Show lincoln the first american president by ELMO SCOTT WATSON RAHAM LINCOLN the first american president yes he be was III bw ow that mean that an attempt is being made to commonly accepted history nor to deny george wash in n who was first in war first in peace and first in the III ads of his countrymen the further honor usually accord tm im of being the first chief executive of this republic but jact is that lincoln not washington was the T first amerl ameri ti President and for this reason aen pen a child is born its inanity is that of its par regardless of its birth lui 1 the parents of all the fuents from washington qa eti 6 to buchanan were born re f e the declaration of in iodence was signed and therefore t he british sub even though they were 2114 in america Lincol ns r and mother were the parents of a president 71 after july 4 1776 so as the first chief execl born in the united states I 1 MERICAN parents and r fore i he was the first 01 ol mil american president tat bat characterization of in however is not based on a mere technicality gard ard to the nationality is parents more imbor tia the fact that there was led in him the strains of po wo cultures which were ta a vital force in the makof america one was 14 lu new england and the mtr 1 lr from virginia was ivas just years ago that arst of the Lincol ns came ii cherica erica samuel lincoln was tame iame and he be was born bom at aarn lam in norfolk england in lla in 1637 he emigrated to massachusetts bay colony uti lived there until his death ingham h mass in 1690 from original immigrant seven eans ians can be traced in direct to the man who became indent dent A migratory family the years passed successive rations of the Lincol ns felt urge tor for a westward mi cn which was such a characteristic of the pioneer that conquered the wilder N of north america and did liuch huch to build in it a new ja n not one of the seven died same town in which he sute cje born and only one died in same game state the westward g of the Lincol ns took them massachusetts to new jer aljo pennsylvania to virginia en tucky to indiana they i I 1 finally to illinois from ice they sent one of their foj aback back east again there to mid in the dying as well I 1 his living to achieve im aliby re is the record of those a a Lincol ns nuel lincoln was born in ham england in 1619 and y in hingham bingham Hing ham mass in 1690 son mordecai lincoln sr born in hingham bingham Hing ham mass 5 57 and died in scituate ul t k in 1727 his son lincoln was born te mass april 24 10 and after a residence in r jersey died in berks coun a in 1736 his son ui in lincoln was born in I 1 county pa in 1716 and 4 E ABRAHAM LINCOLN n ain in virginia in 1788 his son pt abraham lincoln was in virginia in 1744 and died stucky in 1786 his son omas lincoln was born in inia nia in 1778 and died in 11 II at i in 1851 his son lincoln was born in bucky ky in 1809 and died in ae Ii ington in 1865 if I 1 iauch much for the moment for En glands contribution to man of the ages 0 0 i benteen years after the first je ne Lin Lincol coins ns came to mass achu bay colony there arrived in virginia a little group of 27 persons they had been deported from england as a punishment that was being inflicted upon men who were captured by the royalists now back in power among them was a man named thomas hanks whose origin is unknown except that the were balmes bury men in the american colony thomas hanks through various purchases became an important landowner in what is now gloucester county in the virginia land office at richmond are preserved some of the patents granted to hanks and they show that he held several hundred acres of land adjoining the estate of a certain col richard lee who had established his home in virginia 12 years before hanks arrival lee was a royalist one of the foremost in virginia in support of charles 1 I and one of the first to hail charles II 11 as the lawful sovereign of england and now he found himself next plantation neighbor to thomas hanks the rebel who had been deported from england because he had ridden with the Iron heads of oliver cromwell lincoln and lee how amicably the two men lived as neighbors we have no means of knowing but we do know that the lees and the in the years that followed intermarried inter married two centuries later two men who claimed col richard lee as a common ancestor found themselves arrayed against each other in a greater civil war than their forefathers had known in Z v memorial which marks the birthplace of nancy hanks in mineral county W va you used it to split rails with which to fence the land you had won from those same red devils alsi it meant that this land was going to be yours to have and to hold and to hand down to your children so they elected the rail splitter president and who knows how much that election was due to the fact that in 1860 america was still frontier minded nearly a hundred years before that time there had been another abraham lincoln who might have been an even greater frontier hero if the red devils had spared his life he was capt abraham lincoln the grandfather of the rall rail splitter who sold his comfortable home in the beautiful shenandoah valley of virginia in 1780 then he started west with his wife and their five children mordecai aged eleven josiah nine mary six thomas four and nancy a baby in the strong arms of her mother bathsheba lincoln capt abraham lincoln carried with him three treasury warrants each acknowledging receipt of pounds in virginia money and each calling for acres of land to be located in any county in virginia 0 A 4 4 cal 1 i fibik 14 t ay at 1 flyd q flY A wi ajl flaack flA AC A w fitt i yin y 1 I 1 adv W ic AA r i Mt eig V tsai ji T az L thomas hanks patent for acres adjoining land of colonel lee in virginia england they were president abraham lincoln of