Captain Abraham Lincoln, I

A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA with the rank of CAPTAIN. DAR Ancestor #: A070398

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Abraham Lincoln (13 May 1744 – May 1786) was the grandfather of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was a militia captain during the American Revolution, and a pioneer settler of Kentucky.

Captain Abraham Lincoln was a descendant of Samuel Lincoln (1622 – 1690), who was born in Hingham, Norfolk, England, and who, as a weaver's apprentice, emigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637. Abraham's father John Lincoln (1716 – 1788) was born in Monmouth County in the province of New Jersey, and grew up in the Schuylkill river valley in the province of Pennsylvania. Typical of his class, John Lincoln learned a trade, in his case weaving, to practice alongside the subsistence farming necessary on the colonial frontier. His father Mordecai died when John was barely twenty years old. The Lincoln home farm on Heister's Creek, in what is now Exeter Township, Berks County, was left to John's half-brothers, the children of his father's second marriage. In 1743, John Lincoln married Rebecca Flowers Morris (1720 – 1806), daughter of Enoch Flowers of Caernarvon Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Rebecca was the widow of James Morris and the mother of a young son, Jonathan Morris.

Abraham Lincoln was born 13 May 1744 in what is now Berks County, Pennsylvania. Abraham was the first child born to John and Rebecca Lincoln, who had nine children in all: Abraham born 1744, twins Hannah and Lydia born 1748, Isaac born 1750, Jacob born 1751, John born 1755, Sarah born 1757, Thomas born 1761, and Rebecca born 1767.

His life: Abraham Lincoln learned the tanner's trade and later took his brother John as his apprentice. A prominent tanner of Berks County in those days was James Boone (1709 – 1785), uncle to Daniel Boone. James Boone was a near neighbor to the Lincolns of Heister's Creek, and his daughter Anne was married to John Lincoln's half-brother. This family connection may have influenced Abraham's choice of occupation.

In 1768 Abraham's father John Lincoln purchased land in the Shenandoah Valley in the colony of Virginia. He settled his family on a 600-acre (2.4 km2) tract on Linville Creek in Augusta County (now Rockingham County). In 1773, John and Rebecca Lincoln divided their tract with their two eldest sons, Abraham and Isaac. Abraham built a house on his land, across Linville Creek from his parents' home.

In 1770 Abraham Lincoln was issued a marriage license in Augusta County, Virginia. His wife was Bathsheba Herring (c. 1742 – 1836), a daughter of Alexander Herring (c. 1708–1778) and his wife Abigail Harrison (c. 1710 – c. 1780) of Linville Creek. Five children were born to Abraham and Bathsheba Lincoln:

1. Mordecai born circa 1771,
2. Josiah born circa 1773,
3. Mary born circa 1775,
4. Thomas born 1778, and
5. Nancy born 1780.

During the American Revolutionary War, Abraham served as a captain of the Augusta County militia, and with the organization of Rockingham County in 1778, he served as a captain for that county. He was in command of sixty of his neighbors, ready to be called out by the governor of Virginia and marched where needed. Captain Lincoln's company served under General Lachlan McIntosh in the fall and winter of 1778, assisting in the construction of Fort McIntosh in Pennsylvania and Fort Laurens in Ohio.

In 1780, Abraham Lincoln sold his land on Linville Creek, and in 1781 he moved his family to Kentucky, then a district of the commonwealth of Virginia. The family settled in Jefferson County, about twenty miles (32 km) east of the site of Louisville. The territory was still contested by Indians living across the Ohio River. For protection the settlers lived near frontier forts, called stations, to which they retreated when the alarm was given. Abraham Lincoln settled near Hughes's Station on Floyd's Fork and began clearing land, planting corn, and building a cabin.

Death: One day in May 1786, Abraham Lincoln was working in his field with his three sons when he was shot from the nearby forest and fell to the ground. The eldest boy, Mordecai, ran to the cabin where a loaded gun was kept, while the middle son, Josiah, ran to Hughes's Station for help. Thomas, the youngest, stood in shock by his father. From the cabin, Mordecai observed an Indian come out of the forest and stop by his father's body. The Indian reached for Thomas, either to kill him or to carry him off. Mordecai took careful aim and shot the Indian in the chest, killing him.

Tradition states that Captain Abraham Lincoln was buried by his cabin, which is now the site of Long Run Baptist Church and cemetery near Eastwood, Kentucky. A stone memorializing Captain Abraham Lincoln was placed in the cemetery in 1937.

Bathsheba Lincoln was left a widow with five underage children. She moved the family away from the Ohio River, to Washington County, Kentucky, where the country was more thickly settled and there was less danger of Indian attack. Under the law then operating, Mordecai Lincoln, as the eldest son, inherited two-thirds of his father's estate when he reached the age of twenty-one, with Bathsheba receiving one-third. The other children inherited nothing. Life was hard, particularly for Thomas, the youngest, who got little schooling and was forced to go to work at a young age.

In later years Thomas Lincoln would recount the story of the day his father died to his son, Abraham Lincoln, the future sixteenth president of the United States of America. "The story of his death by the Indians," the president later wrote, "and of Uncle Mordecai, then fourteen years old, killing one of the Indians, is the legend more strongly than all others imprinted on my mind and memory."

