Did Abraham Lincoln say “Four score and seven years ago”?

Did Abraham Lincoln say “Four score and seven years ago”?

Found word for word. Yes. The text appears in works attributed to Abraham Lincoln. Source and location below.

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that fi
The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843 — Abraham Lincoln, ¶162 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #2653 · source

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that fi
The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Complete — Abraham Lincoln, ¶162 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #3253 · source

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Complete — Abraham Lincoln, LETTER TO GOVERNOR PARKER. · ¶8781 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #3253 · source

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