AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY COLLECTIONS NAME OF COLLECTION: Lincoln Family, Papers, 1667-1937 LOCATION(S): Mss. boxes "L" Octavo vols. "L" Folio vols. "L" Oversize vols. "L" SIZE OF COLLECTION: thirteen manuscript boxes; ninety-six octavo volumes; fifty folio volumes; one oversize volume SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON COLLECTION: For biographical sketches of Lincoln family members, see Waldo Lincoln, History of the Lincoln Family (Worcester, Mass.: Commonwealth Press, 1923). STUDIES FOCUSING ON MATERIALS IN THIS COLLECTION: Richard B. Lyman, Jr., "'What Is Done in My Absence?' Levi Lincoln's Oakham, Massachusetts, Farm Workers," PAAS, 99(1), 1989, 151-87. SOURCE OF COLLECTION: The bulk of the collection was compiled and donated to the AAS by William Lincoln. Copies of Levi Lincoln, Sr. letters to Thomas Jefferson, the gift of George Frisbie Hoar, n.d.; John Waldo Lincoln papers, the gift of William Lincoln, n.d.; William Sever Lincoln papers, the gift of Hopkins & Bacon Law Firm, n.d.; William Sever Lincoln and Elizabeth Trumbull Lincoln correspondence, the gift of Margaret Winslow Lincoln Marcy, n.d.; Daniel Waldo Lincoln papers, the gift of Waldo Lincoln, 1901, 1912, 1915, and 1919; Waldo Lincoln papers, the gift of Josephine Rose Lincoln Dresser, 1950 and 1951; William Lincoln poetry volume, the gift of Harriet Nichols Lincoln, 1972; two William Lincoln octavo volumes, the gift of Mrs. Burton N.
Gates, 1974; William Sever Lincoln 1834 law notebook, the gift of the Worcester Law Library, 1996. COLLECTION DESCRIPTION: Levi Lincoln (1749-1820), husband of Martha Waldo Lincoln (1761-1828), was a lawyer, a state and federal politician, U.S. Attorney General, 1801-1804, and a farmer in Worcester, Mass. Abraham Lincoln (1762-1824), brother of the above Levi Lincoln, was a druggist in Worcester, a justice of the peace, and a local, county, and state politician. Levi Lincoln (1782-1868), eldest son of Levi and Martha (Waldo) Lincoln, was a lawyer in Worcester, a state legislator, Governor of Massachusetts, 1825-1834, U.S. Congressman, 1834-1841, and an agriculturalist. John Waldo Lincoln (1781-1852), a son of Levi and Martha (Waldo) Lincoln, was a Worcester merchant, a Massachusetts militia officer, an agriculturalist, and a local, county, and state politician. Enoch Lincoln (1788-1829), a son of Levi and Martha (Waldo) Lincoln, was a lawyer in Fryeburg and Paris, Me., an assistant U.S. District Attorney, 1815-1818, U.S. Congressman, 1816-1826, and Governor of Maine, 1827-1829. William Lincoln (1801-1843), a son of Levi and Martha (Waldo) Lincoln, was a lawyer in Worcester, an historian, librarian and corresponding secretary of the American Antiquarian Society, 1826-1841, a state politician, and an agriculturalist. William Sever Lincoln (1811-1889), eldest son of Levi and Penelope Winslow (Sever) Lincoln, husband of Elizabeth Trumbull Lincoln (1816-1900), and father of William Lincoln (1839-1869), was a lawyer in Millbury, Mass., and Alton, Ill., a farmer in Worcester, and a Union officer during the Civil War. Daniel Waldo Lincoln (1813-1880), a son of Levi and Penelope Winslow (Sever) Lincoln, was a lawyer in Worcester, a horticulturalist, a local militia officer, a local and state politician, Mayor of Worcester, 1863-1864, a banker, and an executive of the Boston & Albany Railroad Company. Edward Winslow Lincoln (1820-1896), nee John Winslow Lincoln, a son of Levi and Penelope Winslow (Sever) Lincoln, was a lawyer in Worcester, Mass. Waldo Lincoln (1849-1933), the son of Daniel Waldo Lincoln and the husband of Fanny Chandler Lincoln (1852-1939), was a businessman in Worcester, an historian, president of the American Antiquarian Society, 1907-1927, and a genealogist.
