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Book Title: History Of Durham, Maine

LINCOLN.

   The ancestor of the Lincoln family was Samuel Lincoln who came from Hingham,
Eng. in 1637, and settled in Hingham, Mass. He was a mariner and weaver. He died
in 1690, aged 71 years. His son Mordecai settled in Scituate, Mass., in 1700,.
built a spacious house and was proprietor of saw and grist mills and of iron
works. His son Mordecai Jr. went to Penn. and from him was descended Pres.
Abraham Lincoln. Dr. Isaac Lincoln of Brunswick was a descendant of Isaac, son
of Mordecai, Senr. of Scituate. John, who settled in Durham was, doubtless, a
descendant of this same Mordecai Lincoln.

   JOHN LINCOLN was born in Scituate, Mass., 18 (or 29) of Dec. 1743. Was a
soldier in the Revolution. Married 21 Nov. 1779 his cousin, Ruth Stetson who was
born 7 April 1740. Moved to Durham about 1791, and settled on the County-road.
They had, besides Joshua who died in infancy, six children, all born in Scituate.

   JOHN JR. b. 2 Jan. 1780; m. Martha Thompson of Topsham. Lived in Aroostook
Co., Me.  Died in Ill.

   ELISHA STETSON b. 5 Dec. 1781; m. 17 Sept. 1820 Clarissa Stetson; d. 2 Nov.
1823 in Litchfield.

   NATHANIEL STETSON b. 12 Oct. 1783; m. 21 Jan. 1820 Mary Stetson; d. 21 Feb.
1845.

   CHRISTOPHER b. 3 Jan. 1785; m. 1 Jan. 1815 Thirza Gerrish. Lived and died in
Litchfield, Me.; d. 23 Sept. 1864.

   EUNICE STETSON b. 25 Aug. 1788; m. 27 Oct. 1812 Isaac Storer Hooper; died May
1884.

   DAVID STETSON b. 15 Jan. 1790; m. 30 May 1816 Mary Mitchell; m. (2) 30 March
1830 Susan Blackstone. Lived in Durham and Brunswick.

   Nathaniel S. Lincoln, named above, lived in Durham opposite the old North
Meeting House. He built the part now standing. The front, which was the house of
John Dean and of Wm. McGray, was taken down in 1854, carried to Brunswick and is
still the framework of a house on Noble St.

   MARY ANN b. 14 July 1821; m. 10 May 1840 Horace Wright; d. 17 Feb. 1891.

   CHARLES b. 6 Nov. 1823; lost at sea Feb. 1851.

   NATHANIEL b. 3 Mch. 1826; m. 26 Sept. 1852 Mary E. Reed. Lost at sea Nov.,
1881. His family live in Brunswick.

   RUTH HELEN b. 13 Oct. 1828; d. 17 Nov. 1871.

   JOHN b. 8 Nov. 1831; lost at sea 17 Nov. 1871.

   OLIVE b. 22 Dec. 1833; d. 9 Feb. 1852.

   REBECCA b. 20 Nov. 1835; m. 22 May 1856 Winthrop Farrin.

   CLARA ABBIE b. 3 Feb. 1838; m. 23 Dec. 1864 Wm. Stevens.

   GEORGE b. 1 July 1843; lives in Cal.  Unm.


Additional Comments:
Part of Chapter XII.
GENEALOGICAL NOTES

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF DURHAM, MAINE
WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES.

BY EVERETT S. STACKPOLE.

PUBLISHED BY VOTE OF TOWN.

LEWISTON: PRESS OF LEWISTON JOURNAL COMPANY. 
1899.


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