<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='New' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1834-04-02'>Wednesday, April 2, 1834.</date> 
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New
  Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Lincoln writes a deed for James
  Cox and Nancy O. Cox, who are selling a little more than 175 acres of land
  located in Sangamon County to Charles J. F. Clark and Matthew S. Marsh. Lincoln
  also signs the document as a witness. <bibl default='NO'>Deed, 2 April 1834, Private
  Collection.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1834-04-05'>Saturday, April 5, 1834.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Political meeting is held at Richland, nine miles southwest of New Salem.
            Nominations made are as follows: Gen. James D. Henry for governor, William L. May for
            Congress, William F. Elkin for state senator, and Peter Cartwright, Job Fletcher, Samuel
            Morris, and John Dawson for representatives from Sangamon.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 19 April 1834.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1834-04-07'>Monday, April 7, 1834.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Stuart &amp; Dummer file a praecipe with the circuit clerk of Sangamon
            County in the case of <name type='case' key='L04767'>Van Bergen v.
               Lincoln et al.</name>. Clerk issues a summons to defendants, Lincoln, William F.
            Berry and William G. Green to appear on first day of the April term. Coroner serves the
            summons on Green but reports "Berry &amp; Lincoln not found in any bailiwick." Peter
            Van Bergen, to whom Reuben Radford has made partial assignment of a note given by Berry,
            Lincoln, and Green on October 19, 1833, brings suit against the three signers in the
            Sangamon County Circuit Court for $500 and $50 damages.<bibl default='NO'>Thomas, <title corresp='Thomas2'>Lincoln's New Salem</title>,
            72.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1834-04-19'>Saturday,
  April 19, 1834.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln's name appears in Sangamo
  Journal as candidate for legislature.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1834-04-20'>Sunday, April 20, 1834.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Memorial service for Gen. James D. Henry (1797-1834), hero of Black Hawk
            War who died in New Orleans March 5, 1834, is held in court house. Lincoln and other
            candidates doubtless attend.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 25 April 1834.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1834-04-26'>Saturday, April 26, 1834.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In <name type='case' key='L04766'>Watkins v. Lincoln
               &amp; Berry</name>, Lincoln and Berry lose an appeal from a justice of peace
            court to the Sangamon County Circuit Court. The court awards William Watkins $57.86, the
            amount of a promissory note with interest, and court costs.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Lincoln gave the promissory note to Watkins for a horse.<bibl default='NO'>Thomas, <title corresp='Thomas2'>Lincoln's New
               Salem</title>, 72.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1834-04-29'>Tuesday, April 29, 1834.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [The Sangamon County Circuit Court hears <name type='case' key='L04767'>Van Bergen v. Lincoln et al.</name>. Green, the only defendant whom
            the sheriff has served with a summons, fails to appear, the court orders a judgment by
            default and awards Van Bergen $204.82 with $18.42 in damages. The court orders a "scire
            facias issue to the said Abram Lincoln and William F. Berry requiring them to show cause
            . . . why they should not be made a party to this judgment."<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy; Record B, 336.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Only $154 of the $204.82 and $18.42 damages awarded against Green is due
            Van Bergen, the remainder is due Reuben Radford.]</p>
      </div2>