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<date value='1834-02-13'>Thursday, February 13, 1834.</date>
<place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln begins survey of Section 16, school section in Township 18 North,
Range 6 West, four miles northeast of New Salem.<bibl default='NO'>County
Commissioners Record D, 5 March 1834.</bibl>
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<date value='1834-02-14'>Friday, February 14, 1834.</date>
<place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln completes survey begun yesterday. On March 5, 1834 county
commissioners allow him six dollars from funds of township.<bibl default='NO'>County Commissioners Record D, 5 March 1834; Record in office of
County Supt. of Schools of Sangamon County.</bibl>
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<p> [On June 2, 1834, county commissioners allow him $6.50 additional.<bibl default='NO'>Record D.</bibl>]</p>
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<date value='1834-02-25'>Tuesday, February 25, 1834.</date>
<place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln draws up and signs petition to commissioners' court of Sangamon
County asking them to "appoint viewers to view and locate a road from Musick's ferry on
Salt creek via New Salem to the county line in the direction of Jacksonville."<bibl default='NO'>IHi—Original.</bibl>
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<date value='1834-02-26'>Wednesday, February 26, 1834.</date>
<place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New
Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> [New Salem Temperance Society
meets; speaker is Thomas J. Nance.<bibl default='NO'>IHi—Copy of minutes.</bibl>]</p>
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