger, the plantation whereon he now lives for which I
have heretofore executed him a deed of gift. I also give
and bequeath to my said son, Godfrey, the sum of
thousand nine hundred and five dollars and thirty-three
cents, to him and to his heirs forever.
Fourthly: I give and bequeath to my son-in-law,
John Nave, the plantation whereon he used to live, for
which I have heretofore made to him a deed of convey-
ance. I also give and bequeath to my said son-in-law,
John Nave, one negro girl named Berry. I also give and
bequeath to my said son-in-law, John Nave, the sum of
one thousand nine hundred and eighty-three dollars and
sixty-six cents to him and his heirs forever.
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Fifthly: I give and bequeath to my son John Car-
riger one tract of land containing two hundred and fifty
acres, known by the name of the Sugar Holjow tract; also
one other tract of land containing six hundred and forty
acres, known by the name of the Blue Spring tract; also
one other tract of land lying and situated on the south
side of Wataugau river below and adjoining Isaac Lin-
coln's which land I bought from William Cocks. I also
give and bequeath unto my said son. John Carriger, the
sum of one thousand and three hundred and twenty dol-
lars to him and his heirs forever, for the two aforesaid
tracts of land of eight hundred and ninety acres, I have
heretofore executed a deed of gift to the said John Car-
riger.
Sixthly: I give and bequeath to my son. Christian
Carriger the plantation whereon I now live including all
the improvements thereon. I also give and bequeath
unto my said son. Christian Carriger, one other tract of
land known by the name of Linchas place to him and his
heirs forever. I also give and bequeath to my said son.
Christian, an entry of claim of land which I have to an
iland in Wataugau including a fish Trap in a sluice of said
river to him and his heirs forever.
My further will is that all the rest and residue of my
estate, as well real as personal, of which I may be possessed
at the time of my death (after paying and satisfying all and
every of the foregoing legatees and bequeaths) be sold and
the money arriving from such sales be divided among the
legatees hereinbefore mentioned, share and share alike,
except that the heirs of Michael Carriger have but one
share, to be divided among them.
Lastly, I hereby nominate, constitute and appoint my
sons, Godfrey Carriger and Christian Carriger executors
of this last will and testament whereof I, Godfrey Car-
riger, Senior, have hereunto set my seal the sixteenth day
of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight
hundred and eight.
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Signed, sealed, published, pronounced and declared
by the said Godfrey Carriger, senior, to be his last will and
testament in the presence of us who, in the presence of the
testator, and in the presence of each other, hereunto
signed our names as witnesses.
GEO. DUFFIELD, Jurat
WILLIAM CAMPBELL Seal
WILLIAM BRIDGES. Jurat Godifried
ROBERT CROW Kercher
This 30th of March, 1808.
RHODE ISLAND MARRIAGES
(From Original Records)
Lincoln, Basha and Frances Roberts, 21 October, 1838,
Providence, R. L
Lincoln, Charity and Sylvester Jones, 6 November, 1768,
Providence, R. L
Lincoln, Charlotte F. and Asa Leonard, 1 January, 1850,
Providence, R. L
Lincoln, Charlotte F. L. and Jerome B. Brockway, 13
January, 1850, Providence, R. L
Lincoln, Mrs. Christiana and David C. Webber, 8 No-
vember, 1849, Providence, R. L
Lincoln, Eliza S. and George N. White, 2 September, 1849,
Bristol, R. I.
Lincoln, Francis W. and Marian A. Westcott, 22 May,
1849. Cumberland, R. I.
Lincoln, James S. and Rosina C. Chase, 1 February, 1841,
Providence, R. I.
Lincoln, Joanna and Allen Munro, 2 March, 1820, Bristol,
R. I.
Lincoln, John L. and Louisa E. Pearce, 29 July, 1846,
Providence, R. L
Lincoln, J. Brooks and Sarah H. Newhall, 24 December,
1846, Providence, R. L
Lincoln, Mary and Leonard Drown, 2 November, 1845,
Providence, R. L
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Lincoln, Mary L. and Seth Lincoln, 1 April, 1844, Bristol,
R. L
Lincoln, Mayberi'y L. and Mary Lindsey, 11 January,
1824, Bristol, R. L
Lincoln, Ruth and Eliza Partridge, 24 June, 1 849, Bristol,
R. L
Lincoln, Sarah and Rufus Arnold, 16 May, 1842, Bristol,
R. L
Lincoln, Seth and Sarah Easterbrookjs, 13 October, 1816,
Warren, R. L
Lincoln, Seth and Mary L. Lincoln, 1 April, 1844, Bristol,
R. L
Lincoln, William and Caroline L. Coddington, 24 May,
1846, Bristol, R. L
(To be continued.)
SETH LINCOLN'S FAMILY
(From Town Records)
Seth Lincoln and Sarah Easterbrook were married 13
October, 1816, at Warren, R. L
Their children were:
Susan, born 12 September, 1817.
Sally, born 16 February, 1819.
Seth F., born 20 December, 1820.
WilHam, born 12 March, 1823.
PITTSTON, MAINE BIRTHS
(From Town Records)
Children of Foster and Martha Lincoln, born in
Pittston, Maine:
1. Georgiana, born 16 December, 1843.
2. Isaac F., born 21 September, 1845.
Abraham Lincoln of Taunton, Mass., married Lydia
Hoskins, whose father Joshua, died 1772, son of Samuel
Hoskins and Mary Austin.
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SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION
With Genealogical Data of their Families and De-
scendants
Amos Lincoln, born 1753 in Hingham, Mass., died
1829 in Quincy, Mass. He helped throw over the tea
in Boston harbor and saw seven years service. He married
Deborah Reveere. Their son, Louis Lincoln, married
Mary Knight.
Benjamin Lincoln, born 1733 in Hingham, Mass.,
died there in 1810. He was appointed Major-General
of militia in 1 776. In 1 777 Congress transferred him to the
Continental Line. He married Mary Cashing. Their
son, Theodore Lincoln, married Hannah Mayhew.
Another son, Martin Lincoln, married Lydia Cushing.
Benjamin Lincoln, born 1754 in Taunton, Mass.,
where he died in 1822. He was a minute man at the Lex-
ington alarm and served at Roxbury in 1 775. He mar-
ried Zilpha Lincoln. Their son, Hodijah Lincoln, mar-
ried Chloe Reed, whose daughter, Elmina, married John
Hammond Barlow.
Beza Lincoln, born 1756 in Hingham, Mass., and died
there in 1835. He was a private in Col. Solomon Lovell's
regiment in 1776. He married Sarah Ward. Their son,
Rufus W. Lincoln, married Danrietta D. Lincoln.
Caleb Lincoln was born in Taunton, Mass., in 1 757,
and died in 1822. He served in five enlistments in the
Massachusetts militia and died in Taunton. In 1776 he
was in Capt. Edward Blake's Co., Col. Ebenezer Francis'
regiment. He also served in the Rhode Island alarm
1777-80. He married Mercy Thayer. Their daughter,
Nancy Lincoln, married Isaac Reed, son of Thomas Reed
and Mary Hobart, who were married in 1775.
Elkanah Lincoln, born in 1747, Norton, Mass., died
1816 in Westmoreland, N. H., served at the Rhode Island
alarm as a corporal in Capt. Hodge's Co., of Massachusetts
militia. He married Susannah Torrey. Their daughter,
Susannah, married William Thayer, who served as a
private in 17 81.
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Ezekial Lincoln, born 1759, in Hingham, Mass., died
1828. He served in Capt. Edward Craft's Company and
as a seaman on the brig. Hazard. He married Jane Lin-
coln. Their son, Ezekial Lincoln, Jr., married Mary Fledt
Elliot.
Gideon Lincoln, born 1 760, in Abington, Mass. He
served as a private in Capt. Henry Prentis* company of
militia. In 1781, he married Martha Perkins. Their
children included:
1. Martha Lincoln, who married Benjamin D.
Gardner.
2. Charles Lincoln, born 1795, married Rebecca
Wood Porter. Their son, Charles Beal Lin-
coln, married Emily A. Stoddar|d.
Jacob Lincoln, born 1762 in Cohasset, Mass., died
1850, in Lancaster, Mass. He served as a private in the
Massachusetts troops, and was placed on the pension roll
in 1832. He married Chloe Lincoln. Their son, Martin
Lincoln, married Susan White Freeman, whose children
were:
1. Martin V. Lincoln, married Eliza J. Copeland.
2. Electa N. Lincoln, married George A. Walton.
James Lincoln, born 1731, in Hingham, Mass., died
there in 1804. He was at the Lexington alarm and the
siege of Boston. He married Susannah Humphrey.
