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May 18, 1816

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Saturday, May 18, 1816.
 Elizabethtown, KY.

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[Thomas Lincoln is appointed "surveyor of that part of the road, leading from Nolin to Bardstown, which lies between the Bigg Hill and the Rolling Fork." He appears to supervise road until he moves to Indiana in autumn. Order Book C, 311, Hardin County Court; facsimile in Ida M. Tarbell, The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sangamon ed., 4 vols. (New York: Lincoln History Society, 1924), 1:15.]

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         <p> [Thomas Lincoln is appointed "surveyor of that part of the road, leading
            from Nolin to Bardstown, which lies between the Bigg Hill and the Rolling Fork." He
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               <title>Order Book C</title>, 311, Hardin County Court; facsimile in
               Ida M. Tarbell, <title>The Life of Abraham Lincoln</title>, Sangamon
               ed., 4 vols. (New York: Lincoln History Society, 1924), 1:15.</bibl>]</p>
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