The papers of Levi Lincoln, Sr., for the period 1776 to 1821, consist of miscellaneous documents, mostly agreements, powers of attorney, acknowledgments of debt, receipts, and deeds; miscellaneous correspondence, mostly with Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826); law notebooks containing mostly case briefs; a miscellaneous and political notebook; addresses, mostly political; record books relating to farms and the estate of Thomas Legate (1735-1807); a docket for the Worcester County Court of Common Pleas; books concerning legal services and a farm in Oakham, Mass.; a miscellaneous account book; daybooks concerning a saw mill; a farm diary; farm inventories concerning Levi Lincoln's estate; and a letterbook, for the period 1798 to 1809, concerning Massachusetts and national politics and government. There are also farm account books, for the period 1802 to 1882, kept by Levi's wife, Martha Waldo Lincoln, as well as a farm account book and a general store daybook kept by both Levi and Martha. The papers of Abraham Lincoln, for the period 1790 to 1825, consist of miscellaneous documents, mostly concerning his public service; acknowledgements of debt; schedules concerning the third U.S. census; accounts and receipts; business ledgers; and account books and daybooks concerning his store and the services which he performed as a justice of the peace. The papers of Levi Lincoln, Jr., for the period 1807 to 1868, consist of miscellaneous correspondence, mostly political; miscellaneous documents; deeds; and addresses, mostly political, and notes on speeches. The papers of John Waldo Lincoln, for the period 1808 to 1853, consist of miscellaneous correspondence, much of which concerns Massachusetts militia affairs; business correspondence, particularly with Francis Lincoln, Henry Bromfield, William and Thomas Cotterill, and Scholefield, Redfern and Company; and ledgers, account books, daybooks, invoice books, a cash book, a transportation book, and a letterbook concerning his mercantile interests. The papers of Enoch Lincoln, for the period 1809 to 1835, consist of miscellaneous correspondence, much of which is political, including correspondence concerning the northeastern boundary of Maine; correspondence concerning Maine real estate; miscellaneous addresses, legal papers, and historical works; receipts; and a daybook concerning a sawmill. The papers of William Lincoln, for the period 1731 to 1843, consist of miscellaneous correspondence, including letters to various family members, Joseph G. Cole (1799-1851) and Rejoice Newton (1782-1868); professional correspondence to William Lincoln and to his law partner, Rejoice Newton; correspondence and notes relating to biographies used in William Lincoln's History of Worcester; lists and correspondence of Joseph Willard (1798-1865) concerning the Worcester County bar; notebooks with memoranda and sketches of Worcester history and education in Worcester; a draft of his History of Worcester; miscellaneous documents, addresses, articles, notes and memoranda; journals; poetry; receipts and accounts; invitations; a notebook of miscellaneous manuscripts; notebooks on lectures given at Harvard College by Edward Everett (1794-1865) and George Ticknor (1791-1871); a law notebook concerning ecclesiastical controversies; law notebooks containing mostly miscellaneous case briefs as well as those relating to the law firm of Newton and Lincoln; memoranda from the records of the Worcester County Court of General Sessions; papers relating to the estates of Samuel Waldo (1695-1759) and his heirs; miscellaneous legal papers; and miscellaneous papers
