[Suit is filed in Sangamon Circuit Court by Alexander and Martin S. Trent against David Rutledge, William Green, Jr., and Lincoln on bond for $150 executed by defendants January 31, 1833, to secure conveyance of "the east half of Lot number five South of Main Street in the first survey in the town of New Salem."William H. Townsend, Lincoln the Litigant (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925), 55-56.]