Their son, Perez Lincoln, married Deborah Loring.
Jerome Lincoln was born in Cohasset, Mass., in 1752,
and entered the army in 1775. He died in 1832. He
married his cousin, Elizabeth Lincoln. Their daughter,
Elizabeth Lincoln, married Job Gushing, Jr.
John Lincoln, born 1735, died 1811, served in Massa-
chusetts at the siege of Boston and was a lieutenant in the
Rhode Island campaign 1779-80. In 1760, he married
Lydia Jacob. Their daughters were:
1 . Lydia Lincoln, married Thomas Loring.
2. Pamela Lincoln, married Joel Chandler.
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Joseph Lincoln, born in Massachusetts, in 1736, died
1816. He served as a seaman on the armed brig. Hazard,
and was captured and taken to the Halifax, where he was
kept a prisoner for five years. He married Susannah
Todd Marsh, daughter of Ephriam Marsh and Susanna
Todd. Their son, Joseph Lincoln, married Annie Lamb,
and his son, Albert Lamb Lincoln, married Ann Eliza
Stoddard.
Joshua Lincoln, born 1757, in Hingham, Mass., died
1810. He was at the defense of Nastasket in 1778, under
Major Thomas Lothrop. He married Lamar Sprague.
Their son George Lincoln, married Betsy French, whose
son, Daniel Lincoln, married Priscilla Cain.
Lot Lincoln, born 1762, in Taunton, Mass., died 1814
in Dighton, Mass. He served in Capt. Pelatiah Eddy's
company and in Col. John Hathaway's Bristol Co., com-
pany for service in Rhode Island. He married Sally Hath-
away. Their son, Marshall Lincoln, born 1803, married
Mary Forsam, born 1810.
Mishel Lincoln of Pennsylvania served as a private
and was at Fort Pitt under Capt. John Brady in 1779 and
carried the captain's body after he was killed.
Nathaniel Lincoln, born 1744 in Taunton, Mass.,
died in 1 809. He served as a private in the Massachusetts
Line. He married Ruth Delanor. Their son, Lemuel
Lincoln married Mary Mclntyre. Their son, Lemuel
Rixford Lincoln, married Louisa de la Cave Marchaud.
Nedebiah Lincoln, born 1758, died 1834, was placed
on the pension list of Lincoln Co., Mass., in 1818, for
two year's service as a private in the Line. He married
Sarah Lincoln, a cousin. Their son, Henry, was the
father of Sally Lincoln, who married James Angell.
Royal Lincoln, born 1754 in Hingham, Mass., died
1837, in Cornish, Maine. He was at the Lexington alarm
and served on the brig. Hazard. He married Jerusha
Waterman. Their daughter, Jerusha, married William
Woodbury.
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Rufus Lincoln, born 1751, in Taunton, Mass., died
1838, in Wareham, Mass. He was a corporal at the Lex-
ington alarm and in 1777 raised and equipped a company
for the defense of Fort Ticonderoga. He was captured at
Valley Forge and was not exchanged until 1781. He
married Lydia Sprague. Their children included:
1. Minor Sprague Lincoln married Almira Shepherd.
Their son, Preston, married Annie E. Moore.
2. Prudence Lincoln, married James Field.
Seth Lincoln, Jr., born 1 754, in Warren, Mass., died
there in 1826. He served as corporal at the Lexington
alarm in Col. Jonathan Warner's regiment. He married
Jemima Miller. Among their children were:
1. Ivers Lincoln married Sally Bridges. Their son,
William R., married Elizabeth Patrick.
2. Fanny Lincoln married Joseph Paige. Their
daughter, Mary, married Amasa W. Lincoln.
Simeon Lincoln, born 1757 in Mass., enlisted in 1777
for three years and was in the battle of Rhode Island,
In 1819 he applied for a pension. He married Huldah
Porter. Their son, John Riley Lincoln, born 1781, died
1803, married Elizabeth Booth, born 1783, died 1873.
Their daughter, Eliza Riley Lincoln, married Ira Stanley,
Jr.
Stephen Lincoln, born at Rehoboth, Mass., in 1751,
died in Oakham, Mass., in 1840. He enlisted from
Oakham and served in the Rhode Island campaign under
Gen. John Sullivan. He married Lydia Foster, daughter
of Ebenezer Foster and Hannah Parlin. Among their
children were:
1. Levi Lincoln, who married Malinda Miles. Their
daughter, Sarah King Lincoln, married Festus
C. Felt. Their son, Charles Levi Lincoln, mar-
ried Olivia M. Brewster.
2. Lydia Lincoln, who married Adin Davis, son of
Peter Davis and Mary Howe.
(To be continued)
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MAINE LINCOLN MARRIAGES
(From Original Records)
Lincoln, Mrs. Annie and George M. Atwood, 21 January,
1862, Gardiner, Maine.
Lincoln, Anstress W, and Joseph Robinson, Jr., 19 June,
1837, Gardiner, Maine.
Lincoln, A. W. and Bettie A. Harmon, 16 June, 1866,
Pittston, Maine.
Lincoln, Mrs. Celia D. and Ebenezer S. Byram, 8 Novem-
ber, 1840, Gardiner, Maine.
Lincoln, Charles M. and Annie P. Fisher, 28 December,
1892, Bath, Maine.
Lincoln, David J. and Harriet L. Chandler, 4 December,
1891, Gardiner, Maine.
Lincoln, Edwin S. and Lizzie E. Gordon, 5 September,
1891, Farmington, Maine.
Lincoln, Eliza Ann and Benjamin Dow, 10 October, 1835,
Gardiner, Maine.
Lincoln, Elizabeth and Nathal Stevens, 7 December, 1765,
Gorham, Maine.
Lincoln, Elizabeth B. and George F. Talbott, 1851,
Dennysville, Maine.
Lincoln, Eunice B. and Joseph B. Walton, 25 July, 1829,
Gardiner, Maine.
Lincoln, Jacob and Sarah Clark, 12 March, 1792, East-
port, Maine.
Lincoln, Jacob and Bethia Talbot, 13 December, 1800,
Freeport, Maine.
Lincoln, Joseph R. and Angeline Maxcy, 1 January, 1859,
Gardiner, Maine.
Lincoln, Lucy and Silas Nye, 17 July, 1796, Orrington,
Maine.
Lincoln, Lydia A. and Charles E. Peavey, 24 December,
1880, Gardiner, Maine.
Lincoln, Permalia and Joel Chandler, 4 October, 1795,
Freeport, Maine.
(To be continued)
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CONTENTS
Damon's Lincoln Sermon Page 65
Origin of " Honest Abe" " 70
Philadelphia Marriage Records " 71
Lincoln the Postmaster " 72
Londonderry, N, H. Families '* 72
Line of Thomas of Hingham " 73
Lincoln and Stanton " 73
Massachusetts Marriages * 74
Mrs. Lincoln's Lilac Dress " 79
Lydia Lincoln's Family " 80
Lincoln's Beard " 80
The Lincoln Family
MAGAZINE
JANUARY, 1917
DAMON'S LINCOLN SERMON
(Over a half a century ago, in the Seaman's Chapel, Honolulu, on 14
May, 1865, the Reverend S. C. Damon preached the following sermon on
the assassination of Lincoln. It was published in The Friend of 1 June,
1865, and is republished at this time as a chapter of historic and religious
literature that should not be forgotten.— Editor.)
(Continued from page 54)
It is an interesting fact that the very last public
address which Mr. Lincoln ever made, March 17th, was in
reference to colored soldiers being employed by the rebels.
He remarked that he hoped they would try the experi-
ment! In all his efforts in behalf of the colored people
of America he has endeavored to manage the subject with
an enlightened regard to the highest Christian duty to his
country and to God. Having shown that Mr. Lincoln
was actuated as a public officer by Christian principle, I am
fully confident that he was truly an experimental Christian,
one whose Christianity did not begin and end in a mere
formal acknowledgment of Divine Providence. The fol-
lowing incident is reported by the Rev. Mr. Adams, a
Presbyterian minister of Philadelphia. He was on a visit
to Washington, and had made an appointment to call upon
the President at the White House, at 5 o'clock in the morn-
ing. Says Mr. Adams, "Morning came, and I hastened
my toilet and found myself at a quarter to five in the
waiting room of the President. I asked the usher if I
could see Mr. Lincoln. He said I could not. 'But I have
an engagement to meet him this morning.' 'At what
hour?' 'At 5 o'clock.' 'Well, sir, he will see you at 5.'
I then walked to and fro for a few minutes, and hearing a
voice, as if in grave conversation, I asked the servant,
'Who is talking in the next room?' 'It is the President.
