The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . -mills, and grist-mills, which with a goodlyamount of money he distributed at his death among his child-ren and grandchildren. Two of his children, Mordecai andAbraham, did not remain in Massachusetts, but removed toNew Jersey, and thence to Pennsylvania, where both becamerich, and dying, left fine estates to their children. Their de-scendants in Pennsylvania have continued to th
The life of Abraham Lincoln : drawn from original sources and containing many speeches, letters, and telegrams hitherto unpublished, and illustrated with many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, etc. . -mills, and grist-mills, which with a goodlyamount of money he distributed at his death among his child-ren and grandchildren. Two of his children, Mordecai andAbraham, did not remain in Massachusetts, but removed toNew Jersey, and thence to Pennsylvania, where both becamerich, and dying, left fine estates to their children. Their de-scendants in Pennsylvania have continued to this day to bewell-to-do people, some of them having taken prominentpositions in public affairs. Abraham Lincoln, of Berkscounty, who was born in 1736 and died in 1806, filled manypublic offices, being a member of the general assembly ofPennsylvania, of the state convention of 1787, and of thestate constitutional convention in 1790. of One of the sons of this second Mordecai, John, receivedfrom his father three hundred acres of land, lying in theJerseys. But evidently he did not care to cultivate his in-heritance, for about 1758 he removed to Virginia. Vir-ginia John, as this member of the family was called, had. ORIGIN OF THE LINCOLN FAMILY 3 five sons one of whom, Jacob, entered the Revolutionary;army and served as a lieutenant at Yorktown. The thirdson was named Abraham and to him his father conveyed,in 1773, a tract of 210 acres of land in what is now Rocking-ham county, Virginia. But though Abraham Lincoln pros-pered and added to these acres he was not satisfied to remainmany years in Virginia. It was not strange. The farm onwhich he lived lay close to the track of one of the earliest ofthose wonderful western migrations which from time totime have taken place in this country. Soon after JohnLincoln came into Virginia vague rumors began to be cir-culated there of a rich western land called Kentucky. Theserumors rapidly developed into facts, as journeys were madeinto the new
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