Samuel Lincoln | |
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| Born | 24 August 1622 |
| Died | 26 May 1690 (aged 67) |
| Children | Samuel, Daniel, Mordecai, Mary, Thomas, Martha, Sarah, Rebecca |
| Parent | Edward Lincoln |
| Relatives | Captain Abraham Lincoln (great great grandson) Mordecai Lincoln (3rd great grandson) |
Samuel Lincoln (24 August 1622 – 26 May 1690) was an Englishman and progenitor of many notable United States political figures, including his 4th-great-grandson, President Abraham Lincoln, Maine governor Enoch Lincoln, and Levi Lincoln Sr. and Levi Lincoln Jr., both of whom served as Massachusetts Representatives, Governor and Lieutenant Governor.[2] Because of Samuel Lincoln's descendants, his fortuitous arrival in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and the fact that his ancestry is known for several generations, he is considered the father of the most prominent branch of Lincolns in the United States.[3]
- ^ The Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln, James Henry Lea, Robert Hutchinson, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1909, p. 4.
- ^ Bulletin of the Essex Institute, Vol. I, 1869, Essex Institute Press, Salem, Mass., 1870.
- ^ Waldo Lincoln, History of the Lincoln Family: An Account of the Descendants of Samuel Lincoln of Hingham, Massachusetts, 1637–1920 (1923) ISBN 0-7884-1489-5; John George Nicolay, John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History (1890) p. 2.