Lincoln delivers and files special plea to set aside default (September 17, 1841) in Field v. Averill & Lowell. Judgment is sustained and defendants allowed appeal.Record.

[Woodford Circuit Court holds first session at Versailles. Logan & Lincoln are represented by Logan, while Lincoln apparently goes to Clinton, arriving in time to file bill in chancery (real estate) in Peter v. Martin et al.Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.]