The Inn at Woodstock

Hartfield, Virginia

Woodstock Farm is a river front estate still held by the Lincoln family heirs in Middlesex County Virginia. The historic Federal Mansion, situated on the Piankatank River was built around 1840. The grand property was purchased as a family home in 1920 by the youngest granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln, Jessie Lincoln Beckwith.
The Inn at Woodstock is a unique example of the Federal Style with its set back Portico and widow's walk overlooking the river. The 10 acres of manicured grounds surrounding the home were designed by Mrs. Beckwith, an avid gardener. She had a boxwood garden planted at the back of the grounds, which is presently being restored to its former style. A lane of Crepe Myrtle trees dating to the 1920's lines the drive approaching the house.

Connecticut Sons of the American Revolution, 1892-1903 Yearbooks

Connecticut Sons of the American Revolution, 1892-1903 Yearbooks:
Beckwith, Cyrus Grosvenor
Beckwith, Oliver Russell

Including other names I am researching:

Forbes, Winthrop, Pelton, Beckwith, Hart, Snow, Atwater, Barnes, Abell, Aiken, Albee, Andrews, Avery, Baldwin, Banks, Barber, Bosworth, Brainerd, Brewster, Brooks, Burnham, Burroughs, Burrows, Burton, Burwell, Butler, Chandler, Clapp, Cole, Comstock, Conant, Cone, Cook, Copley, Corbin, Curtis, Dudley, Edwards, Farnham, Foote, Frost, Fuller, Goodwin, Griswold, Greene, Heaton, Hotchkiss, Howard, Hungerford, Hunt, Huntington, Huntingdon, Hunter, Ives, Jackson, Jennings, Jewell, Johnson, Jones, Judd, Judson, Knight, Lathrop, Leach, Learned, Lee, Lewis, Lincoln, Maltby, Manwaring, Maples, Martin, Mason, Maxwell, Miles, Monroe, Montgomery, Moses, Palmer, Pardee, Parker, Payne, Peck, Perkins, Pierpont, Plimpton, Rogers, Seymore, Sheffield, Smith, Spencer, Stanley, Taylor, Todd, Tucker, Turner, Warren, Wells, Williams, Wright...

Hildene and the Robert Todd Lincoln family

Hildene

Hildene - Historic Home of Robert Todd Lincoln in Manchester, Vermont

The PBS special, "Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided" has renewed a lot of interest in the Lincoln's and their kin. The beautiful Hildene, the home of Abraham and Mary's son, Robert Todd Lincoln, is a good place to start. Hildene is remarkably reminescent of the ancient home of Landon Carter, Sabine Hall (pictured below), located on Virginia's Northern Neck...which also shares Lincoln/Todd roots. (See post below)


Sabine Hall

Robert Todd Lincoln & the Lincoln Family

Robert Todd Lincoln, the only son of President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln to survive to maturity, married Mary Harlan, the 22 year old daughter of a U.S. Senator from Iowa. They had three children - Mary, Abraham II and Jessie. Abraham II, their only son, died at the young age of 16. Mary married Charles Isham and had a son, Lincoln Isham. At this point I would direct the reader to composer and musician, Mark Isham, whose music if often as glorious as a Lincoln address.
Jessie bore two children by her first husband, Warren Beckwith -- Robert "Bud" Lincoln Beckwith and Mary "Peggy" Lincoln Beckwith. Peggy never married and was the last Lincoln descendant to occupy Hildene. Lincoln Isham and Robert "Bud" Beckwith both married, but neither bore fruit. Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith died in 1985.

Warren Beckwith's ancestry includes the ancestors of Marmaduke Beckwith of England and Matthew Beckwith of Connecticut.


The Beckwiths


"Mary Lincoln Beckwith, more affectionately known as "Peggy," inherited Hildene in 1938 at the age of 40. She was an active woman with a fondness for animals and a love of the outdoors. Peggy piloted her own planes and flew in and out of Manchester from a hangar and airstrip which existed on Hildene's Meadowlands. Photography, art, sculpting and skiing were just a few of her hobbies. She was known by Manchester residents to be a shy, but generous and caring person. Never married, Peggy lived at Hildene until her death in 1975."


