Sarah Lincoln

1712-1777 · Boston MA

Born 1712, Boston, Massachusetts

Died 1777

Father: Thomas Lincoln

Mother: Mehitable Frost

Children include Barnard

Sarah Lincoln was the youngest child of Thomas Lincoln, a Boston tailor, and Mehitable Frost. All of Thomas's children were born at Boston, but her birth date is not given. A private record makes her sixty five when she died in 1777, which puts her birth about 1712. Her father died at Boston on 2 April 1715, when she was a small child.

Her grandfather was Samuel Lincoln, a weaver who came from Hingham in England in 1637 and settled at Hingham in Massachusetts. Her father's elder brother was Mordecai Lincoln, a blacksmith of Hingham and Scituate. Mordecai's son, Mordecai the younger, was her first cousin. He went to New Jersey and then Pennsylvania, and he was the great-great-grandfather of President Abraham Lincoln.

Her brothers and sisters were Mehitable, who married Samuel Foss; Mary, who married William Allen; Martha, who married Joseph Hudson of Hingham; Thomas, who died at twenty six; and Charles, a tailor like their father. On 3 March 1728/9 three of them sold to Charles land "that was our father's". The deed names "Joseph Hudson and Martha his wife, and Sarah Lincoln, single woman, all of Hing." So at about seventeen she was living at Hingham, where her sister Martha had married.

On 28 July 1731 she married Phinehas Pratt of Hingham, a housewright. Her first son, Bernard, was born that October. Five more children followed at Hingham by 1739: Jared, who died at three, Constantine, Rhoda, Sarah and a second Jared. In December 1739 the family moved to Worcester, and in May 1741 to Bedford, soon renamed Granville. There she bore Phinehas in 1743 and raised Olive. Her daughter Sarah died at Granville in 1742, aged five.

Her husband became a selectman and captain of Granville. In 1775 he made a will that left her half the household goods, a cow of her choosing and half the house.

She died at Granville on 1 October 1777. Her stone says she was "in 60th y." A private record says "camp distemper, a. 65." Camp distemper was the name given to the fevers and fluxes that spread from army camps. The same sickness killed two of her grandsons that year. Her grave is in the old Granville burying ground, and in 1879 the History of the Connecticut Valley listed "Sarah, wife of Phineas Pratt, 1777" among the oldest inscriptions still legible there.

Parents

Thomas Lincoln 1664-1715

Mehitable Frost (b. 1671)

Children

Barnard Pratt 1731-1807

Sources

History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts (1879), pp. 1086-1087, Granville, burial places

History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts (1893), vol. III, p. 117, archive.org historyoftownofh03hing, leaf 123

George Lincoln, History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts (1893), vol. II, p. 462, archive.org historyoftownofh02inhing, leaf 474

Vital Records of Granville, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (1914), births, p. 66, archive.org vitalrecordsofgr00newe, leaf 72

Vital Records of Granville, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (1914), deaths, p. 215, archive.org vitalrecordsofgr00newe, leaf 221

George Lincoln, History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts (1893), vol. II, archive.org historyoftownofh02inhing, pp. 461-462; History of the Town of Hingham (1893), vol. III, archive.org historyoftownofh03hing, p. 117; Vital Records of Granville, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (1914), archive.org vitalrecordsofgr00newe, deaths; Suffolk Deeds 47:34 (quoted by Lincoln); History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts (1879), pp. 1086-1087; Hampshire County probate, will of Phinehas Pratt (FamilySearch full text 3:1:3Q9M-C9YB-FBB); Lincoln II p. 461; Suffolk Deeds 47:34, as quoted by Lincoln II p. 462; Lincoln II p. 462; III p. 117; Lincoln II p. 461 and note; History of the Connecticut Valley, p. 1086

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Cite: Heirology, "Sarah Lincoln (1712-1777)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/sarah-lincoln-1712-1777-ebfd86.