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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1836-02-03'>Wednesday, February 3, 1836.</date> 
            <place key='39.9788, -89.8420' teiForm='name'>New
  Salem, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and signs petition
  to county commissioners' court asking for increased allowance for support of
  Benjamin Elmore, "an absolute mad man."<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%3A73' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Petition to County
  Commissioners Concerning Benjamin Elmore</xref>, 3 February 1836,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:47.</bibl> 
         </p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-02-13'>Saturday, February 13, 1836.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln addresses large crowd promoting Beardstown and Sangamon Canal.
            Company charter is read and plea for subscriptions delivered.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 20 February 1836.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-02-17'>Wednesday, February 17, 1836.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "I hereby certify that the town of Petersburgh has been surveyed according
            to law, and that this is a correct plat of the same. A. Lincoln." [John Bennett,
            Petersburg hotel keeper in 1836, recalled in 1882 that Lincoln "spent most of the month
            of March in Petersburg, finishing up the survey and planning the town he had commenced
            the year before."]<bibl default='NO'>Record I, 293; Osborn A. Oldroyd,
               ed., <title>The Lincoln Memorial: Album Immortelles</title>
               (Springfield, IL: Lincoln Publishing, 1890), 558.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1836-02-27'>Saturday, February 27, 1836.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln buys share of stock in Beardstown and Sangamon Canal, paying $1
            down and owing $4. Seventy-eight shares are bought by 65 others, mostly New Salem and
            Petersburg residents.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>