1860 Census and Phillip Dinkell

[maharba]

If you have ever studied census records, you must surely know that spellings of names, etc. were pretty much at the whim of the census taker.>

I'll repeat.
But if Abraham Lincoln was enumerated in the 1850 census as ABRAM Lincoln, then how was he named and WHERE was he at, in the 1840 U.S. Federal census? He was then 31 years old, where should we expect to have found Lincolin in the census year of 1840? >

Yes. Okay, he may have listed ABRAM in 1850, the miss-heard hasty listing of that census taker. But did you check 1840?