“My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln”

— Abraham Lincoln

1850s, Autobiographical Sketch Written for Jesse W. Fell (1859)
Context: My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham County, Virginia, to Kentucky about 1781 or 1782, where a year or two later he was killed by the Indians, not in battle, but by stealth, when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest. His ancestors, who were Quakers, went to Virginia from Berks County, Pennsylvania.<!--p.32

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