<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1833-04-09'>Tuesday,
  April 9, 1833.</date> 
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> The county sheriff serves Lincoln, Bowling Green and J. Rowan
  Herndon with a subpoena to appear in the Sangamon County Circuit Court as
  witnesses for John Close in <name type='case' key='L04874'>Close
  v. Ritter</name>, an appeal from John N. Moore's justice of peace court where
  Close won a judgment for $73 on December 15, 1832. [Moore lives four miles
  northeast of New Salem.]<bibl default='NO'>Files.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> The county sheriff also subpoenas Lincoln to appear as a
  witness on behalf of Jacob Bale in 
  <name type='case' key='L04935'>Simmons v. Bale</name>, appealed
  from Bowling Green's justice of peace court at New Salem.
  <bibl default='NO'>Files.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1833-04-15'>Monday, April 15, 1833.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Judge Samuel D. Lockwood opens a two-week term of the Sangamon Circuit
            Court. The court admits Stephen T. Logan and Edward S. Phillips of Springfield to the
            bar. Lincoln is present as a witness in <name type='case' key='L04874'>Close v. Ritter</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1833-04-16'>Tuesday, April 16, 1833.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, William Green, Jr., and Jesse Baker appear in court as bondsmen
            for Thomas Edwards and acknowledge themselves indebted to state in two criminal cases.
            The court set Edwards's bond at $300 in <name type='case' key='L04235'>People v. Edwards and Edwards</name>, an indictment for assault with intent to
            commit rape. The court also set Edwards's bond at $200 in <name type='case' key='L04236'>People v. Edwards et al.</name>, an indictment for riot. The court set
            the state's witnesses' bond at $50, and ordered John Marshall and his wife, Sally, to
            testify for the state at the September term of court.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln is a witness for the defendant, Jacob Bale, in <name type='case' key='L04935'>Simmons v. Bale</name>. The plaintiff dismisses the suit.
            Lincoln, Jacob Bale, Tilman Hornbuckle, and John Close of New Salem serve on the jury in
               <name type='case' key='L04576'>State Bank of Illinois v.
            Parkinson</name>. The jury awards the plaintiff $326 damages.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1833-04-17'>Wednesday, April 17, 1833.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, Jacob Bale, Tilman Hornbuckle, and John Close of New Salem serve
            on the jury in <name type='case' key='L04573'>State Bank of Illinois v.
               Bowling</name>. The jury returns a verdict in favor of the defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1833-04-18'>Thursday, April 18, 1833.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, J. Rowan Herndon, George Close, and James H. Hornbuckle of the New
            Salem neighborhood serve on the jury in <name type='case' key='L05302'>People v. Millrose</name>, an indictment for larceny. The jury finds the defendant
            not guilty.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1833-04-20'>Saturday,
  April 20, 1833.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Lincoln writes and signs a note
  certifying that William Hohimer was "a private in the company which I had the
  honor to command" during the Black Hawk War. Lincoln adds that Hohimer
  "received a wound in the body while in said service which at the time and for
  some days afterward was considered mortal." Thomas Moffett, Justice of the
  Peace, witnesses and signs the document. <bibl default='NO'>Certificate of Military Service,
  20 April 1833, Record Group 15, National Archives Building, Washington,
  DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1833-04-25'>Thursday, April 25, 1833.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln appears before the Sangamom County Circuit Court as a witness for
            John Close in <name type='case' key='L04874'>Close v. Ritter</name>, an
            appeal from John N. Moore's justice of peace court. The court affirms the judgment of
            the lower court, but reduces the damages from $73 to $35.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Lincoln receives $1.75 for services as witness and juror. Witnesses
            receive 50&#162; per case per day and jurors 25&#162;.<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;<title>Bulletin</title>, No.
            57.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1833-04-29'>Monday, April 29, 1833.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [William F. Berry gives Eli C. Blankenship conditional deed for $250 to
            west half of Lot No. 1 south of Main Street in New Salem. "The condition of the above
            deed is such. If A. Lincoln shall satisfy the demands of a note by him executed and
            endorsed by J. R. Herndon bearing date April &#8212;, 1833, payable to E. C.
            Blankenship, the above to be null and void." Deed is acknowledged by Berry May 23.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Deed book F</title>, 440.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>