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         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-10-03'>Monday, October 3, 1836.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Sangamon County Circuit Court opens fall term. Judge Stephen T. Logan
            presides. Among lawyers present are Lincoln, Stuart, Henry E. Dummer, Dan Stone, George
            Forquer, Samuel H. Treat, Cyrus Walker, Josephus Hewett, Edward D. Baker, and Thomas
               Moffett.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-10-05'>Wednesday, October 5, 1836.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In his first lawsuits as an attorney, Lincoln files several documents in
            the Sangamon County Circuit Court on behalf of his client David Woldridge. In <name type='case' key='L03504'>Hawthorn v. Woldridge</name>, a trespass vi
            et armis case, Lincoln writes a plea that his his law partner John T. Stuart signs. In
               <name type='case' key='L03505'>Hawthorn v. Woldridge</name>, an
            assumpsit case, Lincoln writes Woldridge's sworn statement, requesting the court to
            order Hawthorn to furnish a bond for costs. Lincoln also writes Woldridge's account
            against Hawthorn which he files to off set whatever claim Hawthorn held against
               Woldridge.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Herndon-Weik Collection, Library
               of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-10-06'>Thursday, October 6, 1836.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln franks letter to Ira I. Fenn of Columbia, Putnam County, enclosing
            document from Judge Samuel D. Lockwood. In <name type='case' key='L03505'>Hawthorn v. Woldridge</name>, the plaintiff files bond for costs.<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A82' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Ira I.
               Fenn</xref>, 6 October 1836, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:52; Record.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-10-07'>Friday, October 7, 1836.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In both <name type='case' key='L03504'>Hawthorn v.
            Woldridge</name>, the trespass vi et armis case, and <name type='case' key='L03505'>Hawthorn v. Woldridge</name>, the assumpsit case, the plaintiff
            requests the court to release his securities for costs. The court releases Hawthorn's
            securities in both cases and Hawthorn then produces another bond with John Owens his
               surety.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-10-08'>Saturday, October 8, 1836.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L03504'>Hawthorn v. Woldridge</name>, the trespass
            vi et armis case, is tried before a jury and Lincoln loses when the plaintiff is awarded
            $36 in damages and court costs. The court orders a continuance in <name type='case' key='L03505'>Hawthorn v. Woldridge</name>, the assumpsit case.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1836-10-11'>Tuesday,
  October 11, 1836.</date> 
            <place key='39.7667, -89.6500' teiForm='name'>Sangamon County,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Lincoln writes and signs his deposition
  and also writes the deposition of Matthew Lounsbury in the Morgan County
  Circuit Court case of <name type='case' key='L00868'>Davidson v. Reavis</name>.
  Lincoln had been hired by plaintiff Robert Davidson to survey the land Davidson
  had purchased from defendant Isham Reavis. Davidson seeks to prove that the
  parcel of land in question is not as desirable as Reavis's description of it.
  Deponent Lounsbury served as Lincoln's chainbearer for the survey. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Depositions, 11 October 1836, <ital>Davidson v. Reavis</ital>, Illinois
  State Archives, Springfield, IL. </bibl> 
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-10-30'>Sunday, October 30, 1836.</date>
            <place key='40.1000, -89.9500' teiForm='name'>Oakford, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln stops overnight at Deer Lick Tavern on his way to survey town of
               Bath.<bibl default='NO'>Statement on sign on site of Deer Lick
            Tavern.</bibl>]</p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-10-31'>Monday, October 31, 1836.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='40.1833, -90.1333' teiForm='name'>Bath, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln meets Ashley Hickey and they proceed by horseback to Bath.<bibl default='NO'>Statement on sign on site of Deer Lick
         Tavern.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>