Show BEAR A GREAT NAME pennsylvania ANCESTORS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN ahelf the ri 0 11 lincoln la the tile finity of the lie cly ky of reading the Ito 11 air ories saud uil other others who gjent M to kentucky heading reading 1 I la a I 1 letter etter 1 1 I IS 13 9 fact within 1 the knowledge kroft ledge of ery erf few fea geiple that oa 01 the eastern slope 1 at 0 the 01 Alleg hray m mountain mountains a u n aj la in Ile pennsyl ansyl WOW ala anta not more than bait hlf a dozen i mile miles elet elst ot of readic ing in close tar t exeter station on the I 1 hl ladelphia anil and reading railroad hundreds of people are dally daily passing athla a u stone F tl it row of the ancient acine ot of the forefathers of 0 abraham lincoln all tb that at la is generally knon n of the ancestor of abraham lincoln points out that they their emigrated to massachusetts then to new jersey and after afterwards Aaris ls to berks county b rom thae thet e they moved to ci nty N liginza and finally into len kentucky tucky where the president as born an investigation pro es too that tho the I 1 Hn rolna ft ere not adnas poor but that fomo of 0 them were distinguished citizens ot of massachusetts chu and the prea grea greit grand f ither of the I 1 resident as a prominent and extensive landholder in penn cylania sy 11 lania the lincoln family li ii ot of english origin ant an I 1 the name AIs quite cam mon in angland 1 in the eary early part ot of the seventeenth century samuel lincoln the emi emigrant grint ettlel in hingham bingham Hing ham mass lass borne ome time near the close of the seventeenth century lie ile bad had a son named mordecal iho who was born in ili and who ho w is married to sarah tones janes mordcai Mord icil also had a son by the etame of Mori lecil il who ho moved south to new jersey and bought a large trait ot at land he lie aai the greit great gaind etther of president ilia ills vito it died in ne new jersey and bis his family wn nestel at least ot of one son and probably one ur or two daughters at this time the son a name wig wis john and be Is in the direct line of the ancestor ancestors at 0 the president mo al came tv tor exeter township berks count pennant Pen pennsylvania about the yar 1 1720 and bought a large territory ot of land in close arox imley to whit A hit Is now exeter station the reason reisen tor for the frequent family removals nala of the Lin Lincol coins ns fr not atell ell known but it Is quite suro sure that they were quakers and as county and its immediate surroundings comprised a good many miny people of f the same belief I 1 it Is probable ro bable that they their sought a closer cloer religious communion with depole who hil tie the same sime spiritual tendencies clest llo however vever this may be decil and records are in existence which show that mordecal Vor decal lincoln bought one thaus thousand ind of land lying 11 in the township from the sons of llam penn the exact loun boun lories of the lincoln pur chibe can be outline I 1 boti from original inal data dita an annl I 1 from the knowledge of eueral of tha inhabitants vho ft v ho ar still living in that thit section the I lani a as in the shape wipe of squire and lay dl dt erectly on the schuylkill river it extended north from the tile hier into t tha hj dpn country to a line uno of low halli along the present philadelphia and ani heading reading turnpike its pastern eastern and ani N western estern boundaries wore were formed by two email creeks the kanetani An etani and an other stream further east about halt half a mile here mordecai Mor decat lincoln erected a noure in tho the southeastern corner of 0 his land it was built ot of stone and stands in a gorge at the bottom c of aich the creek los flos the hoats remaina ft ith the exception of 0 an hichi aas a built allcut 1900 and cin can be seen from the rall roid raid before reaching aneter station lle records cottIs show that Mort mordecal lecal lincoln Rt attended tended ON iftner Ift ned meeting in acry ery county but aa a monthly meeting was wa at ejoy ol v which Is near stoner tile exeter soon after his arrival in berks cownty he severed his rel relations irions with ith the former and in he the latter place he lie died in 1735 0 1736 fin I 1 was burled buried in fie tile graveyard ot of the oley meeting 1 boue bouse although all r corda cords cancer nin 9 the burying of mordecal MorA ecal 1 lincoln have been lost it Is knon th that at his body holy was one of the first burled in thie