Lincoln writes a deed for James Cox and Nancy O. Cox, who are selling a little more than 175 acres of land located in Sangamon County to Charles J. F. Clark and Matthew S. Marsh. Lincoln also signs the document as a witness. Deed, 2 April 1834, Private Collection.

[Political meeting is held at Richland, nine miles southwest of New Salem. Nominations made are as follows: Gen. James D. Henry for governor, William L. May for Congress, William F. Elkin for state senator, and Peter Cartwright, Job Fletcher, Samuel Morris, and John Dawson for representatives from Sangamon.Sangamo Journal, 19 April 1834.]

[Stuart & Dummer file a praecipe with the circuit clerk of Sangamon County in the case of Van Bergen v. Lincoln et al.. Clerk issues a summons to defendants, Lincoln, William F. Berry and William G. Green to appear on first day of the April term. Coroner serves the summons on Green but reports "Berry & Lincoln not found in any bailiwick." Peter Van Bergen, to whom Reuben Radford has made partial assignment of a note given by Berry, Lincoln, and Green on October 19, 1833, brings suit against the three signers in the Sangamon County Circuit Court for $500 and $50 damages.Thomas, Lincoln's New Salem, 72.]

[Lincoln's name appears in Sangamo Journal as candidate for legislature.]