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April 19, 1831

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Tuesday, April 19, 1831.
 New Salem, IL.

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"We landed at the New Salem mill about April 19 and got fast on Rutledge's mill dam." Hertz, Hidden Lincoln, 348.

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." Communication to the People of Sangamo County, 9 March 1832, CW, 1:5-9. 

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         <p> "We landed at the New Salem mill about April 19 and got fast on
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         <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."
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