Promissory Note of Isaac Lindsay to Abraham Lincoln, 28 August 18551
$600–
Springfield, August 28. 1855Twelve monthsAfter date, I promise to payAbraham Lincolnor order,Six hundredDollars —/100, value received, with interest at the rate oftenper cent. per annum from date until paid.2
Isaac Lindsay<Page 2>
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08/29/1857
08/29/1857
Augt[August] 29. 1857. Received sixty dollars, second years interest on within–
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09/01/1858
09/01/1858
Sept[September] 1. 1858–
Credit the within sixty dollars, being third year’s interest
Credit the within sixty dollars, being third year’s interest
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09/07/1859
09/07/1859
Sep[September]. 7. 1859. Received Sixty dollars fourth year’s interest
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08/29/1860
08/29/1860
August 29. 1860. Credit within Sixty dollars, fifth years interest–
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09/02/1863
09/02/1863
Sep 2, 1863 credit within one hundred & twenty dolls[dollars], being seventh & Eighth Years Interest6
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05/31/1864
pr Ror Irwin8
05/31/1864
Recd[Received] May 31, 18674, six Hundred & forty five dolls in full of principal & Interest
A. Lincolnpr Ror Irwin8
2Isaac Lindsay executed a mortgage in Springfield to Lincoln on September 1, 1855 to secure the
payment of this note. The mortgage was on the east half of the north forty-three
feet of lot four in block one of the old town plat for Springfield, Illinois. The
Lindsay note was among those that Lincoln left with Robert Irwin for collection when
the former left Springfield for Washington, DC in February 1861.
Isaac Lindsay to Abraham Lincoln; Receipt for Notes Left with Robert Irwin for Collection; Harry E. Pratt, The Personal Finances of Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, IL: Abraham Lincoln Association, 1943), 76, 80, 164, 165, 166.
Partially Printed Document, 2 page(s), Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (Springfield, IL).