<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-10-01'>Wednesday, October 1, 1851.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
"Circuit C. is now in session," observes Whig. "The following are the 
lawyers in attendance: Lincoln &amp; Campbell, Spg.; W. Parker, 
Pekin; Emerson, Wait, Post &amp; Burr of Decatur; C. H. Moore, 
Clinton; A. Gridley, Wm. H. Holmes, J. M. Scott, J. H. Wickizer, A. 
McWilliams, Wm. H. Hanna &amp; ____ Hill of Bloomington. We 
understand the docket is small, &amp; very little business to do."
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-10-02'>Thursday, October 2, 1851.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln, defendant's attorney in <name type='case' key='L01689'>Thompson v. Henline</name>, slander with $3,000 damages claimed, moves to amend declaration. Motion denied.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-10-03'>Friday, October 3, 1851.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L01689'>Thompson v. Henline</name> is tried by jury, which disagrees and case is continued. Lincoln writes replication, defendant's plea, and joinder in issue.
<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='1851-10-04'>Saturday, October 4, 1851.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
            <name type='case' key='L01691'>Thompson v. Patton</name> is continued on Lincoln's motion.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-10-06'>Monday, October 6, 1851.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln buys lots 11 and 12 in Evans' Addition to City of Bloomington 
from Levi Davis and wife of Alton for $325.08.
<bibl default='NO'>Deed Record Q, 174.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
(He sells them April 12, 1856 for $400.
<bibl default='NO'>Book 27, 686.)</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
[Logan Circuit Court begins its session at Mt. Pulaski.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-10-07'>Tuesday, October 7, 1851.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[U.S. District Court begins fall term in Chicago.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>Chicago Journal</title>.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-10-09'>Thursday, October 9, 1851.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Fall term of Dewitt Circuit Court begins.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-10-10'>Friday, October 10, 1851.</date>
            <place key='40.4833, -88.9833' teiForm='name'>Bloomington, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> buys cloth, collar, pair of slippers, and ribbon from 
John Williams &amp; Co.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 145.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-10-13'>Monday, October 13, 1851.</date>
            <place key='40.0167, -88.5667' teiForm='name'>Monticello, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Piatt Circuit Court convenes. <name type='case'>Barry v. Sword</name>, appeal, is continued at plaintiff's costs. Moore and Lincoln are attorneys for plaintiff.
<bibl default='NO'>Record; Docket.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-10-15'>Wednesday, October 15, 1851.</date>
            <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
On first day of Champaign Circuit Court, <name type='case' key='L01406'>Davis v. Wilson et ux.</name>, before court May 1, 1851, is settled by agreement, defendants being ordered to convey premises in question to complainant. In case they default, Lincoln is to act as commissioner 
and make conveyance. <name type='case' key='L01303'>Brownfield v. McElroy</name>, appeal, is dismissed by Lincoln at cost of his client, plaintiff.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-10-20'>Monday, October 20, 1851.</date>
            <place key='40.1000, -88.2000' teiForm='name'>Urbana, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Fall term of Vermilion Circuit Court begins.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1851-10-21'>Tuesday, October 21, 1851.</date> 
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Johnson Pate, one of defendants in 
  <name type='case'>People v. Pate &amp; Pate</name>, larceny, defaults. Lincoln
  and O. L. Davis are his attorneys. <name type='case' key='L01878'>Cooper v.
  Grace</name>, in which Lincoln and Davis represent defendant, is continued. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-10-22'>Wednesday, October 22, 1851.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L01878'>Cooper v. Grace</name> jury finds defendant guilty and assesses plaintiff's damages at $35. <name type='case' key='L01867'>Canterbury v. Hollingsworth</name>, appeal, is continued on Lincoln's affidavit that he cannot proceed because of absence of defense witness.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes court order in <name type='case'>People v. Pate &amp; Pate</name>. In <name type='case' key='L01995'>Peabody v. Roney</name>, chancery, he obtains leave to take depositions.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy; Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-10-23'>Thursday, October 23, 1851.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L01910'>Gundy v. Gundy</name>, complainant having filed amended bill since last term, when case was continued, parties agree that defendant's answer to original bill stand as to amended bill so far as it applies. Murphy is attorney for complainant, Lincoln and Sconce represent defendant.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-10-24'>Friday, October 24, 1851.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In Joseph Wilson and James Palmer, conservators of William Wilson in <name type='case' key='L02060'>Wilson et al. v. Kingsbury et al.</name>, Davis, for defendants, files demurrer to part of Lincoln and Murphy's bill. Demurrer is argued and sustained and plaintiffs are given leave to file amended bill.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes and mails to Springfield declaration in <name type='case' key='L03354'>Green v. Strode et al.</name>, Sangamon Circuit Court case. He includes $475.11 promissory note, acting for defense.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-10-25'>Saturday, October 25, 1851.</date>
            <place key='40.1167, -87.6167' teiForm='name'>Danville, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[<person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person> sends Robert to John Williams' store for two 15&#162; 
cards of buttons.
<bibl default='NO'>Pratt, <title corresp='books_Pratt3'>Personal Finances</title>, 145.</bibl>]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-10-27'>Monday, October 27, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.6000, -87.6833' teiForm='name'>Paris, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Edgar Circuit Court convenes. By agreement between Benedict and Lincoln for plaintiff and Emerson and Steele for defendant, court dismisses <name type='case' key='L00759'>People for use of Nancy Burr et al. v. Seth Austin</name>, adm. of Elijah Austin, action for debt. <name type='case' key='L00789'>Matkin v. Brown</name> is also dismissed. Lincoln is attorney for Brown.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-10-28'>Tuesday, October 28, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.6000, -87.6833' teiForm='name'>Paris, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L00790'>Matthews &amp; Shaw v. Shaw</name>, Lincoln, exhibiting power of attorney from defendant, confesses judgment of $1,009.75. Lincoln and Dill secure rule on defendant in <name type='case' key='L00755'>Sizemore v. Moke, conservator of Sizemore</name> to plead by tomorrow. Lincoln and Linder lose <name type='case' key='L00787'>Moke for use of Minor v. Willhoit</name>, appeal, when jury finds for plaintiff in sum of $45. Lincoln files defendant's plea of not guilty in <name type='case' key='L00765'>Davidson v. Bailey</name>, ejectment suit. Five other Lincoln cases are continued.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
He writes and signs plea in <name type='case' key='L00777'>Paddock v. Snyder</name>. He also writes joinder of issue, which John P. Usher signs.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1851-10-29'>Wednesday, October 29, 1851.</date>
            <place key='39.6000, -87.6833' teiForm='name'>Paris, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
In <name type='case' key='L00755'>Sizemore v. Moke, conservator of Sizemore</name> jury fails to agree and is discharged. Case is assumpsit suit. Lincoln's only other case is continued.
<bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1851-10-31'>Friday, October 31, 1851.</date> 
            <place key='39.6000, -87.6833' teiForm='name'>Paris,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln and Dill recover part of damages claimed in
  <name type='case' key='L00757'>Tenbrook for use of John Stewart Jr. &amp; Co.
  v. Guthrie</name> when court awards plaintiff $532.77. They win assumpsit suit,
  <name type='case' key='L00760'>Benson v. Mayo</name>, when jury finds for
  plaintiff in sum of $400. <name type='case' key='L00791'>Munsell v.
  McReynolds</name>, bill for settlement of partnership in which Lincoln and
  Linder represent defendant, is referred to master for taking testimony. 
  <bibl default='NO'>Record.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>