Martha (Lyford) Lincoln (abt. 1628 - 1693)

Born about 1628 in Massachusetts [uncertain]

Wife of Samuel Lincoln Sr. — married about 1649 in Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 10 Apr 1693 at about age 65 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts

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Biography

Martha (Lyford) Lincoln is related to US President Abraham Lincoln. Here is the trail.

This person is an ancestor of President Abraham Lincoln. ^[1]

While there was a Martha Lyford listed in the passenger list of the ship Charity in which the Rev. John Lyford sailed to Plymouth in 1624,^{[citation needed]} this Martha's last child was reportedly born in 1674. This would make Martha at least 50 at the time of her last child's birth, somewhat unlikely. The current theory is that this Martha must have been born shortly before her father died in 1629 and she is not the same Martha that came over with the family in the Charity^[2]

She married probably in Salem, Massachusetts about 1650 Samuel Weaver Lincoln^[3] by whom she had the following children:

1. Samuel Lincoln
2. Daniel Lincoln
3. Mordecai Lincoln
4. Thomas Lincoln
5. Mary Lincoln
6. Martha Lincoln
7. Sarah Lincoln
8. Rebecca Lincoln

She died 10 Apr 1693 in Hingham, Norfolk, Massachusetts.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Ancestors of American Presidents. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009, page # 453
2. ↑ Note on Famous Kin website
3. ↑ Charles Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to1700, Genealogical Publishing Co.,Baltimore, 1990, p. 465 (link for subscribers), citing Reg. 15:26, 41:153, 71:254, 87:307, 113:45; NYGBR 60:115, 117; Hingham 2:459; Learned: A. Lincoln 5; Stoddard (1912) 121; Tower 82; EIHC 67:353; Bates Bulletin 3 ser. 42
4. ↑ Reuben Hersey, Vital Records of Hingham, Massachusetts, ca. 1639-1844, Boston, MA: R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, New England Historic Genealogical Society.) Hingham - V1 Page 33 (link for subscribers)

See also:

• Waldo Lincoln, History of the Lincoln Family, Commonwealth Press, Worcester, Mass., 1923: Page: p. 5:
• Town of Hingham, History of the Town of Hingham, Mass., 1893: 459:
• Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), p. 1215
• Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1908-1984) , 1929, Vol. 22, No. 1, p. 69