Early Life
Thomas was born in Rockingham County, Virginia, the fourth child of Abraham Lincoln (1744–1786) and Bathsheba Herring (c1742–1836). In the 1780s, he moved with his family to the part of Virginia which soon after became the state of Kentucky. In May 1786, Thomas witnessed the murder of his father by Native American Indians "…when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest." That fall, his mother moved the family to Washington County, Kentucky (near Springfield), where Thomas lived until the age of eighteen. From 1795 to 1802, Thomas held a variety of jobs in several locations.
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