Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Lincoln was born on 29 November 1761, in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Maj General Benjamin Lincoln, was 28 and her mother, Mary Cushing, was 27. She married Gridley Thaxter on 13 July 1783, in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 11 November 1810, at the age of 48.
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- Sarah Lincoln, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Thaxter, "Find A Grave Index"
- Sarah in entry for Sarah Thaxter Nash, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
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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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