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NOTES

I. THE CHILD OF THE FOREST.

1. Herndon, 1-7, 11-14; 1, anon, 13; N. and H., 1, 23-27. This is the
version of his origin accepted by Lincoln. He believed that his mother
was the illegitimate daughter of a Virginia planter and traced to that
doubtful source "all the qualities that distinguished him from other
members" of his immediate family. Herndon, 3. His secretaries are silent
upon the subject. Recently the story has been challenged. Mrs. Caroline
Hanks Hitchcock, who identifies the Hanks family of Kentucky with a lost
branch of a New England family, has collected evidence which tends
to show that Nancy was the legitimate daughter of a certain Joseph H.
Hanks, who was father of Joseph the carpenter, and that Nancy was not
the niece but the younger sister of the "uncle" who figures in the
older version, the man with whom Thomas Lincoln worked. Nancy and Thomas
appear to have been cousins through their mothers. Mrs. Hitchcock argues
the case with care and ability in a little book entitled Nancy Hanks.
However, she is not altogether sustained by W. E. Barton, The Paternity
of Abraham Lincoln.

Scandal has busied itself with the parents of Lincoln in another way. It
has been widely asserted that he was himself illegitimate. A variety of
shameful paternities have been assigned to him, some palpably absurd.
The chief argument of the lovers of this scandal was once the lack of
a known record of the marriage of his parents. Around this fact grew
up the story of a marriage of concealment with Thomas Lincoln as the
easy-going accomplice. The discovery of the marriage record fixin