Matthew lived on the paternal homestead located at South Street and the corner of Hersey Street in Hingham.[1]
He was a private in Capt. Ebenezer Beal's Company, which marched, Aug. 15, 1757, to the relief of Fort William Henry, which, however, had already surrendered.[2]
"History of the Lincoln family : an account of the descendants of Samuel Lincoln, of Hingham, Massachusetts, 1637-1920" Compiled by Waldo Lincoln A. B., President of the American Antiquarian Society, WORCESTER MASSACHUSETTS, Commonwealth Press, published originally in 1923, Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign [1]
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Matthew by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
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