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<date value='1849-10-01'>Monday, October 1, 1849.</date>
<place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
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McLean Circuit Court convenes. Lincoln is given leave to amend
complainant's bill in <name type='case' key='L01623'>Allin v. Allin</name>,
divorce.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys second half gallon of vinegar, for 12¢.
<bibl default='NO'>Bunn Journal.</bibl>]
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<date value='1849-10-02'>Tuesday, October 2, 1849.</date>
<place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
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<p>
The court grants Lincoln, representing John W. Stover, leave to file bond for costs in the replevin case of <name type='case' key='L01688'>Stover v. Rucker</name>.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<note place='unspecified' id='n003' anchored='yes' target='a003'>Before his death in July 1849, Robert
S. Todd had begun suit for recovery of estate of his cousin, Mary
Todd Russell, who conveyed her property to Robert Wickliffe, her
husband. On this date bill of revivor is filed in Fayette County
Court, Kentucky, on behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln and other
heirs of Todd, "who charge as in the original & cross bills of
their ancestor." <bibl default='NO'>William H. Townsend, <title>Lincoln and His Wife's Home Town</title> (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1929), 206-7.</bibl>
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<date value='1849-10-04'>Thursday, October 4, 1849.</date>
<place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
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[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> shops. At Irwin's she buys pair of child's boots for
$1.75. At Bunn's grocery she spends $1.20.
<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Journal; Bunn Journal.</bibl>]
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<date value='1849-10-05'>Friday, October 5, 1849.</date>
<place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
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<name type='case' key='L01688'>Stover v. Rucker</name> is tried by jury, which
finds that property in dispute belongs to Lincoln's client.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1849-10-06'>Saturday, October 6, 1849.</date>
<place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington,
IL</place>. </dateline>
<p> Lincoln writes receipt for his fee in
<name type='case' key='L01688'>Stover v. Rucker</name>. "Received of J. M.
Stover by the hand of K. H. Fell five dollars in full for my fee in case of
said Stover vs L. E. Rucker." <bibl default='NO'>Bloomington <title>Pantagraph</title>, 12
May 1893.</bibl>
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<p> Acting under power of attorney from defendant in
<name type='case' key='L01652'>Henry v. Creal</name>, Lincoln confesses
judgment for $139.57. <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
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<date value='1849-10-08'>Monday, October 8, 1849.</date>
<place key='40.0000, -89.2667' teiForm='name'>Mount Pulaski, IL</place>?
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<p>
[Logan Circuit Court convenes. Court records have been destroyed, but
Leonard Swett stated that in autumn of 1849, Judge David Davis
introduced him to Lincoln "in a small country hotel in Mt. Pulaski,
Illinois." <bibl default='NO'>Rice, 455.</bibl>
<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys $7.46 worth of merchandise.
<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Ledger.</bibl>]
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<date value='1849-10-09'>Tuesday, October 9, 1849.</date>
<place key='40.0000, -89.2667' teiForm='name'>Mount Pulaski, IL</place>?
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[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys 13¢ worth of matches.
<bibl default='NO'>Bunn Journal.</bibl>]
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<date value='1849-10-11'>Thursday, October 11, 1849.</date>
<place key='40.0000, -89.2667' teiForm='name'>Mount Pulaski, IL</place>?
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<p>
[DeWitt Circuit Court commences its fall session at Clinton. Mrs.
Lincoln buys $1 worth of sugar and coffee.
<bibl default='NO'>Bunn Journal.</bibl>]
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<date value='1849-10-13'>Saturday, October 13, 1849.</date>
<place key='40.0000, -89.2667' teiForm='name'>Mount Pulaski, IL</place>?
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[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>'s Saturday shopping comes to 75¢ in "sundries."
<bibl default='NO'>Bunn Journal.</bibl>]
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<date value='1849-10-14'>Sunday, October 14, 1849.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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<p>
Lincoln answers letter from Isaac Onstot, son of Henry Onstot who was
cooper in New Salem when Lincoln lived there. Isaac wishes to be
appointed postmaster at Havana. "When a Petition comes to me in
relation to your Post-Master," promises Lincoln, "it shall be
attended to at once."
<bibl default='NO'>
<xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A107' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Isaac Onstott</xref>, 14 October 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:66.</bibl>
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<date value='1849-10-18'>Thursday, October 18, 1849.</date>
<place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
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<p>
[During this week the Lincolns leave for Lexington to investigate
Wickliffe case and Robert S. Todd's estate. Lincoln has evidently
been selected to look after interests of four children (<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>,
Mrs. N. W. Edwards, Mrs. Wallace, and Mrs. C. M. Smith) who reside in
Springfield.
<bibl default='NO'>William H. Townsend, <title>Lincoln and His Wife's Home Town</title> (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1929), 208.</bibl>]
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<date value='1849-10-22'>Monday, October 22, 1849.</date>
<place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.
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<p>
[Illinois legislature meets in special session at Springfield. In
letter of November 21, 1849, Lincoln states that he was "absent from
before the commencement till after the close of the late session of
the Legislature."]
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<date value='1849-10-23'>Tuesday, October 23, 1849.</date>
<place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.
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<p>
[G. W. Forden, who was on boat with the Lincolns, recalled that on
Mississippi some passengers arrange mock arrest and trial of one who
played several pranks on them. Lincoln is selected judge.
<bibl default='NO'>Unpublished MS. by G. W. Forden, owned by J. R. Payton,
Springfield, Ill.</bibl>]
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<date value='1849-10-26'>Friday, October 26, 1849.</date>
<place key='' teiForm='name'>En route</place>.
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[Going up Ohio River, race develops between Lincoln's steamer and
another boat. Lincoln's boat, short of fuel hitches to flatboat of
wood. Lincoln, shouting "Come on boys," jumps down and pitches wood
like deck hand until wood is loaded. But his efforts are unavailing,
for with cheers and laughter rival boat passes them.
<bibl default='NO'>Unpublished MS. by G. W. Forden, owned by J. R. Payton,
Springfield, Ill.</bibl>]
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<date value='1849-10-28'>Sunday, October 28, 1849.</date>
<place key='38.0333, -84.5000' teiForm='name'>Lexington,
KY</place>. </dateline>
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