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Abraham migrated to the northwest part of NC, to the waters of the CatwbaRiver, where he marr ied Miss Mary Shipley, by whom he had three sons,Mordecai, Josiah, and Thomas. Brought his fa mily from VA to KY about 1782and settled near Hughes Station, in Jefferson County, some 20 mi les eastof Louisville. A few years afterward was killed by an Indian
His birth date is given in Edward Steers, Jr., "Lincoln: A PictorialHistory", as 1744.
From "Pilgrimage Conducted, June 20-30, 1937, by Louis A. Warren, D.D.,LL.D., sponsored by Th e Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky, June 25, 1937":
Page 9: Dr. Warren in his "Lincoln's Parentage and Childhood", page 8,describes the death o f pioneer Abraham Lincoln:
"Abraham Lincoln, with his three sons, Mordecai, Josiah, and Thomas, wasbusily engaged in th e field putting in a crop of corn. Without warningthey were attacked by two or three Indians . The father was killed at thefirst fusillade. Josiah, then thirteen years of age, started fo r Hughes'Station, half a mile away, where the family was then making their home inone of th e fort's eight cabins. Mordecai and Thomas, aged fifteen and tenrespectively, made for a cabi n near-by, which Abraham had erected andwhere the family would make their home as soon as saf ety would allow. AnIndian despising the ability of Mordecai's marksmanship stepped out ofth e thicket to secure the scalp of the paleface. Mordecai from within thecabin took aim at a si lver pendant on the breast of the Indian andbrought him down. Josiah had reached the fort an d warned the settlers,who started in pursuit of the redskins."
On page 297 he definitely fixes the time of this Massachusettsacre asMay, 1786, through the p apers in a suit in the Nelson Circuit Court.
He is buried at Long Run Baptist Church, Jefferson Co., KY, of Floyd'sFork of Salt River.
From "Old Letter Sheds New Light on Migration of Lincoln Family from VAto KY":
"The old letter points out that on the 11th of August 1773 only 5years after the dat e of the conveyance from McKay to John Lincoln, he,with his wife, Rebekah R., transferred t o their son Isaac 215 acres ofthe original 600-acre tract, and on te 17th day of August 177 3 they alsoconveyed to their son Abraham -- the grandfather of the President -- 210acres of t his same tract.
"At what time did Abraham Lincoln, the grandfather of thePresident, remove from Virgin Iowa to Kentucky? Two noted Lincolnbiographers fix the date as 1780. The date of the land warra nts toAbraham Lincoln, the 4th of March 1780, and the subsequnt entries of theland in Kentuc ky thereunder certainly confirm the time of his leavingVirginia as being as early as 1780, bu t the statement by the two Lincolnauthorities that 'he took his wife and five children with h im at thistime' is not borne out by record evidence in Rockingham County.
"There is still in existence the original deed from AbrahamLincoln and Bersheba, his w ife, to one Michael Shanks, dated the 18th ofFebruary 1780, whereby, in consideration of th e sum of 5,000 poundscurrent money of Virginia in hand paid, thy granted and conveyed toShan ks a tract of 250 acres, consisting of the 200 acres received fromJohn Lincoln, his father, a nd another tract of about 50 acres obtainedfrom one Munsey.
"There can scarcely be any reasonable doubt that this was the saleof Abraham Lincoln' s real estate preparatory to his emigration toKentucky. The deed was recorded on June 17, 178 0, but withoutauthorization of Bersheba, his wife. Consequentl, in order to remedythis defec t in the conveyance, there was issued on September 8, 1781, bythe county court of Rockingham , a commission to determine whether she waswilling to relinquish her right of dower in the la nd in the said deedmentioned, as the law in that case directed. This commission was executedb y the commissioners named therein on September 24, 1781, returned to thecounty court, and rec orded the same day; and the acknowledgement ofBersheba Lincoln, grandmother of Abraham Lincol n, that she had signed thesaid deed of her own free will, without any threats, force, or comp ulsionof her said husband, was complete, and with it, doubtless, passed allremaining materia l interest of the President's grandparents in Virginia.
"President Lincoln himself stated that his grandfather settled inKentucky about 1782 , and the court commission that legalized the realestate transfer certainly shows that his gr andmother was still inVirginia as late as September 24, 1781.
"If Abraham Lincoln, the pioneer, removed to Kentucky prior tothis date--September 178 1--his wife did not accompany him, and it may bereasonably supposed, considering the difficul ties and dangers attendingtravel at that time, that his wife ad children did not migrate unt il thespring following."
Notes for Bathsheba Herring:
Wm Herndon says that she lived to be 110 years old, being buried at OldMill Creek burying gro und. However, she was actually 90. Also known as"Bersheba". Spelled "Batsab" in one document . In different documents hername is spelled Bersheba, Bersheba, Bashaba, Barbara, Bathshaba,B athshabe and Bathsheba. Her family called her Basheby.
