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Lincoln as First American President and Frontier Roots
An exploration of Abraham Lincoln as the first U S president born to American parents after 1776. Tracing Lincoln lineages from Samuel Lincoln of England through Thomas and Nancy Hanks to Lincoln’s Kentucky birth, the piece links frontier life in Virginia Kentucky and Massachusetts Bay to the Civil War era president.
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Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Republic
Lincoln
Washington
Buchanan
America
United States
New England
Virginia
Lincolnns
Samuel Lincoln
Hingham
Norfolk
England
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Lincolns
Mass
Mordecai Lincoln
Scituate
New Jersey
Berks County
John Linco
Capt
Kentucky
Thomas Lincoln
Ilinois
Achusetts Bay
Cromwell
Thomas Hanks
Hankses
Malmesbury
Gloucester County
Virginia Land Office
Richmond
Hanks
Col
Richard Lee
Lee
Charles I
Charles IT
Oliver Cromwell
Lees
United States of America
Robert E. Lee
Confederate States of America
William Hanks
Richmond County
John Hanks
North Farnham
Joseph Hanks
North Farnham Parish
Nelson County
Lucy ‘Hanks
Nancy Hanks
Mineral County
West Virginia
Spencer County
Indiana
Jackson
Tippecanoe
Harrison
Abe” Lincoln
Tecumseh
West
Floyd's Fork
Jefferson County
Green River Licks
Lincoln County
Mordecai
Bathsheba
George Hogers Clark
Beech Fork
Washington County
Tom Lincoln
Wautauga
Tennessee
Cumberland County
Hampshire County
Lucy Hanks
Nancy Sparrow
Henry Sparrow
Beech Fa Fork
Berry
Jes
Secead
Elizabethtown
Sinking Spring
Hardin County
Capitol Hill
Roosevelt
Harry F. Byrd
PWA
WPA