Excerpt from Thomas Lincoln, the Father of Abraham Lincoln There follows a list of names with amounts ranging from three pounds down. Some are marked paid! During 1782 Captain A b r a h a m bought about 2800 more acres of land, some of it on the Green River and some of it on the Licking River. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Thomas Lincoln Family: Rumors About Abraham Enloe as Abraham Lincoln's Father; Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources The long looked for letter came yesterday, so I hasten to write, because I know you are anxious to hear what is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Little Life-Story of Lincoln The oldest boy, Mordecai, rushed into the cabin to get a gun. Josiah, the next in age, ran to the fort for help. Just as a huge Indian was stoop ing to pick up Thomas, a boy of six, Mordecai, aim ing through a crack between the logs, shot the sav age dead, and saved little Tom to become the father of Abraham Lincoln, the greatest man America has ever produced. Thomas Lincoln married Nancy Hanks and they lived a year or so in a log hut at Elizabethtown, Where their daughter, Sarah, was born. Then they moved about fourteen miles to Rock Spring Farm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Life of Abraham Lincoln IN the year _1809, a traveller setting out from the village of Elizabethtown, in Kentucky, would have come in time to a lonely miserable log-cabin in'the midst of a bare, desolate, rocky tract of country, which even the sunshine could not make cheerful. The only pleasant thing ln sight was a little silvery Spring of fresh water, after which the place was called Rock Spring Farm. But it was not properly a farm at all, only a hut in the wilderness, without floors or windows or chimneys or rooms; just a square of roughly hewn logs, roofed over and giving shelter from the weather, but little else. Yet the place where this dismal cabin once stood is one 'of the most famous in American history, for in it was bom Abraham Lincoln, the boy who was destined to become President of the United States, and to free America from the shame of slave No boy ever had a less hopeful start in life, but this was not altogether the fault of his father, Thomas Lincoln. -his father, the first Abraham Lincoln, had started out, full of hope, to make his fortune in the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Thomas Lincoln Family: Grandparents, Abraham; Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources It appears from the investigator's findings that when the first Abraham Lincoln fell mortally wounded his son Mordecai ran to the house and pro cured a rifle, while Jo'siah, another son, ran to a nearby fort to obtain aid. Thomas, who later was to become the emancipator's father, and then a boy 9 years old, remained with his father.' According to the findings, an Indian seized Thomas and was about to scalp him when Mordecai returned and killed the savage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Life of Abraham Lincoln Thomas Lincoln made a rude coffin him self, but there were no ceremonies at that most pathetic funeral when he laid his young wife in her desolate grave in the forest. Little Lincoln was nine years old, and the mystery of death, the pitiless winter, the lone grave, the deep forest - shivering with his sister in the cold cabin - it all made a deep impression on the sensitive boy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Hundreds of books have been written (and are still being written) about Abraham Lincoln. But in the annals of Lincoln history, Thomas Lincoln, Abraham’s father, is a largely neglected figure. He rates a few paragraphs in an otherwise large biography and has served as a quick backdrop to the birth and childhood of our sixteenth president. Early Lincoln biography did not consider Thomas worthy of much mention. William Herndon set the pattern for how Thomas has been viewed historically. Thomas was seen as “roving and shiftless”, lazy beyond repair. Thomas was said to be uneducated and against education. He was portrayed as mentally and physically slow, “careless, inert, and dull”. He was the obstacle Abraham overcame to become great. That view of Thomas Lincoln is wrong. Thomas was not dull or inert or lazy. He lived in a different path from that chosen by his illustrious son but he was not an obstacle his son had to overcome. Because of this view, many will consider this volume to be revisionist history. In a sense, it is. It will revise the standard view of Thomas based on the historical record available and place him as he was in the events and time in which he lived. However, it is not revisionist in the negative sense that wording often suggests. It is not built from twisting events or rewriting timeframes to make history into something it was not. Thomas Lincoln: Abraham’s Father will correct the old and errant understanding of Thomas Lincoln and show him the man he truly was. It will not enlarge him into something he was not nor will it lower him to be what many have thought him. Lincoln history has a gap in not having the story of Thomas Lincoln readily available. Hopefully this volume will open the doors to taking a new and serious look at the father who raised and shaped Abraham Lincoln’s early life.

Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: A Study Abraham lincoln was born on the 12th February, 1809, in the State of Kentucky. Those who place faith in pedigree, in being the descendants of a good stock, will be disappointed to learn, that the only trunk which can be traced for the American President's family tree, is his grandfather, after whom he was named, who was a very poor backwoodsman in Kentucky, and who was murdered and scalped by the native Indians there, not far from the miserable log cabin which he occupied, sometime about the year 1780. Thomas Lincoln, the father of the subject of this essay, was this unfortunate man's younger son, and was a mere infant when his father was murdered. He grew up without any education whatever, being employed about a farm from a very early age. In 1806, he married Nancy Hanks, who was mother of Abraham Lincoln. Thomas Lincoln and his wife belonged to the despised class, styled in Kentucky, the poor whites, but Mrs. Lincoln was a superior woman of her class. She could not write, but she had the advantage of her husband, in being able to read: we find that they attended a Baptist Chapel; that Mrs. Lincoln was noted for piety, and was much respected by her neighbours. She was very desirous that her children should have some education, and when only seven years of age, Abraham was sent to a country school, in the neighbour hood. His school-days here, however, came to a very early close, his father, with all his household, having emigrated to the free State of Indiana, in the Autumn of 1816, a very few months after he had been sent to. School. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.