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<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>
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