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Title: The ancestry of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Lea, J. Henry (James Henry), 1846-1914 Hutchinson, J. R. (John Robert), 1858-1921
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln family Lincoln family (Samuel Lincoln, 1619?-1690)
Publisher: Boston, New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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d there, in theCourt of the Lord King at Westminster, on the morrow of theFeast of the Purification of the Blessed Mary, received of Wal-ter de Wyndsor a grant by Fine of the Manor of Codesmorein Rutlandshire, and of certain messuages, lands, and other tene-ments in East Ham and West Ham, county Essex. He was theprogenitor of the Essex Lincolns, as he in all likelihood wasof the Norfolk Lincolns with whom we are here concerned.Beyond this point the records do not carry us. The pioneer ofthe Norfolk Lincolns, whether Adam of Great Yarmouth oranother, doubtless hailed from the city or shire of that name;but the exact time when he made his way across the Fenlandsand the Wash, and acquired **a local habitation in thesturdier county by the northern sea, is lost in the mists of an-tiquity. Owing to a fortunate circumstance presently to be related, The name Lincoln is not infrequently so spelled, with slight variations, aslate as the reign of Elizabeth. ■ >i SS A-f^. / ^. f.,:;^ --i- My
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THE EMIGRANT n those mists no longer, as formerly, drift down the ages and wrapin impenetrable obscurity the immediate ancestry of SamuelLincoln, emigrant ancestor of our great President. Concern-ing his mother, it is true, there is still uncertainty. Around herpersonality and her name the mists close in again, denying uslight where we most desire to see clearly. For this the handthat traced the record of Samuels baptism, the hand of RobertPeck, is mainly responsible. In that record, as in all others ofa like nature relating to the family, it has uniformly consignedthe mother to oblivion. Yet the omission of her name fromthe yellow pages of the parish register is less remarkable thanat first sight appears. With the parsons of those days maternity—unless, indeed, it chanced to be of the baser sort, in whichcase the whole sad story of mans perfidy and womans wrongswas set out with great minuteness and dubious taste — countedfor little. Paternity was everything; and hence it comes ab

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