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sir.* 'Is anybody with him?' 'No, sir; he is reading the
Bible.' 'Is that his habit so early in the morning?' 'Yes,
sir; he spends every morning from 4 o'clock to 5 in reading
the scriptures and praying.' " How beautiful an illustra-
tion this is of the injunction of our Savior, "But thou, when
thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and pray to thy Father
which is in secret." How beautiful an instance of one who
followed our Savior's devotional habit, who, "in the morn-
ing, rising up a great while before day." went out and
prayed.
"Prayer ardent opens heaven, lets down a stream
Of glory on the concentrated hour
Of man, and audience with the Dietyl"
The following incident, however, sets forth Mr. Lin-
coln's views upon the question of vital godliness, in the
very strongest light: Several months before his ever-to-
be-lamented death a gentleman called upon him on busi-
ness. After the business was closed and they were about
to part the gentleman said to the President, "On leaving
home a friend requested me to ask Mr, Lincoln whether he
loved Jesus." The gentleman makes the following re-
port: "The President buried his face in his handkerchief,
turned away and wept." He then turned and said, "When
I left home to take the chair of state I requested my coun-
trymen to pray for me. I was not then a Christian. When
my son died — the severest trial of my life — I was not a
Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and looked
upon the graves of our dead heroes who had fallen in de-
fense of their country, I then and there consecrated my-
self to Christ. / do love Jesusl" This simple and touch-
ing confession needs no comment. It opens to the world
the heart and religious experience of the good man. The
people felt that he was honest in all his dealings with them,
and so he was equally honest with himself and God. These
few simple utterances, welling up from the depths of his
heart, and accompanied with tears, will ever be cherished
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by Christians of every name and sect as the most precious
sayings of his life. They touch the tenderest chord in the
Christian's heart. Christians of every name will ever re-
gard him as a brother beloved, but departed, and when
thinking of him as departed the language of the burial ser-
vice will not be inappropriate: "It hath pleased Al-
mighty God, in His wise providence to take out of this
world the soul of our deceased Brother!"
Think, not, my hearers, that I have brought forward
these facts and incidents in the life of our lamented Presi-
dent because I think it requires an argument in the style
of special pleading to prove his adherence to the principles
of Christianity and the doctrines of the New Testament.
No; his Christian, as well as his public and political
character, is known and read of all men. With him there
was no reserve or concealment. His character was per-
fectly transparent. His faults as well as his virtues were
equally apparent.
"And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side."
He went to the theater on that fatal night, the tele-
graph informs us because he wished to please his friends
and not disappoint the people, who were expecting the
presence of Gen. Grant.
"His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in his that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, This was a man!"
In turning our thoughts from a contemplation of his
character to our bleeding country, the question forces
itself upon every thoughtful mind, what will be the effect of
Abraham Lincoln's assassination upon the Nation? Our
latest dates afford us, as yet, no facts by which we can
satisfactorily answer this question. Time must de-
termine. Our minds must for the present find consolation
in dwelling upon the great truth that God lives and reigns,
and that He is able and "will make the wrath of man to
praise Him." We may also recall to mind some of those
pages of history wherein somewhat similar events are re-
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corded. When Brutus and his fellow-assassins smote
down Caesar in the senate at Rome they supposed that
with Caesar's death Caesar's influence would no longer be
felt. They were disappointed. Caesar, disappeared, but,
exclaims Cicero, "All the acts of Caesar's life, his writings,
his words, his promises, thoughts, are more powerful after
his death than if he were still alive." So I trust, and
doubt not, it will be with the life, writings, words, prom-
ises, thoughts of Abraham Lincoln. His blood has
stamped an impress upon these which will immeasurably
increase their value throughout all coming time.
When the hired assassin, Balthazar Gerard, brought
to an untimely end the eventful life of William the Silent,
Prince of Orange, on the 1 0th of July, 1584, Philip II., all
the enemies of civil and religious liberty imagined that
with the death of the Prince of Orange would end his use-
fulness. But how dissappointed were these men. In the
beautiful language of Motley, The Prince was entombed
amid the tears of a whole nation. Never was a more ex-
tensive, unaffected and legitimate sorrow felt at the death
of any human being. As long as he lived he was the
guiding star of a whole brave nation, and when he died the
little children cried in the streets." The commonwealth
which William had liberated forever from Spanish tyranny
continued to exist as a great and flourishing republic dur-
ing more than two centuries, under the successive stadt-
holderates of his sons and descendants. So I doubt not a
similar result will follow the assassination of the illustrious
man whose most unexpected death we now lament. He
died the martyr to liberty. He was assassinated by the
hand of Booth, but it was negro-chattel slavery which
nerved that arm and prompted that basest of crimes in the
annals of nations. This was the crowning act of the
slaveholders' rebellion. Sumter was fired upon on the
I 2th of April, 1861, Booth shot President Lincoln on the
l4th of April, 1865. The same bad animus that first
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struck down the flag in '61 fired the assassin's bosom when
he smote down the President, commander-in-chief of all
the military and naval forces of the republic. No powers
of metaphysical analysis can separate the two. Perhaps
it was needed that this crime of crimes should be perpe-
trated to arouse the minds of the American people to the
awful enormity of the crime of slavery and treason. The
deed has been accomplished, and henceforth and forever,
in the minds of all loyal Americans and lovers of liberty
throughout the world, a stigma has been fastened upon the
crime of slavery and treason which can never be wiped
away.
The event to which your attention has now been
called will not pass into oblivion and be forgotten. It was
not done in a corner, but the crime was perpetrated, as it
were, in the presence of a gazing crowd of spectators in-
finitely larger than that gathered in the theater where it
took place. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on the
world's wide stage. There was a great cloud of witnesses.
Now what shall be its influence upon the Nation and the
world we know not now but we shall know hereafter. It
will be overruled for good. How unspeakably thankful
we all should be that he was spared thus long to the
Nation, even to see a virtual ending of the rebellion.
God permitted this stunning blow to fall for the accom-
plishment of some wise purpose. I do believe that in
after years and ages it will be seen to have been necessary
for bringing about the final triumph of justice and truth,
and the punishment of the guilty. For a season clouds
and darkness may surround the throne of God and en-
velope His plans and purposes, but ere long He will make
all clear and plain. If we are watchful and take the word
of God for our guide we shall see the dark clouds revealing
a rainbow of glorious promise. I am confident that a
bright and glorious future is opening before our country.
Let us be hopeful. Great results must follow from these
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tragic events of war and commotion. Surely we have
witnessed enough to make us trustful and confiding. It
seems to be a law or principle which God observes in his
management of nations as well as individuals, that when
He would bestow some signal favor He prepares the way
by severe chastisements. Surely, I think we may hope
that God has great good in store for that people when He
shall have chastised them for that great sin of slavery.
That must be removed before the millennium come and
the Gospel shall everywhere triumph. In the appro-
priate language of Longfellow, I would exhort you, "Look
not mournfully upon the past; it comes not back again.
Wisely improve the present; it is thine. Go forth and
meet the shadowy future, without fear and with a manly
heart." Let us not go forth, however, trusting in an
"arm of flesh," but in God, our Savior and Deliverer, most
fully believing the sentiment of the text, "What I do thou
knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter." God
is the Judge!
ORIGIN OF * 'HONEST ABE"
Mr. A. H. Chapman, a step-nephew by marriage of
Mr. Lincoln, has this to say of him as to why he was called
"Honest Abe."
"In his law practice on the Wabash circuit he was
noted for his unswerving honesty. People learned to love
him ardently, devotedly, and juries listened intently,
earnestly, receptively to the sad-faced, earnest man. He
was never blamed for bribery; nothing could move him
when once his resolutions were formed. There was nothing
scholarly in his speeches and he always rested his
case on its merits, only asking for simple Western
justice, and the texture of the man was such that his
very ungainliness was in his favor before a pioneer jury.
His face always wore a sweetened and kindly expression,
never sour, and burning to win them, his tall frame
swaying as a pine, made him a resistless pleader. I
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remember one case of his decided honest trait of char-
acter. It was a case in which he was for the defendant.
Satisfied of his client's innocence, it depended mainly
on one witness. That witness told on the stand under
oath what Abe knew to be a lie, and no one else knew.
When he arose to plead the case, he said:
" 'Gentlemen, I depended on this witness to clear
my client. He has lied. I ask that no attention be
paid his testimony. Let his words be stricken out, if
my case fails, I do not wish to win in this way.'