th ie se wounds t today the tho oley meeting bouss 19 1 at still used as a place of 0 worship by the friends and the glave Yarl continues to recene the de dead ld of these people one of the latest int interments ermente being the remains of john lincoln a great great grandsen grand sin of mordecal george and arid mary boone the grandparents of dan lei let boone are also bullet burl here at the tho urn of hta life death mordecal lincoln had three eore and avit faugh I 1 tera bosis names viers ddn horde worde cat thomaa thomas hannah mr lilay I 1 nn yin and sarah in accordance with ath tt ex pressed intimation in his will another son pon was born in 1736 shortly after be lie died this son haq named at 1 raham and tt it la Is of 0 him that we ye knor kno mo moa moe e than of any of at the berks bounly un coins he lie lived lied here all his life afe DRI 01 wa mai prominent in the affairs at 0 Ms its clinty nty and state he ile prior to t tic ic rev rea lution as a commissioner a 01 blerk county far for a bumler of at tarnis rort dur dar ing the reio resolution lution on march 1 I 1 1777 he wai appointed one of 0 the sub lieu tenants of the dinty in that office he was nas very iery inthe in raising and forwarding supplies to the cental army and was as frequently corn cam ted tr fr a at headquarters for his zeal 1 and ability lie wis A is t memer r of 0 the Penn shania legislature in 1782 became a delegate del eRite to the con contention entson aich rati flet the constitution of the tatted stites ind he pas as also a 1 member of the constitutional convention in 1787 the signature siR nature ot of abraham I 1 lincoln Is found affixed d to many of the deeds an I 1 public docu ments in the archives ot of county lie ile marrie I 1 anna boone i cousin of 0 daniel boone hen kentucky tucky s famous a pioneer abriham lincoln I 1 Is not in a direct line ot at the tents ancestor ancestors as his has h is been s opposed by b man his ills hilf brother jphn john he olcott eon lon of mordecal Mor decil it ald the OKI drle son fort of his first ife K was vas the great grandfather of li braham lincoln the mir nurtured tred exit dy by his fathers father a will ill ho he re belvel a farm of three hundred acre in ne e lersey jersey which he in all ability occupied before his taher it deith but which he left shortly after the occurrence of the latter event and came to berks county pennsylvania where he had purchased sd some lan ian I 1 only a mile diskint from the old homestead home Tri lldon lon lokites the spot where A here stood the bouse in which he lived about the middle of the century along in the sixties the spirit of unrest affected not only the u booles but the Lincol lincolia LIn colna ni the moved south ward to N virglnia and thence to kentucky it U this time and almost within hp ing in distance of the I 1 lincoln homestead near exeter station lived another fan fam t jb h it 4 V J kd OF 11 1 lly ily the descendants of which were als also 0 destined to pla play in an import ial part in the history of the president this wag was the hanka hanks family from which nancy hanks the mother of ohp Preil president dent directly descended the precise name of the bead head of the hanks family ie Is uncertain but it la is generally belle believed ed to have been john following Foll ovOng the fall of boone he farn fam lly of john II 11 inks also left tta its native soil boll to go to Vir virginia glela while john lin coin coln the great grandfather ennd grind tather father of the president was vias still there john I 1 lincoln had a son b by the camp of abraham who wag the gran ieather of the president and before letang virginia abriham married hannah fl annall the eldest daughter of biln winters WI n who also originally came from derka berls county in kentucky braham lincoln was plain by the indians indiana he lie then had three sons mordecal Mor lecal josah and thomas the latter a goa goot natured and easygoing easy going individual and the fa zill 1 4 41 her of the president married vincy the daughter or granad aughter of john hanks who emigrated fr from 0 M D berks erks county Penn hania ind finally land cd ed in rockingham cauntay lirginia as w we e have haie alread already gesn this occurred tn in bisou and ta in 1803 the president was born in the fight in the saran sir pass in northwest india a rifle bullet fired by the enemy entered the muzzle of a sepo s rifle nine inches i don do n the barrel the le vetora Vet forit ago 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