the united states of america and gen robert E lee commander in chief of the armed forces of the confederate states of america during those two centuries the virginia Hank ses like the massachusetts achu Lin Lincol coIns ns had also begun to move westward although not traveling so faras far as the new englanders some time after the indian uprising of 1675 and ba cons rebellion of 1676 thomas hanks disappeared from history but not until he had started the line which would come to its greatest glory in the little boy who was born in a kentucky log cabin years ago this month that line was as follows thomas hanks his son was william hanks born probably in gloucester county virginia about 1655 died in richmond county in 1704 his son was john hanks born in north farnham parish in richmond county date unknown and died in 1740 his son was joseph hanks born in north farnham parish december 20 1725 died in nelson county kentucky in 1793 his daughter was lucy hanks born probably in 1768 1766 in richmond county virginia and died in 1825 her daughter was nancy hanks born in mineral county west virginia in 1783 died in spencer county indiana october 5 1818 her son was abraham lincoln in 1860 the ame america rica which had once hailed those frontier heroes old hickory jackson and old tippecanoe harrison was ready now to hail another frontiersman old abe lincoln true as an indian fighter his record in the black hawk war much shakes when compared to jacksons conquest of the creeks and harrisons vic victories over the prophet and tecumseh and their shawnees the rail splitter elected but the ax was as potent a symbol as the rifle of course it as useful to defend your cabin against the onslaughts of the red devils but without it you have built your cabin in the first place and when then being such a county thus it was that an abraham lincoln crossed over the mountains into what was then the west and became the first frontiersman lincoln late in the spring he entered acres of land on floyds fork in what later became jefferson county kentucky and a little later acres below green river licks in lincoln county two years later an official survey was made and his patents were issued in due course of time but he did not live long to enjoy his new domain A frontier tragedy abne one morning in may 1788 1786 while capt abraham lincoln was at work on his farm near hughes station on floyds fork a skulking indian shot him down sending his younger brother josiah to the station for help sev enteen year old mordecai sprang in into to the cabin and seized the long rifle which rested on two wooden pegs set in the logs over the fireplace then as the hideously painted red man darted from his ambush toward the place where little tom lincoln sat crying beside the body of his dead father a shot from the long rifle poked through the longs of the cabin by mordecai dropped the red raider in his tracks despite this tragedy the widow bathsheba continued to live on their new farm that autumn when george rogers dark clark organized a company to fight the indians the settlers made contribution of arms and provisions to the extent of their ability highest in appraisal on the list was a fine rifle credited to the widow lincoln one wonders if it was the rifle notched with the knife of young mordecai after he had avenged the death of the first frontiersman abraham lincoln later t the h e widow lincoln moved with her brood to a home on beech fork in that part of nelson county which later became washington county and there she lived until they were grown one of them young tom lincoln was serving in the militia at the age of seventeen in 1798 he went to work as a hired hand for an uncle who lived on the wautauga in tennessee and returning from there he stopped in cumberland county and a n d bought some land in 1802 he was made a constable in that county but he evidently linger there long he moved to hardin county and in 1803 bought a farm on mill creek most of the young folks of kentucky in those days married early but tom lincoln seem to be in any hurry to get himself a wife and settle down that is he until his eyes finally rested one day on a awen ty three year old girl who had come with her family from hampshire county virginia later mineral county west virginia back in 1784 when she was only a year old nancy hanks was her name and she was the natural daughter of lucy hanks but folks also called her nancy sparrow because lucy hanks changing from the ways of her wild girlhood had become the faithful wife of henry sparrow A century old mystery who nancy hanks father was is still asmuth as much a mystery today as it was that day more than three quarters of a century ago when abraham lincoln told one of his friends that his unknown grandfather was a virginia gentleman from whom he had inherited whatever fine qualities he had it was probably a mystery also when the came to kentucky but evidently tom lincoln troubled by the fact that there was a taint on the name of nancy hanks in june 1806 he went back to beech fork and there on june 12 in the big double log house of a family named berry rev jes asri ss ri IN y ur 1 HY 4 p al 11 1 a few I 1 sikwai 5 V avi J if yi 1 14 f 91 A K x 1 amy y s ff y 7 4 vs e 1 4 I 1 A fea 5 sc at j f K r fe A ff jf r M A a w y wy 4 y A ay y adv lz f y gy r sa fy ys sy u jf p 11 1 J w r ft Tt hA LC sj survey ot of capt abraham Lincol ns acre farm on green river ky se head married thomas lincoln and nancy hanks he took his bride first to elizabethtown Elizabeth town and there their first child was born a girl A year before his marriage tom lincoln had bought a farm near sinking spring in hardin county and there he took his family next there on february 12 10 1809 09 was born the boy who was given the name of his grandfather a name which americans have en shrines in their hearts 0 C service |