<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-04-01'>Thursday, April 1, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Signing "Logan &amp; Lincoln," Lincoln files joint answer of John
            Broadwell and Charles Broadwell to original and amended bills of Marshall Thompson and
            wife in Sangamon Circuit Court.<bibl default='NO'>Original owned by
               Thomas F. Madigan.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-04-05'>Monday, April 5, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Afternoon meeting is held to "adopt measures to co-operate with citizens in
            other counties . . . in their expression of sympathy and regret for Gen. J. J. Hardin"
            and other Illinoisans killed at Buena Vista. Lincoln explains purpose of meeting and
            offers resolutions. Committee of five is appointed to correspond with representatives of
            other counties to arrange ceremonies.<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Sangamo Journal</title>, 8 April 1847; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A412' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Resolutions Adopted at John J.
                  Hardin Memorial Meeting</xref>, 5 April 1847, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:392-93.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-04-06'>Tuesday, April 6, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln signs petition for pardon of John Hoffman, convicted in Sangamon
            Circuit Court, March term, of unlawful assembly and assault, fined $10 and sentenced to
            ten days.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline> 
            <date value='1847-04-07'>Wednesday, April 7, 1847.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Tazewell
  Circuit Court convenes for spring term at Tremont.]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-04-08'>Thursday, April 8, 1847.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Peters for plaintiff and James and Lincoln for defendant argue plaintiff's
            demurrer in Wells, administrator of <name type='case'>Allen v.
            Clark</name>, administrator of Shustoff. Court takes it under advisement. Case is action
            for debt.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-04-09'>Friday, April 9, 1847.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and Saltonstall obtain leave to amend their bill by making new
            parties in <name type='case'>William and Deborah Phillips v. widow and
               heirs of Jonathan Merriam</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> [Schedule of insolvent debtor J. G. H. Smith filed in Menard County lists
            $15 note owed Lincoln.<bibl default='NO'>Original owned by King Hostick,
               Springfield, IL.</bibl>]</p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-04-10'>Saturday, April 10, 1847.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On notice by Lincoln and Parker for defendant and affidavit filed,<name type='case'>Dillon v. Scott</name> is continued. Wells, administrator
            of <name type='case'>Allen v. Clark</name>, administrator of Shustoff, is
            also continued.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-04-12'>Monday, April 12, 1847.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case'>Walker v. Livingston and Powell</name>, action in debt,
            is settled by agreement, plaintiff ordered to recover $276.58 debt and $55.44 damages.
            Lincoln represents plaintiff.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-04-14'>Wednesday, April 14, 1847.</date>
            <place key='40.5167, -89.4833' teiForm='name'>Tremont, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> On motion of complainant, decree of September 15, 1846 in <name type='case'>Snell v. Snell et al.</name> is set aside; mortgagee having released
            his interest to complainant, bill against one defendant is abandoned. Others default.
            Complainant is ordered to recover $3,843.93, and mortgaged property to be sold to
            satisfy judgment. Lincoln represents defendants.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-04-15'>Thursday, April 15, 1847.</date>
            <place key='40.7833, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Metamora, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Woodford Circuit Court begins its session. In <name type='case'>Smith v. Strawn</name>, plaintiff is awarded $500 for breach of
            covenant. Fenn and Lincoln, for defendant, move arrest of judgment. Motion is overruled
            and appeal to Supreme Court allowed. Lincoln is attorney for defendant in <name type='case'>Headlock v. Jenkins and Jenkins</name>. After hearing
            testimony, Gridley, for plaintiff, dismisses suit. George Kerr Sr. and J. Randolph
            Scott, indicated for aiding fugitive slave, win dismissal of charge when Lincoln argues
            lack of proof that Negro in case was slave.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-04-17'>Saturday, April 17, 1847.</date>
            <place key='40.7833, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Metamora, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case'>Tabor v. Higginbotham</name>, ejectment suit, is
            settled by agreement between Peters, attorney for plaintiff, and Lincoln and Merriman
            for defendant.<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform' type='New'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1847-04-18'>Sunday,
  April 18, 1847.</date> 
            <place key='40.6833, -89.5833' teiForm='name'>Peoria, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Lincoln writes to Grant Goodrich, an attorney in Chicago with
  whom he is working on three related cases in the U.S. Circuit Court. Lincoln
  and Goodrich represent plaintiff William Anderson in the case of 
  <name type='case' key='L05073'>Anderson v. Lawrence</name>, plaintiff William
  Dayton in the case of <name type='case' key='L05072'>Dayton v. Lawrence</name>,
  and plaintiff William R. Voce in the case of <name type='case' key='L02223'>Voce v. Lawrence</name>. In each case, the plaintiff is suing
  defendant Grove Lawrence in an action of assumpsit to recover damages for
  "fraud and misrepresentation in the sale of land." Lincoln writes that he has
  been tardy in replying to Goodrich's recent letter because he has been "so busy
  with our own court, [and] with preparations to go on the circuit." Lincoln
  agrees that Goodrich should "take no further testimony in New-York." Lincoln
  advises Goodrich to "Bring down with you to court, all the <uLine>home</uLine>
  testimony you can, on all points, and let the cases rest upon that." 
  <bibl default='NO'>Grant Goodrich to William H. Herndon, 9 December 1866, Herndon-Weik
  Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Abraham Lincoln to Grant
  Goodrich (transcript printed), 18 April 1847, CW 10:9-10.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-04-19'>Monday, April 19, 1847.</date>
            <place key='40.7833, -89.3500' teiForm='name'>Metamora, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [At Bloomington spring term of McLean Circuit Court begins.]</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-04-20'>Tuesday, April 20, 1847.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln negotiates agreement in <name type='case'>McDuffee
               v. Ward</name> to drop case at cost of plaintiff on surrender of notes by defendant.
            Lincoln signs petition for pardon of Jacob Hoffman.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1847-04-26'>Monday,
  April 26, 1847.</date> 
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington,
  IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> [Logan Circuit Court begins session at
  Mt. Pulaski. Lincoln writes and signs amended declaration in Charleston case of
  <name type='case'>Pearson and Anderson v. Monroe and
  Eastin</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='1847-04-29'>Thursday, April 29, 1847.</date>
            <place key='40.1500, -88.9500' teiForm='name'>Clinton, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> DeWitt Circuit Court convenes. Lincoln and Stuart file defendants' plea in
               <name type='case'>Moore v. Grosh et al.</name>
            <name type='case'>Bushnell v. Knapp et al.</name>, chancery, is continued
            on motion of Moore, defendants' attorney. Lincoln is for complainant.<bibl default='NO'>Record; Files.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p> He writes and files, for defendants, plea in <name type='case'>Moore v. Sampson and Sampson</name>.<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

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         <dateline>
            <date value='1847-04-30'>Friday, April 30, 1847.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p> Lincoln loans to Joel Johnson $10 from his bank account.<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>