Lincoln, Robert Conover, and William G. Jeter locate road from Watkins' Mill [ten miles northwest of New Salem] northeast to Huron and then north and east to county boundary in direction of Pekin. Lincoln writes on plat, "make us an allowance for one day and a half each." Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.

Lincoln draws up plat of road begun day before. He signs names of Conover and Jeter as other road viewers. Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, Springfield, IL.

[County Commissioners' Court allows Lincoln, Conover, and Jeter $1.50 each for services in viewing and locating a road. County Commissioners' Record D, 248-49.]

Lincoln draws up plat of Albany, a town three miles west of present city of Lincoln, for John Wright and John Donavan. He lays out public square and seven blocks divided east and west by Meridian Street, and north and south by First, Second, and Third Streets. Each lot is 66' × 124'. Sangamon County Deed Record, Book J, 271; CW, 1:opposite 49.