<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-07-02'>Monday, July 2, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> The Sangamon County Circuit Court opens for a two-week term with Judge Jesse B.
    Thomas, Jr., presiding. The court appoints Lincoln guardian <ital>ad litem</ital> for the infant
    defendants in <name type='case' key='L04575'>State Bank of Illinois v. Musick et
     al.</name> In the chancery case <name type='case' key='L04616'>Stevenson v.
     Abrams et al.</name>, the court grants the complainant permission to take the deposition of the
    defendant Abrams. Stuart, Lincoln, and Treat represent the complainant John G. Stevenson.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln, representing Matthew McNair, writes and signs a joinder to the
    defendant's first plea in <name type='case' key='L04912'>McNair v. Adams</name>.
     <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington,
    DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-07-03'>Tuesday, July 3, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> The defendant's attorneys in <name type='case' key='L04912'>McNair v. Adams</name>, file five more pleas. Stuart &amp; Lincoln appear in
            court on behalf of the plaintiff, Matthew McNair. The court dismisses <name type='case' key='L03023'>Clark v. Lake</name> and the plaintiff agrees to a nonsuit
            in <name type='case' key='L03258'>Fleming v. Ransdell</name>. Stuart and
            Lincoln represent the defendants in both cases. Representing the plaintiffs in <name type='case' key='L04938'>H. T. Foster &amp; Co. v.
            Lockerman</name>, Stuart &amp; Lincoln request and obtain a dismissal of the case.
            Stuart &amp; Lincoln represent the plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L03544'>Herndon v. Smith</name>, and the court orders the county sheriff to
            attach the defendant's property.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-07-04'>Wednesday, July 4, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Meeting is called for today in Springfield of all persons interested in
            division of Sangamon County. Lincoln probably attends.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 23 June 1838.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-07-05'>Thursday, July 5, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln files answer as guardian <ital>ad litem</ital> in <name type='case' key='L04634'>Thayer v. Phillips et al.</name> In <name type='case' key='L04327'>People v. Henry B. Truett</name>, murder, prisoner enters plea of not guilty and
    moves courts for continuance to Oct. term. Stuart &amp; Lincoln have seven other cases
    called. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1838-07-06'>Friday,
  July 6, 1838.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In <name type='case' key='L04327'>People v.
  Truett</name>, prosecuting attorney is directed to show cause why continuance
  should not be granted. In <name type='case' key='L04080'>Demint
  et al. v. Sintz</name>, plaintiffs suggest death of defendant and on their
  motion Nicholas Moore, administrator, is made defendant. Baker &amp; Hewett
  appear for plaintiffs and Stuart &amp; Lincoln for defendant.
  <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln
  writes and signs replications in <name type='case' key='L04912'>McNair v. Adams</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington,
  DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-07-07'>Saturday, July 7, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Douglas, prosecuting attorney, files reasons why <name type='case' key='L04327'>People v. Truett</name> should not be continued. Defendant
            by Logan and Lincoln files amended affidavit setting out materiality of witnesses named.
            Arguments are heard and court takes time. Defendant in <name type='case' key='L03870'>Wright et al. v. Adams</name> asks leave to withdraw assignment of
            judgment filed as exhibit.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes and signs joinders to demurrers in <name type='case' key='L04912'>McNair v. Adams</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-07-09'>Monday, July 9, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Judge Thomas orders <name type='case' key='L04327'>People v.
               Truett</name> continued from day to day. Leave is granted in <name type='case' key='L03870'>Wright et al. v. Adams</name> to withdraw exhibit by
            leaving attested copy with clerk. Stuart &amp; Lincoln lose two cases when jury
            awards plaintiff $180 in <name type='case' key='L04451'>Robinson v.
