Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

Memorandum regarding Bank Account of Stuart & Lincoln, 24 January 18421
Jany 24th 1842.
I this day drew $71. 70 cents being the ballance of Stuart & Lincoln's deposit in Bank, and deposited $60.41 cents thereof to the credit of Logan & Lincoln, $20. of which is for the use of Stout, Ingoldsby & Co and $40.41 for the use of Daniel Stafford Jr.2 The remaining $11.29, not knowing exactly to whom it belongs, I have put in my pocket, holding myself responsible to whomever may hereafter prove to be the owner.
A. Lincoln

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02/28/1842
Lincoln, Abraham (President)

1842—Feb 28— $50 of the above this day drawn from Bank and loaned to Noah Rickard, with Noah Matheny as surity
Lincoln

1The original of this document, presumably in Abraham Lincoln’s handwriting, has not been located. This transcription is taken from the transcription in Roy P. Basler’s The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln.
Roy P. Basler, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 1:267.

2On April 14, 1841, Lincoln and John T. Stuart dissolved their partnership. Lincoln, who had already begun taking cases in partnership with Stephen T. Logan earlier in the spring, formally became Logan’s junior partner. In 1839, Daniel Stafford, Jr. had retained Stuart & Lincoln to represent him in a case in the Sangamon County Circuit Court; in March 1841 Logan & Lincoln took over the case. The money due to Stout, Ingoldsby & Co. may have been related to two legal cases in 1837, wherein the company sued two central Illinois corporations to recover debts.
“The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: A Narrative Overview,” Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis et al., eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, 2d edition (Springfield: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2009), http://lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org/Reference.aspx?ref=Reference%20html%20files/NarrativeOverview.html; Narratio, 4 March 1841, Stafford v. Whitney and Whitney, Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis et al., eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, http://lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org/Details.aspx?case=140449; Stout, Ingoldsby & Co. v. Jarman & Salter, Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis et al., eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, http://lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org/Details.aspx?case=141029; Stout, Ingoldsby & Co. v. Thomas B. Affleck & Co., Martha L. Benner and Cullom Davis et al., eds., The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln: Complete Documentary Edition, http://lawpracticeofabrahamlincoln.org/Details.aspx?case=141742.