"His scorn of a lie touched the jury; he laid his case
before them magnificently, skilfully, masterly, and won
in spite of the lie against him. From such work came his
'Honest Abe.' I never knew Abe to have a coat to fit
him, all were ill-fitting, but underneath was a big, hot
heart that could adjust itself to all humanity. He had
at his tongue's end the little items that make up the
humble world of the pioneer farmer. Once at a hotel, in
the evening during court, a lawyer said:
" 'Our case is gone; when Lincoln quit he was crying,
the jury was crying, the Judge was crying, and I was a
little damp about the lashes myself. We might as well
give the case up.' "
PHILADELPHIA MARRIAGE RECORDS
(From the Original Register of Old Swedes' Church)
25 July 1763, Henry Linkin and Ann Boon, by Rev.
Charles M. Wrangel, by license.
7 July 1791, Elizabeth Lincorn and John Hart, by
Rev. Nicholas Collin.
11 April 1792, Jacob Lincoln and Mary Taylor, both
of Kingsessing, by Rev. Nicholas
Collin.
19 March 1795, Moses Lincorn, 33, son of dec. Jacob
and Ann Lincorn, to Barbara Kinch,
26, daughter of Casper and Margaret
Kinch of Kingsessing.
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LINCOLN, THE POSTMASTER
In the Spring of 1833, Lincoln was appointed Post-
master at New-Salem, III., and held the office for three
years. Its emoluments were slender and its duties light,
but there was in all probability no citizen of the village
who could have made so much of it as he. The mails
were so scanty that he was said to carry them in his hat,
and he is also reported to have read every newspaper
that arrived: it is altogether likely that this formed the
leading inducement to his taking the office. His incum-
bency lasted until New-Salem ceased to be populous
enough for a post station and the mail went by to Peters-
burg. Dr. Holland relates a sequel to this official ex-
perience which illustrates the quaint honesty of the man.
Several years later, when he was a practicing lawyer, an
agent of the Post Office Department called upon him
and asked for a balance due from the New-Salem office,
some $17. Lincoln arose, and opening a little trunk
which lay in a corner of the room, took from it a cotton
rag in which was tied up the exact sum required. "I
never use any man's money but my own," he quietly
remarked. When we consider the pinching poverty in
which these years have been passed we may appreciate
the self-denial which had kept him from making even a
temporary use of this little sum of Government money.
LONDONDERRY, N. H., FAMILIES
(From Town Records)
Births: Anna P. Lincoln, born 16 October, 1869.
Gertrude F., daughter of Silas E. and Emma E.,
born 18 April, 1888.
Marriages: Ann Lincoln and Tilley H. Wheeler, 1856.
Anna P. Lincoln and D. L. Batchelder,
17 December, 1888.
Silas E. Lincoln and Emma E. Corey, 26
September, 1888.
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LINE OF THOMAS OF HINGHAM
Thomas (I) Lincoln, "the cooper," died 28 Septem-
ber, 1691, at Hingham, Mass. His wife, Annis Lane,
daughter of William, died there 13 or 14 February,
1682-3.
Joseph (2), baptized 20 November, 1640, at Hingham,
Mass., died there 18 March, 1715-16. He married 14
June, 1682, Prudence Ford, daughter of Andrew and
Eleanor of Weymouth, born 22 December, 1663, died
26 November, 1695, at Hingham.
Elisha (3), born 2 October, 1692, at Hingham, Mass.,
died 18 April, 1774, at Arlington. He married, at Abing-
ton, 14 November, 1718, Rachel Tirrell, who died at
Abington, 27 December, 1 767, aged sixty-six.
Ezekiel (4), baptized 22 June, 1729, at Abington,
Mass., married 9 November, 1758, at Abington, Miriam
Tirrell.
Elisha (5), born 22 September, 1759, at Abington,
married 1777, Molly (5) Gurney. She was born at Abing-
ton, 12 February, 1761, daughter of Joseph (4), Jr.,
and Sarah (Shaw), who were married at Abington, 8
September, 1758. Joseph (4) was born at Abington,
4 February, 1735, died there 13 May, 1814. He was son
of Joseph (3) and Mary (Perkins) who were married at
Weymouth, 10 June, 1718. Joseph (3) was born at Wey-
mouth, Mass., 7 March, 1697-8, and died there 14 Decem-
ber, 1739, son of Zechariah (2), who died at Weymouth,
27 October, 1732, by wife, Mary. Zechariah (2) was
son of John (1) and Rebecca Taylor.
LINCOLN AND STANTON
(Washington Letter)
I think I have a new Lincoln-Stanton story. At
least the Congressman who told it spoke as though he had
just discovered the document which is its basis. It was
an application for a Chaplaincy in the army, with a series
of indorsements by Lincoln and Stanton on its back which
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ran over the available space on the application and down
on a slip of paper which had been added to receive them.
These were the indorsements, each being dated: "Dear
Stanton: Appoint this man a Chaplain in the army. A
Lincoln." "Dear Mr. Lincoln: He is not a preacher.
E. M. Stanton." Three or four months elapse evidently,
and then we have: "Dear Stanton: He is now. A.
Lincoln." "Dear Mr. Lincoln: But there is no vacancy.
E. M. Stanton." "Dear Stanton: Appoint him a
Chaplain at large. A. Lincoln." "Dear Mr. Lincoln:
There is no warrant of law for that. E. M. Stanton."
"Dear Stanton: Appoint him anyhow. A. Lincoln."
"Dear Mr. Lincoln: I will not. E. M. Stanton." And
he didn't. But apparently he told the applicant that he
could leave his application on file, for there it is among
the dry old documents.
MASSACHUSETTS MARRIAGES
(From Original Records)
Lincoln, Abel and Mrs, Polly Marshall, 18 September,
1790, Fitchburg, Mass.
Lincoln, Asa and Sarah E. Danielson. 4 September, 1809,
Taunton, Mass.
Lincoln, Betsey and Thomas White, 1 March, 1790,
Brookiield, Mass.
Lincoln, Charles and Mary B. Minott, 15 November,
1821, Dorchester, Mass.
Lincoln, Charles and Adeline Barker, 1 January, 1863,
Hanover, Mass.
Lincoln, Clara A. and Chauncey W. Carter, 13 May,
1868, Leominster, Mass.
Lincoln, Cortes H. and Lucy Colburn, 30 March, 1828,
Dedham, Mass.
Linkhorn, Experience and Jonathan Sterns, 24 May,
1727, Dorchester, Mass.
Lincoln, Ezekial and Elizabeth F. Starr, 9 June, 1806,
Dedham, Mass.
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Lincoln, Fanny and Joseph Page, 13 March, 1816, Warren,
Mass.
Lincoln, Fanny and James Jenks, 16 October, 1838,
Warren, Mass.
Lincoln, Francis D. and Rebecca F. Cox, 28 September,
1848. Walpole, Mass.
Lincoln, Frederick and Tabitha Whitmarsh, 30 January,
1779, Weymouth, Mass.
Lincoln, Fordyce F. and Mary Purves, 25 January, 1824,
Andover, Mass.
Lincoln, George and Kezia Shearman, 3 April, 1755,
Rochester, Mass.
Lincoln, George and Mercy Hall, 16 May, 1844, Hing-
ham, Mass.
Lincoln, George W. and Mary M. Moulton, 22 Novem-
ber, 1845, Warren, Mass.
Lincoln. Georgiana De V. and Francis B. Rice, 8 Janu-
ary, 1861, Worcester, Mass.
Lincoln, Gineason H. and Mary D. Hall, 27 May, 1855,
Hanover, Mass.
Lincoln, Gooding and Abigail Presson, 9 October, 1825,
Athol, Mass.
Lincoln, Grace and Joshua Bates, 6 March, 1746, Hing-
ham, Mass.
Lincoln, Hannah and James Lewes, 17 November, 1682,
Hingham, Mass.
Lincoln, Hannah and Matthew Stetson, 24 September,
1730. Hanover, Mass.
Lincoln, Hannah and David Bate, 4 March, 1736, Wey-
mouth, Mass.
Lincoln, Hannah and Levi White, 2 November, 1765,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Hannah and Melzar Curtis, 26 March, 1770,
Hanover, Mass.
Lincoln, Hannah and Thomas Cook, 26 March, 1770,
Pembroke, Mass.
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Lincoln, Hannah and Ebenezer Storer, 6 November, 1 777
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Hannah and John Burt, 26 November, 1778,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Hannah and Reuben King, 3 March, 1805,
Brewster, Mass.
Lincoln, Hannah and John Foster, 8 November, 1807,
Petersham, Mass.
Lincoln, Hannah and Amos Hunter, 19 August, 1810,
Oakham, Mass.
Lincoln, Hannah B. and Daniel Harriss, 5 March, 1823,
Westminster, Mass.
Lincoln, Hannah J. and Chandler Manley, 8 December,
1827, Pelham, Mass.
