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March 08, 1832

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Thursday, March 8, 1832.
 New Salem, IL.

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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.

[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. Sangamo Journal, Springfield, Ill., 8 March 1832.]

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         <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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