Lincoln House, Dennysville, ca. 1930
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Penobscot Marine Museum
Theodore Lincoln was among Dennysville’s first settlers, arriving in 1786 from Hingham, Massachusetts. He soon built a small frame home, the first house in Dennysville, which became an ell on the Federal style house he had built by master builder Joshua Chubbuck from Massachusetts.
Lincoln's father, Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, along with Gen. Henry Knox, and George Partridge were Commissioners of Massachusetts when in the summer of 1784 they explored the lands east of Passamaquoddy Bay looking for the St. Croix River, which had been designated in the Paris Peace Treaty of 1783 as the boundary between New Brunswick and Maine.
The vast timberlands and water potential of the area led Gen. Lincoln, Thomas Russell, and John Lowell of Boston to purchase two townships, which became Dennysville, Pembroke, and Perry.
The Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, published in 1909, notes of Theodore Lincoln's house, that "for a number of years after its erection the Indians used to make it a stopping place on their way to and from Machias, camping on quilts and robes before the great fireplace in the old kitchen."
Lincoln was known as a friendly man with a "cheering word for everybody." Three generations of Lincolns lived in the house.
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