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<date value='1839-08-05'>Monday, August 5, 1839.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln votes Whig ticket for A. L. Wilson against James Adams for probate
judge, James M. Bradford for treasurer, T. M. Neale for Surveyor, C. R. Matheny for
county clerk, and W. G. Cantrall for county commissioner. All are elected but Wilson and
Cantrall.<bibl default='NO'>Election Returns.</bibl>
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<date value='1839-08-06'>Tuesday, August 6, 1839.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln, in name of Stuart & Lincoln, gives David Prickett receipt
for $250 to be applied on judgment in Sangamon Circuit Court against Prickett, awarded
Kerr & Co. for $513.49 July 13, 1839.<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%3A180' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Receipt to David
Prickett</xref>, 6 August 1839, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:152-53.</bibl>
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<p> He writes and signs "Stuart & Lincoln" to praecipe filed in <name type='case' key='L03323'>William Goodacre v. Abner Smith</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
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<date value='1839-08-07'>Wednesday, August 7, 1839.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln
writes Thomas Bohannan acknowledging receipt of notes of Allen & Stone for
$117.94 and J. Francis for $50.35. Though he has been promised payment, he has
received nothing, and will sue unless payment is made soon. He attends meeting
of town board and in Matheny's absence serves as chairman.
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<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A181' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas
Bohannon</xref>, 7 August 1839, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:153; Clerk's Minutes.</bibl>
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<date value='1839-08-08'>Thursday, August 8, 1839.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln's letter written yesterday to Thomas Bohannan of Louisville,
Kentucky is postmarked August 8, 1839.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
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<date value='1839-08-09'>Friday, August 9, 1839.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Town board meets, and in Matheny's absence Lincoln is chairman. Board
receives petition from Stuart and others requesting erection of stone culvert and
agreeing to defray most of cost. Board requests engineers grading for Northern Cross
Railroad to remove puddles.<bibl default='NO'>Clerk's Minutes.</bibl>
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<date value='1839-08-17'>Saturday,
August 17, 1839.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
IL</place>.</dateline>
<p>Lincoln writes and signs an agreement
between the parties involved in the libel suit of
<name type='case' key='L00410'>Logan v. Adams</name>. The two sides agree to
continue the case until the Spring 1840 term of the Schuyler County Circuit
Court. Stephen A. Douglass, one of the attorneys for defendant James Adams,
also signs the agreement. Stuart & Lincoln are two of the attorneys who
represent plaintiff Stephen T. Logan, with whom Lincoln would later form a law
partnership. <bibl default='NO'>Agreement, 17 August 1839, <ital>Logan v. Adams</ital>,
Private Collection.</bibl>
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<date value='1839-08-19'>Monday, August 19, 1839.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln writes and signs petition for Manley F. Cannon, appellant, for
Supreme Court to review <name type='case' key='L02875'>Cannon v.
Kenney</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of
Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
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<date value='1839-08-26'>Monday, August 26, 1839.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Lincoln files survey in <name type='case' key='L02888'>William Butler v. William Tilford et al.</name>, according to court order of October
19, 1838.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1839-08-28'>Wednesday, August 28, 1839.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p>In the
Sangamon County Circuit Court, Lincoln annotates a document that certifies that
Deputy Sheriff James M. Maxey has "delivered a copy of the forgoing notice and
interrogatories to [the plaintiff's attorney] John D. Urquhart." Maxey signs
the document. In the dower case of
<name type='case' key='L02685'>Bevans v. Brown et al.</name>,
Lincoln, Stephen T. Logan, and John T. Stuart represent numerous heirs and
James N. Brown, who is the administrator of the deceased John Bevans's estate.
John D. Urquhart and Stephen A. Douglas represent Bevans's widow Margaret
Bevans. In his will, John Bevans directed that his wife should receive "one Bed
of the Second choice, and one third of my Bedding together with one fifth part
of my corn and meat." John Bevans left the bulk of his land and personal
property to his son and daughters.<bibl default='NO'>Notice to
Take Deposition, 28 August 1839, <title>Bevans v. Brown et al.</title>, IHi,
Springfield, IL; Will of John D. Bevans, 26 December 1838, <title>Bevans v.
Brown et al.</title>, Sangamon County Circuit Court, 04/015/01, Illinois State
Regional Archives Depository, University of Illinois at Springfield,
Springfield, IL.</bibl>
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<date value='1839-08-29'>Thursday, August 29, 1839.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
<p> Stuart & Lincoln file notice that on September 11, 1839 they will
take depositions of two witnesses, in Thomas Moffett's office, for use in <name type='case' key='L04168'>Orendorf et al. v. Stringfield et al.</name>
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1839-08-30'>Friday,
August 30, 1839.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
IL</place>.</dateline>
<p>Lincoln writes to Chicago attorney
Jonathan Y. Scammon regarding money due to Kinzie & Hall from the estate of
Samuel Musick, and signs the letter "Stuart & Lincoln." Lincoln writes, "We
suppose there is a small sum in the hands of our Probate Justice due to the
claim of Kinzie & Hall against Musick. Procure an order to the Probate
Justice from Kinzie & Hall to pay over to us what may be due them, and we
will draw it and send it to you." After Kinzie & Hall authorize the Probate
Justice to pay the judgment due to them to Lincoln, Lincoln will forward the
money to Scammon.<bibl default='NO'>Abraham Lincoln to Jonathan Y. Scammon (copy), 30 August
1839, Newman Collection, Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL.</bibl>
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