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    Theodore Lincoln Portrait and Family Gravestones

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    Photographic portrait of Theodore Lincoln, born in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1763, taken around 1850, a few years before his death in 1852. From his arrival on May 17, 1786 with a group of townsmen from Hingham, he led the development of the community on the Dennys River, and oversaw the settlement of Townships No. 1 and 2, which later became the towns of Dennysville, Perry and Pembroke. In 1799 he married Hannah Mayhew of Bucks Harbor, near Machias, raising a large family together, many of whom are buried in the Dennysville Town Cemetery.

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    Theodore Lincoln, c. 1850; Photograph of Judge Theodore Lincoln, who settled on the Dennys River in 1786 as agent for his father, General Benjamin Lincoln, one the original Proprietors of Townships 1 and 2, today Perry, Pembroke and Dennysville.
    Gravestone of Theodore and Hannah Lincoln, in the Dennysville Town Cemetery; Gravestone inscription for Theodore and his wife Hannah (Mayhew) Lincoln, son of General Benjamin Lincoln and original proprietor of Townships No. 1 and 2, which became Dennysville Pembroke, and Perry. Recorded below them are the names of their four infant children. The names of their son Thomas and his family are recorded the other side of the gravestone . Lincoln Family gravestone in the Dennysville Town Cemetery.; Gravestone with an inscription for Hannah Lincoln, daughter of General Benjamin and Mary (Cushing) Lincoln, and wife of (her cousin) Abner Lincoln, and other family members. In the same lot is the gravestone of her brother Theodore, his wife Hannah (Mayhew) Lincoln and some of their children.