of Enoch Lincoln, Daniel Waldo Lincoln (1784-1815), Levi Lincoln, Jr., Francis Blake (1774-1817), William Charles White (1777-1818), and Isaac Goodwin (1786-1832). The papers of William Sever Lincoln and his wife, Elizabeth Trumbull Lincoln, for the period 1818 to 1889, consist of correspondence from William and Elizabeth to their son, William Lincoln (1839-1869); Trumbull family correspondence; and miscellaneous documents of William Sever Lincoln and his son, William. The papers of Daniel Waldo Lincoln, for the period 1832 to 1879, consist of miscellaneous correspondence; correspondence concerning a Union regiment to be commanded by him; addresses, mostly relating to the Boston & Albany Railroad Company; deeds; miscellaneous papers; memoranda volumes concerning Worcester municipal government and the Wisconsin Central Railroad Company; a diary with memoranda concerning the Boston & Albany Railroad Company; and a field, garden, and weather notebook. The papers of Waldo Lincoln, for the period 1879 to 1930, consist of miscellaneous correspondence, addresses, and papers; genealogical correspondence, notes, and charts concerning the Lincoln family and related families; notebooks containing a draft of Waldo Lincoln's History of the Lincoln Family with related correspondence and newsclippings; and correspondence of Waldo's wife, Fanny Chandler Lincoln. The collection also includes papers, for the period 1786 to 1843, on the purchase, management and sale of Maine real estate. These papers consist of correspondence of Levi Lincoln, Sr., and William Lincoln (1801-1843), as well as documents, memoranda, land plans, and papers concerning a suit held in the Supreme Judicial Court at Worcester in 1838 between Erasmus Holbrook et al. vs. Simeon Burt et al. over land in Penobscot County, Me. There are also accounts and receipts. There are replies to Edward Winslow Lincoln (1820-1896) to invitations to an inaugural ball. The collection also contains correspondence to Hester Newton Wetherell (1823-1899?), Mrs. John Walcott, relating to a portrait of her grandfather, Levi Lincoln, Sr. The miscellaneous papers and volumes, which cover the period 1667 to 1937, consist of correspondence and documents of various members of the Lincoln family, an index to Worcester views, an index to histories of New England Indians, Lincoln family deeds, mostly belonging to Abraham Lincoln (1740-1823) of Cohasset, Mass.; and a Lincoln & Fearing invoice book concerning general merchandise. The unidentified materials, which cover the period 1814 to 1845, consist of farm account books, law briefs, an oration, addresses, and a newsclipping from the Barre Gazette, 1841, regarding the "Memoirs of Petersham."
American Antiquarian Society S DEPARTMENT LINCOLN FAMILY, PAPERS, 1667-1937 CONTENTS LIST Levi Lincoln (1749-1820), Papers, 1776-1821; Martha Waldo Lincoln (1761-1828), Papers, 1792-1828 1 1 LL, Documents, receipts, and correspondence, 1779-1818 --includes the original and photocopy of Quock Walker case, 1780s; MWL, Receipts and letter, 1792-1828 2 LL, Deeds, 1782-1811 3 LL, Letters from Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Caleb Strong, etc., 1796-1811 [photostats] 4 LL, Letters to Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1802 [copied by George F. Hoar] 5 LL, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, 1803-1809 [copied by George F. Hoar] OCTAVO 1 LL, Law notebook, n.d. 2 LL, Law notebook, n.d. 3 LL, Addresses, n.d. --mostly political, with law notes 4 LL, Law notebook, 1778-1780 --case briefs 5 LL, Law notebook, 1780s --case briefs 6 LL, Power of attorney documents, 1786-1796 7 LL, Acknowledgement of debt documents, 1789-1801 8 LL, Law notebook, 1790s --case briefs 9 LL, Record book, 1795-1800 --re: dairy products from farms 10 LL, Record book, 1799-1809 --re: payments to laborers 11 LL, Miscellaneous and political notebook with memoranda, 1803 12 LL, Ledger, 1804-1814 --re: general store 13-17 MWL, Farm account books, 1802-1828 18 LL and MWL, Farm account book, 1794-1810
