Joshua Lincoln
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 14 Mar 1807 - Brewster, Massachusetts 1
Baptism:
Death: 10 Aug 1824 - Brewster, Massachusetts 1
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Isaac Lincoln (1773-1829) 2
Mother: Deborah Rogers (1775-1841) 2
Joshua W Lincoln
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 3 Aug 1803 - Eastham, Massachusetts 3
Baptism:
Death: 26 Jul 1882 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Burial: in Eastham, Massachusetts
Cause of Death: bowel cancer
Events
• Alt Birth, , Eastham, Massachusetts in Eastham, Massachusetts
Parents
Father: Joshua Lincoln (1778-1864) 4
Mother: Tamsen Doane (1778-1862)
Spouses and Children
1. *Hannah King (15 Nov 1805 - 14 Apr 1887) 5
Marriage: 1848 - (Charlestown, Massachusetts)
Status:
2. Mercy Chipman (4 May 1806 - 15 Oct 1843) 6
Marriage: 3 Sep 1829 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 7
Status:
Children:
1. Louisa M Lincoln (1833-1901)
2. Joshua Walker Lincoln (1836-1903) 8
3. Mary E Lincoln (1850- )
Notes
Medical:
age 84
married
farmer
b Eastham
parents Joshua & Tamsen
interred Eastham 9
Joshua Walker Lincoln
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 19 Jun 1836 - Charlestown, Massachusetts 8
Baptism:
Death: 4 Apr 1903 - South Wellfleet, Massachusetts 10
Burial: in Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham 11
Cause of Death: angina pectoris, cardiac paralysis
Parents
Father: Joshua W Lincoln (1803-1882)
Mother: Mercy Chipman (1806-1843) 6
Spouses and Children
1. *Mercy Chipman Dill (20 Jan 1837 - 21 May 1895) 12
Marriage: 6 Jan 1875 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Status:
Notes
Medical:
age 66-3-9
farmer
widowed 10
Josiah Lincoln
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 28 Mar 1833 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 13
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Dawson Washington Lincoln (1804-After 1892)
Mother: Hannah Holbrook Baker (1807-Bef 1892) 14
Josiah Lincoln
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1796 - Eastham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 17 Jun 1869 - Eastham, Massachusetts 15
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Josiah Linckhornew (1750-Bef 1847)
Mother: Anna Walker (1756-1847) 16
Notes
Medical:
age 73
farmer
died of old age or 'not known'
b Eastham
parents Josiah & Anna Lincoln 15
Laura A Lincoln
Sex: F
AKA: Laurana Lincoln
Individual Information
Birth: 17 May 1809 - Brewster, Massachusetts 1
Baptism:
Death: 15 Oct 1898 - Brewster, Massachusetts 17
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Isaac Lincoln (1773-1829) 2
Mother: Deborah Rogers (1775-1841) 2
Spouses and Children
1. *Captain Henry Rogers (21 Apr 1804 - 3 Nov 1840)
Marriage: 7 Jul 1831 - Brewster, Massachusetts 18
Status:
2. Captain Obed Snow (14 Jun 1795 - 20 Apr 1853)
Marriage: 1849 - Brewster, Massachusetts
Status:
Laura Allithina Lincoln
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1 Aug 1850 - Brewster, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Charles Lincoln (1805-1877)
Mother: Mercy Berry (1805-1869)
Leah Lincoln
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 3 Dec 1758 - Hingham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 18 Jan 1844 - Hingham, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Enoch Lincoln (1720-1802) 19
Mother: Rachel Fearing (Abt 1721-1782) 19
Notes
General:
Marriage 1 Hawkes FEARING b: 26 Nov 1750 in Hingham, Mass
Married: 5 May 1779 in Hingham, Mass
Change Date: 3 Apr 2004
Children, all in Hingham
Hawkes FEARING b: 10 Dec 1781
Sally FEARING b: 16 Mar 1784
Lucinda FEARING b: 6 Oct 1785
Aurelia FEARING b: 18 Feb 1788
David FEARING b: 28 Aug 1789
