Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

David King to Abraham Lincoln, 10 April 18491
A Lincoln Esq^r[Esquire]D^r[Dear] Sir
Some time since I address you at Washington, requesting you to call on Co^l Edwards & endeavor to procure, or have Co^l[Colonel] Edwards to forward, to my son Jn^o Nevin, a warrant for 160 acres of bounty land–2 Co^l Edwards has not been heard from– Will you have the goodness to inform me by return of mail, whether you procured the warrant & if not, whether there was any cause for its being witheld–3
Yo^r Ob St[Your Obedient Servant],David KingNear Berlin
April 10^th 1849

1Dave King wrote and signed this letter.

2King’s earlier letter to Abraham Lincoln has not been located.

3Lincoln’s response, if he penned one, has not been located.
John N. King was a Mexican War veteran, having served in a non-combat role with Company D, Fourth Regiment of Illinois Volunteers. He applied for a bounty land warrant, but the Bureau of Pensions rejected his application.
Walter B. Hendrickson, ed., "The Happy Soldier: The Mexican War Letters of John Nevin King," Part 1, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 46 (Spring 1953), 13-14, 15; Bounty-Land Warrant Applications Index, Warrant #47-160-54160, National Archives, Washington, DC, accessed 24 September 1850 https://www.fold3.com/record/641357480-john-nevin-king-private.