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         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-10-02'>Monday, October 2, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Macon Circuit Court convenes for three-day term at Decatur. Judge John
            Pearson presides.]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1837-10-03'>Tuesday,
  October 3, 1837.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> First of "Old Settler" letters, perhaps
  written by Lincoln, appears in "Journal." Adams is accused of irregularities in
  acquisition of lots in Springfield. In article is letter of Elijah Iles giving
  details of another case, in which he claims Adams dealt unfairly.
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Sangamo
  Journal</title>, 7 October 1837.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-10-09'>Monday, October 9, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln have three cases called on the first day of the
            fall term of the Sangamon County Circuit Court. They represent Rachel Roll, the
            complainant in the divorce case <name type='case' key='L04422'>Roll v.
               Roll</name>. The court grants her a divorce decree after her husband fails to appear.
            In <name type='case' key='L04856'>Whitney v. Johnson</name>, they
            represent the defendant Joel Johnson and confess to the court his indebtedness of $250
            to the plaintiff. The court grants their petition for the partition of land in <name type='case' key='L02765'>Broadwell v. Broadwell et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes and signs praecipe filed in <name type='case'>Rupert &amp; Lindenberger v. H. Garrett &amp; Co.</name>, and declaration in
               <name type='case'>Thomas H. Buckmaster v. Alexander
               Garrett</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-10-10'>Tuesday, October 10, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln files an answer as guardian <ital>ad litem</ital> for William Nelson, an
    infant defendant in <name type='case' key='L04843'>White v. Harris et al.</name>,
    a petition for the partition of land.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-10-11'>Wednesday, October 11, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> The court grants Stuart &amp; Lincoln's client, the plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L02663'>James Bell &amp; Co. v. Trailor</name>, a
            judgment by default for $133.15. Stuart &amp; Lincoln inform the court of the death
            of their client Abraham Dingman, the plaintfiff in <name type='case' key='L03133'>Dingman v. Dearing</name>. At their request, the court orders Jemima
            Dingman, the administrator of Abraham Dingman's estate, to continue the case as the
            plaintiff. Their motion, entered July 3, 1837, to strike from docket <name type='case'>Neff and wife v. Holmes</name>, is overruled. The court also dismissed
            two of firm's cases and continued a third.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-10-12'>Thursday, October 12, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Defendants file pleas in three cases: <name type='case' key='L02808'>Buckmaster v. Garrett</name>, <name type='case' key='L03871'>Rupert &amp; Lindenberger v. Garrett</name>, and <name type='case' key='L03872'>Rupert &amp; Lindenberger v. Garrett
               &amp; Co.</name>. Stuart &amp; Lincoln, representing the plaintiffs, seek
            damages of $500 in first case and $200 each in the remaining two cases.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-10-14'>Saturday, October 14, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln file pleas for their clients Felix Green and
            Tarleton Lloyd in <name type='case' key='L04723'>Torrey v. Green</name>
            and <name type='case' key='L04721'>Torrey v. Lloyd</name>. The court
            grants Stuart &amp; Lincoln's petition to sell land to pay widow's dower and debts
            in <name type='case' key='L02957'>Carrico v. Carrico et al.</name> The
            jury fails to agree on a verdict in <name type='case' key='L04722'>Torrey
               v. Green</name> and the court discharges the jury. Lincoln represents the defendant,
            William Green. The plaintiffs dismiss and pay all court costs in their case against
            Lincoln's clients, the defendants in<name type='case' key='L03844'>Levick
               &amp; Jenkins v. A. Withers &amp; Co.</name> In <name type='case' key='L03258'>Fleming v. Ransdell</name>, Lincoln files a subpoena for a
            defense witness, Charles S. Dorsey of Tazewell County.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-10-16'>Monday, October 16, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In three cases, <name type='case' key='L04721'>Torrey v.
               Lloyd</name>, <name type='case' key='L04723'>Torrey v. Green</name>,
            and <name type='case' key='L04722'>Torrey v. Green</name> the parties
            agree to dismiss their cases. As part of the agreement Stuart &amp; Lincoln's
            clients, Tarleton Lloyd, Felix Green, and William Green pay all court costs. Stuart
            &amp; Lincoln obtain a judgment for $696.26 in damages in <name type='case' key='L04015'>McKee, Stewart &amp; Lind v. Tharp</name>, after the
            defendant confesses his indebtedness to the plaintiffs. Lincoln files a petition to sell
            real estate for his client Moses Martin in <name type='case' key='L04038'>Martin v. Martin et al.</name> Lincoln writes the court's decree and the court rules
            that real estate in the Isaac Martin estate be sold to pay the debts of the estate.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress,
               Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1837-10-17'>Tuesday,
  October 17, 1837.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan and Lincoln file a replication to
  the defendant's amended answer in <name type='case' key='L03870'>Wright et al. v. Adams</name>. In three cases, 
  <name type='case' key='L02808'>Buckmaster v. Garrett</name>, 
  <name type='case' key='L03871'>Rupert &amp; Lindenberger v.
