History Possibly Lost.

[Craig4]

Also no the Nails are not the Major point.

Oh good, we can get back to Lincoln's bodily functions.

 

[Crazy Chainsaw]

I would guess Thomas Lincoln took a land grant, or just took a plot of unoccupied land in general rather than buying it. Maybe CC can clarify that for us. He is good on family history.

Raw materials sourced off the land would have built a cabin and planks, either split off a log or pit sawn would have made roof structure.
Nails would certainly have been a luxury over wood pegs.

Probable belongings would include ability to fell and process trees into a home plus some form of moving it all long distances as need be. That and Amish style neighbor helping neighbor with tools and skills once you found a place to settle in.
Bob has a saw pit, Thomas had an ox so they could get logs and a saw in one place to make planks. Both got planks and Thomas made his roof. At least plausible.
(Again CC can clarify if need be.) Then no more sleeping in the wagon.

At Pates Station as the good reverend already had slaves he (probably) had spare cabins. Already made so the Lincolns could use one during the winter.

I collect antique tools and sometimes try to build stuff using only them. I have used wood dowels to build pioneer style tables as projects. All human powered tools.
It's a smeg load of extra labor over drywall screws or nails, and I didn't even have to make my dowels too. But I knew how to.

Lincoln Homesteaded a plot of Land Near Troy Indiana, the site of the Orignal Cabin they built in 1816 is known and was excavated. They discovered evidence of a wooden Cabin with Cedar Wood shingles nailed to the Roof, the Cabin was Near the Spencer Perry County Line.
There were no Land Grants at the time for Indiana as the Revolution was long past, most Revolutionary Land Grant's were in Kentucky and Tennessee.
The Road the Cloverport story has Lincoln taking, was only begun in 1815 and most likely could not have been finished by December 1816.
The Cloverport story didn't appear until 1930. The Thompson's Ferry story was mentioned in 1860 at the Republicans national convention, as well as Lincoln taking the Hardinsburg Yellowbanks Road, right past Pates Station.
Remember the Cloverport story was never mentioned until a New Bridge was going to be Built across the Ohio River following the path Lincoln took to Indiana.
That Bridge is the Bob Cummings Lincoln Trail Bridge at Hawesville.

(I also need to Clarify William Pate was the owner of the Tavern and Inn at Pate's Station, he was not the Methodist Minister, that was my Great Great Great Grandfather Abraham. He was making Nails for his own use from the broken steel treads of wagon wheels, that had been replaced in the Blacksmith shop at the station by Pate's slave Samual I think was his name, he was Pate's unpaid Wagon Rite.
Abraham brought his Blacksmithing tools and Nail cutting tools from gates NorthCarolina when he moved to Kentucky in 1811. He was cutting Nails to build his first Tobacco barn at Sanders in Hancock Co.Kentucky, and for Pate to sell at the station, to local Families and travelers. Abraham ministered at the Station on Sunday, until Ellis Lyons and his partners Close it and Found the Cannel Coal Company Victoria.) After the Closure of the Station the Church then Moved to Bethlehem, then my Great Grandfather moved it and constructed a New Church in Patesville.)
That's the Church Bill Davison would have burned if he hadn't Been shot by Hale in 1865.
My family was anti Slavory Methodist, hated worse than Horse thieves durring and after the Civil war.

 

[Crazy Chainsaw]

Just wanted to point out this is the Weatherbolt story of the Letter discovered in 1929, my Family's letter was dated 1818.
https://southernindianaconnections.com/press/thomas-lincoln-and-family/

The competition the original story.
https://www.friendsofthelincolncollection.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/LL_1932-08-29_01-1.pdf

So you don't have to read it all here is the Orignal 1860 story.

"Apparently the earliest mention of
the crossing of the Ohio was bj• Bar-
rett, who wrote n campuign biography
in June, 1860. Here he mentions a spe-
cific place where the LincoJns crossed.
The following is an excerpt irom his
hook:
"Arrived nt the appointed ianding on
the Oanks of the Ohio it only remained
to embark the little C.'\nH•an upon a
f1utboat, nnd to cross the stream now
swelled to fair prOJWrtions by the au-
tumn rains. l~'inaiJy, after reachtn~
the Indiana side, the ad venturers land-
ed at or near the mouth of Anderson's
Creek, now the boundary between the
counties of Perry and Spencer, about
one hundred and forty miles below Louisvil~. by the river, and ~;ixty alwwe
Evansville."
The cbovc excerpt from Barrett's
Campaign biography was evidently
bnscd on fact .c.nd it appears from Bar.
rctt's own words in the preface of a
Inter hook by him that he had secured
part of thi~ ln!ormatioJl from Abrnham
Lint.·oln him8elf. 1,he folJowing para ..
J":"rr.ph suggests one of the sources
frcm which he drew his in-formation:
"Before the meeting ot Lho Rcpubli·
can National Convention of 1860"

The 1929 story the river was low, the 1860 Orignal story the River was swollen and the Journey was dangerous. The 1860 story was supposed to be from Lincoln Himself.

 

[Thermal]

I couldn't tell you which side of the commode the toilet paper dispenser is on. These Kentucky boys can diagram where people **** centuries ago, with Cartesian accuracy. Is it a personal priority thing or just one of those regional celebrations?

 

[Crazy Chainsaw]

I couldn't tell you which side of the commode the toilet paper dispenser is on. These Kentucky boys can diagram where people **** centuries ago, with Cartesian accuracy. Is it a personal priority thing or just one of those regional celebrations?

Everyone has to go sometime somewhere, even the Head on the fictional enterprise was known, and their was only one.
Lincoln very likely didn't have toilet paper maybe some old Corn Husks, or some other natural plant material paper at the time was made by hand and was very valuable.

 

[Craig4]

So my take away here is that there is no evidence your family had any connection to Lincoln beyond just being in the same general area at some point in his childhood.

 

[Crazy Chainsaw]

So my take away here is that there is no evidence your family had any connection to Lincoln beyond just being in the same general area at some point in his childhood.

The Connection was between Abraham- Thomas Lincoln, Delaney- Abraham Lincoln.