The Lincoln Family MAGA'INE APRIL , 1 9 1 7 T HOMAS L l NCOL N OF HI NGHAM , ENGL AND AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS B y M . L . P . ' a 1 T h o m s ( ) Linkon , the miller , born England , - 1 68 will 1 602 3 , died 3 , probated Taunton , 5 March , 1 684 ; came from Hingham , England to Hingham , Mass . , in / 649 1 635 . I n 1 the town of Taunton , Mass . , vo te d h i m ' ' t accommodations to come h e re and set up a gri st mill , which offer he accepted , and in 1 649 Thomas ( 1 ) Linkon and his eldest son , Thomas (2) Linkon , came to Taunton . built and ran the grist mill on Mill River, and this mill ' wa s in charge of the Linkon family for forty - seven ' C s years , when it was deeded to the ro smans , who had i charge of t for more than one hundred years . I n 1 652 the rest of the family came . 1 a m Thomas ( ) Linkon emigrated to America , c c o a n i p e d by five children , three sons , Thomas John Samuel and two daughters , Sarah (2) and Mary His first wife , unknown , probably died before coming to America , as nothing is known of her in this country . 1 0 1 66 He married , second , December , 5 , Elizabeth Street , widow of Francis Street . She was living in 1 706, and was then Widdo w Linkon , as she then joined with her daughter Mary Street in conveying lands , etc . She married , third . in her old age . Thomas Harvey . 2 Thomas ( ) Linkon , born in England , before 1 630 , baptized by Rev . Peter Hobart in Hingham , Mass Pebru 1 637 ary , , came to Taunton with his father in 1 649 , and ' - was given a home lot , six acres of land at the place ' - where the timber had been cut for the meeting house . 8 1 This was on the river near what was later known as ' ' Fisher s Bridge , and there are so me persons living a t th e . present time who remember the ruins of the old house , and very many who remember the cellar walls . Two very large buttonwood trees which stood near the house were cut down within twenty years . 4 This Thomas (2) Linkon was living in 1 69 , died previous to 1 696 ; married , first , Mary Austin , daughter 4 of Jonah and Constant Austin ; she died 1 69 , and he married , second , Susanna (Macey) Smith , widow of C ' Samuel Smith . hildren , all by first wife , were Mary 1 65 2 born 1 2 May , 2 ; Sarah born 5 September , 2 656 1 654 , died young ; Thomas born 1 April , 1 , o 8 married Mary Stacy ; Samuel b rn 1 8 March , 1 65 Jonah and Sarah born 7 July , 1 660 ; Hannah 66 born 1 5 March , 1 3 , married Peter Branch of Preston , o 1 6 1 66 Conn . ; C nstant born May , 5 , married William 3 1 670 Briggs ; Mercy born April , , married William Caswell ; Experience died young . 2 1 6 Thomas (3) Linkon , born 1 April , 56 , was living 1 1 1 733 b e . March , , when conveyed land to son Jonathan 1 4 . He 1 6 9 He died about 7 5 married , in 7 , Mary Stacy , daughter of Richard and Abigail Stacy . It is thought that Richard Stacy came to Taunton from Salem , Mass . ' r l Ce ta i n y h e was in Taunton in 1 643 , as in the list of names of the first train - band enrolled in Taunton in 643 ' 1 , appears the name of Richard St a c y e . He died 1 687 - i n - o in , and his son law , Th mas Linkon was granted administration on his estate 7 December, 1 687 . 3 ' ' 1 698 Thomas ( ) Linkon was called senior in , ' - 0 and grand senior in 1 7 8 . His house stood not far ' from his father s , near where Morris Lincoln now lives . west from the Agricultural Grounds , at the head of Shores street . It was burned only a few years ago . The children of Thomas (3) Linkon and Mary (Stacy) Linkon were Thomas , born 1 680 , wife not known. 82 i had three sons , Thomas G de o n Isaac Wil 1 682 liam , born , married Rebecca Walker ; Nathaniel , 6 r born , 1 84, married Alice And ews ; Jonathan . born 1 686 , n n a h An dre ws married Ha ; Benjamin , born 1 689 , married , liza be th m a rri e d first , E ; . second , Marcy Woodward ; Han 692 nah , born 1 , married as second wife , Edmond Andrews 1 694 Ly dia , born . married Ephraim Kittle (or Kittrell) 1 696 Constant , born , married Nathaniel Burt . The statement that there were sons Silas and Nathan o 5 and daughter Tabitha is probably an err r . Silas ( ) was son of William and married Hannah Wade of 5 Bridgewater . Tabitha ( ) was his sister , and lived to be very old , died unmarried , and as Nathan was given ' 4 Nathaniel s ( ) wife (by James Minor Lincoln), this o was merely a confusion f names . The wife of Thomas (4) Linkon is not known . He had three sons , the eldest of whom , Thomas married o 2 Esther Andrews , daughter of Edm nd (3) (John , John 1 ) Andrews . This is mainly from Bible and private records . VERMONT AND N . H . MARRI AGES 1 80 5 Lincoln , Asa and Sarah Sumner , 3 December . Keene , N . H. o r . 