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Benjamin Lincoln lived from January 24, 1733 – May 9, 1810. He served as a Above Accepted in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He is best accustomed for administering the better US abandonment of the war at the annoy of Charleston and for getting the administrator who formally accustomed the British brand of abandonment at Yorktown.The Lincoln ancestors ancestors were a allotment of those who aboriginal acclimatized in Hingham, MA alpha with Thomas Lincoln (the cooper) who was a allotment of several Lincolns who acclimatized in Hingham if it was allotment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In his aboriginal life, Lincoln formed on the ancestors acreage and abounding the Hingham schools. Later in life, he acquainted the abridgement of added apprenticeship and becoming a Master’s amount from Harvard College. In 1756, Lincoln affiliated Mary Cushing, babe of Elijah Cushing of Pembroke, Massachusetts. Elijah’s ancestors were aswell a allotment of the founders of Hingham. There, in Hingham, the Lincolns aloft eleven accouchement who larboard abounding descendants.

President Abraham Lincoln’s ancestors aswell hailed from Hingham, MA admitting it has not been bent if they were in actuality related. My approach is that they were apparently accompanying in a antecedent bearing dating aback to the Norfolk, England area, in about the 15th or 16th century. Abraham Lincoln descended from Samuel Lincoln, a weaver’s amateur from Norfolk, England. Hingham had several aboriginal Lincoln ancestors residents, all of them came from Norfolk, England. Historians accept spent years aggravating to section calm the Lincoln ancestors genealogy. I’ve aswell spent abundant analysis in the affiliated acreage and am accompanying to abounding Hingham ancestors including g-g grandfathering Benjamin Lincoln Sr. and g-g grandmother Sarah Lincoln who was the sister of the general. My grandmother, Augusta Cushing’s ancestors goes aback to aboriginal Hingham as able-bodied as does my grandfather, Ralph Sprague’s family. I’m apparently accompanying to Mary Cushing who affiliated the general. My antecedent g-g grandfathering William Sprague was a architect of the boondocks of Hingham.

General Benjamin Lincoln is active in the Old Ship Burying Ground, abaft the abbey there. In Lincoln’s honor, the accretion at Boston and added places were tolled for an hour; the flags of vessels, and those at Fort Independence and Fort Warren, as able-bodied as those at the Charlestown Navy Yard were bargain to half-mast if he died.He was one of the few men to accept been present at the three above surrenders of the American Revolutionary War. He had been alert a Victor at Yorktown and aswell Saratoga, and already as the defeated affair at Charleston. In animosity of the above roles that he played during the war, he seems to be not as able-bodied accustomed as abounding of his aeon in the Revolutionary War. Yet, there are places called “Lincoln” in the American South that are called afterwards Accepted Benjamin Lincoln rather than Abraham Lincoln. The afterward places are called in account of Benjamin Lincoln: Lincoln, Alabama, Lincoln County, Georgia, Lincoln County, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Missouri, Lincoln County, North Carolina, Lincoln County, Tennessee, Lincoln, Vermont and abundant added abode names.