1860 Census and Phillip Dinkell

[maharba]

Doing a bit more looking. I see one site has Mary Lincoln with an outburst throwing the youth Phillip Dinkel out. Then it has a 'Lincoln expert' who explains that just could not be. Another website has an interesting listing of Blacks in Springfield contemporary with Lincoln there --often working as 'bonded servants' which the site explains essentially means Slaves under Illinois law. And it lists several of the Lincoln servants, says that many were Irish, some Black. And I find a 'rediscovered 1840 Illinois state census of Menard county (which had been cut away from Sangamon county). But, by 1840 Lincoln was living, or SHOULD have been found living in Springfield, Sangamon county, Illinois. At this time and year, the whig Lincoln was working for the president election of William Harrison, and so moving about in Illinois. Hard to believe Abraham Lincoln 'has been lost in the 1840 Federal census' for 175, or eight score and fifteen, years.