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.

Edward Baker Lincoln, second child, is born to Abraham and Mary Lincoln.Family Record in Abraham Lincoln's Bible, 4 November 1842 - 4 April 1853, CW, 1:304.

In Andrew J. Wilson v. Susan Wilson, testimony is heard on petition and divorce granted. Lincoln & Herndon appear for complainant.Record.

[Lincoln makes trip to Jacksonville between close of Sangamon court March 30, 1846, and opening of Tazewell court April 9, 1846.Abraham Lincoln to James Berdan, 26 April 1846, CW, 1:380.]