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<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised' TEIform='div2'> <dateline TEIform='dateline'> <date value='1834-11-04' TEIform='date'>Tuesday, November 4, 1834.</date> <place teiForm='name'>Athens, IL</place>.</dateline> <p TEIform='p'> Lincoln writes and signs with James Strawbridge and Levi Cantrall report as viewers to relocate part of road from Sangamo Town to Athens. "We have made the said relocation on good ground—and believe the same to be necessary and proper." Lincoln's bill is $3 for one day's labor as surveyor and 50 cents for map.<bibl default='NO' TEIform='bibl'>IHi—Original; County Commissioners' Record, D, 101-2.</bibl> </p> </div2>
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<date value='1834-11-14' TEIform='date'>Friday, November 14, 1834.</date>
<place teiForm='name'>Clary's Grove, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p TEIform='p'> Lincoln and Samuel Hill appraise at $30 two-year-old brown filly taken up
by Thomas Dowell at his farm near Clary's Grove.<bibl default='NO' TEIform='bibl'>Photocopy.</bibl>
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<date value='1834-11-19' TEIform='date'>Wednesday, November 19, 1834.</date>
<place teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p TEIform='p'> Lincoln and Berry are made parties to judgment obtained in Sangamon Circuit
Court by Peter Van Bergen against William G. Green April 29, 1834. On October 11, 1834
Berry turned over horse to Radford at agreed value of $35, and on October 19, 1834 paid
balance due Radford, therefore judgment is reduced by order of court to $154 owed to Van
Bergen.<bibl default='NO' TEIform='bibl'>Record; Thomas, <title corresp='Thomas2' TEIform='title'>Lincoln's New Salem</title>, 72.</bibl>
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<p TEIform='p'> [Lincoln and Berry are unable to pay judgment, and sheriff levies on their
personal possessions, including Lincoln's horse, saddle, bridle, and surveying
instruments. James Short buys and returns them to Lincoln.<bibl default='NO' TEIform='bibl'>Thomas, <title corresp='Thomas2' TEIform='title'>Lincoln's New
Salem</title>, 73-74.</bibl>]</p>
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<date value='1834-11-22' TEIform='date'>Saturday, November 22, 1834.</date>
<place teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p TEIform='p'> Meeting of Sangamon County citizens is held at court house to consider
common schools and elect delegates to state education convention, Vandalia, December 5,
1834. Edmund Roberts presides and Henry E. Dummer is secretary. Resolution of Dan Stone
favoring common schools is adopted and 11 delegates selected: Lincoln, Stone, Roberts,
Stuart, Logan, John Dawson, William Carpenter, J. M. Early, C. R. Matheny, George
Forquer, and E. D. Taylor.<bibl default='NO' TEIform='bibl'>
<title TEIform='title'>Sangamo Journal</title>, 29 November 1834.</bibl>
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<dateRange from='1834-11-28' to='1834-11-29' TEIform='dateRange'>November 28,
1834-November 29, 1834.</dateRange>
<place teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place teiForm='name'>Vandalia, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p TEIform='p'> Lincoln and five members of General Assembly from Sangamon County probably
leave Springfield on stage for Vandalia. Stage leaves at 6 A.M. and goes by way of
Macoupin Point and Hillsboro. It completes 75-mile journey following afternoon at 4
P.M.<bibl default='NO' TEIform='bibl'>
<title TEIform='title'>Sangamo Journal</title>, 11 January 1834.</bibl>
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