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from the following articles copied from his will dated 

 July 27, 1727: — 



To wife Elizabeth, household goods, horses sheep and all my 



cattle except two oxen. 

 Todaughter Elizabeth Nichols ^150 (;^75o). 

 To grandson Moses Lincoln ten acres. 

 To grandson Daniel Nichols ;^5 ($25.00). 

 To granddaughter Priscilla Lincoln ^5 ($25.00). 

 To grandson Daniel Lincoln my dv\ elling house and all the land 



joining, *also the barn and land, and two acres of salt 



meadow. 



It could not have been but a year or two later than the 

 settlement of Daniel Lincoln that Mordecai Lincoln, his 

 younger brother, settled at the mouth of Bound Brook, 

 two miles away from Daniel. 



This Mordecai was the ancestor of President Abraham 

 Lincoln, and one of his houses near Bound Brook is still 

 the home of a Cohasset Lincoln.* 



Mordecai was too enterprising to remain a farmer, but 

 soon commenced to establish mills upon Bound l^rook, 

 both where it lies in Scituate and where it flows through 

 Cohasset lands. 



As early as 1691-92 he purchased of Matthew Gannett 

 of Scituate, for seven pounds (^35.00), one half of the 

 place, where he proposed putting a dam at the mouth of 

 Bound Brook, with a half ownership of the brook and of 

 such land as the mill pond would cover after the dam 

 should be built. It was a good site for cornmill or saw- 

 mill, to supply the needs of the growing settlements at 

 North Scituate and Cohasset. 



The nearest gristmill for the Cohasset farmers was the 

 one at the outlet of .Straits Pond, built in 1679, which 

 could be run only when the tide was out of Lyford's 

 Liking. 



There was need of so enterprising a mechanic as Mor- 



*The home of James Dallas Lincoln. 



