<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-06-03'>Monday, June 3, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Macon Circuit Court convenes for three-day term. Judge Samuel H. Treat,
            appointed on May 27, 1839 by Gov. Carlin to succeed Judge Logan, presides. Stuart and
            Lincoln attend. Lincoln writes agreement in <name type='case' key='L00431'>John Sawyer v. David Cordell &amp; Renshaw</name>, is appointed
            guardian of Amanda Gray in <name type='case' key='L00481'>Gorin v. Gray
               &amp; Gray</name>, and guardian of infant heirs of Henry Butler in petition to
            sell real estate. Latter two are chancery cases. In <name type='case'>Fellows and Fellows v. Snyder et al.</name>, Lincoln writes declaration, bonds, and
            praecipes for both sides, and case is dismissed by agreement.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-06-04'>Tuesday, June 4, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In <name type='case' key='L00457'>Adkin v. Hines</name>,
            slander, he writes defendant's plea and wins case when jury, on which his relatives
            Joseph and Charles Hanks serve, finds defendant, Robert Hines, not guilty. He writes
            defendant's plea also in <name type='case' key='L00463'>David Adkin v.
               Levi Meisenhelder</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-06-05'>Wednesday, June 5, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> The judge orders Jesse Butler, the executor of Henry Butler, deceased, to sell
    real estate in <name type='case' key='L00472'>Ex parte Butler</name>, a chancery
    case to sell real esate.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln files a guardian <ital>ad litem</ital>'s answer in <name type='case' key='L00474'>Ex parte Lowry</name>, a petition to sell real estate case. <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1839-06-09'>Sunday,
  June 9, 1839.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes, for George England, defendant, plea in 
  <name type='case' key='L00163'>Ferguson v. England</name>,
  Menard County replevin suit for recovery of mare and colt, and evidently mails
  it to Petersburg.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-06-10'>Monday, June 10, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [First session of Dane Circuit Court scheduled for this date is not
         held.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-06-11'>Tuesday, June 11, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes to his New Salem friend, J. Rowan Herndon, giving him
            details of conversation which he and Dr. Felix Regnier had concerning Herndon. [This
            conversation took place on road between Rushville and Beardstown when Lincoln was
            returning from participation in Fraim murder trial at Carthage.]<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%3A177' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to John Rowan
                  Herndon</xref>, 11 June 1839, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:150-51.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [See April 27, 1839.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-06-13'>Thursday, June 13, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Logan Circuit Court meets in one-day session at Postville.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-06-14'>Friday, June 14, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files, for Charles R. Hurst, plaintiff, praecipe in
               <name type='case' key='L03606'>Hurst v. Smith &amp;
            Taggart</name>. He asks clerk of Sangamon Circuit Court to issue summons directed to
            sheriff of Morgan County. He writes bill in chancery in <name type='case' key='L01215'>Bruner v. Bruner et al.</name>, Tazewell Circuit Court case, signing
            for plaintiff.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-06-16'>Sunday, June 16, 1839.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and Benjamin Talbott, trustees of A. G. Herndon, receive from
            Erastamus J. B. Harrison trust deed for 60 acres of Menard County land as security for
            $250 loan to run two years at 12 per cent interest.<bibl default='NO'>Menard County Deed Record, 25-26.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-06-17'>Monday, June 17, 1839.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Menard Circuit Court meets for first time. Second case on docket, suit for
            $200 damages of <name type='case' key='L00240'>Summers v. Sears</name>,
            is dismissed on motion of Stuart &amp; Lincoln, attorneys for plaintiff, Levi
               Summers.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-06-18'>Tuesday, June 18, 1839.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Menard Circuit Court meets again in house of John Taylor, and a few cases
            are heard, but Lincoln does not appear to have been engaged.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-06-20'>Thursday, June 20, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files declaration in assumpsit suit of <name type='case' key='L03608'>Hurt v. Winters</name>. Reuben Winters has
            refused to pay for horse purchased from John M. Hurt for $61. Lincoln also writes and
            files declaration of Benjamin H. Lockwood in <name type='case' key='L03896'>Lockwood v. Wernwag</name>. Lockwood is seeking to collect $104.38 for
            work done on Sangamon River bridge. Lincoln writes and signs, for plaintiff, declaration
            in <name type='case' key='L03936'>Marsh v. Wernwag</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-06-21'>Friday, June 21, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and signs declaration in <name type='case' key='L04012'>James McGee v. Wharton Ransdell</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='1839-06-22'>Saturday,
  June 22, 1839.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files declaration and notice with Sangamon
  Circuit Court clerk to issue summons in trespass case of 
  <name type='case' key='L02657'>James Bell &amp; Co. v.
  Elkin</name>. He writes and files declaration in 
  <name type='case' key='L03606'>Hurst v. Smith &amp;
  Taggart</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-06-24'>Monday, June 24, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Anticipating that Douglas may go to Washington and contest Stuart's seat in
            Congress, five Springfield Whigs ask editor of Chicago "American" to forward poll book
            information on illegal votes for Douglas. Lincoln, Speed, Baker, Matheny, and Milton Hay
            sign letter.<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%3A178' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to the Editor
                  of the Chicago <title>American</title>
               </xref>, 24 June 1839, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
               1:151-52.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln is elected to succeed S. H. Treat on town board.<bibl default='NO'>Minutes of Board of Trustees.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes and signs declaration in <name type='case' key='L04617'>George Stewardson &amp; John W. Shoemaker v. Erskine
            Douglas</name>. He signs praecipe and bond in <name type='case' key='L03814'>John N. Lane &amp; Webb v. Weber</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='1839-06-26'>Wednesday, June 26, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and signs praecipe in <name type='case' key='L04180'>Samuel Parker v. Isaac Braucher</name>. He also writes bond for costs,
            which Stuart signs.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
               Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-06-27'>Thursday, June 27, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> He writes and signs, for plaintiff, declaration in <name type='case' key='L04180'>Parker v. Braucher</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1839-06-28'>Friday, June 28, 1839.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln, for Stuart &amp; Lincoln, writes and files declaration in
               <name type='case' key='L03917'>Luckett v. D. E. &amp; J.
            Ruckel</name>. Henry F. Luckett is seeking to collect on note for $118.50 given by
            Ruckels October 15, 1838, for rent on cabinet shop and ware room.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1839-06-29'>Saturday,
  June 29, 1839.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and signs an affidavit attesting that Isaac
  Anderson, a member of Lincoln's volunteer company during the Black Hawk War,
  lost his own horse in the service of the United States. Anderson seeks
  compensation from the government for the lost horse, "valued...at fiftyfive
  dollars." Lincoln explains, "[the] said horse was turned out to graze in
  consequence of sufficient forage not being furnished by the United states, and
  was thereby lost . . . without any fault or negligence on the part of said
  Anderson. . . . The affiant makes the above statements from memory only, but
  feels confident they are substantially correct."
  <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%3A179' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Affidavit Concerning Isaac
  Anderson's Lost Horse</xref>, 29 June 1839,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:152.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>