Judge Theodore Lincoln

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Judge Theodore Lincoln

BIRTH 30 Dec 1763 Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA

DEATH 15 Jun 1852 (aged 88) Dennysville, Washington County, Maine, USA

BURIAL Dennysville Cemetery Dennysville, Washington County, Maine, USA

1850 U. S. census: Dennysville, Washington County, Maine, USA.

OTHER INFORMATION:

Among the Benjamin Lincoln Papers at Boston Public Library is one written by Mary Lincoln to her brother-in-law, Theodore. The description of her letter, written 12 May 1799, includes the sentence, " TL (Theodore Lincoln) now has three titles: Capt., Esquire, & Judge." Evidently one of the titles is new. Is it "Judge"? He was a Justice of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace beginning in October 1797, similar to a County Commissioner today (1999), and a Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Third Eastern Circuit ending in March 1819, also similar to a County Commissioner today (1999). The court changed its name some time between October 1797 and March 1819, but the court's function was always similar to that of County Commissioners today (1999), i.e., the court handled administrative matters relating to the operation of Washington County, as opposed to resolving legal disputes.

He was a Senator at the Court of Massachusetts in 1808, according to a family history written by Sarah Lincoln in 1932.

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, October 1852, Volume 6, Issue 4, page 391-392 states:

Lincoln, Hon. Theodore, Dennysville, 15 June, age 89. He was a son of Gen. Benjamin L. of Hingham; was of the class of 1785 at Harvard. There remain on the catalogue but three survivors of older date. Immediately after leaving college, he removed to Dennysville, in Maine, where he has ever since resided. He was the pioneer of the settlers in that region of Maine, which his father, General Lincoln, had carefully examined, when sent with Generals Knox and Putnam by the State of Massachusetts, in 1794, to adjust the conflicting boundary question under the treaty of 1785. Having purchased of Judge Lowell and others their titles under the grants of the Commonwealth, Gen. Lincoln sent his son, with many of his old neighbors, to plant themselves in that secluded region; and the population of Dennysville and some neighboring towns, is chiefly derived from that emigration.

The life of Judge Lincoln was useful, happy and uneventful. He was a member of the Senate of Massachusetts, for a single session, some forty years ago, but declined a re-election. He also discharged for some time the duties of Judge of Probate. For public life he had no taste. He found occupation and interest in the cultivation of a large estate, and in the society of a numerous and affectionate family, all of whom repaid his parental care with love, gratitude and good conduct. Four sons and two daughters survive him. One son and one daughter died before him. The former, the late Professor Lincoln of Burlington College, a man of distinguished scientific promise and great intellectual vigor, still freshly and fondly remembered by those who knew him, though he died too young for his fame. The home of Judge Lincoln was marked by an unassuming and generous hospitality, and by a simple and cordial tone of manners. He was himself a man of plain, penetrating good sense, earnest in business, of few words, of an affectionate temper, and upright as one of the pines upon his own hills. Of late years, his appearance and aspect presented an image of patriarchal worth and dignity. In unambitious toil and the discharge of unexciting duties, his years have glided gently away. Disease and pain hardly ever laid their touch upon his vigorous frame. He survived nearly all his contemporaries, and for many years has lived among those whom he could remember from their birth upwards and who had always been accustomed to look up to him with honor and deference.

Family Members

Parents
Benjamin Thaxter Lincoln 1733–1810

Mary Cushing Lincoln 1734–1816

Spouse

Hannah Mayhew Lincoln 1775–1845 (m. 1799)

Siblings

Benjamin Lincoln 1756–1788

Mary Lincoln 1758–1797

Elizabeth Lincoln Baylies 1759–1823

Sarah Lincoln Thaxter 1761–1810

Martin Lincoln 1766–1766

Bela Lincoln 1767–1772

Martin Lincoln 1769–1837

Edmund Lincoln 1771–1773

Hannah Lincoln Lincoln 1773–1828

Deborah Lincoln 1776–1777

Children

Theodore Lincoln 1800–1867

Hannah Lincoln Chadbourne 1801–1882

Benjamin Lincoln 1802–1835

Mary Lincoln 1804–1811

Bela Lincoln 1805–1859

Sarah Lincoln Tinkham 1807–1886

Edmund Lincoln 1809–1875

Thomas Lincoln 1812–1883

Mary Lincoln 1814–1843