Lincoln, J. Rowan Herndon, and Peter Elmore witness deed from Ransom Lane and Nancy Lane to James Goldsby for 80 acres in Rock Creek vicinity, four miles south of New Salem, for which Goldsby pays $560. Sangamon County Deed Book F, 217, Illinois Regional Archives Depository, University of Illinois Springfield.

[Peter Cartwright opens large Methodist camp meeting west of Springfield. More than 1,000 converts are made during two week meeting. Cartwright is described as "not tall, but burly, massive . . . crowning foliage of luxuriant, coal black hair, wreathed into long, but rough and curling ringlets . . . a head that looked as large as a half-bushel . . . a swarthy complexion, rich, rosy lips, always slightly parted, as if wearing a perpetual happy smile."Illinois Journal, 30 January 1850.]

Lincoln completes and signs a form certifying that during the Black Hawk War, George Warburton "served as a private in the Company of Mounted Volunteers" under Lincoln's "command." Lincoln attests that Warburton was "honorably discharged" on June 7, 1832. Certificate of Discharge for George Warburton, 11 September 1832, Private Collection.