Lincoln votes for Joseph Duncan for governor, S. T. Logan, J. N. Brown, W. Hickman, and W. Caldwell for representatives, W. F. Elkin for sheriff, and Jechoniah Langston for coroner.Election Returns.

Logan & Lincoln file the petition for bankruptcy of William L. Wilmans of Grayville, Illinois, in the U.S. District Court. Judge Pope sets In re Wilmans for an October 1, 1842, preliminary hearing.Record.

Lincoln files declaration and enters himself security for costs in Justice & Justice v. Garth, trespass case in Tazewell County.Photocopy.

Lincoln writes "Friend Walker" enclosing court order "allowing your assignee to sell your property on a credit . . . take their bonds and security . . . and in the final settlement . . . set off their dividends against those bonds."Abraham Lincoln to [Isaac P.?] Walker, 15 August 1842, CW, 1:291.****

Lincoln for complainant and S. Strong for defendants sign agreement allowing complainant's withdrawal of notes and mortgages sued on in Ware v. Hobbs & Jones.Photocopy; Christian County File.

[First "Rebecca letter" appears in Sangamo Journal, provoking Whig laughter at expense of James Shields, auditor.]

Lincoln writes, swears, and files affidavit and petition for writ of attachment, signed by his client William Dormady, in Dormody v. Cavanaugh.Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.