The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-02-11
LiucoIn's GsneaIogy

Lincon's Coat of Arms Argent, on q
cross vert, an estole pierced or.
We have copy OF this coat of arms
granted in the time of Queen Elizabeth
to the family Of Lincons.- Ing.
The ancient Britons are said to have
founded city on the summit OF hill
near the river Lindis, England, from
which the surname Lincon was derived
Then came the Roman conquest and
the name of the city was changed to Lin
uium Colonia. Subsequently the name
was corrupted into Lindocolina, rs used
by Beda, the most venerable scholar Of
the seventh century and into Lindkylne
and Lincolle, as found in the Saxon
chronicles of the twelfth century. Alur-
id, the ancestor from which the surname
Lincoln" has been inherited, went
from Normandy to England with Viii
liam the Conqueror in 1865. He estab
lished himself in the settlement by the
river Lindis, became identified with the
! place. and became known as Alured de
| Lincoln. The name has since become
more common in America as Linconne,
Linkhorn Lincolle, Linkum, Linklyn,
Lincoln and Lincoln.
Sky years ago Gruppy, the English
authority on names found only nine to
every ten Thousand persons in the
County Of Essex and only ten i'm the
County OF Norfolk, (England) OF the
above names OF Lincon. Alurid de Lin
coin held great barony in Lincoln and
Bedford in 1886. Nicol is the Norman
equivalent for Lincoln, and Alurid de
Lincoln had his Iande and title pre-
served to him by having married a
Norman woman.
Thomas Lincoln, the ancestor OF the
Monmouth Linoons, was born in
England in 1908, and died in, Taunton,
Mass, In 1888. He came to America
in 1886, and settlg. at bingham, Mass,
and in 1862 removed to Taunton. he
married (first) in England and his wife
died before his coming to America. He
married (second) Elizabeth Harvey
Streete widow OF Francis Srreete, and
was the father Of five children probobly
of his first marriage. His descendants
were identified with the town Of Taunton,
Mass. where they were proprietors of
iron works, and but few definite records
of theirs remain since the town records OF
Taunton prior to 1903, were burned In
1888, although some were preserved with
the ProPrietors reports and few ex-
tremely early accounts with the Fly
mouth Colony records.
One of Thomas Lincoln's ancestors
was Abijah Lincoln, a resident OF
Taunto n, whose Revolutionary Sc
vice is given in Massachusetts, Sailors
and Soldiers Of the Revolution, Vol. TX
page TOT, as follows
"a biiah Lincoln, Ensign. Capt. JOS
eph Kings Company, Colonel Bre wster's
regiment. later Lieutenant, enlisted
June 16, 1775, discharged Oct. II, Its,
and in the previous June took part In
the battle Of Monmouth.
Heitman's register of Officers OF the
Revolution outlines his record thus:
"Abiiah Lincoln, Ensign May to Dec-
ember ITS Second Lieutenant: tbir-
1776. First Lieutenant August 10 to De-
cember 81, 1776.'
Abiiah Lincoln was born in 1898 and
died June 80, 1912. His wife, Phoebe,
was born in 1879, and died March 80,
1928, aged 81 years.
These were the parents Of Abijah, Jr.,
born in l766, died Dec. %, 1923, and
father and mother of Gilbert and Charles
and ancestors Of the Lincolns in Massa-
chusetts, and other New Engl and states
UNIONS IN MONMOUTH AND
M1DDLEsEx CoUETIKs, NEW JERSEY.
In the old Covells Hill burying
ground near the old East Branch Quak
er church, about one mile west Of
Clarksburg, now on the main road to
T enton through Allentown, is the old
81 emison' burying ground as it was
called in ancient times. In the church
yard was buried some Of the Lincolns Of
Monmouth County at that time, who