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<date value='1831-09-02'>Friday, September 2, 1831.</date>
<place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln and William G. Greene witness deed given by William Batterton to
Denton Offutt for Lot 14 in town of New Salem. Offutt pays $10 for lot on which he
intends to erect store building. Lincoln begins clerking in store in September.<bibl default='NO'>Record E, 297.</bibl>
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<date value='1831-09-13'>Tuesday, September 13, 1831.</date>
<place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> [Denton Offutt, with Joseph Glasscock as surety, gives note for $110 to
William Porter. Note, drawn in presence of Virgil Hickox, is for 60 days at 60 per cent
interest. Porter immediately assigns note to William Brown who files suit against Offutt
to collect on note in September 1832 term of Sangamon Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>IHi—Files.]</bibl>
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<note place='unspecified' id='n001' anchored='yes' target='a001'>Entries
listed "files" or "photos" and not specifically located are in the Illinois State
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