In the Tazewell County Circuit Court, Lincoln and Clifton H. Moore, attorneys for the defendants in Wisner v. T. E. Sawyer & Company, ask for a continuance, and the court continues the case until the next term. Lincoln enters a motion for plaintiff Stacy B. Opdycke in the case of Opdycke v. Opdycke & Opdycke. Stacy B. Opdycke requests more time to sell the land that his children, Thomas G. Opdycke and Charlotte P. Opdycke, inherited upon their mother's death. The court had previously approved Stacy B. Opdycke's request to sell some of the land and had ordered him to reinvest the profits for the children's benefit. Lincoln writes and files the affidavit of defendant James West in preparation for West's arraignment in the forgery case, People v. West. Order, 12 April 1852, Wisner v. T. E. Sawyer & Company, General Record F, 384, Tazewell County Circuit Court, Tazewell County Courthouse, Pekin, IL; Decree, 12 April 1852, Opdycke v. Opdycke and Opdycke, Tazewell County Circuit Court, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; Decree, 24 September 1851, Opdycke v. Opdycke and Opdycke, General Record F, 321, Tazewell County Circuit Court, Tazewell County Courthouse, Pekin, IL; Affidavit of James West, filed 12 April 1852, People v. West, Tazewell County Circuit Court, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL.

[Mary Lincoln buys a piece of "carpet binding" for 40¢ from John Williams & Company in Springfield. Harry E. Pratt, The Personal Finances of Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, IL: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1943), 145.

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