Some history records that President Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room cabin in Kentucky, but North Carolina research historians and generational stories hold that he was born on Puzzle Creek near Bostic, North Carolina, and that his father was not Thomas Lincoln but Abraham Enloe, a farmer who employed Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks. According to this account, the plantation of Abraham Enloe stood about two miles northeast of this point, where Nancy Hanks, having been bound out to the Enloes by her mother, gave birth in February, 1805 to a boy she named Abraham while on the plantation. Enloe then arranged for Nancy to marry Thomas Lincoln, an itinerant worker, with cash, a team, and a wagon, and records show that Nancy and Thomas were married in Kentucky, where the presiding deacon's account placed the young boy at the ceremony. The Enloe plantation was described as prestigious in contrast to the small subsistence farms around it, with rich, watered bottomland that provided well for the Enloe family and employment for many others.