The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-11-06
THE LINEAGE OF LINCOLN.

THE LINEAGE OF LINCOLN.
some New and Interesting Facts IN "A Forth
coming Biography.
The life of Abrah Am Lincoln, by John
G. Nicolay aud John Hay, his Private
Secretaries, the publication OF which is 10
begin in the Century Wagazine for ~
vember, promises To he the III st full and
authoratlve biography of the President
together with IA history OF the times in
whatever nature belonging to the estate
of MIR. Lincoln were placed i'll their h ands
by Hon. Robert T. Lincoln. In addition
to this they obtained access To the pri-
vate papers and correspondence of most
of Mr.. Lincoln's Cabinet; and through
the kindness of four successive Secretd
ries of var they have had access 10 the
vast accumulation of military reports,
| from both nion and Confederate "tiic RS,
in the War Department.
In tracing the lineage of the President
the biographers say that in 1850 Abraham
Lincoln, "A member eff respectable and
well to do family in Rocking ham county.
| Virginia, STATED westward to stahlish
himself with his wife and five children
in the newly explored country of Ken
| lucky. He was a mau of some subtauce.
possessing at one time "a large and fertile
tract of land about eight miles north OF
Harrisonburg. All that was known o!
this emigfant Abraham Lincoln by his
enitors, who were Qnakers, came from
Berks county, Penusy lvania, into Vir
glnia and there throve and prospered
But the Investigations of several eager
genealogists have since established
strong probability that he was descended
from the NJ .ssachl setts family of the
same name, who settled about the year
1888 at bingham. and who came origi
nally from the county of Norfolk in the
old country. The first ancestor OF this
Fine of wnom We have know ledge was
Samuel l. ncoln, o: Norw CHI, England;
he d, ing in bingham, Mass, lett son
Mordecai, whose son, of tie Same name,
removed to Monmouth, n. j., and thence
to Amity township. now a part OF B-rks
county, Pa where ne died about 1873
80 years old. From copy of his will
recorded in the off ;e of the Register o:
Philadelphia, we gather that he was
man of considerable property. In the in
ventory of his effects, made after his
d ath. he is styled by the Appraisers
"Mordecai Lincoln. gentleman. His sou
John received by his father'S " i'll IA Gel
tain piece of land lying in the Jerseys.
containing 800 acres, the other sons and
daughters having been literally provided
for from the Pennsylvania property. This
John Lincoln Established himself III
Rockingham C UNITY l.. and had IA fam
NY OF sous, To whom he gave the names
which contiI ually recur III the history Of
the tribe. Abraham. the pioneer men
toned above, Isaac. Jacob, Thomas and
John.
There is little doubt that the pioneer
L,uculn reno we'd to the W est on account
Of his ASSOCIATION with the famous Dan'I.
Boone. the families having for a century
been closely all,ed He took with him
funds enough to enter domain of some
100. One morning. i'll the year 1856 he
vas killed by Indians while clearing
farm in the forest, his son. Thomas, af-
terward the father of the President, and
then a boy years old. being an eye wit
ness of the tragedy o. the 18th of June,
1906, while learning the trade If a Car
penter with John Hanks, IN Elizabeth
town, Washington county, Ky, Thomas
Lincoln married Nancy Hanks, "a niece
If his employer. she was a handsome
intellect superior To her l,wly fortunes
Thomas was all easy going man, and two
years after his marriage removed to a lit
tie farm winch he had bought on the Big
> 'ufH ~ TX tl Nollh Irtfk, III what was
hen HlrGin. and is now La Rue county,
where Abraham L,nc"ln WAS ooru on the
i2 h da, OF February, 1909.
When tie boy was ! years old his
atEer moved with his family to Lutte
Pigeon Creek NJ I.dlana. In the autumn
If 1918 the little community wrs almost
.xt-rminat"d by uightrul p-stileuct
allied tue M k SICKNESS Of which Name,
Hunks la coin drd. Thomas soon
bush an acln"iu!aic- a.! Ills HeiUre his
tirst marriage. Abraham L,mcoln had
but hL.le opp'rtHIii, ur -nncaLIon, but
ne red everything he could lay hlS hands
upon, and he was G.. IJalnl, ,urJun tt- in
the few books ui w.lcn lie utcame the
t,ossts>or Il would hardly he possible
20 select :. better handtnl vi classics !or
) Youth In his circumstances than the
lew volumes he turhed WIN il Rightly
and dairy hauh-tne Bible, -ESop's
Fables, Robinson Crus'e, the Pilgrim
aud M,eins' Life of WASN'T gton. These
were the best and theS, t roa'i over and
over Jill he knew them almost by heart.
But this v"raciIy tor anything pllnted
Was Unsuitable. He would sit III the twi
light and read IA dictionary as long as he
could see. He us, to go To David Turn
hams, tie Town Constable, and devuuI
the Revised Statutes of Indiana as boys
Ill our day do the Three Guar dsman. Or
the books he did not ow u lie took vnlum
nous notes. hlllrg his copy book With
choice eXtracis, iuu p RUG over them
until they we're fixed III his N 'rnory. He
could not afford IL W este ,per upon hi
own origin Il compositions. He would 81,
by the IRE at night aud c v L the woode,
shovel "I,h ESSAYS and arIth,netical exer
cseS, " h CHI he wcuiu shave OFF and be
gIr again. 1t rs tcu@hInS To think OF tins
great spirited child, battlrg wear alter