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D RATT COLLECT I ON

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une 20- 30 1937 J ,

BY LO% I S A . % A RR EN D . D . LL. D . , ,

. On the 300th A nniversary o f The Li ncolns Landing I n A meri ca

Inclu ding the Meeting at

' Lon Ru n Ba tis Church fierson C u nt g p t , Je o y Near the Site ofthe Home ofPioneer A braham

Sponsored By

Th Fil on Club Lou is ille Ken uck e s , v , t y

un J e 25, 1937

Lo uis i le K n ck v l , e tu y

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u e 20- 30 1937 J n ,

D A R R N D . LL. D . BY L O% I S . % A E . , ,

On the 300th A nn i vers ary o f

The Li n co lns L andi ng I n A m eri ca

I ncluding the M eeting at

Lo n Ru n Ba tist C u rc efierso n Co u n t g p h h, J y

Near the Site o f the H o m e o fPio neer A b raham Lincoln

S po nsored By

The Fils o n Cl b Lo is ille Ken t ck u , u v , u y Inco rporated

u ne 25 1937 J , 193 b Copyright , 7 , y T H E FI LSON CL% B I n co rp orated

P R ES S O F

- - n ro an e. C O M P A N J a rm P . M o V I NCORPORATED A B R A H A M LI NCOLN P J F S hotograph of portrait painted for oshua . peed , Louisville , % P 1 by Matthew ilson , hiladelphia , in 865 P . % S . S ortrait now owned by Mr illiam peed , Louisville

LINCOLN TERCENTENARY PROGRAMS MEMORIALI%ING THE ANCESTORS OF

NE 2 — 1 J % 0 30, 9 37

r 20 16 i Th ee hundred years ago , on June , 37 , Samuel L ncoln , fir e st Lincoln ancestor of the Presid nt to arrive in this country , dis m embarked at Boston . Programs in co memoration of this event have been arranged in the communities where sub sequent genera % % tions of Lincoln s forbears lived . The Filson Club s part has been inserted in this reprint of the outlined program : — 20 h . Sunday , June Boston , Salem , Hing am , Massachusetts 21— Monday , June Monmouth County , New Jersey . — 22 ni . Tuesday , June Berks County , Gettysburg , Pennsylva a 2 — h 3 o V . Wednesday , June R cking am County , irginia

24— an d Thursday , June Cumberland Gap , Tennessee , Lexing

ton , .

25 — - ff h Friday , June 1 Je erson County , and Was ington County ,

Kentucky .

x J f Leave Le ington in time to reach Long Run Baptist Church , e ferson b County about a . m . for the ceremonies , followed y basket lunch

at noon . Lunch for the through Pilgrims will be provided on the Church grounds by h F T e ilson Club .

After lunch leave for % ashington County .

— 26 z Saturday , June Eli abethtown , and

Hodgenville , Kentucky 2 — 7 . Sunday , June Lincoln City , Indiana 2 — Monday , June 8 Decatur , Illinois . 2 — 9 . Tuesday , June New Salem , Illinois

— S rin fi l 30 e d . Wednesday , June p g , Illinois 1922 Long Run Baptist Church in background ,

1937 The present bridge ,

2 Y THE LINCOLNS IN JEFFERSON CO% NT , KENT% CKY

B A LLA D H T Y R . C . B R T R % S ON

D . D . . . Louis A . Warren , , LL D , of Fort Wayne Indiana , (for

z c c merly of Eli abethtown , Kentu ky%is one of our most onsistent ,

c k a an d t persistent , areful and painsta ing rese rchers studen s of our % t f L n co n P r n t . He is the au hor o i l s a e age an d r Childhood and many papers bea ing on the Lincolns . He is editor

L n o n Lore of i c l , a weekly publication issued by The Lincoln

National Life Insurance Company , Fort Wayne , Indiana . From these works and our Jefferson County archives most of the essen f tial facts here presented are taken . The part Je fers on Cou nty played in the migrations of this Lincoln fam ily was brief in dura

i u . t on , though tragic and important in its res lts

Dr . Warren found that one , an eighteen year % 2 1 old weaver s apprentice , disembarked at Boston on June 0, 637 , and has traced the family down through its succeeding generations and migrations to Springfield , Illinois .

