The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-03-01
CLAIMS MADE FOR
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
ByPeopIe of BerksC County,
Pennsylvania.
COURT HOUSE R1GORDS TELL
of Transactions BY the Lin
coins and BOOneS In
EARLY Days.
SOME INTERESTING HISTORY

Reading, Pa, Feb. 25.-The birth
day anniversary of Abraham Lin
coin was as usual generally observed
throughout Berks county, because it
is claimed that Lincoln's ancestors
were Berks countians. Within re-
cent years searehers have found that
not only did the early Lincolns live
in this section, but that they were
intimately associated with Daniel
Boone and the family of Nancy
Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln.
Lincolns and Boones are still nu-
merous hereabouts, especially in
Southern Berks. In Exeter Town
ship, about a mile from Birdsboro,
there is an old stone house in which
lived up to the time of his death in
May, 1886, Mordecai Lincoln, the
neutrality-suspicious. of President
Lincoln. The Lincoln homestead in
Exeter, embracing at present sixty
one acres, on which are the old stone
HOubt. anu a Jain boihf 10 -
Richard G.. Lincoln. of Reading.
Samuel Lincoln, Lincoln's earliest
ancestor in America, came from the
Exc Valley, Exeter. in England, and
settled in bingham, Mass, where he
died, leaving a son. Mordecai Lin
coin, whose son, Mordecai, Jr., set
tied more than 175 years ago on the
eastern bank of the Schuylkill river,
rear Birdsboro. In 1875 he laid out
the highway which is now the road
from Reading to Amityville. Nor
decai Lincoln, Jr.. devised the land
TO his two sons. Mordecai and Thorn
as, and posthumous son, named
Abraham, who was born in the old
stone house and died there in the
seventieth year of his age in 1906,
the same year that President Lin
coin, who was named after him, was
born in Kentucky.
In 1851 Abraham became the hus-
band of Anne Boone, who was
daughter of James Boone and first
cousin of Col Daniel Boone, the
Kentucky pioneer. The Boores were
Quakers and Abraham Lincoln was
a Congregationalist. Hence it ap-
pears by the minutes of the Exeter
Meeting. Oct. 81, 1851, that she was
condoned for her marriage to one
who was not a member of the So
ciety of Friends. Abraham Lincoln
was survived by four sons, Morde-
cal, James, Thomas and John, and
five daughters. The court house
records here are full of the transac-
lions in which the early Lincolns
and Boones figured.
About 1850, at the time the
Boones left Exeter, now Lorraine. this
county, for the South. Mordecai Lin
coins son John moved with his fam
ilv to Virginia. From there his son
Abraham moved into Kentucky, and
while out in a corndeld was killed |
by an Indian. He left three sons, of |
which Thomas, the youngest, was |
the father of the President. Nancy |
Hanks. the wife of Thomas Lincoln,
was the granddaughter of John
Hanks. who also left Berks county
about 1850 and finally settled in Vir-
ginia. where Nancy was born. She
married Thomas Lincoln in 1906.
About a mile from Birdsboro, on
the Reading turnpike, there was
tollgate and on a yellow stone mile
post "Phila. A Miles" was inscribed
on one side and Reading, 8 Miles"
on the other. Standing in hollow
Is stone house, which property
Daniel Boone's father. Squire Boone,
sold to William Mogridge. April IL,
ITO, just before he moved with his
wife and eleven children to Yadkin,
N. c. Daniel Boone was then seven
teen years old, When he was fifty
five years old he came back. accom-
panied by the wife and son Nathan
lei on horseback to visit relatives in
Exeter township.
Thomas Lincoln OF Birdsboro,
who died about forty years ago, aged
eighty-seven years, was a relative Of
President Abraham Lincoln. He told
Col. Nicholas Jones, Of Reading, that |
he remembered well that when he
was boy Daniel. the Kentucky pi-.,
oneer. returned on visit and told