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Photographer: Roger W. Sinnott
Taken: May 21, 2011
Caption: Benjamin Lincoln Tablet
Additional Description: Benjamin belonged to one of the other Lincoln families in Hingham and is not known to be related to the future president. This tablet was erected by the Hingham Historical Society, and the inscription reads: Benjamin Lincoln
1732–1810
Selectman 1765—1771
Town Clerk 1757—1776
Member of Provincial Congress
At Concord, Cambridge & Watertown
Major General in the Army of the Revolution
Secretary of War 1781—1783
Lieut-Governor of Mass. 1787
Collector of the Port of Boston 1789
President of the
Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati
Submitted: May 22, 2011, by Roger W. Sinnott of Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
Database Locator Identification Number: p154181
File Size: 2.234 Megabytes

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