Mordecai, with a brother, Abraham, removed to what was then the wilderness of Monmouth, NJ, and afterwards to Pennsylvania, in search of fortune or adventure.
He married and had seven children.
His will is dated 22 Feb 1736. He gave his lands in NJ to his oldest son, John.
["Old Scituate," published by Chief Justice Cushing Chapter, DAR, 1921]
In 1758, John settled in Rockingham County, VA, with his five sons.
Removed from VA to North Carolina.
According to the original Field Book of Daniel Boone (Wisconsin Historical Society), under the date of 1782:
"Abraham Lincoln enters 500 acres of land on a Treasury warrant on the south side of Licking Creek or River in Kentucky."Here is chronicled a second migration to a still wilder counrty, and here Abraham erected a log cabin near "Bear Grass Fort," the site of the present city of Louisville.
A year or two later, while he was working to open a farm in the forest, he was shot by Indians in ambush. His son Mordecai, who was working in a field near by, ran to the house for a rifle, and returned just as an Indian had seized his little brother Thomas and was running with him toward the forest. He fired the rifle, the Indian fell dead, and little Thomas escaped, to become the father of the great President.
["Old Scituate," published by Chief Justice Cushing Chapter, DAR, 1921]
16th President of the United States of America.
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