Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-02-11

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ing in the town of Ipswich, where his
master settled.
The only sheep in Massachusetts
were a few which were pastured on the
islands in Boston harbor, where the
wolves could uot get at them.
When the apprentice became of age
he Joined his brother Thomas in Hing
ham. He had learned a trade; it is
not certain that he followed it, but
probably he became a farmer. A maid
en- named Martha became his wife; her.
parental name is not known. Their chill
dren were Samuel, Daniel, Mordecai,
Mary, Martha, Sarah and Rebecca.
Startling news came that the Indians
were numbering the settlers of Swan
zey. 1t was the beginning of the war
with the Pequos. under their chief.
Philip, Samuel, the Oldest son, seized
his fathers gun and powder horn and
became a soldier. A year passed, in
which more than six hundred of the
settlers were killed; but the chief was
dead, and his head was hanging on a
gibbet in Plymouth. The captured IN
dams were sold as slaves to the Span
iards.
Mordecai Lincoln, the while, was
blowing the bellows and making the
anvil ring in a blacksmith's shop.
When he became of age he set up his
w forge in Hull. Perhaps Sarah
Jones may have influenced him in set
ting there, for she soon became his
wife.
The year 1886 was a memorable one
to the blacksmith, for a son was born
to him-Mordecai, junior. Just before
his birth the frigate Rose sailed into
Boston harbor, bringing Sir Edmund
Andres, who had been appointed gov
ernor of Massachusetts, Plymouth,
Rhode Island and Connecticut. He
had brought over two companies Of
troops to aid him in upsetting the
government of the people. 1t seems
that Mordecai Lincoln could look from
lis shop door and see the frigate run
ing oft its guns and firing u salute,
Id the cannon of the castle replying.
mes II. had determined to overthrow
Puritan commonwealth. The peo-
PIE we're ro longer to assemble in
town meeting or make their own laws.
We may be sure that the farmers who
came to have their horses shod or their
p~loughshares sharpened, or fishermen
who wanted work done, expressed their
minds freely upon public affairs, and
that the blacksmith had something to
say while making the anvil ring by
his sturdy blows. Three years passed,
and Sir Edmund Andres saw the streets
of Boston suddenly swarming with
| armed men, who came from Cambridge,
Roxbury, bingham, Hull and other
towns, put an end to his government
and re-establish their own.
Blacksmith Lincoln thought the
time had come when the people of
Massachusetts should no longer be de-
pendent on England for iron. There
was an abundant supply of ore in the
boys and meadows of Scituate and
bingham.
Through his efforts a furnace was
constructed and the ore dug from a
bog and smelted. 1t was the begin
ming of an industry which lasted many
years. His enterprise went further. He
built a mill on Bound Brook, where the
water tumbled i've the rocks to the
sea. The brook at the falls was the
boundary between the colonies of Ply
mouth and Massachusetts,. 1t was OF
great service for a large section of the
country in both colonies.
Mordecai Lincoln helped build the
bingham Westinghouse. The elders
decided just what seats people should
occupy, and they assigned an honorable
seat to him in the front gallery.
He wanted his grandchildren to be
we'll educated, and in his will be-