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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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alf his parish joined hands with him inthat epoch-making resolve. An amazing exodus was thus begun, — begun, moreover, bya class who of all men found it hardest to grub up and destroythe old life-roots, — men born and bred on the land, as theirancestors had been for untold generations before them. Buta time of crisis had come. For them there was no longertarrying. By sale or surrender the ancestral acres were hur-riedly put off to the highest bidder. Farm implementsand stock, household stuff and personal effects, all w^ent theway of the hammer or the Dutch candle. All except a featherbed or two, the old spruce or oak or cypress-w^ood familychest, the cob-irons, the pewter garnish, and the silverspoons — priceless heirlooms, descended from father to sonfrom time immemorial. These, together with such othernecessary household utensils and personal gear as could betransported in safety and with ease, alone were retained. Thusvariously laden, in groups of twos and threes, in families
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^N THE EMIGRANT 9 or long-drawn procession, these daring adventurers for con-science sake made their way to some convenient seaport andthere, their passes secured, took shipping for the land ofpromise. Hingham was left semi-depopulated. In the Bod-leian Library at Oxford may be seen a petition, signed by thefew substantial inhabitants who remained, setting forth inpathetic terms the sore straits to which the community wasreduced by the recent exodus. It was in an atmosphere inspired by such a man as this —aman at that time at least possessing in an eminent degree allthe courage of his simple but devout convictions — that youngSamuel Lincoln passed the twelve or thirteen years of hislife before he entered upon his apprenticeship to the Norwichweaver. The effect upon his character of Pecks teachings andexample must have been marked and indelible, and in itwe may perhaps trace the inception of those greater qualitieswhich, six generations later, were to rivet the gaze of anastonished

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