Lincoln writes affidavit of Jacob Bunn, summons and capias in Bunn v. Houghton, assumpsit, Sangamon Circuit Court. Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

In margin of record book opposite Cantrall mortgage of November 28, 1851, Lincoln writes: "Satisfied in full, this 29th day of November 1852. Witness my hand and seal. A. Lincoln." Book HH, 148; Endorsement on Mortgage from Thomas Cantrall and Elizabeth Cantrall, 29 November 1852, CW, 2:162.

Lincoln leaves for Ottawa where he and Noah Johnston are to sit as commissioners to hear claims against Illinois and Michigan Canal. He goes by way of Naples and Illinois River. Illinois Reports, 1853, No. 9.