Lincoln, Hanna and Daniel Faloon, 3 November, 1837,
Arlington, Mass.
Lincoln, Hannah J. and Ambrose M. Woodward, 5 Aug-
ust, 1846, Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Harriet and Abiel H. Wheeler, 2 January, 1829,
Ashby, Mass.
Lincoln, Harriet and Edward Burley, 5 August, 1833,
Beverly, Mass.
Lincoln, Harriet M. and Dr. Ezra Abbott, Jr., 23 Decem-
ber, 1839, Canton, Mass.
Lincoln, Harrison F. and Almira Round, 1 1 October,
1848, Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Harvey and Betsy Foster, 3 February, 1804,
Warren, Mass.
Lincoln, Heman and Sally Cushing, 13 October, 1802,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Henry and Susan Lane, 20 March, 1842, Wey-
mouth, Mass.
Lincoln, Henry and Cynthia H. Blanchard, 6 October,
1844, Weymouth, Mass.
Lincoln, Herbert R. and Caroline M. Wood, 1 November,
1863, Dedham, Mass.
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Lincoln, Hezekiah and Priscilla Farrow, 21 February,
1711, Hingham, Mass.
Lincoln, Horatio and Lucinda L. Field, 6 April, 1823,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Isaac and Hannah Eveleth, 26 September, 1743,
Sudbury, Mass.
Lincoln, Isaac and Experience Willis, 15 February, 1763,
Sudbury, Mass.
Lincoln, Isaac and Hannah Jennison, 24 August, 1784,
Sutton, Mass.
Lincoln, Isaac and Nancy Adams, 9 July, 1795, Boston,
Mass.
Lincoln, Isaac and Mary Foster, December, 1807, Brew-
ster, Mass.
Lincoln, Isaac and Julia A. Chubback, 4 October, 1829,
Abington, Mass.
Lincoln, Isaac and Ruth W. Dyer, 28 July, 1830, Wey-
mouth, Mass.
Lincoln, Israel and Margaret Stoddard, 27 May, 1717,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, I vers and Esther Bridges, 21 January, 1808,
Warren, Mass.
Lincoln, I vers and Sally Bridges, 16 April, 1811, Warren,
Mass.
Lincoln, Jacob and Ruth Merritt, 14 November, 1717,
Beaton, Mass.
Lincoln, Jacob and Lydia Barrett, 18 January, 1727,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Jacob and Lidia Ward, 26 March, 1728, Boston,
Mass.
Lincoln, Jacob and Policy Wood, 2 January, 1 808, Sharon,
Mass.
Lincoln, Jairus B. and Jane Lincoln, 4 September, 1821,
Weymouth, Mass.
Lincoln, Jairus B. and Priscilla S. Pratt, 17 April, 1842,
Weymouth, Mass,
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Linkhornew, James and Lydia Snow, 10 February, 1714,
Eastham, Mass.
Lincoln, James and Johanna How, 10 February, 1718,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, James and Nabby Mitchell, 20 February, 1788,
East Bridgewater, Mass.
Lincoln, James and Lucinda Bailey, 29 June, 1794,
Hanover, Mass.
Lincoln, James and Lydia B. Leonard, 3 April, 1831,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, James S. and Almira Dean, 1 March, 1841,
Oakham, Mass.
Lincoln, Jane and Jairus B. Lincoln, 4 September, 1821,
Weymouth, Mass.
Lincoln. Jane and Benjamin White, 14 April, 1822, Abing-
ton, Mass.
Lincoln, Jane and Abraham Shaw, 7 August, 1834,
Abington, Mass.
Lincoln, Jared and Sila Bates, 19 March, 1806, Boston,
Mass.
Lincoln, Jedediah and Bethia Witon, 9 January, 1716,
Hingham, Mass.
Lincoln, Jedediah and Mary Barker, 10 June, 1736, Pem-
broke, Mass.
Lincoln, Jedediah and Betsy Edwards, 30 September,
1785, Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Jennison and Rebecca Leonard, 22 March, 1831,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Jesse and Olive Field, 29 October, 1809, Norton,
Mass.
Lincoln, John and Susanna Nichols, 29 March, 1717,
Pembroke, Mass.
Lincoln, John, Jr., and Hannah Barker, 3 May, 1736,
Hanover, Mass.
Lincoln, John, Jr., and Content Turner, 25 February,
1740, Pembroke, Mass.
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Linkhon, John and Hannah Ockinton, 9 November, 1758,
Wrentham, Mass.
Lincoln, John and Joana Townsend, 21 May, 1761,
Abington, Mass.
Lincoln, John and Nancy Chandler, 16 November, 1788,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, John and Kata Blankinship, 30 January, 1800,
Rochester, Mass.
Lincoln, John and Mary Cain, 6 December, 1821, Wal-
pole, Mass.
Lincoln, John and Lydia Babbett, 16 June, 1842, Norton,
Mass.
Lincoln, Jonathan and Susan Lincoln, 24 April, 1745,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Jonathan and Hannah Bate, 22 January, 1 774,
Abington, Mass.
Lincoln, Jonathan and Amy Northrup, 1 December, 1 794,
Berkshire Co., Mass.
Lincoln, Jonathan and Caroline P. Aldrich, 22 June, 1839,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Joseph and Hanna Clyde, widow, 22 February,
1753, Abington, Mass.
Lincoln, Joseph and Mollie Holbrook, 19 October, 1758,
Braintree, Mass.
Lincoln, Joseph and Ama Lamb, 2 November, 1809,
Boston, Mass.
(To be Continued.)
MRS. LINCOLN'S LILAC DRESS
A current story in Washington circles even yet is
that at the funeral of Col. Baker, Mrs. Abraham Lincoln
wore a lilac silk dress, with bonnet and gloves to match.
She was much ridiculed at the time by the papers, and
Washington society circles felt outraged. So much was
said of it that ladies who wished her well at last per-
suaded an intimate friend of Mrs. Lincoln's to tell her of
the impropriety. The friend went to see her, barely
worked up to the point of remonstrance.
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Mrs, Lincoln met her in the vestibule, exclaiming:
"I am so glad you haVe come, I am just as mad as I can
be. Mrs. Crittenden has just been here to remonstrate
with me for wearing my lilac suit to Col. Baker's fu»ieral.
I wonder if the women of Washington expect me to muffle
myself up in mourning for every soldier killed in thys
great war."
The lady here said: "But Mrs. Lincoln, do you not
thinlk black more suitable to wear at a funeral because
there is a great war in the nation?"
"No, I don't. I want the women to mind their own
business, I intend to wear what I please."
LYDIA LINCOLN'S FAMILY
Nathan Prentiss married in 1791 Lydia Lincoln
of Petersham, Mass. Their children were:
Pamela, born 2 August, 1792, married Anthony Van
Bergen.
Eliza, born 18 June, 1794, married Jared Weed.
Lydia, born 7 September, 1796, married Samuel
Westcott.
William Spencer, born 1 1 September, 1 798, married
Mary Jane Clark.
Mary, born 1 1 September, 1 800, married HoUis Tidd.
Fanny, born 22 October, 1802.
Rebecca, born 1 April, 1805.
Lucretia, born 5 March, 1807.
Amanda, born 7 June, 1809.
LINCOLN'S BEARD
When Mr. Lincoln, then President-elect, passed
through Rochester, N. Y., in February, 1861, en-route to
Washington, his face was smooth-shaven. It is said that
in Rochester a little girl remarked to him: "Mr. Lincoln,
your face would not seem so long, and you would look
better if you wore whiskers." The President laughed,
thanked the young miss, and went his way. Thereafter
he let his beard grow.
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Thomas Lincoln of Hingham Page 81
Vermont and New Hampshire Marriages '* 83
Mary Todd Lincoln " 84
Ohio Marriages " 86
A Lincoln Letter " 86
G)nnecticut Marriages " 87
Lincoln a Close Observer *' 88
The Connecticut Lincolns " 89
Massachusetts Marriages " 90
The Lincoln Family
MAGAZINE
APRIL. 1917
THOMAS LINCOLN OF HINGHAM, ENGLAND
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS
By M. L. P.
Thomas (1) Linkon, "the miller," born England,
1602-3, died 1683, will probated Taunton, 5 March, 1684;
came from Hingham, England to Hingham, Mass., in
1635. In 1649 the town of Taunton, Mass., voted him
"accommodations" to come there and set up a grist mill,
which offer he accepted, and in 1649 Thomas (1) Linkon
and his eldest son, Thomas (2) Linkon, came to Taunton,
built and ran the grist mill on Mill River, and this mill
was in charge of the "Linkon" family for forty-seven
years, when it was deeded to the "Crossmans," who had
charge of it for more than one hundred years. In 1652
the rest of the family came.