Abraham migrated to the northwest part of NC, to the waters of the CatwbaRiver, where he marr ied Miss Mary Shipley, by whom he had three sons,Mordecai, Josiah, and Thomas. Brought his fa mily from VA to KY about 1782and settled near Hughes Station, in Jefferson County, some 20 mi les eastof Louisville. A few years afterward was killed by an Indian
His birth date is given in Edward Steers, Jr., "Lincoln: A PictorialHistory", as 1744.
From "Pilgrimage Conducted, June 20-30, 1937, by Louis A. Warren, D.D.,LL.D., sponsored by Th e Filson Club, Louisville, Kentucky, June 25, 1937":
Page 9: Dr. Warren in his "Lincoln's Parentage and Childhood", page 8,describes the death o f pioneer Abraham Lincoln:
"Abraham Lincoln, with his three sons, Mordecai, Josiah, and Thomas, wasbusily engaged in th e field putting in a crop of corn. Without warningthey were attacked by two or three Indians . The father was killed at thefirst fusillade. Josiah, then thirteen years of age, started fo r Hughes'Station, half a mile away, where the family was then making their home inone of th e fort's eight cabins. Mordecai and Thomas, aged fifteen and tenrespectively, made for a cabi n near-by, which Abraham had erected andwhere the family would make their home as soon as saf ety would allow. AnIndian despising the ability of Mordecai's marksmanship stepped out ofth e thicket to secure the scalp of the paleface. Mordecai from within thecabin took aim at a si lver pendant on the breast of the Indian andbrought him down. Josiah had reached the fort an d warned the settlers,who started in pursuit of the redskins."
On page 297 he definitely fixes the time of this Massachusettsacre asMay, 1786, through the p apers in a suit in the Nelson Circuit Court.
He is buried at Long Run Baptist Church, Jefferson Co., KY, of Floyd'sFork of Salt River.
From "Old Letter Sheds New Light on Migration of Lincoln Family from VAto KY":
"The old letter points out that on the 11th of August 1773 only 5years after the dat e of the conveyance from McKay to John Lincoln, he,with his wife, Rebekah R., transferred t o their son Isaac 215 acres ofthe original 600-acre tract, and on te 17th day of August 177 3 they alsoconveyed to their son Abraham -- the grandfather of the President -- 210acres of t his same tract.
"At what time did Abraham Lincoln, the grandfather of thePresident, remove from Virgin Iowa to Kentucky? Two noted Lincolnbiographers fix the date as 1780. The date of the land warra nts toAbraham Lincoln, the 4th of March 1780, and the subsequnt entries of theland in Kentuc ky thereunder certainly confirm the time of his leavingVirginia as being as early as 1780, bu t the statement by the two Lincolnauthorities that 'he took his wife and five children with h im at thistime' is not borne out by record evidence in Rockingham County.
"There is still in existence the original deed from AbrahamLincoln and Bersheba, his w ife, to one Michael Shanks, dated the 18th ofFebruary 1780, whereby, in consideration of th e sum of 5,000 poundscurrent money of Virginia in hand paid, thy granted and conveyed toShan ks a tract of 250 acres, consisting of the 200 acres received fromJohn Lincoln, his father, a nd another tract of about 50 acres obtainedfrom one Munsey.
"There can scarcely be any reasonable doubt that this was the saleof Abraham Lincoln' s real estate preparatory to his emigration toKentucky. The deed was recorded on June 17, 178 0, but withoutauthorization of Bersheba, his wife. Consequentl, in order to remedythis defec t in the conveyance, there was issued on September 8, 1781, bythe county court of Rockingham , a commission to determine whether she waswilling to relinquish her right of dower in the la nd in the said deedmentioned, as the law in that case directed. This commission was executedb y the commissioners named therein on September 24, 1781, returned to thecounty court, and rec orded the same day; and the acknowledgement ofBerseba Lincoln, grandmother of Abraham Lincoln , that she had signed thesaid deed of her own free will, without any threats, force, or compu lsionof her said husband, was complete, and with it, doubtless, passed allremaining materia l interest of the President's grandparents in Virginia.
"President Lincoln himself stated that his grandfather settled inKentucky about 1782 , and the court commission that legalized the realestate transfer certainly shows that his gr andmother was still inVirginia as late as September 24, 1781.
"If Abraham Lincoln, the pioneer, removed to Kentucky prior tothis date--September 178 1--his wife did not accompany him, and it may bereasonably supposed, considering the difficul ties and dangers attendingtravel at that time, that his wife ad children did not migrate unt il thespring following."
Notes for Bathsheba Herring:
Wm Herndon says that she lived to be 110 years old, being buried at OldMill Creek burying gro und. However, she was actually 90. Also known as"Bersheba". Spelled "Batsab" in one document . In different documents hername is spelled Bersheba, Bershaba, Bashaba, Barbara, Bathshaba,B athshabe and Bathsheba. Her family called her Basheby.
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Davis Uriah I | Born 1707
1739 - 1786 (46 years)