Ancestry of
Abraham Lincoln

16th U.S. President

Martha Lyford

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Abraham Lincoln — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 65 
  • Father:
  • (probable) John Lyford 
  • Mother:
  • (probable) Sarah -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1628 
  • Birth Location:
  • Ireland 
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Apr 1693 
  • Death Location:
  • Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Lincoln
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1650 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Samuel Lincoln

  Daniel Lincoln

  Mordecai Lincoln (Ahnentafel No:32 )

  Mary Lincoln

  • Notes: 
  • There was a Martha Lyford listed in the passenger list of the ship Charity in which the Rev. John Lyford sailed to Plymouth in 1624. Martha's last child was reportedly born in 1674. This would make Martha 50 at the time of her last child's birth, somewhat unlikely. So the current theory is that this Martha must have been born shortly before her father died in 1629 and she is not the same Martha that came over with the family in the Charity.

• Sources for Martha Lyford

  • ¹ History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, Vol. 2, Genealogical, Hingham, Massachusetts: Published by the Town (1893), 459-460.
  • ² Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (1908-1984), 1929, Vol. 22, No. 1, p. 69.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1959, Vol. 113, p. 45.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 2, G-O, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1215.
  • ⁵ Banks, Charles Edward, "The Emigrant Ancestor and Ancestress of Abraham Lincoln", The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, April 1929, Vol. 60, Iss. 2, pp. 116-117.
  • ⁶ Keiser, David S., "Lincoln's Ancestors Came from Ireland", Lincoln Herald, Winter 1977, Vol. 79, No. 4, p. 148.
  • ⁷ Lea, James Henry and John Robert Hutchinson, The Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company (1909), 62.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 453.