Peggy Beckwith and Dog

Robert Todd Lincoln at Harvard College

Robert Todd Lincoln at Harvard College

Lincoln's Northern Neck, Virginia Roots

Lincoln's Northern Neck, Virginia Roots

INCLUDING:
1.HERNDON, SCRIPPS, AND THE "ADMIRABLE QUALITIES"
2.THE SUPERFICIAL NATURE OF WILLIAM BARTON'S RESEARCH
3.DATING LINCOLN'S MOTHER'S BIRTH
4.JOSEPH HANKS:KENTUCKY PIONEER FROM VIRGINIA'S NORTHERN NECK
5.LUCEY'S GRANDFATHER:WILLIAM LEE, WHO KILLED THE SLAVE
6.LUCEY'S UNCLE ALEXANDER HANKS:A REVOLUTIONARY WAR CASUALTY
7.THE POST REVOLUTIONARY UPROOTING OF JOSEPH HANKS AND HIS FAMILY
8.THE JUNE, 1782 GRAND JURY INDICTMETN OF ____HANKS
9.UNFINISHED BUSINESS:THE RETURN TO RICHMOND COUNTY
10.THE PROOF FOR JOSEPH HANKS RESUMED PRESENCE IN RICHMOND COUNTY
11.1783:THE FINAL DEPARTURE FROM RICHMOND COUNTY
12.THE SEARCH FOR JOSEPH HANKS' RICHMOND COUNTY HOMESTEAD
13.LUCEY'S GENTLEMAN-PLANTER NEIGHBORS
14.ANOTHER NEIGHBOR:ELISHA LINGAN HALL,NEPHEW OF RICHMOND HENRY LEE
15.LUCEY HANKS AND HER GRANDSON LINCOLN
16.CONCLUSION:THE ROOTS OF LINCOLN'S IDENTITY,AND THE SEARCH FOR MORE DOCUMENTS

Places and Names

UK:
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Barwick-in-Elmet Beckwith Beckwithshaw Beningborough Bexhill Bolton Percy
Bramhope Bridlington Burton Agnes
Cambridge Castleford Clifton Clint Coxwold
Dacre Deighton Durham Easingwold
Farnham Featherstone Filey
Galphay Gilling East Glastonbury Grafton Great Barugh Guiseley
Harrogate Herrington Isle of Iona
Kenilworth Kilburn Knaresborough
Leeds Lichfield Little Gidding London
Masham Muston Old Bramhope Otley
Pannal Ash Pickering Pontefract Ripon
Scriven Scrooby Sheffield Skelton Solihull Stanley Sutton-on-Trent
Tamworth Thirsk Thorpe Thurcroft Trimdon
Ugglebarnby Warsop West Bromwich Wheldrake Wighill York




SURNAMES

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Abraham Lincoln Family

http://www.geocities.com/marianapolis99/lincoln.htm
Including:
Ancestry of Abraham Lincoln
Descendants of Abraham Lincoln
Ideas of the Past
How You Can Help

Nancy Hanks related websites:
Ancestors of Abraham Lincoln
Descendants of Abraham Lincoln
Joseph Hanks, Ancestor of a President

EXTERNAL LINKS:Abraham Lincoln Online,Austin Genealogical Database,Bob Lincoln's Home Page,The First Ladies,Freeman Family Lines,The History Place Presents Abraham Lincoln,Mary Todd Lincoln,IMC's Genealogical On~Ramp Main Menu,Monticello, Home of Thomas Jefferson,The Presidents of the United States,Robert Todd Lincoln's Hildene,Royal and Noble Genealogical Data on the Web,Scott McGee's GenWeb Databases,United States Vital Records Information,

