<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1834-01-01'>Wednesday, January 1, 1834.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Beginning today, New Salem receives mail on new schedule. Stage leaves
            Springfield each Saturday at 4 A.M. for Warren Court House (Monmouth), by way of Sangamo
            Town, Athens, New Salem, Havana, Lewistown, Canton and Knox Court House (Knoxville),
            distance of 115 miles. Return mail leaves Warren Court House each Tuesday at 6 A.M.,
            arriving in Springfield 10 P.M. Thursday.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 17 August 1833.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1834-01-04'>Saturday, January 4, 1834.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Meeting is held in court house in Springfield to select delegates to April
            convention in Rushville to agree on one of four northern towns as new state capital. Dan
            Stone presides and appoints Peter Cartwright, John T. Stuart, and Stephen T. Logan
            committee on resolutions. Delegates appointed are Stuart, Logan, Cartwright, George
            Forquer, E. D. Taylor, and Samuel Morris.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 11 January 1834.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1834-01-06'>Monday,
  January 6, 1834.</date> 
            <place key='39.7667, -89.6500' teiForm='name'>Sangamon County,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Lincoln writes the description of a
  survey of Reason Shipley's land, located in Sangamon County [present-day Menard
  County]. Lincoln signs his name and the names of the two chainmen, Richard
  Soward and Alexander Latimer. He also signs the name of John Calhoun, the
  surveyor of Sangamon County. <bibl default='NO'>Survey for Reason Shipley, 6 January 1834,
  The Lincoln Museum, Ft. Wayne, IN.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1834-01-14'>Tuesday, January 14, 1834.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes description of survey&#8212;80-acre tract for Russell Godbey
    six miles north of New Salem and mile east of Sangamon River. Godbey later wrote: "He staid with
    me all night, and [I] sold him two buckskins&#8212;well dressed to fox his surveyors pants.
    Mrs. [John] Armstrong did the foxing."<bibl default='NO'>William H. Herndon
     Papers, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln described land as "the West half of the North east quarter of Section 30
    in Township 19 North of Range 6 West." <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%3A27' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Certificate of Survey for Russell
     Godbey</xref>, 14 January 1834, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
     1:20-21.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>