. Some successful Americans . d. The ancestry of the mother of Lincoln is as Hanks came to this country in 1699 and settledat Plymouth, Massachusetts. He had eleven children,one of whom, William, went to Virginia and settled nearthe mouth of the Rappahannock River. William had fivesons, four of whom, about the middle of the eighteenthcentury, moved to Amelia County, Virginia, where theyowned a thousand acres of land. Joseph, the youngest ofthese sons, married Nancy Shipley, a sister of the motherof Thomas Lincoln. About 1789 Joseph Hanks movedto Kentucky and settled near what
. Some successful Americans . d. The ancestry of the mother of Lincoln is as Hanks came to this country in 1699 and settledat Plymouth, Massachusetts. He had eleven children,one of whom, William, went to Virginia and settled nearthe mouth of the Rappahannock River. William had fivesons, four of whom, about the middle of the eighteenthcentury, moved to Amelia County, Virginia, where theyowned a thousand acres of land. Joseph, the youngest ofthese sons, married Nancy Shipley, a sister of the motherof Thomas Lincoln. About 1789 Joseph Hanks movedto Kentucky and settled near what is now Elizabeth-town. His youngest daughter, Nancy, was the mother ofAbraham Lincoln. That such a man as Lincoln should spring from suchancestry is in no way remarkable. lO SOME SUCCESSFUL AMERICANS Lincolns Boyhood Abraham Lincolns father was an iUiterate man wholearned to write his name in a bungling sort of way afterhe was married. He seems to have been willing to work,but was neither thrifty nor ambitious. He learned the. ^^^^SSafe
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