Maybe it's an indication that many babies in those days were born on  
the wrong side of the sheets, and everybody knew it? There are  
statistics that I forget at the moment, of the very high number of  
colonial women who were pregnant when they were married. Our  
ancestors were very much human, failings and all. Look at all the  
"bastard sons" roaming about the British genealogies of Lords, Earls  
and Dukes. Everybody knew it. They were shorted in terms of  
inheritance, but they were acknowledged.

Nancy

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--Daniel Boone



On Feb 24, 2007, at 8:31 AM, Basil Forest wrote:

> On the topic of Lincoln again, why is it more hasn't been written  
> about the
> genealogy of Lincoln and the apparent fact he was the illegitimate  
> son of
> Nancy  Hanks and Abraham Enroe of Haywood County, NC?  It seems as  
> though everyone
>  in that neck of the woods at the time knew that Enroe had  
> impregnated Nancy
> Hanks, who lived with the family, and sent her off to Kentucky once  
> the baby
> was  born to calm the ire of his wife.
>
> Is this due to the fact illegitimate births have become so commonplace
> today, or is this more of the deification of Lincoln in spite of  
> the facts of  his
> life?
>
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