March 01, 1830

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            <date value='1830-03-01'>Monday, March 1, 1830.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='38.6667, -87.5167' teiForm='name'>Vincennes, IN</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "On the first of March, 1830, his father determined to emigrate once more.
            . . . The emigrant company was made up of Thomas Lincoln's family, and the families of
            Mrs. Lincoln's two sons-in-law. Their means of progress and conveyance were ox-wagons,
            one of which Abraham Lincoln drove." [Mrs. Harriet Hanks Chapman said they had three
            wagons, two drawn by two yoke of oxen each, and one by two teams of horses.]<bibl default='NO'>William D. Howells, <title>Life of
                  Abraham Lincoln</title> (Springfield, IL: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1938),
            23.</bibl>
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         <p> Company consists of Thomas Lincoln, his wife Sarah Bush Lincoln and her
            son, John D. Johnston; Dennis Hanks, his wife Sarah E. Hanks, their daughters Sarah
            Jane, Nancy M. and Harriet, and son John Talbot; Squire Hall, his wife Matilda and their
            son John; and Abraham Lincoln, 13 in all. Sarah E. Hanks and Matilda Hall were daughters
            of Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln.</p>
         <p> There is no distinct proof of route followed by Lincoln party on 225-mile
            journey from Gentryville to Decatur, Illinois, except from Vincennes to Lawrenceville.
            Indiana Lincoln Memorial Way Commission chose Troy-Vincennes trail, which passed through
            Polk Patch [now Selvin], Petersburg, and Monroe City. Probably four or five days
            completed 75-mile journey to Vincennes.<bibl default='NO'>LL, No.
            161.</bibl>
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