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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, joint author
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln family Lincoln, Samuel, 1619?-1690
Publisher: Boston, New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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They had issueeleven children, of whom eight survived their parents. Ofthese, however, we will only follow the history of MordecaiLincoln, the fourth son and child, who was born at Hing-ham, 14 June, 1657. Mordecai Lincoln resided at Hingham until 1700, whenhe erected a spacious house at Boundbrook Bridge inScituate, and also the Lincoln Mills in the same place.^ Hemodestly called himself blacksmith in his will, but was alarge and wealthy proprietor of iron works, grist and sawmills.The former occupation, as we shall see, became hereditaryamong his descendants. his Sone Mr. of the Rose : of Yarmouth. Caption of Shipping List, 8 April,1637 Hottons Lists, p. 289. Cushings MS. op. cit., Lincolns History of Hingham. * The introduction of the name of Mordecai, heretofore unknown in theLincoln family, among the children of Samuel may supply a clue to the identityof the wife Martha in the future. It should not be lost sight of by youngergenealogists. 3 Deanes History of Scituate, p. 304. %(
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THE AMERICAN PEDIGREE 65 He married, first, Sarah Jones, daughter of Abraham andSarah (Whitman) Jones of Hull, Mass., a marriage note-worthy for its first introduction of the name of Abraham intothe Lincoln family, a name afterward to be made so illustriousand which, with Mordecai, became characteristic of thisbranch, as, from that time to the present, there has rarely beena generation of their descendants without one or both of them. Sarah Jones, the first wife, probably died soon after theremoval to Scituate; and he married, secondly, Mary Gan-nett, a widow, who survived him for many years, dying 19April, 1745, at the age of seventy-nine. Mordecai Lincoln, like his great-grandfather, RichardLincoln of Swanton Morleyin England, died very suddenly,of an apploplexy, 8 November, 1727, in the seventy-firstyear of his age. His will, dated 3 May, 1727, was proved 27 March, 1728.In it he provides liberally for his widow, Mary, gives to hisson Mordecai ;^iio in bills of credit, to his son Ab

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