The Lincoln family stayed on the Knob Creek place another five years until December 1816 when they moved approximately 90 miles to the northwest, to southern Indiana.

As Lincoln wrote later in life:

"This removal was partly on account of slavery; but chiefly on account of the difficulty in land titles in Ky."

"A. though very young, was large of his age and had an axe put into his hands at once; and from that till within his twentythird year, he was almost constantly handling that most useful instrument -- less, of course, in plowing and harvesting seasons."

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