In a message dated 1/30/03 7:23:59 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > I thank everyone very much for all the advice &help in finding > the parents of Rebecca LINCOLN, who m. John LINCOLN &where > she was married but I'm concerned about this info &is it correct? > Since Helen has raised the question, I went back into some material that I'd gathered from the (fat) files the DCHS. Abraham Lincoln's descent from Enoch and Rebecca (Barnard) Flower through their daughter, Rebecca, was detailed by researcher David Keiser in the 1950s. In addition to Keiser's details, I am looking at a 1962 AP story quoting Quaker scholar Henry Cadbury's reaction to Keiser's work: "...if Lincoln's paternal great-grandfather was not a Quaker, he at least married into a family tht was Quaker on both sides." (Note: Since Quakers were forbidden to marry out, it seems to me that he must have been a Quaker, though possibly a new one.) In the Fall 1961 issue of the Lincoln Herald, Keiser detailed what he had found in the minutes of Concord Monthly Meeting of which (I presume) Chichester was a part: On Feb. 13, 1713, and March 6, 1713, "Enoch Flower & Rebekah Barnet, both belonging to this Meeting" declared their intentions of marriage. On April 8, 1713, the marriage was reported as "accomplished." Keiser identifies the parents of Enoch as William and Elizabeth (Moris) Flower (m. 1692, PA), and the parents of Rebecca Barnard as Richard and Frances (Lambe) Barnard (m. 1678, England). The parents of Frances Lambe were Richard and Lucy (Bailie) Lambe (m. 9-23-1639). Mark E. Dixon