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Thomas Lincoln, the Miller
b.Abt 1603
Facts and Events
Four Thomas Lincolns in Massachusetts
The Thomas Lincolns in early Massachusetts were distinguished by their occupation: cooper (sons Thomas Joseph, Benjamin), husbandman (sons Joshua, Thomas, Caleb), miller (sons Thomas, John, Samuel), and weaver (no children). This Thomas is often confused with Thomas the weaver (brother of Samuel) and misidentified as being a direct ancestor of President Lincoln. [1]
Will of Thomas Lincoln "the Miller"
28 Aug 1683, proved 5 Mar 1683/4, Taunton: Stated that he was 80 years old or thereabouts and mentioned his loving wife Elizabeth, eldest son Thomas, son John Linckon, son Samuell Linckon, daughter Mary, daughter Sarah's son Thomas, son-in-law Joseph Willis, Mary Street, and Mr George Shove. [2]
References
- Lincoln, Solomon. Notes on the Lincoln family of Massachusetts with some account of the family of Abraham Lincoln.. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1977)
Oct 1865, 19:358. - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Thomas Lincoln, in Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967
vol 4, part 2, p 57 (image 566 of 616).
- Harvey, Oscar Jewell. The Harvey book : giving the genealogies of certain branches of the American families of Harvey, Nesbitt, Dixon, and Jameson, and notes on many other families, together with numerous biographical sketches. (Wilkesbarre, Pa.: E.B. Yordy, 1899)
part 2, p 36-7.
Thomas was married about 1642 to Elizabeth Andrews (born in England in 1614), sister of Henry Andrews of Taunton.
Thomas Harvey died in Taunton in 1651, aged thirty-four years; and a year or two later his widow was married to Francis Street of Taunton, to whom she bore a daughter named Mary, who was living in Taunton in 1724, unmarried. Francis Street died early in 1665 (William Harvey was one of the appraisers of his estate in June, '65), and on the 10th of the following December the widow Elizabeth was married (3d time) to Thomas Linkon, or Lincoln, the Taunton miller, whose grist-mill (built in 1652 or '3) stood on the west side of Mill River, between the present Cohannet and Winthrop streets.
Thomas Lincoln died in 1683, being survived by his wife. According to an affidavit made by her in 1704, and now preserved among the records in the Taunton City Hall, she was then ninety years of age. She died at Taunton in the Summer of 1717, aged one hundred and three years.
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