19 LL and MWL, Daybook, 1814-1821 re: general store FOLIO Levi Lincoln (1749-1820), Papers, 1776-1821; Martha Waldo Lincoln (1761-1828), Papers, 1792-1828 (cont.) 1 LL, Docket, 1776-1782 --for Worcester County Court of Common Pleas with accounts of retaining fees 2 LL, Account book, 1776-1790 --re: legal services 3 LL, Miscellaneous account book, 1794-1820 4-5 Daybooks, 1800-1815 --re: sawmill 6 LL, Record book, 1807-1812 --re: estate of Thomas Legate (1735-1807) 7 LL, Diary, 1807-1819 --re: farm 8 LL, Account book, 1810-1819 --re: farm in Oakham, Mass. 9 LL, Farm inventories, 1820 --re: his estate 40 LL, Letterbook, 1798-1809 --re: Massachusetts and national politics and government OVERSIZE 1 LL, Justice of the peace court records, 1788-1798 --mostly decisions concerning debts Levi Lincoln (1782-1868), Papers, 1807-1868 2 1 Correspondence, 1807-1835 2 Correspondence, 1836-1868 3 Miscellaneous documents, 1809-1867 4 Deeds, 1809-1860 5 Addresses, 1824-1868
OCTAVO 23 Notes on speeches, 1840 3 1a Documents, 1790-1825 1b Accounts, receipts, 1796-1825 Abraham Lincoln (1762-1824), Papers, 1790-1825 OCTAVO 20 Account book, 1806-1813 --re: services as justice of the peace 21 Cash account book, 1812-1823 re: store 22 Ledger, 1822-1824 re: accounts with merchants FOLIO 10 Acknowledgement of debt documents, 1799-1823 11-12 Schedules, 1810-1811 --re: third U.S. census 13 Ledger, 1812-1823 --re: store 14 Daybook, 1813-1823 --re: services as justice of the peace 15-16 Daybooks, 1820-1824 --re: store John Waldo Lincoln (1787-1852), Papers, 1808-1853 3 Account book, n.d. 2 Business correspondence, 1808-1818 3 Correspondence, 1810-1813 4 Correspondence, 1814-1819 5 Correspondence, 1824-1852
4 1 Miscellaneous papers, 1810-1849 2 Deeds, 1815-1853 3 Receipts, 1801; 1815-1852 OCTAVO 24-28 Daybooks, 1808-1822 re: general store 29-30 Ledgers, 1808-1822 re: general store FOLIO John Waldo Lincoln (1787-1852), Papers, 1808-1853 (cont.) 17 Invoice book, 1808-1809 --re: general merchandise 18 Cash book, 1808-1814 --re: store 19 Invoice book, 1818-1815 --re: imports 20 Transportation book, 1808-1816 --re: business 21 Letterbook, 1808-1818 --re: business 22-23 Account books, 1808-1820 --re: store 4 4 Correspondence, 1818-1829; Receipts, 1809-1821 Enoch Lincoln (1788-1829), Papers, 1809-1835 OCTAVO 31-33 Miscellaneous correspondence, 1808-1829 --mostly political 34 Miscellaneous correspondence and addresses, 1820-1829 35 Correspondence, 1826-1829 --re: northeastern boundary of Maine 36 Correspondence, 1820-1835 [William Lincoln (1801-1843) correspondence interspersed] --re: Maine real estate
37 Miscellaneous historical works, 1820s FOLIO 24 Daybook, 1820-1821 --re: sawmill William Lincoln (1801-1843), Papers, 1731-1843 5 1 Miscellaneous correspondence, 1823-1831 2 Miscellaneous correspondence, 1832-1836 3 Miscellaneous correspondence, 1837 4 Miscellaneous correspondence, 1838-1843 5 Journals, 1819-1842 William Lincoln (1801-1843), Papers, 1731-1843 (cont.) 5 6 Miscellaneous documents, 1825-1843 7 Miscellaneous papers, n.d. 6 1 Addresses, n.d. 2 Addresses, 1829-1843 3 Papers, 1837 4 Papers, n.d. 7 1-4 History of Worcester (Worcester, Mass.: Moses D. Phillips and Company, 1837) [draft] 8 1 Receipts, accounts, etc., 1824-1838 OCTAVO 38 Notebook, n.d. --miscellaneous manuscripts 39 Law notebook, 1766-1798 --re: ecclesiastical controversies 40 Lists and correspondence, 1828-1830 --of Joseph Willard (1798-1865) of Lancaster, Mass., re: Worcester County Bar Professional correspondence, 1815-1832 --to Rejoice Newton (1782-1868) and William Lincoln 41 Poetry, 1817 --from newspapers 42 Addresses, poetry, forensics, themes, and letters, 1819-1829 --to Martha Lincoln, John Waldo Lincoln, Enoch Lincoln, and Joseph G. Cole (1799-1851) 43 Notebook, 1821-1822
