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         <dateline>
            <date value='1834-08-02'>Saturday, August 2, 1834.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln probably attends, with 12 other candidates, barbecue at Hill's mill
            on Sugar Creek, six miles south of Springfield. All "candidates of every grade, and all
            the voters of every denomination; are respectfully invited to attend."<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 26 July 1834.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1834-08-04'>Monday, August 4, 1834.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is elected to Ninth General Assembly. He runs second among 13
            candidates, receiving only 14 votes less than John Dawson who leads field. Lincoln votes
            for Duncan for governor, W. F. Elkin for state senate, and for Stuart, Neale, Carpenter,
            and Dawson for legislature. On question of permanently locating state capital, New Salem
            precinct casts 250 of 256 votes for Springfield.<bibl default='NO'>Election Returns.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1834-08-20'>Wednesday, August 20, 1834.</date> 
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New
  Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Dr. Garret Elkin, sheriff, serves
  writ of scire facias on Lincoln to appear in the Sangamon County Circuit Court
  at the next term in <name type='case' key='L04767'>Van Bergen v.
  Lincoln et al.</name>, and show cause why Lincoln should not be made a party to
  a judgment for $204.82 and $18.42 in damages awarded April 29, 1834, against
  co-defendant William G. Green.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> ["I Charles R. Matheny
  Clerk of the County Commissioners Court of said County do hereby certify that
  Abraham Lincoln is duly elected Representative from Sangamon County at the
  General Election held on Monday the 4th day of August A.D. 1834 as appears from
  the Returns filed in this office. Given under my hand and seal of office at
  Springfield this 20th day of August A.D. 1834 C. R. Matheny Clerk"
  <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>]</p>
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<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1834-08-25'>Monday, August 25, 1834.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and Bowling Green witness deed of John F. and Parthena Harrison to
            Robert McNabb for 160 acres [S.W. &#188; of Sec. 34 T. 18 N.R. 6 W.], five miles
            east of New Salem.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>