Amos Lincoln

"Amos Lincoln was captain of artillery and was one of the intrepid band which in 1773 consigned the tea to the waters in Boston harbor.". DAR Ancestor #: A070400

Info added per DAR's "Lineage Book of the Charter Members" by Mary S Lockwood and published 1895

Amos Lincoln (1753-1829) participated in the Boston Tea party when he was 20 years old. At that time he was an apprentice to Thomas Crafts who also participated in the Boston tea party. During the Revolutionary War Mr. Lincoln became a Lt. Colonel in the Massachusetts State Artillery regiment also known as the Train, under the command of the same Thomas Crafts. Paul Revere also served in the regiment.

Mr. Lincoln served against Shay’s Rebellion and was in charge on building the State House.

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Although born and raised at different times and in different places, Abraham Lincoln was related to Paul Revere through three marriages in his family.

Abraham Lincoln’s father, Thomas Lincoln, had two cousins in Boston during the late 1700s named Amos and Jedediah Lincoln. Like himself, both cousins were carpenters, although they were much more successful at their trade.

After Amos Lincoln participated in the Boston Tea Party when he was 20 years old and served as a Lieutenant Colonel during the Revolutionary War, he married Paul Revere’s eldest daughter Deborah on January 14, 1781. They had nine children together before she passed away in January of 1797.

After Deborah’s death, Paul Revere took in Amos and Deborah’s youngest child, Frederick Walker Lincoln, and raised him himself.

Later that year, on May 24, Amos Lincoln married Deborah’s younger sister, Elizabeth, and had five more children.

The first of Amos and Elizabeth’s children, Mary Lincoln, was born in December of 1797, just seven months after the couple’s wedding, which suggests the baby may have been conceived before they were married.

[http://civilwarsaga.com/abraham-lincoln-was-related-to-paul-revere/]

[http://www.boston-tea-party.org/participants/amos-lincoln.html]