Abraham Lincoln; a history (1890) (14760318284)

Identifier: abrahamlincolnhi01nico (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln; a history
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign



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field, nor the wounded brotherwhose gallantry might justly have claimed somenotice. He was thinking solely of the public good,saying, I have encouraged the people in thiscountry all that I could, but I can no longer justifythem or myself to risk our lives here under suchextraordinary hazards. He therefore begged hisExcellency to take immediate measures for relief.During the short existence of Hendersons legis-lature he was a member of it, and not the leastuseful one. Among his measures was one for theprotection of game. Everything we know of the emigrant AbrahamLincoln goes to show that it was under the auspicesof this most famous of our pioneers that he set outfrom Rockingham County to make a home for him-self and his young family in that wild region whichBoone was wresting from its savage holders. Hewas not without means of his own. He took withhim funds enough to enter an amount of landwhich would have made his family rich if they hadretained it. The county records show him to have
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LAND WARRANT ISSUED TO ABRAHAM LINKHORN (LINCOLN). The original, of wMcli this is a reduced fac-simile, is in the possession of Colonel K. T. Dnrrett, Louisville, Ky. 10 LINEAGE 11 been the possessor of a domain of some seventeen chap. i.hundred acres. There is still in existence^ theoriginal warrant, dated March 4, 1780, for fourhundred acres of land, for which the pioneer hadpaid into the publick Treasury one hundred andsixty pounds current money, and a copy of the jeffersonsurveyors certificate, giving the metes and bounds Re°co?d8.of the property on Floyds Fork, which remainedfor many years in the hands of Mordecai Lincoln,the pioneers eldest son and heir. The name wasmisspelled Linkhorn by a blunder of the clerk inthe land-office, and the error was perpetuated inthe subsequent record. Kentucky had been for many years the countryof romance and fable for Virginians. Twenty yearsbefore Governor Spotswood had crossed the AUe-ghanies and returned to establish in a Williams-burg taver