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<date value='1833-08-10'>Saturday, August 10, 1833.</date>
<place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln writes E. C. Blankenship of Springfield what he recalls of David
Rankin leaving his company at Dixon's Ferry during Black Hawk War. Rankin exchanged
places with Isaac Gulihur, each man answering to other's name at roll call.<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%3A23' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Eli C.
Blankenship</xref>, 10 August 1833, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:19.</bibl>
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<p> [Muster roll of Lincoln's company shows that David Rankin transferred to
foot company of Capt. Seth Pratt May 19, 1833, and on this day Isaac Gulihur transferred
to Lincoln's company from Pratt's company.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>]</p>
<p> [James D. Henry files suit in the Sangamon County Circuit Court in <name type='case' key='L03429'>Henry for use of McCandless and Emmerson v.
Alley and Lincoln</name>," seeking a judgment on a note given by Alley and Lincoln on
October 30, 1832.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]</p>
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<date value='1833-08-20'>Tuesday,
August 20, 1833.</date>
<place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> The sheriff serves Lincoln with a summons to appear at the
September term of the Sangamon County Circuit Court in
<name type='case' key='L03429'>Henry for use of McCandless and
Emmerson v. Alley and Lincoln</name>.<bibl default='NO'>William
H. Townsend, <title>Lincoln the Litigant</title> (Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1925), 55-56.</bibl>
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<date value='1833-08-26'>Monday, August 26, 1833.</date>
<place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> [Suit is filed in Sangamon Circuit Court by Alexander and Martin S. Trent
against David Rutledge, William Green, Jr., and Lincoln on bond for $150 executed by
defendants January 31, 1833, to secure conveyance of "the east half of Lot number five
South of Main Street in the first survey in the town of New Salem."<bibl default='NO'>William H. Townsend, <title>Lincoln the
Litigant</title> (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925), 55-56.</bibl>]</p>
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