Thomas (1) Linkon emigrated to America, accom-
panied by five children, three sons, Thomas (2), John (2),
Samuel (2), and two daughters, Sarah (2) and Mary (2).
His first wife, unknown, probably died before coming
to America, as nothing is known of her in this country.
He married, second, 10 December, 1665, Elizabeth Street,
widow of Francis Street. She was living in 1706, and
was then "Widdow Linkon," as she then joined with
her daughter Mary Street in conveying lands, etc. She
married, third, in her old age, Thomas Harvey.
Thomas (2) Linkon, born in England, before 1630,
baptized by Rev. Peter Hobart in Hingham, Mass., Febru-
ary, 1637, came to Taunton with his father in 1649, and
was given a home-lot, "six acres of land at the place
where the timber had been cut for the meeting-house."
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This was on the river near what was later known as
"Fisher's Bridge," and there are some persons living
at the present time who remember the ruins of the old
house, and very many who remember the cellar walls.
Two very large buttonwood trees which stood near the
house were cut down within twenty years.
This Thomas (2) Linkon was living in 1694, died
previous to 1696; married, first, Mary Austin, daughter
of Jonah and Constant Austin; she died 1694, and he
married, second, Susanna (Macey) Smith, widow of
Samuel Smith. Children, all by first wife, were: Mary
(3), born 12 May, 1652; Sarah (3), born 25 September,
1654, died young; Thomas (3), born 21 April, 1656,
married Mary Stacy; Samuel (3), born 18 March, 1658;
Jonah and Sarah (3), born 7 July, 1660; Hannah (3),
born 15 March, 1663, married Peter Branch of Preston,
Conn.; Constant (3), born 16 May, 1665, married William
Briggs; Mercy (3), born 3 April, 1670, married WiUiam
Caswell; Experience (3), died young.
Thomas (3) Linkon, born 21 April, 1656, was living
1 1 March, 1733, when he conveyed land to son Jonathan.
He died about 1745. He married, in 1679, Mary Stacy,
daughter of Richard and Abigail Stacy. It is thought
that Richard Stacy came to Taunton from Salem, Mass.
Certainly he was in Taunton in 1643, as in the list of
names of the first "train-band" enrolled in Taunton in
1643, appears the name of "Richard Stacye." He died
in 1687, and his son-in-law, Thomas Linkon was granted
administration on his estate 7 December, 1687.
Thomas (3) Linkon was called "senior" in 1698,
and "grand-senior" in 1708. His house stood not far
from his father's, near where Morris Lincoln now lives,
west from the Agricultural Grounds, at the head of
Shores street. It was burned only a few years ago.
The children of Thomas (3) Linkon and Mary
(Stacy) Linkon were Thomas, born 1680, wife not known,
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had three sons, Thomas (5), Gideon (5), Isaac (5); Wil-
liam, born 1682, married Rebecca Walker; Nathaniel,
born, 1684, married Alice Andrews; Jonathan, born 1686,
marriedHannah Andrews; Benjamin, born 1689, married,
first, Elizabeth; married, second, Marcy Woodward: Han-
nah, born 1692, married as second wife, Edmond Andrews;
Lydia, born 1694, married Ephraim Kittle (or Kittrell);
Constant, born 1696, married Nathaniel Burt.
The statement that there were sons Silas and Nathan
and daughter Tabitha is probably an error. Silas (5)
was son of William (4), and married Hannah Wade of
Bridgewater. Tabitha (5) was his sister, and lived to be
very old, died unmarried, and as Nathan was given
Nathaniel's (4) wife (by James Minor Lincoln), this
was merely a confusion of names.
The wife of Thomas (4) Linkon is not known. He
had three sons, the eldest of whom, Thomas (5), married
Esther Andrews, daughter of Edmond (3) (John 2,
John 1) Andrews. This is mainly from Bible and private
records.
VERMONT AND N. H. MARRIAGES
Lincoln, Asa and Sarah Sumner, 3 December, 1805,
Keene, N. H.
Lincoln, James, Jr., and Lucy Whitcomb, 28 November,
1803, Keene, N. H.
Lincoln, John H. and Dulena Finton, 12 July, 1821, Rut-
land, Vt.
Lincoln, Laura and Samuel Francis, 2 September, 1846,
Wells. Vt.
Lincoln, Luke and Betsy Webb, 12 April, 1807. Rocking-
ham, Vt.
Lincoln, Pedy and Abel Pcnfield, 10 September, 1816,
Rutland, Vt.
Lincoln, Rev. Varnum and Emeline Sprague, 17 May,
1844. Hudson, N. H.
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MARY TODD LINCOLN
Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln, was
born in Lexington, Ky., 12 December, 1818. Her father,
Robert S. Todd, belonged to a family of pioneers fore-
most in the development of the commonwealth of Ken-
tucky. Her great-uncle, John Todd, took part in the
capture of Kaskaskia and Vincennes, under Gen. George
R. Clark in 1778, and subsequently organized the civil
government of Illinois. He was killed at the battle of
Blue Licks, in which his brother, Levi, Mary's grand-
father, was a young lieutenant and one of the few sur-
vivors.
Mary Todd was carefully educated, and passed her
early life in comparative luxury at the home of an aunt.
At the age of twenty-one, while on a visit to a married
sister in Springfield, she met Mr. Lincoln, a rising lawyer,
and after a short engagement they were married on 4
November, 1842. Miss Todd had curiously predicted in
her girlhood that she should be the wife of a president,
and after her marriage her ambition kept pace with her
husband's progress in public life. In I860 she awaited
with feverish anxiety the result of the republican con-
vention at Chicago, keeping in mind her girlish prophecy.
Her husband, not unmindful of her ambition, upon re-
ceiving the telegram announcing his nomination remarked:
"There is a little woman who has some interest in the
matter," and walked home to tell her of it.
On the 9th of March Mrs. Lincoln gave her first
public reception, assisted by her sisters and nieces. An
oil portrait represents her as she appeared at that period.
She made a pleasant impression, and it was perhaps the
proudest moment of her existence. But it was also the
inaugration of her deepest afflictions. She presided at
the most gloomy period in the history of the capital.
Her husband was bowed down by national cares; suspense
and uncertainty was in every heart; her family was de-
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voted to the cause of the South, while her hopes, with
those of her husband and children, were with the North.
Unable by temperament and education to cope with
these critical issues, Mrs. Lincoln soon found herself the
target of malice, detraction and falsehood. She gave
weekly receptions at the time when a state of the country
made the gaiety that she preferred out of keeping with
the position she occupied, and the death of the second
son, Willie, shed a gloom over the private life of both
parents. But, during the whole of her occupancy
of the White House, she was unremitting in her care
of the sick soldiers in the hospitals of Washington.
The summer of 1864 was spent by Mrs. Lincoln at
the seaside. After the re-election of the president in
the fall, the receptions of the season were renewed with
a promise of unusual gaiety, that of New Year's day
opening with exceptional brilliancy. After the inaugura-
tion, Mrs. Lincoln felt that brighter days were in store,
and when the surrender of Gen. Lee on the 9th of April
was announced, she shared in the happy excitement that
filled the White House and the city. That fatal night of
14th of April that ended the president's life also blighted
her own. From its effects she never recovered. After a
severe illness, she returned with her two boys to Spring-
field, where she was further afflicted by the death of Thomas
the youngest lad.
In 1868, with a mind somewhat unbalanced and
broken health, she sought rest in travel. Congress had
already paid her the amount of the president's salary for
one year, and in 1870 voted her an annual pension of
$3,000. afterward increased to $5,000. Still later an
additional gift of $15,000 was presented to her by congress
to insure comfort in her old age. She possessed, besides,
a small estate left by her husband. In 1880 she returned
from wanderings in various countries, her mind still im-
paired, and spent her last days with her son, Robert in
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Chicago. She died stricken with paralysis, 16 July, 1882,
and was laid to rest by the side of her husband and chil-
dren in Springfield — White's Biog.
OHIO MARRIAGES
Lincoln, Frances and George Turner, 28 October, 1817,
Washington Co., Ohio.
Lincoln, George and Ruby Wales, 8 November, 1818,
Licking Co., Ohio.
Lincoln, Gilman and Sally Cody, 25 November, 1818,
Franklin Co., Ohio.
Lincoln, Obadiah and Peggy McCune, 12 April, 1797,
Washington Co., Ohio.
Lincoln, Paul M. and Elizabeth R. Hague, 30 June, 1897,
Columbus, Ohio.
Lincoln, Sumner H. and Ruth A. Goodin, 1 October,
1874, Cincinnati, Ohio.