Abraham Lincoln, Berks Co., Pennsylvania 13 May 1744-killed by Indians Jefferson Co., Ky. prob. May 1786, license Augusta Co., Va. 9 July 1770 5. Bathsheba (said to be Herring), c. 1750-c. 1836

Abraham Lincoln was a poor and rather plain man. He was the grandfather of President Abraham Lincoln. He migrated to the northwest part of NC, to the waters of the Catwba River. He brought his family from VA to KY about 1782 and settled near Hughes Station, in Jefferson County, some 20 miles east of Louisville. A few years afterward was killed by an indian

One morning in early summer of 1785, going out to his daily task in the fields with his two elder sons (Mordecai and Josiah) and the child Thomas, Abraham Lincoln was shot dead by an Indian from an ambush in the forest. The two young men, age twenty-one and nineteen respectivley, fled-the elder to the cabin and the younger to the nearest stockade, Fort Hughes, leaving the helpless child Thomas, of five years, to his fate beside his father's body. As the savage stooped to lift the terrified child from the gound, Mordecai, who had secured his rife, shot the Indian through the head and little Thomas, thus released, escaped to the cabin, where his brother held the enemy at bay until Josiah returned from the fort with asistance and the assailants fled.

The following information is from the web page “My Southern Family” retrieved October 30, 2007 from http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mysouthernfamily/myff/d005...: "KIA by Indians, Washington Co., Kentucky."

Disproved wife

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_(captain)#

10. The assertion that Abraham was first married to Mary Shipley was refuted by William E. Barton, The Lineage of Lincoln, 1929, pp. 71-73, 176, 178, 181-183.From pp. 71-72, regarding Robert and Mary Shipley of Lunenburg County, Virginia, and their alleged five daughters, "...these five daughters are not to be found in the Virginia records." Barton's final statement on the alleged Mary Shipley, page 182: "There is not a dot on an i nor the cross of a t in any contemporary record to show that Abraham Lincoln of Virginia had any other wife than Bathsheba. Mary Shipley Lincoln is a fictitious character."

Abraham Lincoln (1744-1786) was the grandfather of President Abraham Lincoln, Sarah Lincoln, daughter of Nancy Hanks, son-in-law of Thomas Lincoln and a Captain in the American Revolution. He was a farmer in Amity, Pennsylvania and married to Bathsheba Herring. Lincoln was killed by Native Americans after moving to Kentucky. Born in Amity, Pennsylvania to George Winston Lincoln and Martha Lincoln, he was the second of four children and was raised in Pennsylvania by his mother. He was a very intelligent boy and attended the Amity Primary School in 1751 with his siblings. He was a good historian and he became a farmer in Amity. In 1769 he married Bathsheba Herring and had five children.

During the revolution they lived in Rockingham County, Virginia. In the early 1780's the family moved to Jefferson County, Kentucky.

In May 1786 he was killed by Native Americans and buried in Amity's Cemetery Area Resting Place.

GEDCOM Note

Abraham Lincoln ( Abraham Lincoln the president Abraham Lincoln's Grandfather) was a well-to-do farmer, owning a tract of some two hundred and forty acres of land. His father, John Lincoln, had come into Virginia from Pennsylvania, probably influenced to this step by his friend, Daniel Boone,who had moved to North Carolina with his father's family in 1748.

Abraham Lincoln, born of a race of pioneers, became restless in his Virginia home, as he heard from time to time from the Boones and others of the settlers in the new country, and finally in 1780 he sold his Virginia property, went to Kentucky, entered a large tract of land, and returning, moved his family. Eight years later, when he was killed by Indians, he owned twelve thousand acres of land. According to the laws of Kentucky governing property, nearly all of his estate went to his oldest son, Mordecai. His youngest son, Thomas, who was only nine years old at his death, received nothing.

CPT Abraham Lincoln BIRTH 13 May 1744 Amityville, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA DEATH 19 May 1786 (aged 42) Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA BURIAL Long Run Cemetery Eastwood, Jefferson County, Kentucky

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Children Photo Mordecai Lincoln 1771–1830

Photo Josiah Lincoln 1773–1835

Photo Mary Ada Lincoln Crume 1775–1832

Photo Thomas Lincoln 1778–1851

Photo Nancy Lincoln Brumfield 1780–1843

Abigail Lincoln Morse 1782 – unknown

References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_%28captain%29 10. The assertion that Abraham was first married to Mary Shipley was refuted by William E. Barton, The Lineage of Lincoln, 1929, pp. 71-73, 176, 178, 181-183.From pp. 71-72, regarding Robert and Mary Shipley of Lunenburg County, Virginia, and their alleged five daughters, "...these five daughters are not to be found in the Virginia records." Barton's final statement on the alleged Mary Shipley, page 182: "There is not a dot on an i nor the cross of a t in any contemporary record to show that Abraham Lincoln of Virginia had any other wife than Bathsheba. Mary Shipley Lincoln is a fictitious character."
• Coleman, Charles H. “Lincoln’s Lincoln Grandmother.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1908-1984) 52, no. 1 (1959): 59–90. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40189910.
• “Nancy Hanks Lincoln mtDNA Study: Unlocking the Secrets of Abraham Lincoln’s Maternal Ancestry” (2015)
• Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Sep 4 2017, 15:22:03 UTC

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