<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-10-04'>Monday, October 4, 1841.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Livingston County Circuit Court convenes for two-day term at Pontiac.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-10-07'>Thursday, October 7, 1841.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> DeWitt Court opens two-day term. Lincoln calls up suit of his own against
            Spencer Turner, whom he successfully defended on murder charge, for fee of $200. Turner
            defaults and Lincoln gets judgment on Turner's note for $200 and damages. William Turner
            is to show cause at next term why he should not be made party to judgment.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-10-08'>Friday, October 8, 1841.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In <name type='case' key='L00586'>Peter v. Martin et
            al.</name>, Lincoln, for complainant, writes answer of Charles Emerson, guardian, and
            writes decree of court appointing John J. McGraw commissioner. In <name type='case' key='L00648'>Maxwell v. Harrold</name>, jury fails to reach verdict,
            and case is continued.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Herndon-Weik Collection,
               Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-10-11'>Monday, October 11, 1841.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Champaign Circuit Court opens two-day term at Urbana.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='New' TEIform='div2'> 
  <dateline TEIform='dateline'> <date value='1841-10-12' TEIform='date'>Tuesday,
  October 12, 1841.</date> <place teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>.</dateline> 
  <p TEIform='p'>In the Champaign County Circuit Court case of 
  <name type='case' key='L01302'>Brownfield et al. v. Brownfield et al.</name>,
  Lincoln completes a form directing the county sheriff to notify the defendants
  to appear in court "on the second Monday in...May next." Lincoln represents the
  plaintiffs, including Mary Brownfield, the widow James Brownfield, who died
  without a will. The family is in court to settle the estate. <bibl>Summons, 12
  October 1841, <ital>Brownfield et al. v. Brownfield et al.</ital>;
  Commissioner's Report, 17 February 1842, <ital>Brownfield et al. v. Brownfield
  et al.</ital>, both in Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL.</bibl></p>
  </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-10-13'>Wednesday, October 13, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln files in Supreme Court appellant's bond for $729 in <name type='case' key='L01059'>Field v. Averill &amp;
               Lowell</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-10-15'>Friday, October 15, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> ["Sangamo Journal" comments on editorial in "Fulton Telegraph" in which
            Lincoln is proposed as Whig candidate for governor. "The<uLine>Fulton
               Telegraph</uLine> pays just compliment to Mr. Lincoln." His "talents and services
            endear him to the Whig party but we do not believe he desires the nomination."<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 15 October 1841.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-10-18'>Monday, October 18, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Macon Circuit Court meets for one-day session at Decatur.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-10-20'>Wednesday, October 20, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Whig state central committee composed of Lincoln, A. G. Henry, J. F. Sped,
            E. D. Baker, and W. L. May issues call for state convention to be held in Springfield
            December 20, 1841 to nominate candidates for governor and lieut. governor. Convention is
            called off December 13, 1841, because Whigs are unanimously for Joseph Duncan.<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%3A281' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Call for Whig State
               Convention</xref>, 20 October 1841, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:261-62; Missouri Republican, 13 December 1841.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-10-25'>Monday, October 25, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln purchases from his father and mother 40-acre tract in Coles County
            for $200. Thomas Lincoln purchased this tract December 31, 1840, from his stepson John
            D. Johnston for $50. Thomas Lincoln and wife are to have use of land during their
               lifetime.<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%3A282' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Indenture: Thomas and Sarah
                  Lincoln to Abraham Lincoln</xref>, 25 October 1841, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:262-63.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1841-10-26'>Tuesday,
  October 26, 1841.</date> 
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln binds himself to convey tract of
  land he purchased to John D. Johnston or his heirs, on death of Thomas and
  Sarah Lincoln. <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%3A282' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Indenture: Thomas and Sarah
  Lincoln to Abraham Lincoln</xref>, 25 October 1841,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:262-63;
  <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A284' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Bond</xref>, 25 October
  1841, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:263.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [No fall term of Coles Circuit Court is held. Shelby
  Circuit Court opened yesterday for three-day term.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1841-10-30'>Saturday, October 30, 1841.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Someone, perhaps Lincoln, purchases $2 worth of merchandise from a Springfield
    store and charges it to Abraham Lincoln's account.<bibl default='NO'>Account of
     Abraham Lincoln (copy), 30 October 1841, Irwin &amp; Corneau Account Book, 252, microfilm,
     IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>