--on Greek lectures given by Edward Everett (1794-1865) 44-45 Notebooks, 1821-1822 --on French literature lectures given by George Ticknor (1791-1871) 46 Notebook, 1821-1822 --on Spanish literature lectures given by George Ticknor (1791-1871) 47 Notebook, 1825 --re: law cases and principles 48 Miscellaneous correspondence, 1825-1834 49 Miscellaneous notes, addresses, and memoranda, 1825-1838 50 Law notebook, 1828-1829 --of case briefs 51 Addresses and poetry, 1829-1837 52 Miscellaneous invitations, 1831-1834 --to William Lincoln 53 Law notebook, 1832 --of case briefs 54 Miscellaneous correspondence, 1832-1842 --mostly professional 55-56 Law notebooks, 1835 --of case briefs 57 Miscellaneous notes, 1836-1841 --to William Lincoln, mostly invitations 58 Replies to invitations, 1833 --for an agricultural ball 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 Miscellaneous invitations, 1837-1841 --addressed to William Lincoln Worcester Agricultural Society clippings Biographies of Aaron Burr, Henry Frankland, and Lady Agnes Frankland clippings. Some original manuscripts related to Lady Frankland History of the climate and seasons of New England, clippings Chronologies of American history, clippings General history and antiquities, clippings General history, clippings General history, clippings General history, clippings General history, clippings General history, clippings Railroads and temperance, clippings Massachusetts Legislature, 1836, clippings Massachusetts Legislature, 1840, clippings Massachusetts Legislature, 1840, clippings General history, clippings Coal, general history, tales, and poems, clippings Reports on swine, miscellaneous manufacture and legislature, clippings
77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 Banking policy and law, clippings General politics, clippings General politics, 1839-1840, clippings General politics, 1839-1840, clippings General politics, 1839-1840, clippings General politics, 1839-1840, clippings Temperance pamphlets, all separately cataloged Miscellaneous clippings Miscellaneous clippings FOLIO 25 Memoranda, 1731-1743 --from records of the Worcester County Court of General Sessions 26 Papers, 1734-1813 --relating to the estates of Samuel Waldo (1695-1759) of Boston and his heirs Miscellaneous legal papers --of Enoch Lincoln 27 Miscellaneous legal papers, 1750-1807 --with many briefs and case studies 28-30 Miscellaneous legal papers, 1750s-1840s --relating to the judicial process 31 Miscellaneous legal papers, 1790s-1830s --of Enoch Lincoln, Daniel Waldo Lincoln (1784-1815), Levi Lincoln, Jr., William Lincoln, Francis Blake (1774-1817), William Charles White (1777-1818), and Isaac Goodwin (1786-1832) 32 Correspondence and notes, 1826-1836 --relating to biographies used in History of Worcester by William Lincoln 33 Law notebook, 1827-1834 --of case briefs of the law firm Newton and Lincoln 34 Law notebook, 1827-1835 --of case briefs of the law firm Newton and Lincoln 41 Notes and statistics, 1830-1836 --on education in Worcester 42 Notes and memoranda, 1836 --on the history of Worcester 43 Notes, memoranda, and sketches, 1836 --for the History of Worcester by William Lincoln 44 Notes on the early history of Worcester, c. 1835 45 Additions and corrections, 1838
--for the History of Worcester by William Lincoln; topical sections such as biographical, newspapers, subscriptions, etc. 46 Annals of Worcester, 1836 --a yearly account of events in Worcester, beginning in 1674, for the History of Worcester by William Lincoln FOLIO William Lincoln (1801-1843), Papers, 1731-1843 (cont.) 47 Statistics and memoranda, 1836 --on the history of Worcester 48 Statistics and notes, 1763-1840 --on Worcester County for agricultural and industrial production 49 "List of those who have practised at the Bar of the County of Worcester" --biographies of Worcester County lawyers) 50 Genealogies of Worcester families --very generally lists names, place(s) of residence, and birth and death dates; occasional biographical outlines; relatively complete sketches of Samuel Austin (1760-1830), Thaddeus Maccarty (1721-1784), Ebenezer Mower, and Isaiah