The Leeds Family of New Jersey:Information about Mordecai Lincoln
Mordecai Lincoln (b. 24 Apr 1686, d. 07 Jun 1736)
Little Debbie Lincon's Gravestone #1 |
Mordecai Lincoln was born 24 Apr 1686 in Hingham, Mass, and died 07 Jun 1736 in Amity, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.He married Hannah Salter on Bef. 1714, daughter of Richard Salter and Sarah Bowne.
Notes for Mordecai Lincoln:
Mordecai Lincoln is named in a letter, dated 4/25/1716 from John Salter to Obadiah Bowne wherein John speaks of "my brother Lincon and my brothers Thomas and Mordecay".
Mordecai and his family in 1718 went from Monmouth Co to Lancaster, Pa.He had a son John who went to Rockingham Co. Va. one of John's sons migrated to Kentucky where Abe Lincoln was born.
George Boone, named as a trustee of Mordecai's Will was grandfather of the celebrated Daniel Boone.Abraham Lincoln b 10/18/1736, the posthumous son of Mordecai and his 2nd wife Mary Robeson (m 1729 in Pa. ) 1704-1783, married Ann Boone, cousin of Daniel Boone, the celebrated Kentucky pioneer.Other children of Mordecai and Mary were Thomas b 1732 and Mordecai 5/9/1730.
Abraham, son of Mordecai, together with his brother Thomas removed with their families to Beargrass Fort, Kentucky, near where Louisville now stands.Abraham's daus. Mary and Nancy were born in the fort.In the spring of 1784, Abraham was planting seed near the fort when an Indian stole up and shot him dead.Thomas, President Lincoln's father, then a boy of 6 was with his father in the field and on hearing the report of the gun started for the fort.The Indian pursued and captured him and started to run with him in his arms, when Mordecai, his older brother, shot the Indian from the fort and killed him.The Indian fell face foremost upon the boy who struggled from under the savage and ran back to the fort.Thomas Lincoln, who was the President's father married Nancy Hanks at or near Springfield, Washington County, JY Sept. 23, 106.(as per Edwin Salter in his history of Monmouth and Ocean Counties)
The first Lincolns were established in Massachusetts.
From the website of WierdNJ.com there is this story about Mordecai and his daughter Debbie:
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LINCOLN'S NJ ROOTS... OR "LITTLE DEBBIE'S GRAVE"
It is not commonly known that Abraham Lincoln, our sixteenth president, had ancestors who lived in our weird state. Between 1710 and 1714, two Lincoln brothers, Mordecai and Abraham, migrated to Monmouth County from their birthplace in Hingham, Massachusetts.
After settling in New Jersey, the Lincoln brothers operated a blacksmith shop on the outskirts of the sleepy village of Imlaystown, not far from today’s Six Flags Great Adventure Amusement Park. The ruins of the Lincoln blacksmith shop are still standing today.
Mordecai Lincoln married a New Jersey girl named Hannah Salter, daughter of Richard Salter, a wealthy mill owner. Mordecai and Hannah had five children, one of whom was a little girl named Deborah. This Lincoln couple also turned out to be the great-great-grandparents of “Honest Abe", sixteenth president of the United States.
On May 15, 1720, three-year-old Deborah Lincoln died of a childhood disease. Not having their own burial ground, Mordecai and Hannah were obliged to bury their little daughter in a plot at Ye Olde Robbins Burial Place, established in 1695 by the Robbins family of Monmouth County.
Today, Ye Olde Robbins Burial Place is an overgrown, tick-infested thicket, barely visible from a country road. To visit little Debbie's grave, one has to follow a narrow path leading into a dense forest. On roughly cut, red sandstone block is an inscription which reads: "Deborah Lincon (the second L was used interchangeably by the early Lincolns) aged 3 years 4 months May 15, 1720". Years later, an iron bar was placed around the grave, honoring little Debbie as the great-grandaunt of President Abraham Lincoln.
Shortly after Deborah's death, the Lincoln's got their asses out of New Jersey and settled in Berks County, Pennsylvania. After Pennsylvania, the Lincoln descendants settled in Virginia, Indiana, and finally Kentucky, where Abraham Lincoln was born in his famous log cabin on February 12, 1809.
On a crisp November morning in 1991, when I first visited the site the locals warned me not to reveal the exact location of the obscure burial ground where little Debbie was resting. Over the years there had apparently been reports of locals hearing mournful sobs emanating from the graveyard, especially during the month of May when little Debbie died. There were also tales about ghostly horse-drawn funeral processions entering the graveyard on cool spring nights. I wanted to share this slice of Jerseyana with Weird NJ readers.
— Stephen Conte
More About Mordecai Lincoln:
Property: Plantation of Mordecai contained 1000 acres in Execter, Berks County, Pa..
Residence: Bef. 1714, removedwith brother Abraham to Monmouth Co., NJ.
More About Mordecai Lincoln and Hannah Salter:
Marriage: Bef. 1714