"We finished making & launching the boat in about 4 weeks; we loaded the boat with barrell pork; corn & live hogs, and left Sangamon twn." Interview of John Hanks by William H. Herndon, 1865-66, in Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis, eds., Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998), 457.

Lincoln describes himself as "a strange[r], friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month."Abraham Lincoln to Martin S. Morris, 26 March 1843, CW, 1:319-21.

Lincoln, J. Rowan Herndon, George Close, and James H. Hornbuckle of the New Salem neighborhood serve on the jury in People v. Millrose, an indictment for larceny. The jury finds the defendant not guilty.Record.

The court grants Lincoln's change of venue request in Kellogg v. Crain.Record.

Lincoln, signing the firm name of "Logan & Lincoln," writes to client George W. Hawley of Lee County explaining what he has done in Hawley's bankruptcy case, In re Hawley. Lincoln explains how he spent $20 Hawley had forwarded Logan & Lincoln for expenses in the case.Logan & Lincoln to G. W. Hawley, 18 April 1842, CW, 1:285.

Lincoln buys $6.03 worth of paper and oilcloth shelf "bordering." Irwin Journal.

Lincoln writes and signs amended declaration in Pike v. Shaffer. Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.