<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-03-01'>Tuesday, March 1, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> The U.S. District Court admits Lincoln to practice law before the court
            after he pays the $2 fee for a certificate. The bankruptcy law enacted last year by
            Congress goes into effect today.<bibl default='NO'>Wm. H. Bradley to
               Herndon, William H. Herndon Papers, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA;
                  <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 15 October 1841.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-03-02'>Wednesday, March 2, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Logan &amp; Lincoln file complainants' bill and give notice to
            defendants in <name type='case' key='L01043'>Goldsmith v. Cowardin et
            al.</name> Defendants are to appear at June term of Logan Circuit Court at
               Postville.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 4 March 1842</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-03-04'>Friday, March 4, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In the bankruptcy case <name type='case' key='L02386'>In re
               Dishon</name>, Logan &amp; Lincoln file in U.S. District Court a petition in
            bankruptcy, property inventory, and creditors list of Henry Dishon of Union County.
               <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln, representing William Rankin of Logan County, the
            petitioner in the bankruptcy case <name type='case' key='L02421'>In re
               Rankin</name>, appear before the U.S. District Court today for a hearing.<bibl default='NO'>Register, 18 February 1842.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln files a declaration in <name type='case' key='L03324'>C. Goodell &amp; Co. v. John Duff &amp; Co.</name>, a case in
            the Sangamon County Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik
               Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-03-05'>Saturday, March 5, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln appear on behalf of Sangamon County residents
            Joseph Crowl, John Hammer, and Joseph Torrey, petitioners for bankruptcy before Judge
            Pope in the U.S. District Court. <name type='case' key='L02384'>In re
               Crowl</name>, <name type='case' key='L02394'>In re Hammer</name>, and
               <name type='case' key='L02431'>In re Torrey</name> are the first of
            approximately 50 cases Logan &amp; Lincoln handle in "bankrupt court" during the
               year.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Register, 18 February 1842.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1842-03-08'>Tuesday,
  March 8, 1842.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In the bankrutpcy case 
  <name type='case' key='L02400'>In re Johns</name>, Logan &amp;
  Lincoln file in the U.S. District Court a petition in bankruptcy, inventory,
  list of creditors, and a notice to creditors of Edmund G. Johns of Springfield.
  <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-03-11'>Friday, March 11, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln buys $15.56 worth of merchandise from a Springfield merchant.<bibl default='NO'>Account (copy), 11 March 1842, Irwin &amp; Corneau Account
     Book, 252, microfilm, IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [In long article on Washington Temperance Society, "Register" concludes: "does
    any rational man believe for a moment that Abraham Lincoln, B. S. Clement and Edward D. Baker
    have joined the Washingtonian Society from any other than political motives. Would they have
    joined it if it had been exceedingly unpopular?" <bibl default='NO'>Register, 11
     March 1842.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-03-14'>Monday, March 14, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Someone, perhaps Lincoln, makes a deposit to and a withdrawal from Abraham
    Lincoln's account with a Springfield store/bank. The amount of the deposit is $91 cash, and the
    amount of the withdrawal is $100 cash.<bibl default='NO'>Account of Abraham
     Lincoln (copy), 14 March 1842, Irwin &amp; Corneau Account Book, 252, microfilm, IHi,
     Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-03-17'>Thursday, March 17, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln purchase of Ninian W. Edwards "east half of the
            west half of lot six, block fourteen, in the town, now city of Springfield" for
               $400.<bibl default='NO'>Record; ISLA&#8212;<title>Bulletin</title>, No. 16.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln files petition for dower and partition in <name type='case' key='L03098'>Crow &amp; Crow v. Crow et al.</name> in Sangamon
            Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-03-18'>Friday, March 18, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In the bankruptcy cases <name type='case' key='L02392'>In re
               Gambrel</name>, <name type='case' key='L02387'>In re Dunlap</name>,
            and <name type='case' key='L02422'>In re Reed</name>, Logan &amp;
            Lincoln appear before the U.S. District Court as solicitors for James Gambrel and James
            T. Dunlap of Sangamon County and Nathan Reed of Coles County.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln writes and signs for Logan &amp; Lincoln declarations in three
            Sangamon Circuit Court cases: <name type='case' key='L03553'>Hill
               &amp; McGraw v. McPherson &amp; Gray</name>; <name type='case' key='L03838'>Lewis v. Stapleford</name>; <name type='case' key='L02607'>Barret v. Saunders</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-03-19'>Saturday, March 19, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Someone, perhaps Lincoln, deposits $30 cash into Abraham Lincoln's account with a
    Springfield store/bank. <bibl default='NO'>Account of Abraham Lincoln (copy), 19
     March 1842, Irwin &amp; Corneau Account Book, 252, microfilm, IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-03-21'>Monday, March 21, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln represent bankruptcy petitioner Reuben Buck of
            Boone County in <name type='case' key='L02376'>In re Buck</name>, before
            the U.S. District Court.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-03-22'>Tuesday, March 22, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes Speed March 27, 1842 that <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mary Todd</person> went with party to Jacksonville March 21, 1842, and
            "on her return, spoke, so that I heard of it, of having enjoyed the trip exceedingly.
