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John Blair Linn to Lyman C. Draper, December 27, 1883
Draper Manuscripts, 1C89 

Transcribed from microfilm copy of the original document from the 
Draper Manuscripts Collection of the State Historical Society of 
Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

Spelling and punctuation are as they appear in the original text.
Transcriber's notes in {}

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{Draper's note at top of page} Anna Boone Winters - Ths. & Abm Lincoln 
- Hawkins Boone

Dec. 27  83

John Blair Linn
Attorney at Law
Bellefonte, PA

My Dear Sir,

	J.F. Meginness sent me your letter with request to reply.  I 
dusted about and found William Winters will which knocks'the story John 
Kidd Shoemaker told me of Lincoln' decent from Anne Boone higher than 
Franklins Kite.

	1st about Hawkins Boone, see my Annals page 178.  I see I state 
that he was a son of Squire.  I cannot recollect where I got that 
information, and it may not be reliable; but if he was a son of Squire, 
then according to Gen. Davis's Hist. Of Bucks Co. page 135, he must 
have been a brother of Daniel; but I always supposed he was a cousin, 
and likely Annie Boone, Wm. Winter's 1st wife, was a sister of Hawkins 
Boone, for William Winters lived on Hawkins Boone' land, now the site 
of the city of Williamsport, as early as 1778; and on 11 July 1791, 
bought of Robert Martin, Robert Arthur, and Jean Hardey admins of 
Hawkins Boone 187 acres of it, lately known as the Judge Grier farm.  
John Rose Esq father in law of Hon R.G. Grier bought the Winter farm.

{Draper's note}
*Note to following page:  Rev. J. Wesley Webb, a Boone descendant, says 
Hannah Winters was the oldest daughter of Wm. & Anna Boone Winters; & 
the record preserved by her Va descendants fixes her birth year in 1749 
- her oldest child born when the mother, Mrs. Henry Miller, was 
sixteen.

{Linn's letter continues}
William Winter's will is dated June 18, 1794.  He had two wives.  1st 
Anna or Annie Boone by whom were:

Hannah married to Henry Miller*
William Winters
John Winters
Jane married ... Campbell
Phoebe  "   " Jones
Ann intermarried with George Crawford
______  "   Thomas Lincoln
Tradition says there were 11 children by 1st wife, but only seven are 
named in the will.  I read them over to Miss Ellen Harris, and she says 
all above are of 1st wife  Anna Boone.  

2nd wife Eleanor Campbell

Sarah married Benj. Harris father of Miss Ellen of Bellefonte
Mary   "   Hon. Chas. Huston Judge S.C.
James
Elias
Elizabeth married Thos. Alexander, father of Mrs. E. C. Humes of 
Bellefonte, Pa.
Eleanor       "        Hon. Thomas Burnside
Lucy           "         Hon. W. W. Potter
Archibald....

	Miss Ellen could not recalled the name of Lincoln wife.  But as 
to Hannah married Henry Miller she did not marry A. Lincoln, the 
Presidents grandfather as Jno Shoemaker said.

	Winters came to the West Branch in 1778 and Anna Boone Winters no 
doubt died in Berks Co.  As Miss Harris says her grand-mother Eleanor 
Campbell was from near Reading.

	The Thomas Lincoln who married a Winters was no doubt the grand 
uncle of Prest. Lincoln mentioned on page 20 J.G. Holland's Life of A. 
Lincoln.

	William Winter's will names all the children as above.  Miss 
Ellen does not know whether correctly in order of birth or not.

Item 6
	I give and bequeath to Thomas Linkhorn, my son in law, the sum of 
five shillings as full of his part and share.

Item 7
	I leave and bequeath unto my grandson, Thomas Linkhorn, a bond 
which is due me by his father upwards of twenty pounds; also one horse 
creature to the value of twenty pounds or twenty pounds as cash.  

	As to my land in Kentucky which is patented in my name and sons 
William, John and James - he will his own 1/2 interest to Sarah, Mary, 
Elizabeth, Lucy, Elias and Archibald.  

He had no doubt advanced his children by 1st wife, and it would seem 
that Mrs. Lincoln was then, 1794, dead, as he does not mention her.  I 
questioned Miss Ellen closely, but she cannot recalled any thing of the 
1st wife children even the State they went to.  Miller's boys often 
stopped at her fathers Benj. Harris at Montoursville on their way east 
with cattle.

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