Lincoln FEARING b: 22 Jul 1792
Morris FEARING b: 9 Oct 1794
Albert FEARING b: 12 Mar 1798
Olive FEARING b: 21 Sep 1802 19
Leantes Lincoln
Sex: M
AKA: Leartus Lincoln
Leatus Lincoln
Individual Information
Birth: 7 Oct 1810 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 9 Oct 1870 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death: heart disease
Parents
Father: Joshua Lincoln (1778-1864) 4
Mother: Tamsen Doane (1778-1862)
Spouses and Children
1. *Thankful Kennedy Ward (2 Feb 1833 - 9 Nov 1907) 21
Marriage: 17 Jun 1863 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 22
Status:
Children:
1. Lilla Linfield Lincoln (1864-1926) 23
2. Helen M Lincoln (1867-1885) 24
2. Sarah D Dill (17 Jul 1794 - After 1855)
Marriage: 22 Dec 1831 - Eastham, Massachusetts 25
Status:
Notes
General:
1864 landsman, WellfleetMedical:
age at death: 60y 2d.Marriage Notes (Thankful Kennedy Ward)
occupation: farmer
parents: Joshua and Tamson
birth, death and interment: Wellfleet
undertaker: C. Y. Rogers 26
1870 Wellfleet censusMarriage Notes (Sarah D Dill)
1855 Mass. census, Wellfleet
26/30
Rachal Defoe, 75
27/31
Daniel Atwood, 56, mariner
Mehitable Atwood, 59?
Sarah B Holbrook, 18
Mehitable Holbrook, 16
Elizabeth D Atwood, 11
28/32
Leatus Lincoln, 46, laborer
Sally Lincoln, 61
Huldah Dill, 89
Levi Lincoln
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 22 Aug 1810 - Worcester, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Governor Levi Lincoln Jr (1782-1868)
Mother: Penelope Winslow Seaver (1786-1872)
Governor Levi Lincoln Jr
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 25 Oct 1782 - Worcester, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 29 May 1868 - Worcester, Massachusetts
Burial: in Rural Cemetery, Worcester
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Governor Levi Lincoln (1749-1820)
Mother: Martha Waldo (1761-1828)
Spouses and Children
1. *Penelope Winslow Seaver (21 Jul 1786 - 2 Apr 1872)
Marriage: 6 Sep 1807 - Worcester, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Sarah Warren Lincoln (1808- )
2. Levi Lincoln (1810- )
3. William Sever Lincoln (1811- )
4. Daniel Waldo Lincoln (1813- )
5. Penelope Sever Lincoln (1815- )
6. George Lincoln (1816- )
7. Anne Warren Lincoln (1818- )
8. John Waldo Lincoln (1820- )
Notes
General:
http://www.mass.gov/statehouse/massgovs/llincon2.htm
Governors of Massachusetts
Levi Lincoln, Jr. (1825-1868)
Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
1825-1834
The son of the former Massachusetts Governor and U.S. Attorney General, Levi Lincoln, Jr. was born in Worcester. He returned there after attending Harvard College and began a legal career. In 1812, he represented Worcester in the Massachusetts Senate and then in the House of Representatives from 1814 to 1822. He was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1823 and served as Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 1825.
In 1825, he won the governorship running as an Adams Republican. During his first administration, he supported the owners of the Charles Street Toll Bridge who were opposed to the Commonwealth constructing a free bridge. The issue led to a gubernatorial challenge by the Free Bridge ticket, which Mr. Lincoln overcame. He was challenged seven times by Marcus Morton, who lost each time. In 1831, the state moved the gubernatorial race to November, which resulted in them facing each other twice in the same year.
It was Levi Lincoln, Jr. who received the Marquis de Lafayette, and joined him in a parade of 7,000 citizens honoring the Battle of Bunker Hill's surviving soldiers. The day was declared Lafayette Day, in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette's participation in the American Revolution.