            God be praised for that." Because of train schedules on Northern Cross Railroad, party
            could not return until today. Thus Lincoln is evidently in Springfield.<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%3A298' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F.
                  Speed</xref>, 27 March 1842, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:282-83.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-03-24'>Thursday, March 24, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In letter to Speed March 27, 1842, Lincoln says: "Yours of the 10th. Inst.
            was received three or four days since."<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%3A298' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F.
                  Speed</xref>, 27 March 1842, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:282-83.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-03-25'>Friday, March 25, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> ["Register" mentions several recent meetings of Springfield Junto to decide
            who may be candidates for legislature, deciding on William Butler, Ninian W. Edwards,
            John Dawson, and Lincoln. "Mr. Lincoln, perhaps, will not accept the nomination, though
            urged by Baker, who thinks Mr. Lincoln's influence in the Legislature would elect Baker,
            U.S. Senator."<bibl default='NO'>Register, 25 March 1842.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-03-26'>Saturday, March 26, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln represent the petitioners, Leonard S. Sears of Boone
    County and Henry Smith of Macon County in two bankruptcy cases, <name type='case' key='L02425'>In re Sears</name> and <name key='L02427'>In re Smith</name>, scheduled for a hearing before
    the U. S. District Court. <bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>
     (Springfield, IL), 25 February 1842, 3:3; 4 March 1842, 3:4.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>Someone, perhaps Lincoln, purchases $12.50 worth of merchandise from a Springfield
    store and charges it to Abraham Lincoln's account. <bibl default='NO'>Account of
     Abraham Lincoln (copy), 26 March 1842, Irwin &amp; Corneau Account Book, 252, microfilm,
     IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-03-27'>Sunday, March 27, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes Speed: "It can not be told, how it now thrills me with joy,
            to hear you say you are `<uLine>far happier than you ever expected to
            be</uLine>.' That much I know is enough. I know you too well to suppose your
            expectations were not, at least sometimes, extravagant; and if the reality exceeds them
            all, I say, enough, dear Lord."<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%3A298' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Joshua F.
                  Speed</xref>, 27 March 1842, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:282-83.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-03-28'>Monday, March 28, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On the opening day of the Sangamon County Circuit Court, Logan &amp; Lincoln
    participate in seven cases. Of the seven cases, the court orders three of them to be continued.
    Representing John Maguire, Logan &amp; Lincoln obtain a judgment of $704.77 in <name type='case' key='L03022'>Maguire v. Coflin</name>. Representing the plaintiff in
     <name type='case' key='L02658'>James Bell &amp; Company v. Lockridge</name>,
    Logan &amp; Lincoln win a judgment of $312.09. They secure a divorce for plaintiff Solomon
    Goodman from Nancy Goodman in <name type='case' key='L03329'>Goodman v. Goodman</name>. They
    represent plaintiff Jacob C. Roll in <name type='case' key='L04421'>Roll v.
    Hill</name>, a chancery suit. Logan &amp; Lincoln represent Thomas P. January and James
    Dunlap in <name type='case' key='L03380'>Francis &amp; Sanford v. January
     &amp; Dunlap</name>, and by agreement of the parties, the court sets a hearing for
    Thursday. <bibl default='NO'>Judgment, 28 March 1842, <ital>Maguire v. Coflin</ital>, Record G, 278;
     Judgment, 28 March 1842, <ital>James Bell &amp; Company v. Lockridge</ital>, Record G, 286;
     Judgment, 28 March 1842, <ital>Goodman v. Goodman</ital>, Record G, 291; Decree, 28 March 1842,
      <ital>Roll v. Hill</ital>, Record G, 279; Order, 28 March 1842, <ital>Francis &amp;
      Sanford v. January &amp; Dunlap</ital>, Record G, 279, all in Sangamon County Circuit
     Court, Illinois Regional Archives Depository, University of Illinois at Springfield.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Someone, perhaps Lincoln, purchases $9.25 worth of merchandise from a Springfield
    store and charges it to Abraham Lincoln's account. <bibl default='NO'>Account of
     Abraham Lincoln (copy), 28 March 1842, Irwin &amp; Corneau Account Book, 252, microfilm,
     IHi, Springfield, IL.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-03-29'>Tuesday, March 29, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln participate in fifteen cases in the Sangamon County
    Circuit Court. In <name type='case' key='L04855'>Whitmore v. Clark</name>, they obtain a
    judgment of $630.84 for their client, Hamlin Whitmore. In <name type='case' key='L04413'>Ray v.
     Polk &amp; Kendall</name>, Logan &amp; Lincoln represent Thomas Ray, and in <name type='case' key='L04278'>Pickrell v. McNeil</name>, they represent Abel Pickrell. The court
    dismisses the cases and orders the defendant in each case to pay the court costs. The court sets
    a hearing for Monday in the slander case of <name type='case' key='L04660'>Thurman v.
