<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-10-03'>Thursday, October 3, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Whig rally and barbecue is addressed by Lincoln, D. M. Woodson, William I.
            Ferguson, and others. Much enthusiasm is expressed and all appear confident of success
            at polls.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 10 October 1844; Burlington (Iowa)
               Hawkeye, 26 October 1844.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Piatt Circuit Court convenes at Monticello.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-10-05'>Saturday, October 5, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.7333, -90.2167' teiForm='name'>Jacksonville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln's account is debited 38&#162; for pair of child's shoes, and
            $9.39 for merchandise.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Irwin Ledger and Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-10-07'>Monday, October 7, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.9500, -90.2000' teiForm='name'>Virginia, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case'>Thayer v. Farrell</name>, attachment suit, is called in
            Cass Circuit Court. By agreement case is moved to Sangamon County on change of venue.
            Logan &amp; Lincoln appear for plaintiff and Delahay and Baker for defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Macon Circuit Court convenes for one-day term.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1844-10-09'>Wednesday, October 9, 1844.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Logan &amp;
  Lincoln file praecipe and pray issue of summons against defendant in 
  <name type='case'>Napier v. Wooldridge</name> in U.S. Circuit
  Court. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
         <p>
  Lincoln's name is among prominent Whigs advertised to attend Whig mass meeting
  in Decatur today.<bibl default='NO'> 
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 26 September 1844.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-10-10'>Thursday, October 10, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Lincoln's account is charged $1.31 for cloth, pair of black hose, and
               tape.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Irwin Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Moultrie Circuit Court convenes at Sullivan.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-10-14'>Monday, October 14, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Shelby Circuit Court convenes for two-day term at Shelbyville.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-10-15'>Tuesday, October 15, 1844.</date>
            <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln appears for plaintiff in Peoria Circuit Court in <name type='case'>Spies v. Neal et al.</name> Spies, New York merchant, got judgment by
            default for $1,273 debt and $52.41 damages in May 1839. On October 2, 1844, Spies
            purchased property levied upon at sheriff's sale. Lincoln asks court to set aside levy
            on execution issued on judgment.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-10-16'>Wednesday, October 16, 1844.</date>
            <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Sometime during 1844 Lincoln and William L. May engage in heated debate at
            Main Street Presbyterian Church in Peoria. Date of encounter has not been definitely
            determined, but some evidence indicates that it was three-day debate commencing October
            15, 1844.<bibl default='NO'>Peoria Transcript, 21 April 1881, 23 April
               1881; ISLA&#8212;Ernest E. East to H. E. Pratt, 19 July 1938.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-10-17'>Thursday, October 17, 1844.</date>
            <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place> and <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
            IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln returns home and buys 12&#188; yards of cloth ($2.95), 6 yards
            white flannel ($4.50), and a dozen pearl buttons, for winter underwear.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Irwin Journal and Ledger</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-10-18'>Friday, October 18, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln draws from auditor warrant for $150 for Judge John D. Caton, part
            of judge's salary for quarter ending September 30, 1844 as member of Supreme Court of
               Illinois.<bibl default='NO'>Warrant Register, Auditor's Office.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-10-19'>Saturday, October 19, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In U.S. Circuit Court Logan &amp; Lincoln, plaintiffs' attorneys, file
            suit to foreclose mortgage executed by defendants in <name type='case'>Woods et al. v. Yates et al.</name>, and ask that summons be issued. Mortgage was
            made February 8, 1843, on 160 acres in Christian County to secure $457 to Woods, Christy
            &amp; Co. of St. Louis.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-10-21'>Monday, October 21, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln represents defendant in <name type='case'>Alexander
               v. Affleck</name> as Coles Circuit Court convenes.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-10-24'>Thursday, October 24, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [It is probable that Lincoln started for Vincennes latter part of this
            week. He is said to have been guest of Judge Abner T. Ellis, though there is no record
            that he made address in Vincennes. Major William Bruce, for whom Bruceville, Indiana was
            named, claimed that Lincoln spoke in brick schoolhouse in Bruceville.<bibl default='NO'>LL, No. 271.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1844-10-25'>Friday,
  October 25, 1844.</date> 
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [There is a tradition that Lincoln gave
  political address in Washington, Indiana, under large elm tree at Third and
  Main streets and engaged in law suit in Daviess County Court.
  <bibl default='NO'>LL, No. 271.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-10-28'>Monday, October 28, 1844.</date>
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Christian Circuit Court meets for one-day term.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-10-30'>Wednesday, October 30, 1844.</date>
            <place key='37.8667, -87.0333' teiForm='name'>Rockport, IN</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln speaks to large audience at court house in evening. He sets forth
            main arguments for protective tariff. He is followed by the friend of his youth, John
               Pitcher.<bibl default='NO'>(Rockport) <title>Indiana
                  Herald</title>, 1 November 1844; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A363' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Speech at Rockport,
               Indiana</xref>, 30 October 1844, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:341-42.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>'s hired girl
            collects tapes at store, 13&#162;.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin
            Ledger.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1844-10-31'>Thursday, October 31, 1844.</date>
            <place key='37.8667, -87.0333' teiForm='name'>Rockport, IN</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [If Lincoln attended meeting of Clay Club at Evansville, Indiana November
            1, 1844, he spent today on road from Rockport to Evansville. Logan Circuit Court
            convenes at Postville. Logan &amp; Lincoln are attorneys for plaintiff in partition
            suit of <name type='case'>Drury Martin and Sarah Martin v. Thomas Lowry
               et al.</name>, which is heard this term.]</p>
      </div2>