In 1833, Governor Lincoln decided against further gubernatorial runs and instead mounted a successful Congressional bid. He served in Congress 1834-1841, then returned to serve in the Massachusetts Senate in 1844, and as President of the Senate in 1845. Mr. Lincoln returned to his native Worcester where he was elected Mayor in 1848.
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American National Biography
Lincoln, Levi (25 Oct. 1782-29 May 1868), lawyer and politician, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Levi Lincoln, a lawyer and later attorney general of the United States in the first Thomas Jefferson administration, and Martha Waldo. Levi Lincoln was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1805, three years after graduating from Harvard College. He established a practice in Worcester, and in 1807 he married Penelope Winslow, with whom he had eight children.
Lincoln became politically active as a Jeffersonian Republican. After serving from 1812 to 1813 in the Massachusetts Senate, he won election in 1814 to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, which Federalists and opponents of the War of 1812 dominated. He quickly established himself as the leader of the prowar Republican minority and consistently opposed the policies of Federalist governor Caleb Strong. When the Federalists passed an act authorizing participation in the Hartford Convention, an antiwar gathering, Lincoln wrote the minority protest that was signed by seventy-six members of the house and distributed statewide. The Hartford Convention, followed closely by the end of the war, discredited the Federalists and elevated Lincoln to prominence in the state. Lincoln further enhanced his reputation in the state constitutional convention of 1820-1821 by actively supporting the abolition of apportionment of seats in the senate based on tax assessments by districts. He advocated apportionment by population solely, a position that won him substantial approval from reformers, while his restrained manner preserved the respect of conservatives and his friends among the social and economic elite. Lincoln enjoyed a broad and increasing base of support, and members of the house chose him to serve as Speaker in 1822.
In 1823 Lincoln resigned from the house to accept appointment as lieutenant governor of Massachusetts. Two years later Federalists, suffering a clear and steady decline in their political power and authority, decided to endorse the moderate Lincoln for governor on an "amalgamation" ticket. With Marcus Morton, a highly partisan Republican, as Lincoln's running mate, the ticket drew support from both parties, and Lincoln won 94 percent of the votes cast. He served as governor until 1834 and was never seriously challenged in the annual elections.
As governor Lincoln laid the basis for the progressive economic development of the state. He carried out a survey of state geological resources and topography, promoted the charter of Massachusetts's first railroad companies, and endorsed protective corporation laws through legislative adoption of a principle of limited liability. He eased laws on imprisonment for debt and bankruptcy and reformed prison administration, and he promoted public education with the establishment of normal schools throughout the state and support for the programs of Horace Mann. Also highly regarded was his appointment of Lemuel Shaw as chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court in 1830.
Lincoln made an easy transition from a Jefferson Republican into a National Republican and was indirectly instrumental in organizing the Massachusetts Whig party. In 1824 he supported John Quincy Adams's election to the presidency and in 1827 declined appointment, which Adams promoted, to the U.S. Senate, partly out of concern that his departure from the state house would jeopardize the fragile Republican-Federalist coalition. With Lincoln representing former Jeffersonian Republicans, Daniel Webster representing former Federalists, and both coalescing behind Adams, the Massachusetts National Republican party was now fully organized.
Whereas subsequently Adams flirted with Antimasonry and Webster courted various coalitions in his pursuit of the presidency, Lincoln remained steadfast in the new political organization and held it together. In 1827 his veto of a bill permitting construction of a non-toll bridge across the Charles River that would have ended the monopoly of a toll bridge owned by Harvard College and conservative Bostonians won him conservative support. However, this concern for property rights and his associations with former Federalists and conservative Republicans alienated the Jacksonian elements in the state. By 1834 Lincoln's party evolved into the Massachusetts Whig party, which remained dominant in the state until the party collapsed nationally in 1854.
In 1834 Lincoln won election as a Whig and ally of Webster to the U.S. House of Representatives. He replaced John Davis, who in turn replaced Lincoln as governor. Lincoln served in the House from 17 February 1834 to 16 March 1841 and loyally supported Whig programs. He did not distinguish himself in the House, although he stood as an effective champion of American claims in the dispute with England over the Maine boundary.
Lincoln resigned from the House to accept appointment by President William Henry Harrison as collector of the Port of Boston, replacing Democrat George Bancroft. He served for two years, until President John Tyler replaced him with Democrat Robert Rantoul, Jr., in a bid for Massachusetts Democratic support. Lincoln's dismissal marked his only involuntary political retirement in his career. He returned to the Massachusetts State Senate in 1844 and 1845 and served as president of the senate in 1845. In 1848 Lincoln was an elector for Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore and was elected the first mayor of the newly incorporated city of Worcester, a largely ceremonial post he held for one year only. Following that service, at the age of sixty-seven and after thirty-five years in public office, Lincoln retired from politics.
Between 1849 and 1868 Lincoln devoted himself to philanthropic, charitable, and community affairs. He was a founder of the American Antiquarian Society, served on its council from 1817 to 1854, and was a vice president of the society from 1854 to his death. Although Lincoln's career is most associated with Massachusetts, his nationalism was deep and constant throughout his life. He supported Jefferson and James Madison through the War of 1812, condemned South Carolina's nullification ordinance in 1833, and as his last political act, cast electoral votes for Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson in the election of 1864. Neither a scholar, great legislator, nor charismatic public speaker, Lincoln was a stable and highly respected public official during a politically chaotic time. After an illness of two years, he died in Worcester.
Bibliography
Lincoln's papers are housed in the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston and the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester. The latter contains an extended contemporary eulogy, Charles Hudson, "Life, Services, and Character of Hon. Levi Lincoln of Worcester." Information can be drawn from several older publications and general histories of Mass., such as Waldo Lincoln, History of the Lincoln Family (1923), written by his son; and a collection of eulogies in A Memorial of Levi Lincoln, the Governor of Massachusetts from 1825 to 1834 (1868). Lincoln's activities are also described in Arthur B. Darling, Political Changes in Massachusetts, 1824-1848: A Study of Liberal Movements in Politics (1925); and Ronald P. Formisano, The Transformation of Political Culture: Massachusetts Parties, 1790s-1840s (1983).
Kinley Brauer
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US Congressional biography:
LINCOLN, Levi, (1782 - 1868)
LINCOLN, Levi, (son of Levi Lincoln [1749-1820] and brother of Enoch Lincoln), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Worcester, Mass., October 25, 1782; attended Leicester Academy, Leicester, Mass., and was graduated from Harvard University in 1802; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of his profession at Worcester in 1805; served in the state senate in 1812 and 1813; member of the state house of representatives 1814-1822 and served as speaker in 1822; delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1820; elected lieutenant governor of Massachusetts in 1823; appointed associate justice of the state supreme court in 1824; governor of Massachusetts 1825-1834; declined reelection; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Davis; reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses and served from February 17, 1834, to March 16, 1841, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses); collector of the port of Boston, by appointment of President Harrison, 1841-1843; served in the state senate in 1844 and 1845 and was president of that body in the latter year; first mayor of Worcester in 1848; presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1864; died in Worcester, Worcester County, Mass., May 29, 1868; interment in the Rural Cemetery. 27
Governor Levi Lincoln
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1749 - Hingham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 14 Apr 1820 - Worcester, Massachusetts
Burial: in Rural Cemetery, Worcester
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Enoch Lincoln (1720-1802) 19
Mother: Rachel Fearing (Abt 1721-1782) 19
Spouses and Children
1. *Martha Waldo (14 Sep 1761 - 28 Mar 1828)
Marriage: 25 Nov 1781 - Lancaster, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Governor Levi Lincoln Jr (1782-1868)
2. Governor Enoch Lincoln (1788-1829)
Notes
General:
http://www.mass.gov/statehouse/massgovs/llincon.htmMarriage Notes (Martha Waldo)
Governors of Massachusetts
Levi Lincoln (1749-1820)
Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
1808-1809
Levi Lincoln was the son of a farmer and attended a common school before graduation from Harvard, the only college in Massachusetts at the time. He joined the Minutemen to fight in Cambridge at the start of the American Revolution and would later serve as Prosecutor of Claims seeking restitution from the estates of loyalists.
