Volume II
The Hawaiian Lincolns

     Several years ago, while researching Nedabiah Lincoln’s branch of the Lincoln family, the form of the project began to make itself known. Specifically it seemed to naturally fall into two sections. The portion relating to the continental United States was well formed, approaching a possible publication status and had a manageable size. To add the Hawaiian segment would create an unwieldy sized document. Further, that portion needed considerable more research and would postpone publishing the available data.
The result was a published Volume 1. As soon as that task was completed (December 2008) attention was returned to the research of Hawaiian descendants of Lorenzo Lincoln and the development of Volume II. A funny thing happened on the way to the forum – two other Lincoln family lines surfaced in Hawaii and because of using a process of elimination, the Hawaiian - Lorenzo Lincoln project, expanded to a Hawaiian - Lincoln, project.
“Stray” Lincolns appear and disappear from Hawaiian records (frequently because of military activities) but three Lincoln families were present in Hawaii before the kingdom came under U.S. control by the annexation of July 7, 1898.
They were:
George Walter Lincoln, who seems to have been born in New York, arrived in Hawaii about 1876, (This G. W. Lincoln is often confused with another G. W. Lincoln - George Washington Lincoln, one of Lorenzo’s four sons.) George Walter’s sons left Hawaii before starting families, thus simplifying the tracking of his family re Hawaii. George Walter’s descendant, Mr. Lawrence Roberts, has been of tremendous help in working with this family.
Lyman Lincoln was born in Boston and arrived in Hawaii (via California) in 1890. A Mr. Richard Souther, descendant, has generously provided me with an extensive genealogy tracing Lyman back to Samuel “the weaver “ Lincoln. Again, being able to separate this Lincoln line has been of considerable assistance in the research.
Lorenzo B. Lincoln is the focus of Volume II. He was born in Taunton Massachusetts in 1808, the first child of Nedabiah Lincoln II and grandson of Nedabiah Lincoln sr. In late 1833 or early 1834 he left Massachusetts (probably aboard a whaler) and ended up in Hawaii (a very common whaler provisioning stop) in 1836. His arrival in 1836 most certainly makes him the first Lincoln to settle in the Sandwich Islands.

     
Hello and Aloha
Today is the birthday of my daughter and my father, he is 95. Genealogically speaking, much of this year has been spent reviewing microfilm related to the Hawaiian Islands and available through the local Family History Center of the Mormon Church. In June, a week-long visit to the Mormon Library in Salt Lake City was included as part of this research. A conservative estimate of the number of films reviewed at this time is well over 150 and the task will spill over into the year 2010 and approach 15 months in duration. A small illustration of the size of the task is as follows - one set of nine films was not adequately indexed so each page had to be scanned for relevant entries. Each film averaged 900 pages of entries with an average of 35 entries per page, a total of over a quarter of a million lines of print. Further, this example was not selected as an extreme but as a reasonable illustration of the situation when dealing with non indexed records. Volume II is now in progress. A table of contents has been established and a few thousand words have been rough drafted in a few chapters. Much research remains to be done including a field trip to the Islands, an activity that has been delayed once already to provide more time for preparation for this key part of the process. Time marches on, and as in the first volume, at some point the decision will have to be reached and a commitment made to print what is available (note that there is no reference to an end to the research). For those of you who stumble upon this website I extend an open invitation, if you are able to offer any information or corrections please contact me at aclark1@nycap.rr.com

Mele Kalikimaka a me Hauoli Makahiki Hou

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A J CLARKE

Updated 12/31/09