The Lincoln Pilgrimage he planned starts at Boston , on the h and 300t anniversary of that landing , pauses at each home place in the direct male line down to that of President Abraham Lincoln

0 1 . o at Springfield , Illin s At each point he proposed s me form of a celebration , with possibly an occasional p geant , depicting some h incident in the life of the family whilst in t at locality .

Lin coln Lore 4 193 1ves In for January , 7 , he g the line of descent as follows Samuel Lincoln

c 1st Mordecai Lin oln , 2n d Mordecai Lincoln , John Lincoln

c 1st Abraham Lin oln , 2n d 16th Abraham Lincoln , , the

President of % nited States .

Lincolns seem to have been nomadic , for state

3 Reduced facsimile of original Treasury % arrant to Abraham 4 4 1780 Linkhorn for 00 acres , dated March ,

Reduced facsimile of original survey on above warrant for Abraham Linkhorn , dated J 2 1798 P , 7 1785 . May , atent for this land was issued to Abraham Lincoln uly 4

% T D Reduced facsimile of Hughes Station drawn for Colonel R . . urrett , about 1 , I n - 1890 from a ground plan then in his possession . the lower left hand corner , Colonel D urrett wrote the following memorandum : 1780 ff . Hughes Station built by Morgan Hughes on Long Run in J e erson Co in , on % n F Ge . Abraham Lincoln s farm . rom a ground plan found among the papers of I n 1 I George Rogers Clark . 786 Abraham Lincoln was killed by an ndian while coming from his farm to this Station .

400- showin d ivision s Plot of the Abraham Lincoln acre tract , g that 1832 1834 Ben%amin Bridges made by deeds , to

6 The Teices fork therein mentioned is a corruption or mis % % reading of Traces fork . It is a small drain emptying into the east side of Long Run up which a short portion of the old trace (path or blaz ed trail%from the Falls of the Ohio to Lexington a passed . It was at the mouth of this sm ll Trace Branch that the 1 1 78 . Boone Massacre occurred in September , When I ran down the chain of title to this Abraham Lincoln

4 - c 00 acre tra t to learn the names of the present owners , I saw that the c elebrated Long Run Baptist Church was on a portion of

then learn ed that tract , and I %ust where that land was and that

the branch mentioned was this Trace Branch .

Had Colonel Durrett run down the chain of title , as I did , he

would have arrived at the same location for this land . The following is from a photograph of the certificate and plot 7 1785 : of survey dated May ,

Surveyed for Abraham Linkhorn 400 acres of Land in Jeffer V of r son County by irtue a Treasury Wa rant No . 3334 on the Fork of Floyds Fork now called the Long Run beginning about two miles up the said Fork from the Mouth of a Fork of the same formerly called Taes Fork at a Sugar Tree standing on the side of the same marked D %over%S B and extending thence East 300 poles to a Poplar and Sugar Tree North 213 % poles to a Beech and Dogwood West 300 poles to a White Oak and Hickory South 213 % poles to the Beginning— May 7th 178 5 1 Ananiah Lincoln and William Shanon D . S . J . C .

Josiah Lincoln C . C . William May S . J . C . Abraham Linkhorn Marker Exd 29 1 It will be noted that the entry dated May , 780, calls for a r % i small Imp ovement , wh ch was presumably made by Abraham

Lincoln himself , and that in his Green River entry dated June 7 , 1 % % 780, he similarly calls for an improvement but gives the names

of Jacob Gum and Owen Diver who made it . 2 1 The Land Grant or Patent was not issued until July , 798 — 1st thirteen years later some years after Abraham Lincoln , , was u . i dead This was not an un sual procedure in p oneer times , for %

each step in the perfection of one s title cost some money , and

money was scarce . Moreover , a certificate of survey could be c assigned as a che k or draft is assigned today , the Land Grant or

P aten t ssuin i g to another party , sometimes even after a string of

such assignments % thus saving costs . Re cent drawing showing appro ximate locations of the Abraham Lincoln 400- acre and the Morgan Hughes 500- acre patents

8 1st - So here Abraham Lincoln , , at the age of forty two , wi th his

c 1 wife and five hildren , settled sometime about May , 78 0, the d ate of entry (Dr . Warren has it in though he may have % been actually domiciled within the near- b y Morgan Hughes

