<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-09-02'>Saturday, September 2, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Justice of the peace, Thomas Moffett, takes the depositions of Lincoln and
            Isaac Cogdal concerning the transfer of a 12.48 acre parcel Lincoln surveyed in November
            1834. Lincoln writes and signs his own deposition and testifies that he surveyed the
            land for Hart and understood that Hart would transfer it to Houghton. Stuart &amp;
            Lincoln file the deposition as evidence on behalf of their client, Elijah Houghton, in
               <name type='case' key='L03591'>Houghton v. Hart 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='1837-09-04'>Monday, September 4, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files a bill of complaint for Nancy Green the
            complainant in the divorce case, <name type='case' key='L03355'>Green v.
               Green</name>. She charges her husband, Aaron Green, with desertion.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC;
               Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [On October 10, 1838, Lincoln has complaint dismissed in the Sangamon
            County Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-09-05'>Tuesday, September 5, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln are attorneys in <name type='case' key='L04379'>Rice v. Lindsay</name>, a case before justice of the peace Thomas
            Moffett. Moffett continues the case until the following Tuesday.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Stuart &amp; Lincoln fee book</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-09-06'>Wednesday, September 6, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln replies to James Adams' statement published in "Illinois
            Republican." He points out discrepancies in Adams' story. He says Adams' assertion that
            he has disproved charges of "Sampson's Ghost" and a bogus assignment in <name type='case' key='L03870'>Wright et al. v. Adams</name>, "is all as
            false as hell, as all this community must know."<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 9 September 1837; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A124' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>First Reply to James
               Adams</xref>, 6 September 1837, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:95-100.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-09-08'>Friday, September 8, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln represents Thomas and John S. Wilbourn in <name type='case'>T. &amp; J. S. Wilbourn v. Simmons</name>, a trespass on the case
            on promises action before the Sangamon County Circuit Court. Lincoln writes and files
            the declaration and praecipe, signing "Stuart &amp; Lincoln." The Wilbourns claimed
            that Pollard Simmons failed to pay a promissory note for $170.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Calhoun Circuit Court convenes at Gilead.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-09-09'>Saturday, September 9, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to Third Auditor of U.S. offering proof of horse lost by
            John W. Warnsing in Black Hawk War. He explains that Warnsing has sold his claim to
            Thomas Epperson and asks that letter enclosing draft be sent to him rather than to
            Warnsing or Epperson.<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%3A125' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Third
                  Auditor of the United States Treasury</xref>, 9 September 1837, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:100-1.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-09-11'>Monday, September 11, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files a notice in the Sangamon County Circuit Court that
            he will take depositions on behalf of the complaintants in the chancery case <name type='case' key='L03870'>Wright et al. v. Adams</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington,
               DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Macoupin Circuit Court convenes at Carlinville.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-09-12'>Tuesday, September 12, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is one of attorneys in <name type='case' key='L04379'>Rice v. Lindsay</name>, a case before justice of the peace Thomas
               Moffett.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Stuart &amp; Lincoln fee book</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1837-09-14'>Thursday,
  September 14, 1837.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Letter to Third Auditor written by
  Lincoln Sept. 9 is postmarked "Springfield, Ill. Sept. 14," so evidently he is
  in Springfield.<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Original.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-09-16'>Saturday, September 16, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files a praecipe on behalf of his client Peyton L.
            Harrison in <name type='case' key='L03500'>Harrison v. Simmons</name>, an
            assumpsit case before the Sangamon County Circuit Court. Lincoln signs the document
            "Stuart &amp; Lincoln for plff."<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-09-18'>Monday, September 18, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Tazewell Circuit Court opens six-day term at Tremont. Judge John Pearson,
            who has exchanged circuits with Judge Jesse B. Thomas, Jr., appoints Stephen A. Douglas
            prosecuting attorney pro tem.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-09-21'>Thursday, September 21, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Representing Simeon Francis, Lincoln files a bill for conveyance in the
            chancery case <name type='case' key='L03381'>Francis v. Mitchell et
               al.</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-09-22'>Friday, September 22, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Representing several plaintiffs in the Sangamon County Circuit Court,
            Lincoln files a declaration, praecipe, and bond in <name type='case' key='L02681'>Billon v. White</name>; a declaration, praecipe, and bond in <name type='case' key='L04775'>VonPhul &amp; McGill v. Porter</name>; an
            affidavit in <name type='case' key='L04938'>H.T. Foster &amp; Co. v.
               Lockerman</name>; a declaration in <name type='case' key='L03500'>Harrison v. Simmons</name>; and declarations, praecipes, and bonds in <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>
            <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress,
               Washington, DC; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-09-25'>Monday, September 25, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [McLean Circuit Court opens five-day term in Bloomington. Judge John
            Pearson of the seventh circuit presides, exchanging courts with Judge Jesse B. Thomas,
            Jr. Stephen A. Douglas is appointed prosecuting attorney pro tem. John T. Stuart,
            Franklin Brattan, Josephus Hewett, and David Davis are among attorneys attending
               court.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-09-26'>Tuesday, September 26, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Representing a St. Louis firm, the plaintiffs in <name type='case' key='L04015'>McKee, Stewart &amp; Lind v. Tharp</name>, Lincoln
            files a declaration, praecipe, and bond for costs with the Sangamon County Circuit
            Court.</p>
         <p> Representing his client, the defendant in <name type='case' key='L03258'>Fleming v. Ransdell</name>, Lincoln writes a subpoena duces tecum to
            the Tazewell County sheriff ordering him to summon a witness to appear with evidence
            before the Sangamon County Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik
               Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-09-27'>Wednesday, September 27, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln witnesses deed given by Samuel Neale, Sr., to A. G. Herndon for 80
            acres four miles west of Springfield.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Deed Book M</title>, 247. </bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1837-09-30'>Saturday, September 30, 1837.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Note signed "An Old Settler" in "Sangamo Journal" may have been written by
            Lincoln. He claims that he has read "Sampson's Ghost" letters and understands there are
            irregularities in Adams' handling of lots and plot of ten acres. He has examined these
            matters carefully and will give his conclusions soon.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 30 September 1837.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>