<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1834-10-01'>Wednesday, October 1, 1834.</date>
            <place key='40.9000, -90.6333' teiForm='name'>Monmouth, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Plat of New Boston which Lincoln surveyed is filed with Warren County
            recorder by Peter Van Bergen, who pays $6 fee. [Lincoln is probably with Van
               Bergen.]<bibl default='NO'>File Record, Warren County.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1834-10-02'>Thursday, October 2, 1834.</date>
            <place key='40.9000, -90.6333' teiForm='name'>Monmouth, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Van Bergen picks up plat. Lincoln is probably with him, having been sent to
            New Boston as surveyor by Elijah Iles, who sent Van Bergen as his business agent.<bibl default='NO'>File Record, Warren County.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1834-10-27'>Monday, October 27, 1834.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and Mentor Graham serve as clerks at election for representative in
            Congress. Polls are located in house of William F. Berry. Lincoln votes for William L.
            May, who receives 72 votes, to three for Benjamin Mills and one for James Turney. James
            Pantier, Pollard Simmons, and William Jones serve as judges and John Clary as constable.
            Lincoln writes out returns which are certified by Bowling Green.<bibl default='NO'>Election Returns.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [County Commissioners' Court allows Lincoln and Graham $1 each for
               clerking.<bibl default='NO'>Record D, 99.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>