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         <dateline>
            <date value='1834-09-30'>Tuesday, September 30, 1834.</date>
            <place key='41.1667, -90.9833' teiForm='name'>New Boston, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln surveys town site of New Boston [or Upper Yellow Banks] on
            Mississippi River, 100 miles northwest of New Salem, now in Mercer County. Plat filed
            July 12, 1836 shows proprietors as William Deniston, William H. Denison, and Peter Van
            Bergen, agent for Elijah Iles. [Van Bergen and Iles, both of Springfield, are large
            speculators in farm land and town sites.]</p>
         <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         <p> [Auction sale of lots is held July 12, 1836, day Lincoln's plat of town is
            filed for record.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 16 July 1836.</bibl>]</p>
         <p> Lincoln and James Erwin witness deed of William and Rachel Deniston who
            deed lots in New Boston to Elijah Iles of Sangamon County. They also witness deed of
            William and Rachel Deniston of New Boston lots to William H. Denison.<bibl default='NO'>Deed Records, Warren County, I, 301, 322.</bibl>
         </p>
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