Mordecai Lincoln and Mary [Unk]

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Husband Mordecai Lincoln ^{1 2}

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         Father: Mordecai Lincoln (Abt 1687-1736) 2 3 4
         Mother: Mary Robeson ??? (      -      ) 3 5

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Wife Mary [Unk] ²

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1 M Benjamin Lincoln ²

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2 M John Lincoln ²

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3 F Ann Lincoln ²

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4 F Sarah Lincoln ⁶

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         Spouse: John Jones (      -1802) 7 8
           Marr: Berks Co, PA

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General Notes: Husband - Mordecai Lincoln

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He first appears on the tax lists of Berks County, Pennsylvania, in 1754 as "single." In March, 1773, conveyances show he had a wife Mary. The Lincolns were prominent in Berks County. Thomas, brother of Mordecai (3), was sheriff of the county, and all owned land. Mordecai was a merchant in Berks County and a man of means. In 1791 he visited his son Benjamin, who prior to 1791 had gone to Fayette County, Pennsylvania. He liked the country so well that on June 29, 1791, he purchased of Isaac Pearce the tract of land called "Discord," containing three hundred and twenty acres. He finally settled in the county himself, and continued his residence there until his death.
He and other members of the family were buried in the family burying ground on the old farm which was left to Sarah (Lincoln) Jones by her father. One of the early "settlers' forts" was built on the tract for protection from the Indians, and the later Shady Grove Park was a part of the same tract. The tract was underlaid with a vein of coal nine feet in thickness, later worked by the Youngstown Coke Company.

1 Rev. P. C. Croll, D.D., Annals of the Oley Valley in Berks County, PA (Reading, PA: Reading Eagle Press, 1926), Pg 50.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 41.

3 Morton L. Montgomery, History of Berks County, Pennsylvania, in the Revolution from 1774 to 1783 (Reading, PA: Chas. F. Haage, Printer, 1894), Pg 239.

4 Rev. P. C. Croll, D.D., Annals of the Oley Valley in Berks County, PA (Reading, PA: Reading Eagle Press, 1926), Pg 48.

5 Rev. P. C. Croll, D.D., Annals of the Oley Valley in Berks County, PA (Reading, PA: Reading Eagle Press, 1926), Pg 49.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 40.

7 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 691.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1912), Pg 39.