A LINCOLN LETTER
Mr. William H. Torr, of Burlington, N. J., has found
among his files a photographic copy of a letter which
President Lincoln wrote to Miss Eliza P. Gurney of Bur-
lington. Miss Gurney was a Quaker and headed a peace
movement in the civil war. Here is the letter:
Executive Mansion,
Washington, Sept. 4, 1864.
Eliza P. Gurney:
My Esteemed Friend — I have not forgotten — prob-
ably never shall forget — the very impressive occasion
when yourself and friends visited me on a Sabbath fore-
noon two years ago. Nor has your kind letter, written
nearly a year later, ever been forgotten. In all, it has
been your purpose to strengthen my reliance in God.
I am much indebted to the good Christian people of
the country for their constant prayers and consolations,
and to none of them more than to yourself. The pur-
poses of the Almighty are perfect and must prevail,
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though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive
them in advance. We hoped for a happy termination of
this terrible war long before this; but God knows best
and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His
wisdom and our own error therein, mean-while we must
work earnestly in the best light He gives us, trusting
that so working still conduces to the great end He or-
dains.
Surely He intends some great good to follow this
mighty convulsion, which no mortal could make and no
mortal could stay.
Your people, the Friends, have had and are having
a very great trial. On principal and faith, opposed to
both war and oppression, they can only practically op-
pose oppression by war. In this hard dilemma, some
have chosen one horn and some the other. For those
appealing to me on conscientious grounds, I have done
and shall do the best I could and can, in my own conscience
under my oath to the law. That you believe this I doubt
not; and believing it I shall still receive, for our country
and myself, your earnest prayers to our Father in heaven.
Your sincere friend, A. Lincoln.
CONNECTICUT MARRIAGES
Lincoln, Abia, widow, and Daniel Savage, 8 May, 1777,
Middletown, Conn.
Lincoln, Clarissa and David Lincoln, I September, 1796,
Windham, Conn.
Lincoln, David and Clarissa Lincoln. 1 September, 1796,
Windham, Conn.
Lincoln, Elisha and Rhuma Crosman, 18 April, 1781,
Fairfield, Conn.
Lincoln, Henry A. and Sophia Fenn, 6 December, 1840,
Washington, Conn.
Linkhorn, Jacob and Elizabeth Scott, 12 March, 1797,
Norwich, Conn.
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Lincoln, Jonah and Lucy Webb, 1 May, 1783, Windham,
Conn.
Linkon, Nathaniel and Agnes Austin, 21 December, 1757,
Mansfield, Conn.
Linkon, Samuel and Experience Lamb, 14 November, 1729,
Norwich, Conn.
Linkon, Samuel and Mary Austin, 14 March, 1758,
Mansfield, Conn.
Lincoln, Sarah K. and Festus Felt, 9 December, 1844,
Hartford, Conn.
Linkon, Temperance and Samuel Abbey, July, 1766,
Mansfield, Conn.
LINCOLN A CLOSE OBSERVER
Lincoln, one of the greatest of observers, was himself
the least truly observed. God had built him in the back-
yard of the nation, and there, wrapped in homely guise,
had preserved and matured his pure humanity. He
was heard, but seems rarely, if ever, to have been truly
seen. The reports we have of him do not satisfy, do
not justify themselves, are inconsistent. The Eastern,
Old- World eye could not read beyond the queer hat,
bad tailoring, and boots you could not now give away —
and he was so long he fairly had to stoop to look the little
world in the face. Never have bad tailoring and homely,
deferential manner so completely hidden seer, jester,
master of men, as did these simple accoutrements this
first great gift of the West. The world ever reads simple
deferential manner — true evidence of innate refinement —
as weakness, timidity and indecision, just as it reads
strength in noise, and power in abuse. It is said of sound
that volume will start a tear more quickly than quality,
of tone. But it is surprising that professional observers,
artists and writers alike have drawn and redrawn an un-
true picture of this man. Out of the hundreds of Lin-
coln's pictures few are reliable, even as records of fact.
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THE CONNECTICUT LINCOLNS
The first Lincoln to appear in Windham county.
Conn., was Samuel Lincoln, about 1692, claimed to have
come from Taunton, Mass., via Norwich, Conn. He
married, in Windham, 2 June, 1692, Elizabeth Jacobs,
The children were: I, Samuel, born 20 January, 1693,
died 169^; 2, Samuel, born 29 November. 1693, died 29
November, 1724; 3, Mercy, born 4 December, 1698;
4, Jacob, born 10 May, 1696; 5, Thomas, born 24 October
1701; 6, Jonah, born 23 July, 1704; 7, Nathaniel, born 11
April, 1705, died 1705; 8, Elizabeth, born
Samuel Lincoln, son of Samuel Lincoln, married
Ruth Huntington, 22 August, 1 723; she was born 8 August,
1699 and died 6 October, 1757. Their children were:
I, Samuel; 2, John; 3, Nathaniel; 4, Joseph; 5, Eleazer;
6, David; 7, Eleazer; 8, Daniel. (?)
Jacob Lincoln, son of Samuel Lincoln, married 28
April, 1736, Abigail Mason. Their children were: 1,
Jacob; 2, Daniel; 3, Joseph; 4, Abigail; 5, Nathan; 6,
Hezekiah; 7, Ann; 8, Elijah.
Through the courtesy of Mrs. Edward Burnham of
North Windham, Conn., we are permitted to take a
copy of some records from an old family Bible (now in her
possession), concerning the Lincoln family. The entries
were made by John Linkon (son of Samuel Linkon and
his wife, Ruth Huntington). He was grandson of Samuel
Linkon and his wife, Elizabeth Jacobs.
"John Linkon, born 29 July, 1726 married 1753 to
Rebecca Fenton buried my wife 26 March, 1758. Mar-
ried 30 May, 1758 to Annah Stoel. Hannah
Linkon born 21 January, 1759. Jonah and Jerusha
were born 1760. Olive Linkon born 24 June, 1763.
Brother Eleazer Linkon died 13 November, 1754. My
mother Ruth Linkon died 26 October, 1757. Hannah,
my wife, died 3 February, 1791. John Linkon died 7th
June, 1810 aged 84."
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All entries were made by this John Linkon except the
last record of his own death.
The lineage of Ruth Huntington is as follows:
Simon (1) Huntington, born about 1583, married Mar-
garet Beret, born about 1593; Christopher (2) Hunting-
ton died 1691, married Ruth Rockwell, born August,
1633; Captain Thomas H. (3) Huntington, born 18 March,
1664, died 7 November, 1732, married, 10 February,
1686, Elizabeth Backus, he died 1728; Ruth (4) Hunt-
ington, born 8 August, 1699, married, 22 August, 1723,
Samuel Linkon.
Joseph Russell, born 5 June, 1717, died after 1760,
married in Ashford, Conn., 13 May, 1742, Hannah Link-
ham, presumably Lincoln. She was probably born
about 1720-1726, and died after 1760. Their children
were: 1, John, born 16 October, 1742-3; 2, Mary born
3 October, 1744; 3, Elisha, born September 29, 1746;
4, Hannah, born 8 June, 1749; 5 Nathan, born 7 April,
1751 ; 6, Josiah, born 7 May, 1756; 7, Anna, born 24 June,
1758; 8, Benjamin, born 26 November, 1763.
(To be Continued)
MASSACHUSETTS MARRIAGES
(Continued from Page 79)
Lincoln, Joseph C. and Florence E. Sargent, 12 May,
1897, Chelsea, Mass.
Lincoln, Joshua and Deborah Hobart, 20 April, 1666,
Hingham, Mass.
Linkoln, Joshua and Hannah Palmer, 12 February,
1693, Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Joshua and Deborah Hobart, 20 April, 1700,
Hingham, Mass.
Lincoln, Joshua and Johanna How, 10 February, 1718,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Joshua and Mary Dwelley, 18 February, 1731,
Hanover, Mass.
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Lincoln, Joshua and Rachel Stodder, 20 December, 1733,
Hingham, Mass.
Lincoln, Josiah and Anna Getchell, 1 1 September, 1 799,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Julia A. and William G. Whipple, December,
1841, Franklin, Mass.
Lincoln, Julia A. and James Miller, 28 November, 1848,
Oakham, Mass.
Lincoln, Kezia and Daniel Kempton, 10 May, 1777,
Rochester, Mass.
Linkon, Kezia and Thomas Tobey, 5 October, 1794,
Rochester, Mass.
Lincoln, Laban and Susan Lincoln, 15 March, 1817,
Norton, Mass.
Linchon, Leah and John Rogers, 6 March, 1723, Pem-
broke, Mass.
Lincoln, Levi and Sintha Franklin, 26 May, 1785, Nor-
ton, Mass.
