ABSTRACT
Levi Lincoln lived another five years after Daniel's death. Nearly blind, he moved to the relative seclusion of his farms, devoting much of his time to breeding Merino sheep and participating in civic organizations. Daniel's mother, Martha Waldo Lincoln, lived for eight years more following her husband's death. The other three Lincoln brothers, John, William, and Enoch had much closer relationships with Daniel. All three were more successful in their public lives than their private ones. John, a frequent correspondent and occasional harsh critic of his brother Daniel, was captain of the Worcester Light Infantry and owned a hardware and dry goods store that he inherited from his uncle, Daniel Waldo, Jr. He sold the store in 1822 when his father bequeathed him one of his farms. The rest of Daniel's collection was three volumes of verse by the mid-eighteenth-century poet, Thomas Chatterton.
