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<date value='1838-06-02'>Saturday, June 2, 1838.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln receives from Elijah Iles deeds on two lots bought July 1,
1837.<bibl default='NO'>IHi—<title>E. Iles
Record Book</title>, Photocopy.</bibl>
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<date value='1838-06-04'>Monday, June 4, 1838.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> [U.S. Circuit Court and Democratic state convention meet in Vandalia.<bibl default='NO'>
<title>The Illinoian</title> (Jacksonville), 2 June 1838.</bibl>]</p>
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<date value='1838-06-11'>Monday, June 11, 1838.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> George Power gives trust deed to Lincoln for A. G. Herndon for 240 acres
situated ten miles northwest of Springfield, to guarantee payment of $525 loaned by
Herndon to Power for three months. [Herndon acknowledges receipt in full September 17,
1838.]<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Deed Book M</title>, 624-25.</bibl>
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<date value='1838-06-13'>Thursday, June 13, 1838.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln writes an acknowledgement of service on a notice to take
depositions in <name type='case' key='L04912'>McNair v.
Adams</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
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<date value='1838-06-15'>Friday,
June 15, 1838.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln fills out a printed alias subpoena in chancery form in
<name type='case' key='L03299'>Garrett v. Levering</name>.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
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<date value='1838-06-16'>Saturday,
June 16, 1838.</date> Bartell's on Sugar Creek, <place key='39.7667, -89.6500' teiForm='name'>Sangamon
County, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> First of four meetings to which
all candidates for legislature are invited is held at Bartell's on Sugar Creek,
five miles southeast of Springfield. Lincoln probably attends and speaks.
<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Sangamo
Journal</title>, 23 June 1838.</bibl>
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<date value='1838-06-18'>Monday, June 18, 1838.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln, William Butler, and A. Y. Ellis sign Charles R. Matheny's bond for
$1,000 as clerk of county commissioners' court.<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Book D</title>, 435.</bibl>
</p>
<p> County commissioners allow Stuart & Lincoln $36 for use of their
office as jury room at terms of circuit court in July 1837 and October 1837 and March
1838.<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Book D</title>, 434.</bibl>
</p>
<p> Lincoln writes to Sangamon County Commissioner's Court Thomas Arnold's
request for writ of ad quod damnum. He collects from Sheriff Elkin $420 on judgment in
<name type='case' key='L03045'>Hickman v. Braucher</name>, and signs
receipt.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
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<date value='1838-06-19'>Tuesday, June 19, 1838.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln writes and files with the Sangamon County Circuit Court a
declaration in the assumpsit suit <name type='case' key='L04912'>McNair
v. Adams</name>. He asks for $1,000 in damages. Treat and Campbell represent the
defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
</p>
<p> In <name type='case' key='L03111'>Edward Crow & Co.
v. Garrett</name>, Lincoln writes, signs, and files with the court the bill of
complaint and bond for costs.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
</p>
<p> [In <name type='case' key='L00867'>Harwood v. Forsythe
& Buckner</name>, the Morgan County Circuit Court Clerk files a declaration,
praecipe, and bond for costs which Lincoln wrote and mailed to Jacksonville the day
before.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>]</p>
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<date value='1838-06-22'>Friday, June 22, 1838.</date>
<place key='' teiForm='name'>Lick Creek</place>.</dateline>
<p> Candidates for legislature address citizens of southwestern Sangamon County
at meeting at William Colburn's mill on Lick Creek near present town of Loami. All
candidates have been invited, and Lincoln probably attends.<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 23 June 1838.</bibl>
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<date value='1838-06-23'>Saturday, June 23, 1838.</date>
<place key='39.7500, -89.9000' teiForm='name'>Berlin, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Candidates for legislature address citizens at meeting at Berlin (now Old
Berlin), 12 miles west of Springfield. Lincoln probably attends.<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 23 June 1838.</bibl>
</p>
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<date value='1838-06-28'>Thursday, June 28, 1838.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln writes, signs, and files with the court the plaintiff's declaration
in <name type='case' key='L04623'>Stockton v. Tolly</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington,
DC.</bibl>
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<date value='1838-06-30'>Saturday,
June 30, 1838.</date> Water's Camp Ground, <place key='39.7667, -89.6500' teiForm='name'>Sangamon
County, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Candidates address citizens at
Water's Camp Ground on Spring Creek, four miles west of Springfield, last of
four meetings to which all candidates have been invited. Lincoln probably
attends.<bibl default='NO'>
<title>Sangamo
Journal</title>, 23 June 1838.</bibl>
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