Lincoln, Levi and Lucy Bonney, 30 June, 1799, Pembroke,
Mass.
Lincoln, Levi and Sophia Dimond, 1 3 April, 1 809, War-
ren, Mass.
Lincoln, Levi and Eliza Wilder, 25 June, 1825, Winchen-
don, Mass.
Lincoln, Levi and Ann L. Whiting, 24 March, 1828,
Barre, Mass.
Lincoln, Levi and Malinda Miles, 18 April, 1816, Rut-
land, Mass.
Lincoln, Lewis and Elizabeth Broard, 1 May, 1 833, Barre,
Mass.
Lincoln, Lewis and Catherine H. Alger, 1 1 October,
1840, Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Lot and Joana Elmes, 29 February, 1 776,[Scituate
Mass.
Lincoln, Louisa and Abraham F. Robinson, 29 July, 1830,
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Oakham, Mass.
Lincoln, Louisa F. and William W. Farrington, 31 March,
1849, Upton. Mass.
Lincoln, Love and Benjamin Pratt, 8 February, 1752,
Weymouth, Mass.
Lincoln, Lovisa and Leonard Marsh, 11 March, 1832,
Warren, Mass.
Lincoln, Lowell and Clara A. Lothrop, 22 December,
1863, Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Lucinda and Oliver Clapp, 6 September, 1794,
Petersham, Mass.
Lincoln, Lucinda and Henry Bragg, 13 April, 1806, Wren-
tham. Mass,
Lincoln, Lucinda and Elias Blake, 11 April, 1813, Wren-
tham, Mass.
Lincoln, Lucinda and Lyman Baker, 9 March, 1843,
Westminster, Mass.
Lincoln, Lucinda and Benjamin Harvey, 17 March, 1846,
Norton, Mass.
Linco'n, Lucretia and Lemuel Bates, 29 May, 1761,
Abington, Mass.
Lincoln, Lucy or Sally and Simeon Rich, 2 March, 1776,
Warren, Mass.
Lincoln, Lucy and Francis Litchfield, February, 1781.
Scituate, Mass.
Lincoln, Lucy, widow, and Isaac Tyler, 9 February, 1795,
Warren, Mass.
Lincoln, Lucy and Dr. Abner Fairfield, 23 January, 1803
Warren, Mass.
Lincoln, Lucy and Samuel Lincoln, 3 April, 1808, Norton,
Mass.
Lincoln, Lucy and Enoch Goodie, 19 July, 1814, Oakham,
Mass.
Lincoln, Lucy and Cephas Bryant, 3 March, 1816, Pem-
broke, Mass.
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Lincoln, Lucy and Rev. Joseph B. Goddard, 19 Septem-
ber, 1827, Petersham, Mass.
Lincoln, Lucy and Asa Williams, Jr., 13 January, 1833,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Luke and Rebekah Wait, 29 November, 1759,
Petersham, Mass.
Lincoln, Luke and Polly Thorndyke, 4 April, 1795,
Winchendon, Mass.
Lincoln, Luke and Martha W. Carter, 9 October, 1831,
Leominster, Mass.
Lincoln, Lurana and Josiah Woodward, Jr., 2 December,
1822, Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Luther and Rachel McComber, 9 February, 1792,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Luther and Lucy Whitemore, 7 March, 1826,
Pelham, Mass.
Lincoln, Mrs. Lydia and Solomon Gilbert, 21 August,
1755, Stoughton, Mass.
Lincoln, Lydia and Ebenezer Wetherell, 30 July, 1765,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Lydia and Samuel Buss, 18 June, 1772, Leomin-
ster, Mass.
Lincoln, Lydia and Nathan Prentiss, 20 October, 1791,
Petersham, Mass.
Lincoln, Lydia and William Pierce, 29 May, 1797 , Peters-
ham, Mass.
Lincoln, Lydia and Aden Davis, 28 February, 1808, Oak-
ham, Mass.
Lincoln, Lydia L. and Wyatt C. Boyden, 9 February,
1834, Beverley, Mass.
Lincoln, Lydia and David Combs, 11 March, 1837,
Warren, Mass.
Lincoln, Marcy and James Andrews, 19 April, 1801,
Norton, Mass.
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Lincoln, Maria and John Porter, Jr.. 24 October, 1750,
Weymouth, Mass.
Lincoln, Mark and Mary Carter, 20 October, 1757,
Lancaster, Mass.
Lincoln, Marshall T. and Lucinda Myrick, 5 May, 1827,
Pelham, Mass.
Lincoln, Mart and Susanna Hall, 3 February, 1791,
Raynham, Mass.
Lincoln, Martha and Joseph Hudson, 30 July, 1717,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Martha and Moses Lincoln, 12 December, 1717,
Hull, Mass.
Lincoln, Martha and Leonard M. Parker, May, 1814,
Worcester, Mass.
Lincoln, Martha E. and Elisha Shaw, 8 June, 1744,
Westford, Mass.
Lincoln, Mary and WiUiam Allen, 26 September, 1717,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Mary and Jonathan Burr, 19 April, 1720, Boston,
Mass.
Lincoln, Mary and Salem Poor, 4 June, 1732, Boston,
Mass.
Lincoln, Mary and Thomas Jenkyns, 17 August, 1732,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Mary and James Hall, 11 May, 1749, Hingham,
Mass.
Lincoln, Mary and Peter Whitmarsh, 19 June, 1756.
Weymouth, Mass.
Lincoln, Mary and Joseph Elmer, Jr., 29 November,
1759, Scituate, Mass.
Lincoln, Mary and Solomon Briggs, 7 February, 1763,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Mary and William Stetson, 19 July, 1764,
Scituate, Mass.
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Lincoln, Mary and Levi Doane, 18 July, 1779, Scituate,
Mass.
Lincoln, Mary and Abner H. Litchfield, 19 March, 1780,
Scituate, Mass.
Lincoln, Mary and William O'Brion, 8 October, 1811,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Mary and Elijah Whiton, 3d, 31 January, 1813,
Weymouth, Mass.
Lincoln, Mary and Levi Holden, 6 October, 1816, West-
minster, Mass.
Lincoln, Mary and Foster Walker, 25 December, 1832,
Warren, Mass.
Lincoln, Mary A. and WilHam Davis, 1 May, 1837,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Mary Jane and Joseph Adams, 28 September,
1844, Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Mary E. and John H. Briggs, 25 March, 1846,
Weymouth, Mass.
Lincoln, Mary E. and Joshua Young, 23 January, 1847,
Dedham, Mass.
Lincoln, Mary E. and Henry B. Richardson, 13 July,
1869, Amherst, Mass.
Lincoln, Mary W. and Charles E. Fay, 22 November,
1870, Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Mathew and Abigail Lincoln, 1 November, 1725,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Matilda M. and Samuel Cone, 26 May, 1824,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Mehitable and Samuel Foss, 9 July, 1714,
Boston, Mass.
Lincoln, Mehitable and John Russell, 10 April, 1740,
Warren, Mass.
Lincoln, Mellen and Ebenezer Porter, 24 December, 1749,
Weymouth, Mase.
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Lincoln, Mercy and David Snow, 13 February, 1804»
Brewster, Mass.
Lincoln, Mercy and Levi Harris, 14 February, 1824,
Westminster, Mass.
Lincoln, Mercy M. and Elisha Shaw, 16 September, 1844
Westford, Mass.
Lincoln, Minor S. and Elizabeth Wheaton, 17 May, 1818^
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Miranda A. and Eliab T. Farrington, 24 Decem-
ber, 1844, Upton, Mass.
Lincoln, Mollie and Ezra Godfrey, 30 March, 1764,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Molly and Robert Goold, 4 February, 1783»
Hull, Mass
Lincoln, Molly and Bezeleel Shaw, 26 June, 1786, Norton,
Mass.
Lincoln, Mordecai and Mary Chapin, 17 December, 1701,
Braintree, Mass.
Lincoln, Mordecai and Abiah Ells, 30 November, 1758
Scituate, Mass.
Lincoln, Morris and Nabby Bent, 25 December, 1814,
Barre, Mass.
Lincoln, Morris and Susan Thayer, 4 October, 1822,
Barre, Mass.
Lincoln, Moses and Martha Lincoln, 12 December, 1717,
Hull, Mass.
Lincoln, Nabby and James Smith, 20 November, 1806,
Wayland, Mass.
Lincoln, Nancy and Isaac Reed, 17 January, 1819,
Abington, Mass.
Lincoln, Nancy and Samuel Hunt, Jr., 19 October, 1824,
Norton, Mass.
Lincoln, Nancy and Isaac Drew, 24 August, 1845, Norton,
Mass.
(To be Continued)
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