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What Lincoln knew about his other grandfather is hard to say. Lincoln once described him as “a Virginia planter or large farmer” who took sexual advantage of a poor, credulous young woman named Lucey Hanks, granddaughter of William Lee, a plantation overseer accused of beating a slave to death. The fruit of that union was Nancy Hanks, mother of the future president. From this aristocratic progenitor, Lincoln believed that he inherited “his power of analysis, his logic, his mental activity, his ambition, and all the qualities that distinguished him from the other members and descendants of the Hanks family.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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