<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-09-03'>Monday, September 3, 1832.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, J. Rowan Herndon, and Peter Elmore witness deed from Ranson Lane
            to James Goldsby for 80 acres in Rock Creek vicinity, four miles south of New Salem.
            Farm sells for $560.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Deed Book F</title>, 240.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-09-09'>Sunday, September 9, 1832.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Peter Cartwright opens large Methodist camp meeting west of Springfield.
            More than 1,000 converts are made during two week meeting. Cartwright is described as
            "not tall, but burly, massive . . . crowning foliage of luxuriant, coal black hair,
            wreathed into long, but rough and curling ringlets . . . a head that looked as large as
            a half-bushel . . . a swarthy complexion, rich, rosy lips, always slightly parted, as if
            wearing a perpetual happy smile."<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Illinois Journal</title>, 30 January 1850.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='New' TEIform='div2'> 
  <dateline TEIform='dateline'> <date value='1832-09-11' TEIform='date'>Tuesday,
  September 11, 1832.</date> <place teiForm='name'>New Salem,
  IL</place>.</dateline> <p TEIform='p'>Lincoln completes and signs a form
  certifying that during the Black Hawk War, George Warburton "served as a
  private in the Company of Mounted Volunteers" under Lincoln's "command."
  Lincoln attests that Warburton was "honorably discharged" on June 7, 1832. 
  <bibl>Certificate of Discharge for George Warburton, 11 September 1832, Private
  Collection.</bibl></p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-09-20'>Thursday, September 20, 1832.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and William Green serve as clerks at election held at house of John
            McNeil [assumed name of John McNamar]. John Clary is elected constable with 41 votes,
            defeating four rivals, J. Rowan Herndon, William McNeely, Baxter B. Berry, and Edmund
            Greer. Lincoln did not vote. Bowling Green certifies that judges and clerks qualify
            according to law. James Rutledge, Hugh Armstrong, and James White serve as judges.<bibl default='NO'>Election Returns; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A13' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Election Return</xref>, 20
               September 1832, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
            1:13.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-09-21'>Friday, September 21, 1832.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln fills in printed form of honorable discharge for Lewis W. Farmer,
            private in Lincoln's company of Mounted Volunteers for "protection of the North Western
            Frontier against an Invasion of the British Band of Sac and other tribes of Indians."
            Farmer served 48 days, from April 21, 1832 to June 7, 1832.<bibl default='NO'>Facsimile in Stevens, <title corresp='books_Stevens1'>Black Hawk War</title>, 281.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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  <dateline TEIform='dateline'> <date value='1832-09-26' TEIform='date'>Wednesday, September 26, 1832.</date> <place teiForm='name'>New
  Salem, IL</place>.</dateline> <p TEIform='p'>Lincoln completes and signs a form
  certifying that during the Black Hawk War, David M. Pantier "served as a
  private in the Company of Mounted Volunteers" under Lincoln's "command."
  Lincoln attests that Pantier was "honorably discharged" on June 7, 1832. 
  <bibl>Certificate of Discharge for David M. Pantier, 26 September 1832,
  Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.</bibl></p> </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1832-09-29'>Saturday, September 29, 1832.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln fills out printed form of honorable discharge for Travice Elmore
            for 48 days service in Black Hawk War, from April 21, 1832 to June 7, 1832. Elmore was
            private in Lincoln's company of Mounted Volunteers.<bibl default='NO'>Facsimile in Ida M. Tarbell, <title>The Life of Abraham
               Lincoln</title>, Sangamon ed., 4 vols. (New York: Lincoln History Society, 1924),
               1:169.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>