S tation . % Lin coln s P aren ta e an d Childhood Dr . Warren in his g , page 8 , d escribes the death of pioneer Abraham Lincoln :

% Abraham Lincoln , with his three sons , Mordecai , Josiah , and

Thomas , was busily engaged in the field putting in a crop of corn . % Without warning they ere attacked by two or three Indians .

h . T e father was killed at the first fusillade Josiah , then thirteen % years of age , started for Hughes Station , half a mile away , where the family was then making their home in one of the fort %s eight

c . abins Mordecai and Thomas , aged fifteen and ten respectively ,

- b made for a cabin near y , which Abraham had erected and where h t e family would make their home as soon as safety would allow . An Indian despising the ability of Mordecai %s marksmanship stepped out of the thicket to secure the scalp of the paleface . M ordecai from within the cabin took aim at a silver pendant on

the breast of the Indian and brought him down . Josiah had f reached the ort and warned the settlers , who started in pursuit

of the redskins . On page 29 7 he definitely fixes the time of this massacre as 1 h May , 78 6 , t rough the papers in a suit in the Nelson Circuit

Court . iv esa r He also , on page g list of subsc iptions , under date f 1 6 f r the o September , 78 , o Wabash Campaign under General George Rogers Clark % three of the items I qu o te i

A gun the Property of Widow Lincoln . a l A P cksadd e the property of Blan Ballard . £0 z 9 z 0

A Blanket the Property of Ben%. Huse .

299 - 00 1 1 And on pages 3 , under date of March 0, 789 , he gives h t e appraisal of the estate of Abraham Lincoln from Will Book A , 4 Nelson County Court , page 8 . Nelson County was formed in 178 5 from a portion of Jefferson

8 00- r County . Aside from his acre g ant Abraham Lincoln , lst,

had no lands in Nelson County that I know of , but he had rela tives in that county and his widow and her young children moved

there soon after he was killed by the Indians . Headstones of Ben%amin Bridges an d wife

x Headstones of George Bridges and wife , of the ne t generation

10 Washington County claims that pioneer Abraham Lincoln was killed in that part of Lincoln County which in 1792 became

Washington County .

Mordecai Lincoln , the eldest son and heir at law of Abraham

1st Lincoln , , was fifteen years of age when his father was killed in 4 1 6 . May , 78 It is believed that he continued to live on the 00 acre tract for some years , but of that we have no definite proof .

He sold this tract to Ben%amin Bridges by title bond in January , r 1797 , eighteen months before the land g ant was issued , but the

2 1 22 c deed was not made until April , 8 , by whi h time it had been

4 - fully paid for . All titles within the 00 acre patent are held under deeds from Ben%amin Bridges . One of these deeds dated 4 1 4 July , 83 , is to the Trustees of the Long Run Baptist Church , but this deed does not specifically locate that property with refer ence to any other .

11 D 1922 istant view of Long Run Baptist Church , March ,

N V c 1922 ear iew of Long Run Baptist Church , Mar h ,

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a a R eg lia worn by Hon . Andrew J ckson Ballard at the funeral of President — Lincoln in 1865 in the archives of The Filson Club — Fo r transcription of the memorandum in the lower right hand corner see page 15

14 Louisville , Kentucky The badge and gloves connected herewith were worn by me upon the occasion of the funeral 1 th obsequies of Abraham Lincoln , 6 President 4th of the % nited States , on the day of May A D 1 . . 8 65 at Springfield , Illinois .

I was selected by Thomas E . Bramlette ,

Governor of Kentucky , and composed one of a State Delegation of about forty—four persons 2 who left Louisville on the 9 Apl . Went

&c through Indianapolis , Chicago , to Spring field and returned to Louisville on Saturday h 1 t . morning 6 May , 8 65

9 th A L May , A . J . B LA R D 18 65

Reduced facsimile of the original memorandum appears on page 14

15 Ma 41 48 i c J 19 1937 a rker , by nches , ere ted une , , ne r Long Run Bridge the L uisvill -Sh l vill s i i h ct % . S . a on o e e by e e on of H g w y No . 60

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