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<date value='1837-11-06'>Monday,
November 6, 1837.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> [Greene Circuit Court is in session all
week.]</p>
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<date value='1837-11-07'>Tuesday, November 7, 1837.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln represents plaintiff Joel Johnson in a forcible detainer case,
<name type='case' key='L03693'>Johnson v. Gray</name> before justice
of the peace Benjamin S. Clement. Lincoln takes a $6 fee in board at Johnson's
hotel.<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Stuart & Lincoln fee book</title>.</bibl>
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<date value='1837-11-11'>Saturday, November 11, 1837.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln takes the deposition of Isiah Stillman to be used by the
complainants in <name type='case' key='L03870'>Wright et al. v.
Adams</name>. Stillman swears he talked to Adams in 1832 and the latter did not mention
that Anderson had assigned a controverted land claim to Adams.<bibl default='NO'>William H. Townsend, <title>Lincoln the
Litigant</title> (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925), 103-4.</bibl>
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<date value='1837-11-12'>Sunday, November 12, 1837.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln takes deposition of Stephen Dewey, the clerk of Fulton County
Circuit Court. Dewey's testimony contradicts statements made by James Adams in his case
with the heirs of Joeseph Anderson <name type='case' key='L03870'>Wright
et al. v. Adams</name>.<bibl default='NO'>William H. Townsend, <title>Lincoln the Litigant</title> (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925),
104.</bibl>
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<date value='1837-11-13'>Monday, November 13, 1837.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> [Cass Circuit Court meets for first time. Jesse B. Thomas, Jr., presides at
one-day session at Beardstown.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1837-11-18'>Saturday, November 18, 1837.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> [A. G. Herndon writes long letter telling why he believes Adams guilty of
obtaining two lots under false pretenses from Andrew Sampson. He says he could give
stronger evidence of Adams' lack of integrity, but refrains, although he will give it if
Adams insists.<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 18 November 1837.</bibl>]</p>
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<date value='1837-11-20'>Monday, November 20, 1837.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln takes from Joshua S. Hobbs written order on William Butler to pay
Thomas Hunter $4.75 for hauling 38 loads of manure.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
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<date value='1837-11-27'>Monday, November 27, 1837.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> [Stuart, signing for Stuart & Lincoln, certifies on the judgment
docket of Sangamon County Circuit Court the receipt of $23.59, the amount of the October
19, 1837, judgment in <name type='case' key='L02861'>Campbell v.
Knox</name>.<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Book A</title>.</bibl>]</p>
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<date value='1837-11-28'>Tuesday, November 28, 1837.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln draws up several deeds for Kerr & Co., St. Louis merchants.
He records that Robert Irwin & Co., Springfield store indebted to Kerr &
Co., have credited him $5 on their books for writing deeds and have made corresponding
change in their accounts against Kerr & Co.<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Stuart & Lincoln fee book</title>.</bibl>
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