<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <dateRange from='1831-04-08' to='1831-07-08'>April 8, 1831-July 8,
               1831.</dateRange>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to and from <place key='29.9500, -90.0667' teiForm='name'>New Orleans,
            LA</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Flatboat journey to New Orleans is reported to have taken a month. John
            Hanks left boat in St. Louis, but Offutt, Lincoln, and Johnston continue to New Orleans
            and appear to have stayed a month. Lincoln and Offutt may have returned together to
            Springfield, for license to retail merchandise in Sangamon County is granted Denton
            Offutt July 8, 1831. Five-dollar fee indicates stock in store was valued at $1,000.<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A65' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Autobiography Written for John
                  L. Scripps</xref>, [c. June 1860], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:60-67; County Commissioners' Record C, 256.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1831-04-18'>Monday, April 18, 1831.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "We finished making and launching the boat in about four weeks. We loaded
            the boat with barrel pork, corn, and live hogs, and left Sangamontown."<bibl default='NO'>Hertz, <title corresp='books_Hertz2'>Hidden Lincoln</title>, 348.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln describes himself as "a strange[r], friendless, uneducated,
            penniless boy, working on a flat boat&#8212;at ten dollars per month."<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A328' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Martin S.
                  Morris</xref>, 26 March 1843, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:319-21.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1831-04-19'>Tuesday,
  April 19, 1831.</date> 
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "We landed at the New Salem mill about April 19 and got fast on
  Rutledge's mill dam."<bibl default='NO'>Hertz,
  <title corresp='books_Hertz2'>Hidden Lincoln</title>,
  348.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln gets his first view of New Salem. In
  his address March 9, 1832 he said: "The time at which we crossed the mill dam,
  being in the last days of April, the water was lower than it had been since the
  breaking of winter in February, or than it was for several weeks after."
  <bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A8' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Communication to the People
  of Sangamo County</xref>, 9 March 1832,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:5-9.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>