He participated in Massachusetts' Constitutional Convention in 1779 and served in both of Massachusetts' legislative bodies before winning election to Congress. He was U.S. Attorney General in the Jefferson administration (1801-1804) and briefly served as acting Secretary of State in 1801.
Mr. Lincoln was a member of the Governor's Council in 1806 and was elected to serve as Lieutenant Governor in 1807 and 1808. He assumed the governorship in December of 1808, serving until the inauguration of Christopher Gore in May of 1809. Mr. Lincoln declined an appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court due to failing eyesight and served on the Governor's Council several years before his retirement from public life.
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American National Biography
Lincoln, Levi (15 May 1749-14 Apr. 1820), Jeffersonian politician, was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, the son of Enoch Lincoln and Rachel Fearing, farmers. In his youth he was apprenticed by his father to a blacksmith, but he showed such a penchant for scholarship that he was later allowed to enroll in Harvard. After graduation in 1772, he studied law in Northampton until the outbreak of the revolutionary war. Thereupon he evinced such a zeal for independence that he joined the Minutemen for a time then turned his hand to writing a series of appeals to patriotism entitled "Farmer's Letters." During the remainder of the war, he practiced law in Worcester and steadily rose to prominence in the community that was to be his permanent home. He served as clerk of the court and judge of probate of Worcester County, commissioner for confiscated estates, and delegate to a convention in Cambridge to frame a state constitution. In 1781 he was elected to the Continental Congress but declined to serve. That same year he helped litigate a number of court cases that argued against the legality of slavery in Massachusetts, which were subsequently upheld by the state supreme court. Hence, he did a great deal to abolish slavery in Massachusetts. Also in 1781 he married Martha Waldo, with whom he had nine children. Two of his sons, Levi Lincoln (1782-1868) and Enoch Lincoln, distinguished themselves later as governors of Massachusetts and Maine, respectively.
During the two decades after the Revolution, Lincoln established himself as a leader of the Jeffersonian party in Massachusetts while also consolidating his position as head of the state's bar. In 1796 he served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and a year later in the senate. After a bitterly fought contest, he was elected in 1800 to Congress to replace Dwight Foster, who had resigned. Although winning a term of his own for the next congressional session, he resigned when President Thomas Jefferson appointed him attorney general of the United States. In the few months before the arrival of James Madison (1751-1836) in Washington, he also acted as provisional secretary of state. Over the next four years, the inactive office of attorney general allowed him little scope for his talents. When asked by Jefferson to give his views on the constitutionality of the Louisiana Purchase, he suggested that the president simply avoid the issue by getting France to allow the boundaries of Georgia and the Mississippi Territory to be extended westward. After the president had rejected that idea, Lincoln declared that the safest way of going about the business was to amend the Constitution specifically to allow the purchase.
Although Lincoln was not overwhelmed with government business while serving on Jefferson's cabinet, he did not waste his time. He was constantly engaged in party battles with Federalists, receiving from his opponents abuse that he returned with interest. He was particularly effective as a political polemicist in Letters to the People, by a Farmer (1802), wherein he attacked the Federalists for politicizing the clergy. That Jefferson thought highly of Lincoln and relied on him to advance Republican interests in New England is shown by his entrusting the latter with patronage distribution in that region. Albert Gallatin, Jefferson's secretary of the treasury, also had a high regard for Lincoln, describing him at this time as "a good lawyer, a fine scholar, a man of great discretion and sound judgment, and of the mildest and most amiable manners" (quoted in Malone, p. 57).
