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Title: The ancestry of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Lea, J. Henry (James Henry), 1846-1914 Hutchinson, J. R. (John Robert), 1858-1921
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln family Lincoln family (Samuel Lincoln, 1619?-1690)
Publisher: Boston, New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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that he embarkedfor America, together with his master and his masters family,either at the port of Ipswich in the adjoining county of Suf-folk,— or at Yarmouth, in his native county, — on the eighthday of April, 1637. The passage was no Mauretanian one. Fortwo months and twelve days the vessel breasted the Atlantic,and it was not until the 20th of June that Lawes and his party,disembarking at Boston, first set foot on the soil of their adop-tion. Our boy-pioneer was then — how old? On this point there is much conflict of evidence. It was onSunday, the 24th of August, 1622, that he was publicly bap-tised at the font of the parish church of Hingham, and in theordinary course of things he would then be only a few days,or at the most only a few weeks, old. This would make hisage about fifteen at the time of his emigration. The shippinglists which have come down to us, on the other hand, give his ■ For the cause of this uncertainty see entry in the Shipping List in Appendix,p. 164.
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THE EMIGRANT 5 age at that time as eighteen; and this agrees with his age asrecorded at death, which occurred in 1690, when he is said tohave been seventy-one. If, however, we assume these figuresto be correct, we are at once landed in a difficulty, since hemust in that case have been born in 1619, or about a yearbefore his brother Daniel, whereas Daniel is well known tohave been his senior. We are consequently forced to the con-clusion that the figures given in the shipping list and therecord of Samuels death cannot be relied upon, and that, atthe time of his leaving England, he was nearer fifteen thaneighteen years of age. If it be objected that fifteen was a veryearly age at which to emigrate, especially in those remote andperilous times, it must be borne in mind that young Samueldid not pass beyond seas on his own initiative, but as an in-dentured apprentice who had no option save to follow thefortunes of his master. Added to this, there was in his case astrong incentive to emigra

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