Samuel Lincoln

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Samuel Lincoln (date of birth unknown; baptised in Hingham, Norfolk, England, August 24, 1622; died in Hingham, Massachusetts, May 26, 1690), was the progenitor of a number of notable United States political figures, including his great-great-great-great-grandson, President Abraham Lincoln, and Massachusetts Representatives Levi Lincoln, Sr. and Levi Lincoln, Jr..

Having grown up in poverty, Lincoln became an apprentice to a weaver named Francis Lawes. In 1637, the then-15-year-old weaver's apprentice left England for the New World with Lawes' family, embarking on a ship named John & Dorothy. He sailed for the colony of Massachusetts, where his older brother Thomas had already settled. Lincoln helped to build the Old Ship Church in Hingham. He married Martha Lyford of Ireland around 1649, and the couple had eleven children, three of whom died in their infancy, but another three of whom lived into their eighties.

In 1937, the 300th anniversary of Lincoln's arrival in Massachusetts was commemorated with the dedication of a tablet at the Old Ship Church.

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• Lincoln's Youth: Indiana Years, Seven to Twenty-One, 1816-1830, Indiana University Press (2002) ISBN 0-87195-063-4
• Genealogy of Samuel Lincoln
• English church reaches out to Lincoln land; Building where president's ancestors once worshipped in need of major repairs