28 Linc ln, James , J , and Lucy Whitcomb , November , 80 . 1 3 , Keene , N H. 1 2 1 82 1 Lincoln , John H . and Dule n a Finton , July , . Rut land , Vt . 1 846 Lincoln , Laura and Samuel Francis . 2 September . ll We s, Vt . 1 807 Lincoln, Luke and Betsy Webb , 1 2 April , . Rocking ham, Vt . l 0 1 8 1 Lincoln , Pedy and Abel Pe n fie d, 1 September, 6. Rutland , Vt . 1 M Lincoln . Rev . Varnum and Emeline Sprague , 7 a y . 1 844 . Hudson; N . H . MAR'T ODD LINCOLN Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln, was K . 1 born in Lexington , y , 2 December, 1 8 1 8 . Her fathe r . Robert 5 . Todd , belonged to a family of pioneers fore most i n the development of the commonwealth of Ken - tucky . Her great uncle , John Todd , took part in the capture of Kaskaskia and Vincennes , under Ge n . George 1 8 . C 77 R lark in , and subse'uently organized the civil government of Illinois . He was killed at the battle of ' Blue Licks , in which his brother , Levi , Mary s grand f a ather , was young lieutenant and one of the few sur vi vo rs . Mary Todd was carefully educated , and passed her early life in comparative luxury at the home of an aunt . - At the age of twenty one , while on a visit to a married sister in Springfield , she met Mr . Lincoln , a rising lawyer , and after a short engagement they were married on 4 1 November , 842 . Miss Todd had curiously predicted in her girlhood that she should be the wife of a president , and after her marriage her ambition kept pace with her ' 860 husband s progress in public life . In 1 she awaited with feverish anxiety the result of the republican con v e n tio n at Chicago , keeping in mind her girlish prophecy . re Her husband , not unmindful of her ambition , upon ce i vi n g the telegram announcing his nomination remarked ' There is a little woman who has some interest in the matter , and walked home to tell her of it . On the 9th of March Mrs . Lincoln gave her first public reception , assisted by her sisters and nieces . An oil portrait represents her as she appeared at that period . She made a pleasant impression , and it was perhaps the proudest moment of her existence . But it was also the i n a ugra tio n of her deepest af'ictions . She presided at the most gloomy period in the history of the capital . He r husband was bowed down by national cares ; suspense and uncertainty wa s in every heart ; her family was de 84 voted to the cause of the South , while her hopes , with those of her husband and children . were with the North . Unable by temperament and education to cope with these critical issues , Mrs . Lincoln soon found herself the target of malice , detraction and falsehood . She gave weekly receptions at the time when a state of the country made the gaiety that she preferred o ut of keeping with the position she occupied , and the death of the second son , Willie , shed a gloom over the private life of both parents . But . during the whole of her occupancy of the White House , she was unremitting in her care of the sick soldiers in the hospitals of Washington . 1 86 The summer of 4 was spent by Mrs . Lincoln at - the seaside . After the t e election of the president in the fall the receptions of the season were renewed with ' a promi se of unusual gaiety , that of New 'ear s day opening with exceptional brilliancy . After the inaugura ti on , Mrs . Lincoln felt that brighter days were in store , 9th and when the surrender of Ge n . Lee on the of April was announced , she shared in the happy excitement that filled the White House and the city . That fatal night of ' 1 4th of April that ended the president s life also blighted her own .