<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-05-01'>Thursday, May 1, 1845.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Judge Treat convenes two-day term of DeWitt Circuit Court. Case of <name type='case'>A. Lincoln v. Spencer and William Turner</name> is
            continued. On Lincoln's motion, <name type='case'>Watson and Lloyd v.
               Holsey et al.</name> is continued for want of service in time. He appears for
            plaintiff in <name type='case'>McDowall v. Duncan et al.</name>, which is
            continued by agreement.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1845-05-03'>Saturday,
  May 3, 1845.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> "Register" asserts that victory of Conkling, Whig, in
  mayorality election over Lewis, Democrat, by only 20 votes, engendered fear of
  impending overthrow in Springfield's Whig Junto. "Their principal leaders,
  Messrs. Lincoln and Baker, who were out on circuit, were sent for, and came,
  with other Whig lawyers. Accordingly, on Saturday morning, a desperate rush was
  made in each ward, by these Whig committees&#8212;Baker, Lincoln, Stuart &amp;
  Co. all in the field."<bibl default='NO'>Register, 9 May
  1845.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-05-05'>Monday, May 5, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Piatt Circuit Court convenes at Monticello.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-05-07'>Wednesday, May 7, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Champaign County Circuit Court convenes for four-day term at Urbana.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-05-10'>Saturday, May 10, 1845.</date>
            <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and Gridley are appointed to defend William Weaver, drunkard who
            shot David Hiltibran with rifle for no apparent reason. Shot entered Hiltibran's right
            side and he died. Weaver is found guilty and sentenced to be hanged but escapes.<bibl default='NO'>John R. Stewart, ed., <title>A Standard
                  History of Champaign County, Illinois</title>, 2 vols. (Chicago: Lewis, 1918),
               179; Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-05-12'>Monday, May 12, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> In Coles Circuit Court, Lincoln gets judgment for about $200 for McKibben
            against Hart. He draws up order, which McKibben signs, assigning $35 of judgment to
            Lincoln. This order Lincoln leaves with circuit clerk so that Thomas Lincoln may collect
            money. He also writes court decree, and receipt for $50 Hart gives to McKibben.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy; Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress,
               Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Vermilion Circuit Court, now part of Eighth Judicial District,
         convenes.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-05-13'>Tuesday, May 13, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place> and <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville,
            IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln represents defendant in <name type='case'>Ryan v.
               Anderson</name>. Arriving in Danville, he writes and files pleas, as Fithian's
            attorney, in <name type='case'>Brown v. Fithian</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-05-14'>Wednesday, May 14, 1845.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln files Fithian's oath of absent witness in Brown case, which is
            continued to next term.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-05-15'>Thursday, May 15, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes schedule of debt in <name type='case'>Alexander, administrator of John H. McClelland v. Affleck and Rutherford</name>.  <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington,
               DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-05-19'>Monday, May 19, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.4833, -88.1667' teiForm='name'>Charleston, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Edgar County Circuit Court, now part of Eighth Judicial Circuit, is in
            session this week at Paris.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-05-20'>Tuesday, May 20, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln buys nine yards calico for $1.69, two table cloths, $1.50, and
            $4.19 groceries.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Irwin Ledger and Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> Lincoln &amp; Herndon file summons in <name type='case'>Hope v. Beebe &amp; Taylor</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-05-22'>Thursday, May 22, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln's account is debited $1 for cotton umbrella.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Irwin Ledger and Journal</title>.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-05-26'>Monday, May 26, 1845.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Spring term of Moultrie Circuit Court begins.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1845-05-27'>Tuesday,
  May 27, 1845.</date> 
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes and files bill of injunction in 
  <name type='case'>Short v. Caldwell</name>.
  <bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress,
  Washington, DC.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1845-05-29'>Thursday, May 29, 1845.</date>
            <place key='40.0000, -89.8333' teiForm='name'>Petersburg, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Macon Circuit Court meets today and tomorrow at Decatur.]</p>
      </div2>