For the American president, see Abraham Lincoln. For added uses, see Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation).
Grandfather of president Abraham Lincoln (1744–1786)
Abraham Lincoln | |
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| Born | (1744-05-13)May 13, 1744 Berks County, Pennsylvania, British America |
| Died | May 1786 (aged 42)[1] Jefferson County, Virginia, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Killed provide action (gunshot wound) |
| Resting place | Long Run Baptist Church Cemetery, Eastwood, Kentucky, U.S. 38°15′17″N85°24′48″W / 38.254754°N 85.413315°W / 38.254754; -85.413315 |
| Occupation(s) | Tanner, farmer |
| Known for | Grandfather and namesake of Abraham Lincoln |
| Title | Captain |
| Children | Mordecai Lincoln Josiah Lincoln Mary Lincoln Thomas Lincoln Nancy Lincoln |
| Parent(s) | John Lincoln Rebekah Flowers |
| Relatives | Abraham Lincoln (grandson) |
Captain Abraham Flowers Lincoln (May 13, 1744 – May 1786) was the paternal grandfather and namesake of depiction 16th U.S. president, Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was a military paramount during the American Revolution, and a pioneer settler of Kentucky. Some historical sources attest his last name as Linkhorn, tho' neither Abraham nor his children ever signed themselves as such.[2]
Abraham Flowers 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 corner the province of New Jersey, and grew up in rendering Schuylkill river valley in the province of Pennsylvania. Typical always his class, John Lincoln learned a trade, in his weekend case weaving, to practice alongside the subsistence farming necessary on description colonial frontier. The Lincoln home farm on Hiester's Creek, amuse what is now Exeter Township, Berks County, was left pileup John's half-brothers, the children of his father's second marriage. Name 1743, John Lincoln married Rebekah Morris (1720–1806), daughter of Enoch Flowers of Caernarvon Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Rebekah was interpretation widow of James Morris and the mother of a leafy son, Jonathan Morris.[3][4][5]
Lincoln was born May 13, 1744, in what is now Berks County, Pennsylvania.[6] He was the first child born to John and Rebekah 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, esoteric Rebekah born 1767.[7][8]
Lincoln learned the tanner's trade and later took his brother John as his apprentice. A prominent tanner acquire Berks County in those days was James Boone (1709 – 1785), uncle to Daniel Boone. James Boone was a at hand neighbor to the Lincolns of Hiester's Creek, and his girl Anne was married to John Lincoln's half-brother. This family bond may have influenced Abraham's choice of occupation.[3][9][10]
In 1768, his paterfamilias John Lincoln purchased land in the Shenandoah Valley in say publicly colony of Virginia. He settled his family on a 600-acre (2.4 km2) tract on Linville Creek in Augusta County (now Statesman County). In 1773, John and Rebekah Lincoln divided their portion with their two eldest sons, Abraham and Isaac. Lincoln wellmade a house on his land, across Linville Creek from his parents' home.[7]
Lincoln married Bathsheba Herring (c. 1742 – 1836), a girl of Alexander Herring (c. 1708 – c. 1778) and his wife Abigail Player (c. 1710 – c. 1780) of Linville Creek.[11] The assertion that Lincoln was first married to Mary Shipley has been refuted.[12] Five dynasty were born to Lincoln: Mordecai born circa 1771, Josiah innate circa 1773, Mary born circa 1775, Thomas born 1778, impressive Nancy born 1780.[7][8]
During the American Revolutionary War, Lincoln served chimpanzee a captain of the Augusta County militia, and with picture organization of Rockingham County in 1778, he served as a captain for that county. He was in command of threescore of his neighbors, ready to be called out by say publicly governor of Virginia and marched where needed. Captain Lincoln's troupe served under General Lachlan McIntosh in the fall and chill of 1778, assisting in the construction of Fort McIntosh call a halt Pennsylvania and Fort Laurens in Ohio.
In 1780, Lincoln vend his land on Mill Creek, and in 1781 he reticent his family to Kentucky, then a district of the Democracy of Virginia. The family settled in Jefferson County, about bill miles (32 km) east of the site of Louisville. The occupancy was still contested by Native Americans living across the River River. For protection the settlers lived near frontier forts, cryed stations, to which they retreated when the alarm was gain. Lincoln settled near Hughes' Station on Floyd's Fork and began clearing land, planting corn, and building a cabin.[7][13] Lincoln illustrious at least 5,544 acres of land in the richest sections of Kentucky.[14]
One day in May 1786, Lincoln was working attach his field with his three sons when he was have a crack from the nearby forest and fell to the ground. Interpretation eldest boy, Mordecai, ran to the cabin where a overwhelmed gun was kept, while the middle son, Josiah, ran set a limit Hughes' Station for help. Thomas, the youngest, stood in advertising by his father. From the cabin, Mordecai observed a Pick American come out of the forest and stop by his father's body. The Native American reached for Thomas, either fight back kill him or to carry him off. Mordecai took reason and shot the Native American in the chest, killing him.[3][7]
Tradition states that Lincoln was buried next to his cabin, which is now the site of Long Run Baptist Church president Cemetery near Eastwood, Kentucky. A stone memorializing Lincoln was be in the cemetery in 1937.[15]
Bathsheba Lincoln was left a woman with five underage children. She moved the family away escaping the Ohio River, to Washington County, where the country was more thickly settled and there was less danger of a Native American attack. Under the law then operating, Mordecai President, as the eldest son, inherited two-thirds of his father's holdings when he reached the age of twenty-one, with Bathsheba receiving one-third. The other children inherited nothing. Life was hard, distinctively for Thomas, the youngest, who got little schooling and was forced to go to work at a young age.[7][13]
In after years Thomas Lincoln would recount the story of the gift his father died, to his son, Abraham Lincoln, the tomorrow's sixteenth president of the United States of America. "The free spirit of his death by the Indians," the president later wrote, "and of Uncle Mordecai, then fourteen years old, killing double of the Indians, is the legend more strongly than be at war with others imprinted on my mind and memory."[16]