"Virginia John" Lincoln is the great-grandfather of President Abraham Lincoln.
John Lincoln, son of Mordecai Lincoln and his wife Hannah, was born May 3, 1716 in Freehold, New Jersey.[1] He went from New Jersey to Pennsylvania with his father and was taxed at Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania in 1758. He later removed with his neighbors to Rockingham County, Virginia. Rockingham was still part of Augusta County at the time and was not organized until 1779.[2]
As revealed in his last Will, John and Rebecca Lincoln had the following children :
In his 1786 Will, John Lincoln also made a bequest of five pounds to his "GrandDaughter Hanna Bryan"[3]; i.e., Hannah (Bryan) McDaniel. Hannah, still single, was the only grandchild named in the Will. In that day, bequests to a grandchild ordinarily were made when that grandchild's father was deceased. Since Hannah was a Bryan, we can also assume that her mother was a daughter of John Lincoln who had married a Bryan. On May 15, 1788, Hannah Bryan was married to Henry McDonald a/k/a McDaniel [recorded in a single 1798 deed with both spellings of his name].[4] In 1793, John Lincoln's neighbor Thomas Bryan wrote his will and bequeathed 30 acres to his "well beloved grand Daughter Hannah McDonnald".[5]. Finally, a 1796 plat was drawn for Thomas Bryan's heirs designating 30 acres of land for "Hannah Bryan now McDonald" (emphasis added).[6] Hannah was in fact a daughter of John Lincoln's daughter Lydia and her first husband, Benjamin Bryan, son of Thomas.
Sources
↑ Lincoln, Waldo A. B., "History of the Lincoln family : an account of the descendants of Samuel Lincoln, of Hingham, Massachusetts, 1637-1920", Worcester, Massachusetts (1923)
↑ 3.03.1 Wayland, John W., "The Lincolns in Virginia", Staunton, Virginia (1946)
↑ National Archives and Records Administration: Revolutionary War Pension File No. R.6678
↑ Rockingham County, Virginia Chancery Cause #1856 002/CC: January 23, 1793 Will of Thomas Bryan, proved February 25, 1793
↑ Rockingham County Court: August 25, 1796 Plat for Heirs of Thomas Bryan
Barton, William Eleazar, "The Lineage of Lincoln", The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis (1929).
Lea and Hutchinson, "The Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln", James Henry Lea and John Robert Hutchinson, Boston (1909).
Roberts, Gary Boyd; Ancestors of American Presidents. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.
Stillwell, John E., "Salter of Monmouth County", Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. 1, p. 191 (1903). Data relating to the settlement and settlers of New York and New Jersey.
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John 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.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with John:
Lincoln-260 and Lincoln-3672 appear to represent the same person because: Hello your John Lincoln is the John Lincoln in my ancestry I would appreciate to merge as your details are very informative. Thanks
I found my Sarah Dean - Rebecca Flowers will connection in the Lea and Hutchinson book mentioned in the sources section of this profile. I've been trying to find it again, except I don't have an easy to read source on my computer and it's a huge book. Spent more time on looking for it than I should, but I do know it's there. I believe the son was Thomas, who settled near Lexington, KY. I'll continue checking. I'm going to go back and add the source of the Dean-Lincoln.
Hi Everyone, I'm trying to initiate a match with John Lincoln. We share many of the same people with the exception of Sarah Lincoln. I have reason to believe she married one of my ancestors, John Franklin Dean. Many other Deans in Knox County, KY believe this to be true but the only other information I've had until now were 2 mentions of a marriage in Rockingham between these two. Just recently I found a reference in a Lincoln descendents book stating that Rebecca Flowers Lincoln lived in KY with one of her sons after she was widowed. And here is where I found that she left some money to Rebecca Dean. This added to my certainty that this was my Sarah. I lost the piece of paper that I listed the page # on, but I'm sure I can find it again. I'll post it when I do. Thanks.
Lincoln-260 and Lincoln-2409 are not ready to be merged because: Would like Lincoln -260 to confirm this merge as there is a wealth of information in this profile. Matching spouses, locations, dates, but not all information in Lincoln-2409 is correct.
I have in family history that John may have been born on the trip to Berks County, Pennsylvania, where his parents were moving. John and Rebekah owned a farm consisting of 1000 acres. Their children were born in Berks, County.