Received ofAbraham Lincolnthe State and County Tax for the year 1846on the following Real Estate and Personal property, in Sangamon County, Ill. Val.[Value] real est.[estate] $240 personal prop.[property] $ Tax, $1.80
E[East] 1/2 S E[Southeast] qr Sec[quarter Section] 12 T[Township] 15 R[Range] 6 A[Acres] 801 qr Sec T R A
W. HarveySheriff &Col'r.[Collector]Town
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1This land was a gift to Mary Lincoln from her father in 1844. As her husband, Lincoln was the legal owner of the property and was responsible
for the taxes on it.
Deed of Robert S. Todd and Elizabeth Todd to Mary Lincoln; Daniel W. Stowell, “Femes UnCovert: Women’s Encounters with the Law,” in Daniel
W. Stowell, In Tender Consideration: Women, Families, and the Law in Abraham Lincoln’s Illinois (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002), 18.
Partially Printed Document Signed, 2 page(s), Lincoln Collection, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (Springfield, IL)