By Richard A. Rocca

Family Tree DNA kit no. 174343 (James Lincoln, 1875-1967) has tested derived for Y-chromosome SNP L2. The Lincoln surname match and a 36/37 match with kit no. 130589 (Edward Lincoln, b.c. 1575, Hingham, England) makes them almost certainly related. The historical significance is that Edward Lincoln was the great-great-great-great-great-grandfather of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States.

These two kits and all other male descendents of Samuel “the Weaver” Lincoln (Edward Lincoln’s son who migrated to the United States) in the Lincoln surname project have very close STR haplotypes:

https://www.familytreedna.com/public/Lincoln/default.aspx?section=ycolorized

Therefore, barring a non-paternal event, Abraham Lincoln would also have been U152+ L2+.

Male descendents of Edward Lincoln leading up to the living descendant who belongs to U152 subclade L2:

Edward Lincoln
DOB: b. abt. 1580
Place: Hingham, Norfolk, England
DOD: 11 FEB 1640
Place: Hingham, Plymouth, MA

Samuel “the Weaver” Lincoln
DOB: 24 AUG 1619
Place: Hingham, Norfolk, England
DOD: 26 MAY 1690
Place: Hingham, Plymouth, MA

Samuel Lincoln
DOB: 25 AUG 1650
Place: Hingham, Plymouth, MA
DOD: MAR 1721
Place: Hingham, Plymouth, MA

Samuel Lincoln
DOB: 1 FEB 1689
Place: Hingham, Plymouth, MA
DOD: 6 MAR 1758
Place: Hingham, Plymouth, MA

Jonathan Lincoln
DOB: 24 MAR 1720
Place: Hingham, Plymouth, MA
DOD: 24 APR 1798
Place: Hingham, Plymouth, MA

Frederick Lincoln
DOB: 13 DEC 1752
Place: Hingham, Plymouth, MA
DOD: 18 MAY 1811
Place: Weymouth, Norfolk, MA

Peter Lincoln
DOB: 3 JAN 1780
Place: Weymouth, Norfolk, MA
DOD: 21 SEP 1839
Place:
Weymouth, Norfolk, MA

Oliver Lincoln
DOB: 20 MAR 1824
Place: Weymouth, Norfolk, MA
DOD: 7 APR 1893
Place: Weymouth, Norfolk, MA

Frederick Carl Lincoln
DOB: 16 MAY 1854
Place: Weymouth, Norfolk, MA
DOD: 9 AUG 1902
Place: Warren, Worcester, MA

Oliver Francis Lincoln
DOB: 28 AUG 1882
Place: Warren, Worcester, MA
DOD: 14 NOV 1952
Place: Norcliffe Convalescant Hospital, Brooklyn, Windham, CT

Carl Frederick Lincoln
DOB: 8 DEC 1911
Place: Hartford, Hartford, CT
DOD: 16 MAY 1997
Place: Newport News, Virginia

Living Person – Lincoln Surname (not given for privacy)
DOB: 1934
Place:

U152+ L2+ Modal values for Samuel “the Weaver” Lincoln’s Descendants: