1799, Abraham Lincoln, Worcester, Mass. signed contract for shares of new school

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1799, Abraham Lincoln, Worcester, Mass. signed contract for shares of new school:
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This is a wonderful, original document dated 1799, Worcester, Massachusetts, where Abraham Lincoln, treasurer to the committee to build a new Center School, agrees to oversee the payment of money on shares used to build the school..except for the shares of Levi Lincoln and Isaiah Thomas....signed on back by Lincoln, attesting to make sure all is done correctly.....document is 8x12, double sided, overall good condition.

Lincoln,Abraham5(Enoch4, Jedediah3, Samuel2, Samuel1), was born at Hingham Sept. 5, 1762; died July 2, 1824, in Boston, whither he had gone to attend a meeting.

\"There was a wooden building standing at the southwest corner ofLincolnSquare, about where the bank wall now terminates in front of the court house. It was then a grocery; but my father said that it had been noted for many years in his day as the headquarters of the democratic politicians ofWorcester.Dr.Abraham Lincoln,he said, kept anapothecaryshop there, and there the politics of the day were discussed. My father said that Dr.Lincolnloved politics and segars equally well; and all day long he would sit with his heels up, smoking his much loved Indian weed.\'\"

Under the federal administration of President Adams, Mr.Lincolnwas supervisor of the revenue forWorcestercounty. About 1801 he became attached to the dominant anti-federal party and was placed at the head of the municipal concerns of the town as chairman of the selectmen, a station to which he was annually elected from 1809 to 1824. He also represented the town in the State legislature, serving as representative continuously from 1809 to 1823, and the last year was elected to the State senate. In 1820 in company with his nephew Levi, and Edward D. Bangs he was elected a delegate to the State constitutional convention.

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