Lincoln, J. Rowan Herndon, and Peter Elmore witness deed from Ransom Lane and Nancy Lane to James Goldsby for 80 acres in Rock Creek vicinity, four miles south of New Salem, for which Goldsby pays $560. Sangamon County Deed Book F, 217, Illinois Regional Archives Depository, University of Illinois Springfield.

Lincoln fills out and signs a form certifying that Travice Elmore served as a private in Lincoln's company for 48 days during the Black Hawk War and was honorably discharged on June 7, 1832. Certificate of Discharge for Travice Elmore, 29 September 1832, RG 15, Entry 26: Records of the Bureau of Pensions and the Pension Service, Bureau of Pensions Correspondence and Pension Bounty Land Case Files Relating to Military Service Performed Between 1775 and 1861, Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, Case Files of Bounty Land Warrant Applications Based On Service Between 1812 and 1855 and Disapproved Applications Based on Revolutionary War Service, 1800-1900, National Archives Building, Washington, DC