Benjamin Lincoln
BIRTH
Jan 24, 1733
Hingham, Massachusetts
DEATH
May 9, 1810
Hingham, Massachusetts
FAMILY
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Lincoln, Benjamin
(1733-1810)
Benjamin Lincoln (January 24, 1733 was an American army officer. He served as a major generalin the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
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Old Ship Burying Ground
107 Main Street, Hingham, MA, 02043, United States
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Elizabeth Baylies
(1765-1799)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Colonial Williamsburg | 101 Visitor Center Dr, Williamsburg, VA 23185 | MUSEUM | ||
Minute Man National Historical Park | 210 N Great Rd, Lincoln, MA 01773 | MUSEUM | ||
Saratoga National Historical Park | 648 NY-32, Stillwater, NY 12170 | MUSEUM | ||
Old South Meeting House | 310 Washington St, Boston, MA 02108 | MUSEUM | ||
Fraunces Tavern Museum | 54 Pearl St 2nd floor, New York, NY 10004 | MUSEUM | ||
Boston Common | 139 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02111 | PARK | ||
Savannah Battlefield Memorial Park | 655 Louisville Rd, Savannah, GA 31401 | MARKER | ||
Yorktown - Surrender Field | Historical Tour Road, Yorktown, Virginia, 23690, USA | MUSEUM | ||
Madison Square, British Southern Line of Defenses Marker | 3 West Harris Street, Savannah, Georgia, 31401, USA | MARKER | ||
Site of Governor William Franklin's Home Marker | 497 Beverly Rancocas Rd, Willingboro, NJ 08046 | MARKER | ||
First Provincial Congress Marker | 20 Lexington Rd, Concord, MA 01742 | MARKER | ||
Beaulieu Plantation Marker | 478 Beaulieu Avenue, Montgomery, Georgia, 31406, USA | MARKER | ||
Van Horne House Marker | 941 E Main St, Bridgewater, NJ 08807 | MARKER | ||
Attack on British Lines Savannah Marker | 301 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Savannah, GA 31401 | MARKER |
DIED:
Hingham, Massachusetts
May 9, 1810
Benjamin Lincoln was born on January 24, 1733, in Hingham, Province of Massachusetts Bay, the sixth child and first son of Colonel Benjamin Lincoln and his second wife Elizabeth Thaxter Lincoln. In his early life, Lincoln worked on the family farm, and attended the local school. He followed his father into government, becoming town constable at 21, and in 1755 he joined the 3rd Regiment of the Suffolk County militia (where his father was colonel) as an adjutant. In 1756, at the age of 23, Lincoln married Mary Cushing, daughter of Elijah Cushing of Pembroke, Massachusetts, whose ancestors were also among the founders of Hingham. They had eleven children, seven of whom survived to adulthood. In 1757, he was elected the town clerk of Hingham, a post he held for twenty years. He continued to be active in the militia during the French and Indian War, but saw no action, and was promoted to major by the end of the conflict in 1763.
Lincoln was involved in three major surrenders during the war: his participation in the Battles of Saratoga (sustaining a wound shortly afterward) contributed to John Burgoyne's surrender of a British army, he oversaw the largest American surrender of the war at the 1780 siege of Charleston, and, as George Washington's second in command, he formally accepted the British surrender at Yorktown.
Lincoln served from 1781 to 1783 as the first United States Secretary of War. While Secretary of War, Lincoln became an original member of The Society of the Cincinnati of the state of Massachusetts and was elected as the first president of the Massachusetts Society on June 9, 1783. After the war, Lincoln was active in politics in his native Massachusetts, running several times for lieutenant governor but only winning one term in that office. In 1787, Lincoln led a militia army (privately funded by Massachusetts merchants) in the suppression of Shays' Rebellion, and was a strong supporter of the new United States Constitution. He was for many of his later years the politically influential customs collector of the Port of Boston. He has no direct relation to Abraham Lincoln.