  Garrett</name>, and <name type='case' key='L03872'>Rupert &amp;
  Lindenberger v. H. Garrett &amp; Co.</name>, the defendants withdraw their
  pleas and the parties agree to dismiss the cases at the defendants' cost.
  Stuart &amp; Lincoln appear for plaintiffs in these cases. In 
  <name type='case' key='L04680'>Trailor v. Radford</name>, the
  court grants both parties permission to open depositions that they have filed.
  <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-10-18'>Wednesday, October 18, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In two cases, Stuart &amp; Lincoln win judgments of $175.60 each for
            their clients, the plaintiffs in <name type='case' key='L04655'>T.
               &amp; J.S. Wilbourn v. Simmons</name> and <name type='case' key='L04656'>T. &amp; J.S. Wilbourn v. Simmons</name>. In <name type='case' key='L02681'>Billon v. White</name>, they obtain a judgment by default
            for their client Charles P. Billon, and the court awards $145.34 in damages. Stuart
            &amp; Lincoln file a plea for their cleint, the defendant in <name type='case' key='L03258'>Fleming v. Ransdell</name>. Lincoln, representing the
            plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L03000'>Chiles v. Sudduth</name>,
            signs a joinder to the defendant's demurrer, "Stuart &amp; Lincoln." Stuart
            &amp; Lincoln file an affidavit and request that the defendant provide additional
            security for court costs in <name type='case' key='L02861'>Campbell v.
               Knox</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes second reply to James Adams, published in "Sangamo Journal"
            October 28, 1837.<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%3A126' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Second Reply to James
               Adams</xref>, 18 October 1837, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:101-6.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-10-19'>Thursday, October 19, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, P. C. Latham, Garrett Elkin, and John T. Stuart sign William
            Butler's bond for $2,000 as circuit court clerk. On motion of her attorneys, Stuart
            &amp; Lincoln, the court gives the appellant, Jemima Dingman, leave to open
            depositions in <name type='case' key='L03133'>Dingman v. Dearing</name>.
            Later after hearing the evidence in the case, the court orders a nonsuit.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-10-20'>Friday, October 20, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln win nine cases by default, getting damages of $935.71.
    The court appoints Stuart guardian <ital>ad litem</ital> of the minor defendants in <name type='case' key='L04117'>Musick v. Musick et al.</name> Stuart &amp; Lincoln
    represent the complaintants in two chancery cases involving an estate, <name type='case' key='L03940'>Mason v. Mason et al.</name> and <name type='case' key='L03941'>Mason v. Mason et al.</name>. In both cases the court decrees the petitions as
    confessed by the defendants. The court appoints commissioners to assign dower in one case and to
    partition land in the other.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-10-21'>Saturday, October 21, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files the defendant's affidavit in <name type='case' key='L03258'>Fleming v. Ransdell</name>. A jury awards Stuart &amp;
            Lincoln's client, the plaintiff in the attachment case <name type='case' key='L03092'>Coffman v. Smith</name>, $21.50 in damages. By agreement of both
            parties the court dismisses, <name type='case' key='L03176'>Ellis v.
               Hughes</name> and orders the plaintiff to pay court costs. The court decrees Stuart
            &amp; Lincoln's bill for specific performance taken as confessed by the defendants
            in <name type='case' key='L04521'>St. John v. Chilton et al.</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress,
               Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-10-23'>Monday, October 23, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Public protest meeting against abolitionists resolves that "efforts of
            abolitionists in this community are neither necessary nor useful," and that immediate
            emancipation is at variance with Christianity.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 28 October 1837.</bibl> Morgan
            Circuit Court convenes.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-10-25'>Wednesday, October 25, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Benjamin Talbott, Sangamon County recorder, writes long letter defending
            himself and Lincoln against assertions made in letter of James Adams published in
            "Republican" today.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 4 November 1837.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Citizens meet to take steps to pay first installment of $50,000 pledged
            toward cost of new state house.<bibl default='NO'>Trustee's
            Minutes.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-10-26'>Thursday, October 26, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Illinois Antislavery convention opens three-day meeting in Upper Alton.
            Call is signed by 20 residents of Springfield, 12 of whom are members of Second
            Presbyterian Church. Clinton L. Conkling, "History of Westminster Presbyterian Church"
            (MS.).]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-10-30'>Monday, October 30, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and attests Crawford B. Dalby's permission for his daughter
            Hester Ann to marry Edward H. Tyler.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>