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Check of Abraham Lincoln to Jackson A. Hough, 28 September 18571
No
SpringfieldSept 281857.
Springfield Marine & Fire Insurance Company,
Pay toJ. A. Hough.or Bearer
Eight.50/100 Dollars,
IN CURRENT BANK NOTES.
$8.50
Richards & Smith, Printers.2
A. Lincoln.
1Abraham Lincoln wrote the handwritten portions of this check and signed his name.
2Although it is unclear what Lincoln purchased from Jackson A. Hough with these funds, given that Hough was a carpenter and cabinet maker, it was likely a piece of furniture of some sort.
U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Springfield, Sangamon County, IL, 123; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Springfield, Sangamon County, IL, 241.

Copy of Partially Printed Document Signed, 1 page(s), Box 20, Benjamin Helm Bristow Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (Washington, DC).