Captain Abraham Lincoln (13 May 1744 – May 1786) was the grandfather of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, a captain of militia 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, in the United Kingdom, and who, as a weaver's apprentice, emigrated to Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637. Abraham's father John Lincoln (1716 – 1788) w...
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Captain Abraham Lincoln (13 May 1744 – May 1786) was the grandfather of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, a captain of militia 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, in the United Kingdom, 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...
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