Bradford Lincoln

Brief Life History of Bradford

When Bradford Lincoln was born on 5 July 1787, in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Capt. Rufus Lincoln, was 35 and his mother, Lydia Sprague, was 29. He married Mercy Gibbs on 11 June 1815, in Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 8 December 1864, in Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.

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Family Time Line

Bradford Lincoln
1787–1864
Mercy Gibbs
1792–1857
Marriage: 11 June 1815
Prudence Field Lincoln
1817–1858
Isaac Stephen Lincoln
1819–1854
Elizabeth Wheaton Lincoln
1822–1907
Minor Sprague Lincoln
1825–1899
Rufus Lincoln
1829–1916

Sources (28)

  • Bradford Lincoln, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Bradford Lincoln, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
  • Bradford Lincoln, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1788 · The First Presidential Election

The First Presidential election was held in the newly created United States of America. Under the Articles of Confederation, the executive branch of the country was not set up for an individual to help lead the nation. So, under the United States Constitution they position was put in. Because of his prominent roles during the Revolutionary War, George Washington was voted in unanimously as the First President of the United States.

1789

George Washington elected first president of United States.

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from the city of Lincoln, so named from an original British name Lindo- ‘lake’ + Latin colonia ‘settlement, colony’. The place was an important administrative center during the Roman occupation of Britain and in the Middle Ages it was a center for the manufacture of cloth, including the famous ‘Lincoln green’.

African American: adoption of the surname in 1 above, in honor of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the US, who abolished slavery.

History: Abraham Lincoln (1809–65), 16th president of the US, was the son of an illiterate laborer, descended from Samuel Lincoln, who had emigrated from England to MA in 1637.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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