<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-03-01'>Friday, March 1, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes and signs a bill of divorce on behalf of complainant, Joseph S. McNew, in <name type='case' key='L04008'>McNew v. McNew</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='1850-03-04'>Monday, March 4, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes and signs for his client Robert S. Plunkett an answer to a  
cross bill in <name type='case' key='L04368'>Plunkett v. Plunkett</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='1850-03-05'>Tuesday, March 5, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes, signs, and files declaration and praecipe in <name type='case' key='L03869'>Lincoln &amp; Herndon v. Moffett</name>, a Sangamon County Circuit Court case. 
He writes a praecipe in <name type='case' key='L04134'>Nave for use of Matheny v. McCormack</name>, in which he represents the plaintiff Levi Nave.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-03-06'>Wednesday, March 6, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes a declaration in <name type='case' key='L04134'>Nave for use of Matheny v. McCormack</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='1850-03-07'>Thursday, March 7, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln signs, with 54 others, petition to Gov. French asking 
appointment of William B. Fondey as notary public.
<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%3A127' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Augustus C. French: Petition for Appointment of William B. Fondey</xref>, 7 March 1850, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:77.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-03-08'>Friday, March 8, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes and signs a declaration for the plaintiff, P. A. Saunders, in <name type='case' key='L03266'>Saunders v. Fowkes and Robbins</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='1850-03-09'>Saturday, March 9, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes and files in Sangamon Circuit Court bill of complaint 
in <name type='case' key='L04008'>McNew v. McNew</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='1850-03-15'>Friday, March 15, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to President Taylor recommending Robert C. Schenck of 
Ohio for minister to Brazil.
<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%3A128' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Zachary Taylor</xref>, 15 March 1850, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:77-78.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-03-16'>Saturday, March 16, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes, signs, and files a declaration and notice on behalf of Henry McHenry in <name type='case' key='L03647'>McHenry v. Penny</name>, an ejectment case.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1850-03-18'>Monday, March
  18, 1850.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln &amp;
  Herndon have 11 cases in Sangamon Circuit Court, which convenes for spring
  term. In five cases defendants default and their clients are awarded judgments
  for debts and damages aggregating $1,906. Two cases are stricken from docket on
  their motion. Pleas are filed in other cases, and two are continued. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-03-19'>Tuesday, March 19, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Four of Lincoln &amp; Herndon's cases are called in Circuit Court. One is dismissed by agreement. In another, defendants default and they recover debt of $92.23 and $158.17 damages. In third, <name type='case' key='L04939'>Webster &amp; Huntington v. French et al.</name>, remanded by Supreme Court January 19, 1850, they secure leave to file supplemental bill. Fourth case is continued.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
For <name type='case' key='L03650'>Penny v. McHenry et al.</name>, Lincoln writes the deposition of defense witness, James M. Robinson. He writes and signs supplemental bill in chancery for plaintiffs in <name type='case' key='L04939'>Webster &amp; Huntington v. French et al.</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='1850-03-20'>Wednesday, March 20, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Five Lincoln &amp; Herndon cases come before Circuit Court. In one 
they are awarded judgment of $90; two are dismissed; pleas are filed 
in fourth. In fifth case&#8212;<name type='case' key='L03869'>Lincoln &amp; 
Herndon v. Moffett</name>&#8212;they sue for fee of $150 for 
legal services. By agreement they are awarded $75 and costs.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; William H. Townsend, <title>Lincoln the Litigant</title> (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925), 19-20.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-03-21'>Thursday, March 21, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln &amp; Herndon have four cases. In <name type='case' key='L03915'>Luckett v. Crary</name>, appeal, agreed judgment for $30.37&#189; is entered for appellant, their client. Lincoln, Herndon, Logan, and Browning secure rule on defendants in <name type='case' key='L04939'>Webster &amp; Huntington v. French et al.</name> to answer their original and supplemental bills. Pleas are filed in two remaining cases.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-03-22'>Friday, March 22, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Robbins and Taylor, representing plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L03265'>Fowkes v. Saunders</name>, file replication to which Logan, Lincoln &amp; Herndon demur.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to Thomas Ewing recommending Dr. A. G. Henry for 
Indian Agency. "Of all those whom I have desired should receive 
appointments from this Administration, Dr. Henry was at first, has 
always been, and still is, No. One with me."
<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%3A129' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Ewing</xref>, 22 March 1850, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:78.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-03-23'>Saturday, March 23, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In Circuit Court Lincoln &amp; Herndon win divorce for complainant, Robert S. Plunkett, in <name type='case' key='L04368'>Plunkett v. Plunkett</name>. Lincoln writes court decree. In <name type='case' key='L04314'>People v. McHenry and Graves</name>, a case of criminal adultery and fornication, Henry McHenry, their client, posts $200 bond for appearance. On behalf of defendant, they move to dismiss <name type='case' key='L03473'>Glynn v. McMurry et al.</name>
            <bibl default='NO'>Record; Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-03-25'>Monday, March 25, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L03648'>Penny v. McHenry</name>, before court September 4, 1849, comes to trial. Lincoln &amp; Herndon appear for defendant. Lincoln writes testimony of Robert Irwin and part of testimony of Wiley P. Renshaw in case. After hearing arguments of counsel, jury 
retires to consider. In <name type='case' key='L04134'>Nave for use of Matheny v. McCormick</name>, jury is waived, and court awards their client $92.23 debt and $158.17 
damages.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1850-03-26'>Tuesday, March 26, 1850.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln writes letter to John T. Stuart in
  Washington, DC. (Letter is not extant, but photostat of envelope, addressed in
  Lincoln's hand, and name and date written in one corner, is in
  ISLA&#8212;Files.) </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-03-27'>Wednesday, March 27, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L03648'>Penny v. McHenry</name>, jury brings in verdict 
for plaintiff, and assesses damages at $35. In adultery case before 
court March 23, 1850, Lincoln &amp; Herndon move to quash indictment, 
but motion is overruled. Their motion of same day to dismiss <name type='case'>Glynn v. Murray et al.</name> is also overruled. Two 
other cases are continued.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-03-28'>Thursday, March 28, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln &amp; Herndon win <name type='case' key='L03892'>Lloyd v. Pierce</name>, 
appeal from justice's court, when jury is waived and court finds for 
plaintiff in sum of $24.41. Two other cases are continued.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
For <name type='case' key='L03052'>Reuben Coon v. Turner W. Lloyd et al.</name>, 
Lincoln writes affidavits of three witnesses and has them sworn 
before clerk.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-03-29'>Friday, March 29, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln &amp; Herndon file answer of Brayman, one of defendants in <name type='case'>Glynn v. Murray et al.</name> 
            <name type='case' key='L03052'>Coon v. Lloyd et al.</name> and <name type='case' key='L03650'>Penny v. McHenry et al.</name> are continued.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes two more affidavits, and has them sworn, in latter case.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1850-03-30'>Saturday, March 30, 1850.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L04008'>McNew v. McNew</name>, action in chancery in which 
Lincoln &amp; Herndon represent complainant, is their only case, and 
is continued.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Abraham Lincoln and Mary Lincoln convey south 20 feet of Lot 12 in 
Block seven of E. Iles' addition to Springfield by warranty deed to 
Harriett W. Dean and F. S. Dean.
<bibl default='NO'>Deed Record, DD, 482.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln hires John E. Roll and Isaac Smith, plasterers, to whitewash 
two rooms for $2.
<bibl default='NO'>Roll &amp; Smith Account Book.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>