Thomas (1749-1831); and newspaper clippings which are obituaries for Asa McFarland, Solomon Parsons (1757-1831), Peter Slater (1759-1831), and Daniel Stowell ( -1828), as well as a very lengthy obituary for Christopher Columbus Baldwin (1800-1835) that appeared in the Massachusetts Spy, 2 September 1835 William Sever Lincoln (1811-1889), Papers, 1834-1889; Elizabeth Trumbull Lincoln (1816-1900), Papers, 1824-1876; William Lincoln (1839-1869), Papers, 1842-1889; Trumbull Family, Papers, 1818-1860 8 2 WSL, Correspondence, 1838-1883 3 WSL, Correspondence to ETL, 1836-1841 4 ETL, Correspondence, 1824-1876 5 WL, Correspondence, 1842-1861 --mostly from his parents, WSL and ETL 6 Trumbull family correspondence, 1818-1860 7 WSL and WL, Miscellaneous documents, 1855-1889 OCTAVO 86 Law notebook, 1834 [gift of the Worcester Law Library, 1996]
87 Auction Catalog, Estate of William Lincoln, 1829, 1855 Daniel Waldo Lincoln (1813-1880), Papers, 1832-1879 9 Memoranda volume, 1863-1864 --re: Worcester, Mass., municipal government 1 Miscellaneous correspondence, 1832-1833; 1863-1878 2 Correspondence, 1861-1862 re: regiment to be commanded by DWL 3 Addresses, 1876-1879 --mostly relating to Boston & Albany Railroad Co. Daniel Waldo Lincoln (1813-1880), Papers, 1832-1879 (cont.) 9 4 Deeds, 1835-1876 5 Miscellaneous papers, 1837-1838; 1846 --three Massachusetts militia commissions and four checks OCTAVO 88 Scrapbook (compiled after his death) with memorials and obituaries Field, garden, and weather notebook, 1853-1879 89 90 Memoranda, 1870-1871 --re: Wisconsin Central Railroad Company 91 Diary with memoranda, 1877 --re: Boston & Albany Railroad Company Waldo Lincoln (1849-1933), Papers, 1879-1930 10 1 Miscellaneous correspondence, 1879-1930, plus passports 2 Miscellaneous papers and addresses, n.d. 3 Correspondence, 1896-1930 --re: Lincoln family genealogy 4 Genealogical notes re: Lincoln family and related families 5 Genealogical notes re: English pedigree of Lincoln family OCTAVO 92-96 Notebooks, 1893-1930 --contains draft of History of the Lincoln Family by Waldo Lincoln
(Worcester, Mass.: Commonwealth Press, 1923), with related correspondence and newsclippings (interspersed) FOLIO 35-36 Genealogical charts for the ancestry of Waldo Lincoln and Fanny Chandler Lincoln Edward Winslow Lincoln (1820-1896), Papers, 1849 11 1 Replies to invitations for an inaugural ball, 1849 Hester Newton Wetherell (1823-1899?), Papers, 1865-1884 11 2 Correspondence to HNW, 1865-1884 --relating to a portrait of her grandfather, Levi Lincoln, Sr. Miscellaneous Papers, 1667-1937 11 3 Correspondence and documents of Lincoln Family members, 1796-1937 4 Index of Worcester views (illustrations), 1673-1860 FOLIO 37 Index, n.d. --to histories of New England Indians 38 Lincoln family deeds, 1667; 1770-1826 --mostly belonging to Abraham Lincoln (1740-1823), of Cohasset, Mass. 39 Lincoln & Fearing invoice book, 1812-1823 --concerning general merchandise Maine Real Estate Papers, 1786-1843 5 Papers, 1835-1836 --re: suit of E. Holbrook et al vs. Simeon Burt et al relating to
township #3/3 rd range in Penobscot County, Me. 6 Papers, 1838 --re: suit of E. Holbrook et al vs. Simeon Burt et al relating to township #3/3 rd range in Penobscot County, Me. 12 1 Correspondence, 1797-1821 --mostly to Levi Lincoln (1749-1820) 2 Correspondence, 1826; 1835-1837 --to William Lincoln (1801-1843) 3 Correspondence, 1838-1843 --to William Lincoln (1801-1843) 4 Documents, 1786; 1796-1829 5 Documents, 1832-1838 6 Memoranda, 1800-1838 7 Land plans 8 Accounts and receipts, 1801-1836 Unidentified Material, 1814-1845 13 1 Farm account book, 1814 2 Farm account book, 1815 3 Law brief, 1819 4 Law brief, 1822 5 Law brief, 1827 6 Fourth of July oration, 1840s? 7 Address on the Declaration of American Independence, 1840 8 "Memoirs of Petersham" clipped from the Barre Gazette, 1841 9 Address on Andrew Jackson, 1845