It was with regret, therefore, that Jefferson accepted Lincoln's resignation from the attorney general's post at the end of Jefferson's first term of office. If the president was concerned about losing Lincoln's talents, however, he had nothing to fear, for Lincoln had not abandoned Jeffersonian politics. In 1806 he was elected to the Council of Massachusetts, and a year later, when his party gained control of the governorship, he succeeded to the office of lieutenant governor. He became governor upon the death of James Sullivan (1744-1808), but because the voters abhorred Jefferson's Embargo, he lost the election in 1809 when he ran for a full term of his own. After serving two more years on the Governor's Council, he was offered a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court by President Madison. Jefferson, seconding the president's choice of a man who would at last give the Republicans a majority on the Court, praised Lincoln's "firm republicanism, and known integrity"--although Jefferson did not consider Lincoln "a correct common lawyer," trained as he was in the New England "system of Jurisprudence [which was] made up from the Jewish law, a little dash of common law, & a great mass of original notions" (Ford, vol. 9, pp. 282-83). Lincoln declined the offer, however, because of failing eyesight and retired to his farm in Worcester.
During the remaining years of his life, Lincoln cultivated his acres, lived happily with his wife and children, and, to the degree that his vision allowed, read classical literature. He continued his membership in many learned societies, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, kept up his interest in the law, and survived long enough to see his sons successfully launched in their political careers. He died on his farm in Worcester.
Bibliography
Lincoln's letters are in the Massachusetts Historical Society and the American Antiquarian Society. His correspondence with Jefferson is in the Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress, and some of it is published in Paul Leicester Ford, ed., The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, vols. 8-9 (1892-1899). Information on the Lincoln family is in Waldo Lincoln, History of the Lincoln Family (1923), and Alonzo Hill, Memorial Address on Levi Lincoln, Jr. (1868). For Lincoln's antislavery litigations, see Emory Washburn, "The Extinction of Slavery in Massachusetts," Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 4, ser. 4 (1858): 337-44. His role as attorney general in the Jefferson administration is delineated in Dumas Malone, Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801-1805 (1970).
Paul David Nelson
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US Congressional biography:
LINCOLN, Levi, (1749 - 1820)
LINCOLN, Levi, (father of Enoch Lincoln and Levi Lincoln [1782-1868]), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Hingham, Mass., May 15, 1749; attended the common schools; was graduated from Harvard College in 1772; studied law in Newburyport and Northampton, Mass.; joined the Minutemen in Cambridge at the outbreak of the Revolution; moved to Worcester, Mass.; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in 1775; member of the committee of public safety; clerk of the court and judge of probate for Worcester County 1775-1781; was specially designated to prosecute the claims of the Commonwealth to the numerous estates of loyalists in 1779; delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1779; elected a Member of the Continental Congress in 1781, but declined to serve; member of the state house of representatives in 1796; served in the state senate in 1797 and 1798; elected as a Republican to the Seventh Congress; subsequently elected to the Sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dwight Foster and served from December 15, 1800, to March 5, 1801, when he resigned; appointed Attorney General of the United States in the cabinet of President Jefferson and served from March 5, 1801, to December 31, 1804, and as Acting Secretary of State from March 5 to May 2, 1801; member of the governor’s council of Massachusetts in 1806; lieutenant governor of Massachusetts in 1807 and 1808; became governor upon the death of Governor Sullivan and served in this capacity from December 10, 1808, to May 1, 1809; appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by President Madison, but declined to accept by reason of failing eyesight; again a member of the governor’s council in 1810 and 1811; died in Worcester, Worcester County, Mass., April 14, 1820; interment in the Rural Cemetery.
Bibliography
Petroelje, Marvin J. “Levi Lincoln, Sr.: Jeffersonian Republican of Massachusetts.” Ph.D. diss., Michigan State University, 1969. 28
Levi grad. at Har. Coll. 1772; admitted to the bar, 1775, and settled at Worcester, Mass. Judge of probate 1776; county prosecutor, rep. Mass., 1796, 1797; rep. in Congress 1799-1801; attorney genl. of U.S. 1801-1805; councillor 1806; Lieut. Gov. 1807-1808; and acting Gov. 1809. They had 10 ch. Levi, the oldest, was Gov. of Mass. 1825-1834, and Enoch, the fourth s., was Gov. of Maine.