    Taylor</name>; Logan &amp; Lincoln appear for plaintiff Charles Thurman. The defendants file
    pleas in <name type='case' key='L02535'>Allen v. Ash and Campbell</name>; Logan &amp;
    Lincoln represent Robert Allen. Logan &amp; Lincoln represent Thomas W. Sparks in <name type='case' key='L04542'>Sparks v. Bird &amp; Bird</name>, an ejectment
    suit, and the court orders the defendants to plea within twenty days. The court sets a hearing
    for a later date in the case of <name type='case' key='L03718'>Jones v.
    Maxey</name>. Logan &amp; Lincoln's client Strother G. Jones seeks the return of horses,
    harnesses, and a wagon. <bibl default='NO'>Judgment, 29 March 1842,
      <ital>Whitmore v. Clark</ital>, Record G, 300; Judgment, 29 March 1842, <ital>Ray v. Polk
      &amp; Kendall</ital>, Record G, 301; Order, 29 March 1842, <ital>Pickrell v.
     McNeil</ital>, Record G, 301; Order, 29 March 1842, <ital>Thurman v. Taylor</ital>, Record G,
     297; Order, 29 March 1842, <ital>Allen v. Ash and Campbell</ital>, Record G, 294; Order, 29
     March 1842, <ital>Sparks v. Bird &amp; Bird</ital>, Record G, 297; Order, 29 March 1842,
      <ital>Jones v. Maxey</ital>, Record G, 295, all in Sangamon County Circuit Court, Illinois
     Regional Archives Depository, University of Illinois at Springfield.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-03-30'>Wednesday, March 30, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Logan &amp; Lincoln participate in nine cases in the Sangamon County Circuit
    Court. They represent plaintiffs John L. Blaine, William Tompkins, and William D. Barrett in
     <name type='case' key='L02694'>Blaine, Tompkins, &amp; Barrett v.
    Lewis</name>. The parties reach an agreement, and the court dismisses the case. Logan &amp;
    Lincoln represent plaintiff Wilson Owen in <name type='case' key='L04170'>Owen v.
     Ferrin</name>, and obtain a judgment in his favor for $126.48. In the case of <name type='case' key='L03324'>C. Goodell &amp; Company v. John Duff &amp;
     Company</name>, Logan &amp; Lincoln represent plaintiffs Harrison Goodell and Calvin
    Goodell. Logan &amp; Lincoln request and receive a writ of inquiry to determine the amount
    of damages to be assessed against the defendants. Logan &amp; Lincoln represent defendant
    Andrew Charles, who has been indicted for adultery in <name type='case' key='L04211'>People v. Charles</name>; the court grants a change of venue in response to
    their petition. <bibl default='NO'> Judgment, 30 March 1842, <ital> Blaine,
      Tompkins, &amp; Barrett v. Lewis</ital>, Record G, 312; Judgment, 30 March 1842,
      <ital>Owen v. Ferrin</ital>, Record G, 312; Judgment, 30 March 1842, <ital>C. Goodell
      &amp; Company v. John Duff &amp; Company</ital>, Record G, 310, all in Sangamon County
     Circuit Court, Illinois Regional Archives Depository, University of Illinois at Springfield;
     Affidavit for Change of Venue, 30 March 1842, <ital>People v. Charles</ital>, Herndon-Weik
     Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='Revised' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1842-03-31'>Thursday, March 31, 1842.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan &amp; Lincoln participate in seven cases in the Sangamon County Circuit
    Court. They request and receive continuances in two cases in which they represent the
    plaintiffs: <name type='case' key='L03610'>Hurt v. Carman, Ruckle &amp; Company</name> and
     <name type='case' key='L03451'>A. Harper &amp; Company v. J. Varian &amp;
    Company</name>. In the case of <name type='case' key='L02535'>Allen v. Ash
     &amp; Campbell</name>, Logan &amp; Lincoln obtain a judgment of $224.19 for plaintiff
    Robert Allen. Lincoln writes the court's final judgment. The court awards a judgment of $153.22,
    to plaintiff Eddin Lewis, whom Logan &amp; Lincoln represent in <name type='case' key='L03847'>Lewis v. Barrows</name>. The court hears the defendant's motion to
    dismiss the garnishment proceedings in <name type='case' key='L04681'>Trailor
     &amp; Myer v. Saunders</name>. Logan &amp; Lincoln appear for plaintiffs Archibald
    Trailor and Friedrick Myer. <bibl default='NO'>Order, 31 March 1842, <ital>Hurt
      v. Carman, Ruckle &amp; Company</ital>, Record G, 321; Order, 31 March 1842, <ital>A.
      Harper &amp; Company v. J. Varian &amp; Company</ital>, Record G, 322, both in
     Sangamon County Circuit Court, Illinois Regional Archives Depository, University of Illinois at
     Springfield; Judgment, filed 31 March 1842, <ital>Allen v. Ash &amp; Campbell</ital>,
     Alfred Whital Stern Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Judgment, 31 March 1842,
      <ital>Lewis v. Barrows</ital>, Record G, 322-23; Order, 31 March 1842, <ital>Trailor &amp;
      Myer v. Saunders</ital>, Record G, 327, both in Sangamon County Circuit Court, Illinois
     Regional Archives Depository, University of Illinois at Springfield.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>