The Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln In tbc obscure and deficult task oftbe verification oftbe American Pedigree, tbe writer bas to tbank especially, among tbe many bind friends wbo bave aided bim, Mrs. Caroline H anés H itcbcock of Cambridge, M assacbusetts, wbo generously placed at bis disposal ber large ms. Collections on tbc H anks and Lincoln families, Major George Cbrisman of Cbrisman Post Ojee, Rockingbam County, wbose aid alone made possible any progress in Virginia and to wbom we owe tbc discovery of tbc H erring connection (beretofore unsus pected) Gilbert Cope of West Cbester, Pennsylvania, wbose collec tions bave been freely drawn upon for all tbe portion of tbc work toucbing Pennqlvania and tbe Quakers, Miss M ary josepbine Roe of Gilbert, Obio (a Lincoln descendant), and lastly, bis daugbter, Frances Trumbull Lea, wbo made a personal journey to tbc Lincoln Country in tbc Sbenandoab V alley of Virginia, during tbc burning beats of tbc past summer, in tbe endeavour to elicit facts wbicb cor respondence failed to reveal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.