Sarah Lincoln

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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Family Time Line

Gridley Thaxter
1756–1845
Sarah Lincoln
1761–1810
Marriage: 13 July 1783
Bela Thaxter
1785–
Ezekiel Thaxter
1787–1856
Mary Lincoln Thaxter
1790–1875
Sarah Thaxter
1792–1882
Benjamin Lincoln Thaxter
1797–
Elizabeth Cushing Thaxter
1803–1878
Sarah Ames Thaxter
1829–1879

Sources (16)

  • Sarah Lincoln, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
  • Thaxter, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Sarah in entry for Sarah Thaxter Nash, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"

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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