Abraham vs. Thomas

[Eva Elisabeth]

Joe, the quotes on Thomas L.'s carpentry were originally collected and published by Herndon (but obviously Herndon and Burlingame agreed about Thomas as well as about Mary...). Here is another one (same source):
"In 1807, Denton Geohegan of Elizabethtown refused to pay Thomas for hewing timbers for his sawmill; some timbers were too short, others too long. Thomas sued for his fee and won."
I'd also determine a discrepance between these quotes and the picture on the web site, respectively your eye-witness accounts on other exemplars.
I wonder how many of them still exist, also unrecognized and unvalued on some attics...and how much a $ 5 cupboard would be nowadays (surely enough for Thomas to be pleased about).

Donna (Ms McCreary?), you might be right with your last statement, on the other hand everything Thomas L. did obcviously turned out to be(come) unsuccessful and he wasn't able to cash in on his labour and his ventures. A. Lincoln, in later life, repeatedly helped Thomas financially, and it is also said that his father's unsuccessfullness and lack of efforts fueled his will to do things better in his own life - although at the very moment (it's quite early in the morning and my brain still sleeping) I can't remember a quote by A. L. himself on exactly this. (I'd have to look it up or perhaps so. is smarter). What do you think about this?