Sangamon County Whig convention meets. Nominations for county officers are made. Walter Davis, Z. A. Enos, J. M. Smith, J. A. Pickrell, E. Lewis, A. J. Vandegrift, B. F. Dickinson, and William Carson are appointed delegates to congressional convention and instructed to vote for Lincoln.Sangamo Journal, 5 March 1846.

Lincoln writes to Samuel D. Marshall of Shawneetown, sending him plea in Dorman et ux. v. Lane by which he can compel Lane to pay costs to get record for proving replication.Abraham Lincoln to Samuel D. Marshall, 3 March 1846, CW, 1:370-71.

Lincoln writes bill of divorce in Wilson v. Wilson, for Lincoln & Herndon.Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Lincoln & Herndon file defendant's demurrer in Newton, administrator v. Grubb and Ford. On their motion, leave is given defendant in Betts v. Frazier to take deposition of N. B. Spotswood. Two cases are continued.Record.

Lincoln, for plaintiff, writes answer in Betts v. Frazier, signing "Logan, Lincoln, & Herndon." He writes report of Johnson Whaley, guardian, in Whaley v. heirs of McElyea, petition to sell real estate, which Whaley signs.Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Photocopy.

Wood v. Dormady, assumpsit, is tried before jury. Jury awards $1,000 to plaintiff, client of Logan, Lincoln & Herndon. Decree of foreclosure is granted in Cooper v. Crosby and Robbins. Lincoln & Herndon appear for complainant. He writes decree of court.Record; Photocopy.

Lincoln writes and swears affidavit of William M. Brown in Brown et al. v. Humphreys et al.Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Brown et al. v. Harlan et al. is submitted to court. In Wood v. Dormady, plaintiff files affidavit, and on his motion, court orders that execution issue forthwith. Lincoln appears for plaintiff with Jordan and Herndon in first case and Logan and Herndon in second.Record.

Lincoln appears for his partner in petition of Herndon as administrator of James Bell, to sell real estate. Logan and Lincoln as attorneys for defendant consent to judgment of $100 against their client in City of Springfield v. A. G. Herndon. Court orders injunction dissolved and complainants' bill dismissed in Brown et al. v. Harlan et al.Record.

Lincoln files defendants' demurrer in Lamb v. Hickox and Hickox. Complainants file replications in Benz v. Elliott and Betts v. Frazier. Lincoln represents defendant alone in first case and with Logan and Herndon in latter.Record.

Lincoln writes and swears affidavit of Nathaniel Hay in Hay v. Bryan and Bryan.Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Defendants' demurrer, filed by Lincoln March 23, 1846 in Newton v. Grubb and Ford, is sustained. Plaintiff is barred from acting against defendants. Eleven chancery cases of Lincoln and Herndon are continued and 18 stricken from docket.Record.