Date of birth calculated from tombstone inscription.
When he purchased three parcels of land in 1840, two of the patents were made out in the name of James Brumfield Lincoln. While census records, marriage records, biographies and even tombstones quite often contain inaccurate information, these patents, issued by the land office at Quincy, have proven to be a highly reliable source of accurate purchasers' names.
There are numerous references to a middle name of Bradford or Bradfield or Bloomfield (his granddaughter, Alice Lincoln McManus, thought it was Bloomfield), but the land records are the one firm source.
When he purchased three parcels of land in 1840, two of the patents were made out in the name of James Brumfield Lincoln. While census records, marriage records, biographies and even tombstones quite often contain inaccurate information, these patents, issued by the land office at Quincy, have proven to be a highly reliable source of accurate purchasers' names.
There are numerous references to a middle name of Bradford or Bradfield or Bloomfield (his granddaughter, Alice Lincoln McManus, thought it was Bloomfield), but the land records are the one firm source.
Date of birth calculated from tombstone inscription.
When he purchased three parcels of land in 1840, two of the patents were made out in the name of James Brumfield Lincoln. While census records, marriage records, biographies and even tombstones quite often contain inaccurate information, these patents, issued by the land office at Quincy, have proven to be a highly reliable source of accurate purchasers' names.
There are numerous references to a middle name of Bradford or Bradfield or Bloomfield (his granddaughter, Alice Lincoln McManus, thought it was Bloomfield), but the land records are the one firm source.
When he purchased three parcels of land in 1840, two of the patents were made out in the name of James Brumfield Lincoln. While census records, marriage records, biographies and even tombstones quite often contain inaccurate information, these patents, issued by the land office at Quincy, have proven to be a highly reliable source of accurate purchasers' names.
There are numerous references to a middle name of Bradford or Bradfield or Bloomfield (his granddaughter, Alice Lincoln McManus, thought it was Bloomfield), but the land records are the one firm source.
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