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         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-11-01'>Tuesday, November 1, 1836.</date>
            <place key='40.1833, -90.1333' teiForm='name'>Bath, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln surveys town of Bath for John Kerton, proprietor, his last recorded
            town survey. Later in day he returns to Oakford.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>The History of Menard and Mason Counties, Illinois</title>
               (Chicago: O. L. Baskin, 1879), 412.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [In speech at Bath August 16, 1858, Lincoln recalled that 22 years before
            he had "with his own hands staked out the first plat of this town of Bath, then a wooded
               wilderness."<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A566' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Bath,
               Illinois</xref>, 16 August 1858, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:543-44.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Charles R. Matheny, clerk of Sangamon County Commissioners Court, certifies
            that Lincoln is elected to Tenth General Assembly.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1836-11-07'>Monday,
  November 7, 1836.</date> 
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln votes for Hugh L. White electors
  for President. White leads Van Buren in New Salem 65 to 34; 719 to 376 in
  Springfield; and 1464 to 903 in Sangamon County. Van Buren, however, carries
  state 18,459 to 15,240.<bibl default='NO'>Election
  Returns.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-11-14'>Monday, November 14, 1836.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Tazewell County Circuit Court convenes at Tremont for special four-day
            term. Judge Logan presides.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-11-16'>Wednesday, November 16, 1836.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln draws up survey of tract for Alvin Ringo, five miles west of New
            Salem (parts of Sections 30 and 31 in Township 18 North, Range 7 West of 3rd Principal
               Meridian).<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%3A83' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Surveys for Alvin
               Ringo</xref>, 16-17 November 1836, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:52-53.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-11-17'>Thursday, November 17, 1836.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln surveys for Alvin Ringo two tracts four miles southwest of New
            Salem and mile and a half northeast of present town of Tallula. [This is Lincoln's last
            survey, according to W. H. Herndon. Lincoln describes tracts as follows: "a part of the
            North half of Section 5 in Township 17 North of Range 7 West . . . and a part of the
            East one-half of the South West one-quarter of the said Section 5."]<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%3A83' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Surveys for Alvin
               Ringo</xref>, 16-17 November 1836, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:52-53.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-11-19'>Saturday, November 19, 1836.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Meeting of Sangamon citizens is held in Springfield to discuss internal
            improvements and to adopt measures to bring action by legislature. Sangamon delegation
            is instructed to vote for general system of internal improvements.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 3 December 1836.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-11-30'>Wednesday, November 30, 1836.</date>
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Before leaving for Vandalia, Lincoln draws up petition for county
            commissioners court requesting "establishment of a county road to commence at Middletown
            near Musick's bridge, thence the nearest and best rout [<uLine>sic</uLine>]
            to Meaddow's Mill at the Sugar Grove and thence to the county line." Petition is
            presented by Coleman Smoot December 5, 1836.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>