In Finley v. Finley and Winn v. Winn, two divorce cases, Stuart & Lincoln obtain divorces for complainants, Andrew Finley and John Winn respectively. The court rules in favor of Stuart & Lincoln's clients in three chancery cases: Hickman v. Braucher et ux., Miller v. Chrisman et al., and Anderson, Bell & Co. v. Garrett et ux. The court orders Stuart & Lincoln's client, Manley F. Cannan, to give security for costs in Cannan v. Kenney.Record.

Lincoln writes and files court decrees in Miller v. Chrisman et al. and Wilson v. Simpson et al., and the affidavit of William Goodacre in Goodacre v. Simpson.Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Lincoln writes for James Wright application to County Commissioners' Court for permit to build mill dam on Brush Creek.Application Written for James Wright, [March 1838], CW, 1:116.

[Morgan Circuit Court convenes at Jacksonville for two-week session. Judge Jesse B. Thomas, Jr., presides. Josiah Lamborn and firm of William Thomas & William Brown have most cases. John J. Hardin and Murray McConnel are among term's leading lawyers.Record.]

Henry B. Truett, the defendant in People v. Truett, indicted on March 14, 1838 for murder of Dr. Jacob M. Early, gives Stuart & Lincoln each a promissory note for $250 for legal fees. Truett secures the notes with a mortgage on two sections of land in northern Sangamon County [now in Chester Township in Logan County]. Sangamon County Deed Book M, 412-13, Illinois Regional Archives Depository, University of Illinois Springfield.

Stuart writes and files a petition for dower in Musick v. Musick et al., and Lincoln fills out a summons form. They represent the complainant, widow Elizabeth Musick, in the case.Photocopy.

Lincoln is one of 101 citizens of Springfield signing note for $16,666.67 to state bank to enable town to pay second instalment of one third of $50,000 pledged in February 1837 to obtain capital.Note for the Completion of the State Capitol, 22 March 1838, CW, 1:116-17.

[John T. Stuart and Stephen A. Douglas debate issues of their campaign for Congress in Jacksonville.Illinois Standard (Jacksonville), 31 March 1838.]