SAMPLES
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http://www.geocities.com/marianapolis99/verduin.htm
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The result of these plotting is as follows: a constellation of points is formed which composes a rough circle around what was in 1777 a triangular, 151-acre parcel of land. The tract was one of two almost-touching but distinct parcels purchases on December 23 of that year by Griffin Murdock Fauntleroy-the same well-bred planter who was one of Joseph Hanks' employers in 1781. The road for which Joseph Hanks was surveyor (i.e., maintenance inspector) nearly touched this tract of land at the tract's northwestern corner. What is more, the lands owned or leased by the other four court appointees who lived in the neighborhood effectively box in the 151-acre Fauntleroy tract on two of its three sides. Fauntleroy himself, it has been learned, lived on the other of two tracts he purchased in North Farnham Parish in 1777-the one just a little to the east, which bordered on Farnham Creek and Richard Beale's plantation. The 151-acre piece was a less desirable, rather swampy, and largely wooded property.
Teh writer concludes that it is likely-but not certain-that Joseph Hanks and his family resided in the central or western portion of this 151-acre tract of land owned by Hanks' co-employer Griffin Murdock Fauntleroy. But it is certain, in his judgement, taht they lived within half a mile of a point in the north-central portion of that tract. The location is within three miles of the Rappahannock River and the modern community of Sharps. The tract adjoined or was near the back boundaries of several of the grand Rappahannock riverfront plantations of the era: Woodford, Woodberry, Milden Hall, Riverdale, and Hornby Manor-as they were called at that time, or a little later.

The Lincoln Family
WEEKEND EXCURSION; Among Memories of Old Glory - Hildene, Beckwith and Lincoln

Hebden & Bekwyth

FROM THE WEBSITE

Sir Richard’s younger brother, Sir Nicholas de Hebden was born around 1359 in Gosberton Lincolnshire. He married a lady called Katherine de Wyhom who was the heiress of Rye & Whyam and the Marmions. Before Nicholas died in 1417, they had three children, William de Hebden who died young, Elizabeth de Hebden ( b circa 1380 in Howell, Lincoln) and Grace de Hebden. Although they were born in Lincolnshire, links were clearly kept with the north as Grace married Sir Piers Tempest who was the son of Sir Richard Tempest of Bracewell in Craven. The Tempests at some stage gained Conistone.
Elizabeth married Sir Thomas Dymoke, who one of the Dymokes of Scrivelsby, Lincoln, the Kings champions. Thus the primary line of Hebden died out though both Grace and Ellizabeth had children. One in particular achieved some level of historical notoriety. Elizabeth had two sons, Sir Philip, who married Joan Conyers and Sir Thomas who married Margaret de Welles. It was this Sir Thomas who joined a Lancastrian rising in 1469 and the penalty of his treason to the then King Edward IV was execution. The family were not unduly penalized though as his son Sir Robert had the estates restored to him and the descendants were Kings champions at he coronations of Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII and even George IV. The Dymoke in question on that occasion was Henry who was accompanied by the Duke of Wellington. The eldest child, Sir Richard had been born around 1355 and he married a widow, Joan Chammond. daughter of Richard Wateby, Mayor of York in 1365 and she had a daughter Johanna from her first marriage. Johanna was married to a gentleman called Ffitlyng. Richard and Joan probably married around 1380 and as Sir Richard was buried at Ousebridge in 1385, so it was not long before Joan found herself a widow again.

Joan and Richard’s children were
Thomas who died about 1435 and would seem to have entered the church and become Dean of Aukland in 1431. Some documentation shows his kin to have been Elizabeth Bekwyth, Roger Plumpton, John & Margaret Burton though heaven only knows where they fit in. Anastasia de Hebden was also referred to in the will of Thomas, as a sister.
There was also a John, who was the last Lord of Hebden 1460.


At this time there was also a Sir John Hebden of Coldstonefold (Hebden), Parish of Ripon and the Hebden family of Ripon, Wakemen to Ripon City from 1400 onwards, during the time of the Hebden domicile at Hebden in Craven. The Ripon Hebdens occupied much of Fountains Abbey lands. What is not clear is where this Sir John fits in to the Hebden line. Could he have been a descendant of Auray or Duket ? Who knows. This was the time of the Wars of the Roses and many records were destroyed leaving missing links between various lines of the Hebden family.

Robert Lincoln

The Lincoln Family

Picture History - Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith