Samuel Lincoln settled in Hingham, Massachusetts in the mid 1600s. He had four sons, Samuel, Daniel, Mordecai, and Thomas. His great-great grandsons, Amos and Jedediah Lincoln of Boston, married into the Revere and Edwards families, and their older brother Levi worked for President Thomas Jefferson. Learn more about them.

The most famous descendant of Samuel Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States. In One April in Boston, Philip Edwards tries to memorize Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Learn more about Abraham Lincoln and that famous day at Gettysburg.