Saturday, May 18, 1816.Elizabethtown, KY. | [Thomas Lincoln is appointed "surveyor of that part of the road, leading
from Nolin to Bardstown, which lies between the Bigg Hill and the Rolling Fork." He
appears to supervise road until he moves to Indiana in autumn.Order Book C, 311, Hardin County Court; facsimile in
Ida M. Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sangamon
ed., 4 vols. (New York: Lincoln History Society, 1924), 1:15.] |