- Mordecai, Lincoln I, 3rd great grandparent of Pres. Abraham Lincoln.
son of Samuel Lincoln, was born in Hingham, June 17, 1657,
died in Scituate, Massachusetts, October 13, 1727.
He was a blacksmith by trade, and established the first smelting furnace in New England. There is record of him as a foot soldier in 1679, and as a blacksmith at Hull in 1680. He married Sarah, daughter of Abraham and Sarah (Whitman) Jones (and here is where the name Abraham, so common in the Lincoln family, comes from). They had; Mordecai (2), Abraham, Isaac and Sarah, all born at Hingham, and Elizabeth and Jacob, born at Scituate, Massachusetts.
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Mordecai Lincoln, a blacksmith - born 14 JUN 1657 ~ married Sarah Jones
Blacksmith by trade and founded first smelting furnace in New England.
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Mordeke married Sarah Jones. They had children:
Mordecai born 24 April 1686
Abraham born 13 January 1688/89
Isaac born 24 October 1691
Sarah born 29 July, 1694
she married Daniel Tower
she died - July 7, 1754
Mordeke married Mary (Hobart) Chapin, widow of Samuel Chapin, on February 17, 1701/02 in Braintree, Suffolk county, Province of Massachusetts Bay. They had children:
Elizabeth born about 1703
she married Ambrose Cole
she died 14 September 1724
Jacob - baptized 23 May 1708
Mordeke died in Scituate, Plymouth county, Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts to the year 1850, Deaths, p. 411
LINCOLN Mordecai, Nov. 28, 1727. [Mordeke, in 71st y. G.R.2.]
Third Great Grandparent of Abraham Lincoln.
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