<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-05-01'>Friday, May 1, 1840.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Spring term of Tazewell Circuit Court opens for nineday term. Out of town
            lawyers attending are Lincoln, Douglas, William L. May, and J. B. Thomas.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 15 May 1840.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Seventh issue of "The Old Soldier" is published.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1840-05-02'>Saturday,
  May 2, 1840.</date> 
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Tazewell Democratic convention meets in morning. At noon court
  adjourns and debate between Lincoln, Douglas, May, and Thomas begins. Lincoln
  opens discussion with denunciation of Van Buren Administration. He relates many
  amusing anecdotes which convulse house with laughter and concludes with
  vindication of Hero of Tippecanoe. Douglas answers him.
  <bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Sangamo
  Journal</title>, 15 May 1840.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-05-04'>Monday, May 4, 1840.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Debate begun Saturday is concluded by May and Thomas.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 15 May 1840.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-05-05'>Tuesday, May 5, 1840.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes answer of complainant and interlocutory decree in <name type='case' key='L01053'>Babb v. Blair et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>Stuart &amp; Lincoln buy $9.25 worth of merchandise from a Springfield
    merchant. <bibl default='NO'>Account (copy), 5 May 1840, Irwin &amp; Corneau
     Account Book, 185, microfilm, IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-05-06'>Wednesday, May 6, 1840.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln represents plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L01215'>Bruner v. Bruner et al.</name>, and on his motion, William B. Parker is appointed guardian for
    infant defendants. By default, petition for partition of land is taken as confessed. Joseph
    Orendorff, William Ryan, and Archy Bryant are appointed commissioners to make partition.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes answer of Parker, guardian <ital>ad litem</ital> of defendants in
     <name type='case' key='L01215'>Bruner v. Bruner et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-05-07'>Thursday, May 7, 1840.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L01234'>Kellogg v. Crain</name>, action in debt,
            is continued on motion of defendant's attorney. Lincoln is for plaintiff, Benjamin
            Kellogg Jr.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> For plaintiffs in <name type='case' key='L01177'>Stapp
               &amp; Lanier v. Shannon et al.</name>, Lincoln writes and files affidavit that
            some defendants reside out of state.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-05-11'>Monday, May 11, 1840.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [At Bloomington, spring term of McLean Circuit Court begins. Some records
            of McLean Circuit Court are available, but dockets and files were destroyed by fire in
            1900. Thus it is impossible, except where collateral evidence is available, to determine
            cases in which Lincoln participated. Term closes May 14, 1840.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-05-15'>Friday, May 15, 1840.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In <name type='case' key='L01638'>John L. Clark &amp; Clark v.
     Nancy Hinthorn et al.</name>, Lincoln is appointed guardian <ital>ad litem</ital>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-05-18'>Monday, May 18, 1840.</date>
            <place key='40.8667, -88.6167' teiForm='name'>Pontiac, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Livingston County Circuit Court opens two-day term. Dockets are not
            available, thus it is impossible, except where collateral evidence is available, to
            determine cases in which Lincoln participated. Lincoln writes and files plea in <name type='case' key='L02070'>Popejoy v. Wilson</name>, trespass. He
            represents Popejoy. He writes letter for Anson L. Dean to Garrett M. Blue.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-05-19'>Tuesday, May 19, 1840.</date>
            <place key='40.8667, -88.6167' teiForm='name'>Pontiac, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In <name type='case' key='L02070'>Popejoy v. Wilson</name>,
            Lincoln asks clerk to issue summons returnable next term.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-05-20'>Wednesday, May 20, 1840.</date>
            <place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place> to <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton,
         IL</place>.</dateline>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1840-05-21'>Thursday,
  May 21, 1840.</date> 
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>?</dateline>
         <p> [Dewitt County Court convenes for three-day term. Records of
  court for 1840's are available but absence of dockets makes it impossible to
  determine Lincoln's cases when his name does not appear on record.] 
  <name type='case' key='L00644'>Scott v. Troxel</name> is
  dismissed by agreement at plaintiff's cost.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-05-22'>Friday, May 22, 1840</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In <name type='case' key='L00547'>Ex parte Fruit and
    Walker</name>, the administrators of the estate of John McGee, deceased, petition to sell real
    estate. The judge appoints Lincoln guardian <ital>ad litem</ital> for McGee's minor children.
    Lincoln files answer, "knowing no reason why the petition should not be granted." In <name type='case' key='L00583'>People v. Turner</name>, Lincoln, Douglas, and Benedict
    represent Spencer Turner who is indicted for the murder of Matthew K. Martin. Lincoln writes and
    files a plea in <name type='case' key='L00588'>Pratt v. Lowry</name>, and the
    judge later decided the case in favor of the plaintiff. <bibl default='NO'>Record; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-05-23'>Saturday, May 23, 1840.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Jury is called in <name type='case' key='L00583'>People v.
               Turner</name>, indicted for murder. Lincoln enters plea of not guilty for Spencer
            Turner, defendant. His argument brings verdict of not guilty. Lincoln receives 90-day
            note for $200 for his fee.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-05-25'>Monday, May 25, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files pleas in <name type='case' key='L00447'>Young v. Cox</name>, signing "Lincoln p.d."<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> ["Mr. Lincoln, one of the presidential electors for the state, is `going it
            with a perfect rush' in some of the interior counties. Thus far the Locofocos have not
            been able to start a man that can hold a candle to him in political debate. All their
            crack nags . . . have come off the field crippled or broken down. He is wending his way
               north."<bibl default='NO'>Quincy Whig, 25 May 1840.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-05-26'>Tuesday, May 26, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L00447'>Young v. Cox</name>, action to collect on note,
    Lincoln for defendant, is lost when plaintiff is awarded $154.99, plus costs, after defendant
    withdraws pleas. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> In <name type='case' key='L00475'>Ex parte Finley and
    Black</name>, Hannah Finley and Jacob Black, Jr., the administrators of Alvin Finley, deceased,
    petition to sell real estate. Lincoln signs answer (written in another hand) as guardian
     <ital>ad litem</ital> of Mary Elizabeth Finley, infant heir of Alvin Finley, and the judge
    grants permission to the administrators to sell real estate.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Ninth issue of "The Old Soldier" is published.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-05-27'>Wednesday, May 27, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8333, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Decatur, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files pleas in <name type='case' key='L00427'>Prather &amp; Co. v. Nesbitt &amp; Nesbitt</name>, suit to
            recover $87.23. He signs "Lincoln p.d."<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1840-05-30'>Saturday, May 30, 1840.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes assignment of errors in <name type='case' key='L01251'>James &amp; Leonard v. Hughill</name>, appeal from Tazewell
            County. He files assignment and transcript of record with Supreme Court clerk.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>