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Children, all in Worcester
Levi LINCOLN b: 25 Oct 1782
Daniel Waldo LINCOLN b: 2 Mar 1784
Martha LINCOLN b: 19 Oct 1785
John Waldo LINCOLN b: 23 Jun 1787
Enoch LINCOLN b: 28 Dec 1788
Waldo LINCOLN b: 10 Jul 1790
Rebecca LINCOLN b: 11 Jan 1792
William LINCOLN b: 26 Sep 1801 19
Lilla Linfield Lincoln
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 12 Jun 1864 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 23
Baptism:
Death: 15 Jul 1926 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 29
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Leantes Lincoln (1810-1870) 20
Mother: Thankful Kennedy Ward (1833-1907) 21
Spouses and Children
1. *Alvin L Freeman (19 Sep 1862 - After Apr 1933)
Marriage: 8 Nov 1882 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 30
Status:
Children:
1. Sara Etta Freeman (1887- )
Loiza Lincoln
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 8 Dec 1812 - Brewster, Massachusetts 31
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Nathaniel Lincoln (1770-1829)
Mother: Rebecca Cobb (Cir 1767-1816)
Louisa M Lincoln
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1833 - Charlestown, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1901 - Cambridge, Massachusetts
Burial: in Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Birth, , Charlestown, Massachusetts in Charlestown, Massachusetts
Parents
Father: Joshua W Lincoln (1803-1882)
Mother: Mercy Chipman (1806-1843) 6
Spouses and Children
1. *George C Thompson (1830 - 1872) 32
Marriage: 7 Aug 1852 - Charlestown, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. Etta M Thompson (1860- )
2. Otis T Thompson (1831 - 20 May 1880) 32
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Hattie M Thompson (1876- ) 33
Louise D Lincoln
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 3 Apr 1842 - Brewster, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Charles Lincoln (1805-1877)
Mother: Mercy Berry (1805-1869)
Spouses and Children
1. *George H Edwards (1834 - )
Marriage: 20 Nov 1866 - Boston, Massachusetts
Status:
Lucy Lincoln
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 19 Feb 1795 - Harwich, Massachusetts 1
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Isaac Lincoln (1773-1829) 2
Mother: Deborah Rogers (1775-1841) 2
Lucy Ann Lincoln
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 25 Nov 1836 - Brewster, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Charles Lincoln (1805-1877)
Mother: Mercy Berry (1805-1869)
Spouses and Children
1. *Joshua Freeman (1835 - )
Marriage: 17 Jul 1856 - Brewster, Massachusetts
Status:
Lucy C Lincoln
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1844 - Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Dawson Lincoln (1814-1847)
Mother: Lucy C Jones (Cir 1812-1896)
Lucy M Lincoln
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Apr 1846
Baptism:
Death: 11 Aug 1847 - Boston, Massachusetts 34
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Dawson Lincoln (1814-1847)
Mother: Lucy C Jones (Cir 1812-1896)
Sources
1. George Ernest Bowman, editor, Vital Records of the town of Brewster, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (1904. Boston: Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants [online]), 71.
2. Percy Fielitz Rex, The Prolific Pencil. A biography of Joseph Crosby Lincoln, Litt.D. (1980. William S. Sullwold Publishing. Taunton MA).
3. FamilySearch (FamilySearch.org [asserted, usually unreferenced, often wrong]).
4. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1859-1907 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 6.
5. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:86. Zephaniah and Sarah King family.
6. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:91. David and Bathsheba family.
7. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:583. Marriages.
8. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1859-1907 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 48. 1903 #9.
9. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1859-1907 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 26.
10. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1903 deaths. .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1859-1907 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 48. 1903 #9.
11. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1859-1907 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 48. 1903 #9. .... Margaret H. Weiler, Cemetery Inscriptions. Congregational & Soldiers Cemetery, Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham Mass. (1987. Eastham Mass: Eastham Historical Society).
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