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         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-03-08'>Thursday, March 8, 1832.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes following receipt: "Mr. James Rutledge please to pay the
            bearer David P. Nelson thirty dollars and this shall be your receipt for the same. A.
            Lincoln for D. Offutt." [This is the first record of expression "this shall be your
            receipt for the same," which Lincoln uses so often.] DLC.</p>
         <p> [Denton Offutt informs farmers of Sangamon and Morgan counties that he will
            have by last of March 3,000 or 4,000 bushels of seed corn at New Salem, which he
            proposes to sell at $1 per bushel. He will also have quantity of cotton seed from
            Tennessee. Subscriptions will immediately be opened for seed corn, and subscribers will
            have preference.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, Springfield, Ill., 8 March
            1832.</bibl>]</p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-03-09'>Friday, March 9, 1832.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Probably with help of Mentor Graham and John McNamar, Lincoln writes his
            platform as candidate for Illinois legislature. Published first in "Sangamo Journal,"
            March 15, 1832, it is later issued as handbill. He describes in detail need for
            improvement of Sangamon River and closes with his views on usury laws and universal
               education.<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>

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         <dateline> 
            <dateRange from='1832-03-13' to='1832-03-25'>March 13,
  1832-March 25, 1832 (?)</dateRange> 
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>Sangamon
  River</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Steamboat <ital>Talisman</ital>, J.
  M. Pollock, Master, leaves Beardstown to ascend Sangamon to Vincent A. Bogue's
  mill at Portland, five miles north of Springfield. Several citizens of New
  Salem and Springfield,<pb n='1:17'/> including Lincoln, go along
  to help clear obstructions. Four days are spent breaking through ice at
  Sangamon entrance. Boat does not arrive at Portland until March 24, 1832.</p>
         <p> Lincoln probably attends ball at court house in Springfield
  March 26, 1832. After staying week at Portland, trip down Sangamon begins with
  Lincoln as assistant to J. Rowan Herndon of New Salem, pilot.
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Sangamo
  Journal</title>, 29 March 1832; <title>Missouri
  Republican</title>, St. Louis, Missouri, 21 February 1832, 28 February 1832, 6
  March 1832, 13 March 1832, 27 March 1832, 3 April 1832.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1832-03-26'>Monday,
  March 26, 1832.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
  </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and signs, for Denton Offutt,
  receipt to William Barnett "in full of all due debts and demands up to this
  date."<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%3A9' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Receipt to William
  Barnett</xref>, 26 March 1832, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:9.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>