<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-04-07'>Friday, April 7, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Calhoun Circuit Court convenes at Gilead.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1837-04-10'>Monday,
  April 10, 1837.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Meeting is held to procure co-operation
  of residents to promote railroad from Quincy to Indiana state line. Nine
  delegates, including Lincoln, Stuart, Treat, and Logan, are appointed to
  represent Sangamon at general meeting June 5, 1837.
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Sangamo
  Journal</title>, 15 April 1837.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> [Greene Circuit
  Court convenes at Carrollton.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'> <dateline> 
  <date value='1837-04-12'>Wednesday, April 12, 1837.</date> 
  <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline> <p> Lincoln enters into a law partnership with John T.
  Stuart. In a newspaper advertisement, the partners announce that they will
  "practice conjointly, in the Courts of this Judicial Circuit." Their
  Springfield office is located at "No. 4 Hoffman's Row, upstairs." In a separate
  advertisement, Stuart and Henry E. Dummer announce that their
  "partnership...has been dissolved by mutual consent."<bibl default='NO'>
  <title>Sangamo Journal</title> (Springfield, IL), 15 April 1837, 3:2.</bibl>
  </p> </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-04-15'>Saturday, April 15, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In autobiography prepared for John Locke Scripps in 1860, Lincoln wrote:
            "In the autumn of 1836 he obtained a law licence, and on April 15, 1837 removed to
            Springfield, and commenced the practice, his old friend, Stuart taking him into
               partnership."<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln4;node=lincoln4%3A65' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Autobiography Written for John
                  L. Scripps</xref>, [c. June 1860], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 4:60-67.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-04-17'>Monday, April 17, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Macoupin Circuit Court convenes at Carlinville.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-04-19'>Wednesday, April 19, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes Levi Davis, auditor, introducing Dr. Anson G. Henry who
            visits Vandalia to draw money to enable commissioners to commence state house in
               Springfield.<anchor corresp='n004' id='a004'/> Lincoln concludes:
            "We have, generally in this country, peace, health, and plenty, and no news."<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%3A104' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Levi
               Davis</xref>, 19 April 1837, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:77-78.</bibl>
         </p>
         <note place='unspecified' id='n004' anchored='yes' target='a004'>Henry
            returns with $4,000.</note>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-04-20'>Thursday, April 20, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln gives quit claim deed to Lot 6 in Block 1 in Springfield to
            Josephus Hewett and E. D. Baker for $75. This is one of two lots he purchased March 24,
               1836.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Deed Book K</title>, 616.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-04-21'>Friday, April 21, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln acknowledges before Justice of Peace Thomas Moffett quit claim deed
            he gave Hewett &amp; Baker yesterday.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Deed Book K</title>, 616.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-04-24'>Monday, April 24, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files a praecipe for his client, James Webb, in <name type='case' key='L04813'>Webb v. Watson</name>, a debt case in the
            Sangamon County Circuit Court. He signs Stuart's name on the praecipe. Webb is suing to
            collect a $200 debt and $100 in damages. Lincoln also writes a copy of the bond on which
            the suit is based, which reads: "Know all men by these presents that we Andrew Orr and
            Benjamin Watson are held and firmly bound unto James Webb."<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Macon Circuit Court begins two-day session. Judge William Brown appoints
            Jesse B. Thomas, Jr. prosecuting attorney pro tem.]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-04-27'>Thursday, April 27, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [McLean Circuit Court opens three-day term. On John T. Stuart's motion,
            George F. Markley is admitted to practice.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Record</title>
            </bibl>.</p>
         <p> David Davis said Lincoln attended McLean court in 1837. If so, it was
            probably this term, as he appears to have been in Springfield during Sept. term.<bibl default='NO'>Beveridge, <title corresp='Beveridge'>Abraham Lincoln</title>, 1:212n.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1837-04-29'>Saturday,
  April 29, 1837.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Stuart &amp; Lincoln represent Daniel
  Beeman in <name type='case' key='L01625'>Beeman v.
  Thompson</name>, a debt case in the McLean County Circuit Court. They dismiss
  the case and Lincoln notes the case in firm's fee book.
  <bibl default='NO'>Record; <title>Fee Book owned
  by Mrs. Edna Orendorff Macpherson</title>, Springfield, Ill.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>