               Garvey</name>, and $77.23&#189; in <name type='case' key='L04136'>Neale v. Blankenship et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-07-10'>Tuesday, July 10, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L03023'>Clark v. Lake</name>, trespass, is tried
            by jury. Unable to agree, jury is discharged. Logan represents plaintiff and Stuart,
            Lincoln, and Baker defendant. Defendant files answer in <name type='case' key='L03299'>Garrett v. Levering</name>. <name type='case' key='L03344'>Grass v. Ware</name> is continued. Stuart &amp; Lincoln appear for
            plaintiff in both cases.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-07-11'>Wednesday, July 11, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L04327'>People v. Truett</name> is continued to
            Oct. term. John S. Roberts, James F. Reed, and John D. Urquhart, witnesses, are put
            under $1,000 bond. Lincoln files his answer in <name type='case' key='L04575'>State Bank of Illinois v. Musick et al.</name> Stuart &amp;
            Lincoln have six other cases called.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1838-07-12'>Thursday,
  July 12, 1838.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Drs. E. H. Merryman and W. S. Wallace give $1,000 bond to
  appear as witnesses in <name type='case' key='L04327'>People v.
  Truett</name>. In <name type='case' key='L03870'>Wright et al.
  v. Adams</name>, defendant files affidavit and moves court for change of venue
  to Schuyler County. Stuart &amp; Lincoln have 17 other cases called.
  <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln
  writes and signs joinder in pleas in 
  <name type='case' key='L02629'>Anderson, Bell &amp; Co. v.
  Gambrel</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection,
  Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-07-13'>Friday, July 13, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Stuart &amp; Lincoln win <name type='case' key='L02629'>Anderson, Bell &amp; Co. v. Gambrel</name> when jury awards plaintiffs $207.65.
            They lose two cases appealed from justice of peace and have three others continued.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-07-14'>Saturday, July 14, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On last day of July term, court orders property in <name type='case' key='L03381'>Francis v. Mitchell et al.</name> transferred to
            complainant and E. D. Baker is appointed commissioner. <name type='case' key='L02874'>Cannon v. Kenney</name>, <name type='case' key='L04629'>Strawbridge v. Croft</name>, and <name type='case' key='L04616'>Stevenson v. Abrams et al.</name> are dismissed by Stuart &amp; Lincoln for
            complainants. <name type='case' key='L03471'>Foster v. Cassidy</name>, in
            which they appear for Cassidy, is to be decided during vacation.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln does paper work in three chancery cases: answer as guardian in
               <name type='case' key='L03795'>Knapp et al. v. Enos et al.</name>;
            answer of Josephus Hewett, guardian, in <name type='case' key='L03381'>Francis v. Mitchell et al.</name>; and report of Moses M. Martin, administrator of
            Isaac Martin estate.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy; Herndon-Weik
               Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-07-16'>Monday, July 16, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place>?</dateline>
         <p> [Morgan Circuit Court convenes at Jacksonville for six-day term. Judge
            Jesse B. Thomas, Jr. presides. Lincoln is present Saturday and may have attended entire
               week.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-07-21'>Saturday, July 21, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place> and <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
            IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is attorney for plaintiff, Lilburn Harwood, in <name type='case' key='L00867'>Harwood v. Forsythe &amp; Buckner</name> in Morgan
            Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln returns to Springfield after absence of several days. In evening he
            receives letter from Jesse W. Fell of Bloomington.<bibl default='NO'>Jesse Fell Papers, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield,
            IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-07-22'>Sunday, July 22, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln replies to Fell's letter received last evening, telling him to deny
            Douglas' charges against Stuart.<bibl default='NO'>Jesse Fell Papers,
               Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A138' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Jesse W.
                  Fell</xref>, [23 July 1838], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:120.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-07-23'>Monday, July 23, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln answers second letter from Jesse W. Fell. He repeats that Fell can
            deny charges made by Douglas concerning Stuart's views on national bank. He hopes Stuart
            will speak in McLean County before election. "If we do our duty we shall succeed in the
            congressional election, but if we relax an <uLine>iota</uLine>, we shall be
               beaten."<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%3A138' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Jesse W.
                  Fell</xref>, [23 July 1838], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:120.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes contract of Daniel Ragsale to build house for David
               Spear.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1838-07-25'>Wednesday, July 25, 1838.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln is one of 14 signers of petition to Gov. Duncan to appoint John
            Dixon to vacancy on Board of Commissioners of Public Works to succeed J. A. Stephenson,
               resigned.<bibl default='NO'>Original owned by George C. Dixon,
               Springfield, Ill.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>