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         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-05-01'>Monday, May 1, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Tazewell Circuit Court convenes at Tremont for four-day term. Judge
            William Brown appoints Jesse B. Thomas, Jr., prosecuting attorney pro tem in absence of
            David Prickett.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]</p>
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         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-05-05'>Friday, May 5, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Circuit court of new county of Livingston, which should have met this
            week, does not hold its term until October 21, 1839.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-05-07'>Sunday, May 7, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to Mary Owens. He says he finds living in Springfield "a
            dull business," and is lonesome. There is much "flourishing about in carriages" which
            Mary will not share should she marry him. "You would have to be poor without the means
            of hiding your poverty."<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%3A105' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Mary S.
                  Owens</xref>, 7 May 1837, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:78-79.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-05-09'>Tuesday, May 9, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln gives quit claim deed to Gershom Jayne to "right, title and
            interest and estate" in undivided one-half of 47-acre tract on north bank of Sangamon
            River, 12 miles northwest of New Salem. Consideration is $30.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Deed Book K</title>, 686.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-05-23'>Tuesday, May 23, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes report of three commissioners, George Pasfield, Washington
            Iles, and John Williams, appointed by county commissioners "To view a road from the
            Public Square in Springfield to Nathan Hussey's on the Fort Clark [Peoria] road."<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Original.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-05-25'>Thursday, May 25, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Benjamin Talbott, recorder, brings to office of Stuart &amp; Lincoln
            papers which become basis of controversy between Lincoln and James Adams over ten-acre
            tract north of Springfield, claimed by Adams and heirs of Joseph Anderson. C. R.
            Matheny, William Butler, and S. T. Logan examine assignment from Anderson to Adams.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 19 August 1837, 9 September
            1837.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-05-26'>Friday, May 26, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln draws up a contingent fee agreement between John T. Stuart, Stephen
            T. Logan, Edward D. Baker, and himself with Mary Anderson and her son Richard. In <name type='case' key='L03870'>Wright et al. v. Adams</name>, a bill in
            chancery case, the Andersons along with Joel Wright sue James Adams in the Sangamon
            County Circuit Court. According to the agreement, the attorneys are to have one-half of
            a ten-acre tract if they successfully sue Adams. The case becomes the basis for a
            controversy involving Lincoln, Logan, and Adams that culminates with Logan's libel suit
            against Adams, <name type='case' key='L00410'>Logan v. Adams</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-05-30'>Tuesday, May 30, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to third auditor of U.S. enclosing papers concerning
            compensation due Archelaus Demmon for service in Black Hawk War. [Auditor allows $32.68
            June 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%3A107' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Third
                  Auditor of the United States Treasury</xref>, 30 May 1837, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:79-80.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>