<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='Revised'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1843-08-01'>Tuesday,
  August 1, 1843.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Abraham and Mary Lincoln's first child,
  Robert Todd Lincoln, is born in Springfield, Illinois.
  <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%3A318' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Family Record in Abraham
  Lincoln's Bible</xref>, 4 November 1842 - 4 April 1853,
  <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:304.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-08-07'>Monday, August 7, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Election Day. In letter to Speed May 18, 1843 Lincoln said he intended to
            support party nominee for Congress, but at polls he does not vote for Hardin for
            Congress, or for or against Whig candidates for county offices. His only votes are for
            constable and justice of peace.<bibl default='NO'>Election
            Returns.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-08-10'>Thursday, August 10, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln signs bond of Strother G. Jones, constable.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-08-19'>Saturday, August 19, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Sangamon Whigs open campaign of 1844 with convention in Springfield. They
            resolve to fight until they secure Whig legislature, Whig senator, together with
            majority of Whig congressmen&#8212;and pledge themselves to give Henry Clay majority
            of 850 votes in 1844. Lincoln, Baker, and A. G. Henry address convention.<bibl default='NO'>Quincy Whig, 30 August 1843.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1843-08-30'>Wednesday, August 30, 1843.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln makes affidavit before John Calhoun, clerk of Sangamon Circuit
            Court, that Richard J. Hamilton and Benjamin F. Fridley are material witnesses for
            defense in <name type='case' key='L03711'>Johnson v. Strode</name>.
            Defendant desires to take their testimony by deposition.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>