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Lincoln Origins and the Lincolns of America
Lincoln is presented as the first American president born to American parents, tracing the Lincoln lineage from Samuel Lincoln in England to Abraham Lincoln born in Kentucky in 1809. The piece links the Lincoln and Hanks lineages, notes frontier migration from Massachusetts and Virginia to Kentucky and Illinois, and recounts key ancestors and events including the 1786 death of Capt. Abraham Lincoln and Nancy Hanks origin questions.
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George Washington
Republic
Lincoln
Washington
Buchanan
America
United States
New England
Virginia
Lincolns
Samuel Lincoln
Hingham
Norfolk
England
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Mass
North
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Indiana
Illinois
Mordecai Lincoln, Sr
Scituate
Mordecai Lincoln
Berks County
John Lincoln
Capt
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Lincoln
New
Achusetts Bay
Cromwell
Thomas Hanks
Hankses
Malmesbury
Gloucester County
Virginia Land Office
Richmond
Hanks
Col
Richard Lee
Lee
Charles I
Charles II
Oliver Cromwell
Red Devils
Shenandoah Valley
Mordecai
Josiah
Mary
Thomas
Nancy
Bathsheba Lincoln
Treasury
United States of America
Robert E. Lee
Confederate States of America
William Hanks
Richmond County
John Hanks
North Farnham Parish
Joseph Hanks
Nelson County
Old Hickory
Jackson
Harrison
Abe
Tecumseh
West
Floyd’s Fork
Jefferson County
Green River Licks
Lincoln County
Hughes Station
Bathsheba
George Rogers Clark
Beech Fork
Washington County
Tom Lincoln
Wautauga
Tennessee
Cumberland County
Hardin
Oshi County
Mineral County
West Virginia
Nancy Hanks
Lucy Hanks
Nancy Sparrow
Henry Sparrow
Berry
Jes
Se Head
Elizabethtown
Sinking Spring
Hardin County
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