Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

Poll Book
of

An Election held in the Court-house in the Springfield Precinct on the twelfth day of February 1838, for one Justice of the Peace and one Constable.

Candidates
for Justice of Peace Candidates
for Constable

M Eastham J. S. Britton Francis Taylor G W Maxwell John C Maxey E Stapleford John Chapman Isaac Fail

N. W. T. Goodwill / /

Levi W. Goodan / /

Charles R. Hurst / /

John P. Urqhart / /

N. D. Spotswood / /

Jared Williams / /

L. G. Jones / /

James Dowdell / /

Timothy Langwill / /

Lewis Keeland / /

Jacob Slagen / /

E. D. Carter / /

Thomas Vandigriff / /

John J. Darlune / /

C. B. Francis / /

Van S. Bennett / /

Ellis Hart / /

A. C. Harover / / /

Francis Hilman / /

J. M. Hanchy / /

Rhodes Loyd / /

William M^cCormack / /

E. J. Hutchinson / /

S. W. Loyd / /

Ephraim Shryer / /

James Maxey Jun^r / /

17 4 5 3 6 11 6

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Justice Peace Constable

Eastman Britton Taylor Maxwell Maxey Stapleford Chapman Fail

Benjamin Law /

John Shirull / /

John L. Britt / /

James Maxey Sen^r / /

James Edwards / /

William Herndon / /

Nicholas Shultz / /

John B. Weber / /

Thomas Peet / /

Noah W. Matheny / /

George Prickett / /

Daniel Hodnick / / /

William Elder / /

Seth Wetherby / /

James Langford / /

John M. Cabaniss / /

John Williams / /

Hosea J. Armstrong / /

John Lindsay / /

Samuel Smith / /

James Campbell / /

John M^cKane / /

Daniel Stringer / /

Walker Mifflin / /

Larkin Bryant / /

Alvin Houghton / /

John Burkhart / /

Lewis Cass / /

Ebenizer Stout / /

Charles Losh / /

Lemuel Higby / /

William Alvey / /

17 8 7 4 5 13 8 1

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Justice Peace Constable


Morris Savage / / /

Joel Hughes / /

W^m S. Wallace / /

L. P. Cabaniss / /

W^m H Marsh / /

E H. Merryman / /

J. C. Plank / /

Robert Orr / /

E. C. Blankenship / /

Samuel Ayers / /

Thomas Slattery / /

Newton E. Bateman / /

Charles Nelson / /

Andrew M^cCormick / /

William Scollin / /

J. R. Diller / /

James Davis / /

R H. Proctor / /

George H. Hoyt / /

George H.Hoyt / /

C. F.Hughes /

John Keys / /

Henry Hagerty / /

W^m M. Cowgill / /

W. S. Burch / /

John G. Payne / /

[Sapusson?] Stripling / /

Wilson Housey / /

James J. Mathews / /

James E. Bell / /

Robert Allen / /

Charles Abrams / /

18 7 5 1 8 15 6 1

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Names of Voters Justice of Peace Constable


John E Rait / /

C. B. Watson / /

George Wood / /

N. A. Rankin / /

George R Weber / /

G B Hill / /

George Nation / /

John White / /

John F. Wilson /

Nathan Spears / /

Aaron Coffman / /

George W. Dickinson / /

P. C. Latham / /

Robert Irwin / /

Robert Cannon / /

Jacob G. [Loop?] / /

Medad Filley / /

William Porter / /

Thomas Lewis / /

William Ashford / /

Greenbury Grue / /

Thomas Smith / /

W^m M. Watson / /

Elijah Hawke / /

Toliver Stripling / /

Charles Dunn / /

L. S. Cornwell / / /

Jackson Hough / /

Jonathan Hall / /

Jesse Cormack / /

J P. M^cDaniel / /

Edward Hammond / /

11 10 10 4 9 9 5 4 1

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Voters Names J. P. Constable

Eastham Britton Taylor Maxwell Maxey Stapleford Chapman Fail

Stephen F. Logan /

Simeon Francis / /

Joel Johnson /

Charles C. Phelps / /

Enoch Burge / /

Charles L. D. Crockwill / /

Abram Lincoln / /

P. P. Enos / /

William H. Camp / /

Joseph Millsted / /

B. C. Johnson / /

Thomas Houghan /

Jacob J. Allinder /

Joseph Knotts / /

Clark S. Brown / /

Thomas J. Gofirth / /

Charles Gascomb / / /

Mossis Lindsey / /

Charles Webster / /

Bayliss Williams / /

Allen Francis / /

J. F. Davis /

John Houflefinner / /

Stephen A. Douglas / /

Jesse Rogers / /

W^m H. Dooley /

J. M. Jones / /

John Fenner /

Henry Newman / /

Washington Fate / /

John M^cDenney / /

7 22 1 15 8 1 1

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Peter Langwell / /

John Haskins / /

Charles Greene / /

Thomas M^cCleese / /

Shelton Walcross / /

Francis Rooney / /

{hilip Blannan / /

Nathaniel O’Neale / /

Thomas M^cCormack / /

John Easly / /

Ephraim Darling / /

John Gelman / /

Henry Johnson / /

John Chapman / /

[Horad?] Williams / /

Timothy Toffs / /

John Sutton / /

Hugh M. Armstrong / /

E. G. Johns / /

James Briggs /

Arch^d Traylor / /

George W. Maxwell / /

James F. Reed / /

J. B. Loop / /

Edward J. Phillips / /

John Klein / /

James Grant / /

Isaac Leebo / /

Henry Davis / /

Calvin Hobbs / /

Cornelius Vanlien / /

19 12 1 7 21 1

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Voters Names J.P. Constable


Isaac Bates /

Elijah Iles / /

James Gourley / /

Jacob M. Easly / /

Calvin Williams / /

[Yom.?] M^cNeil / /

Robert B. Timmerman / /

Cornelius Van Ostrand /

Joseph Klein / /

Robert Anderson / /

John Chapman / /

John Hough / /

A. F. Schoohn / /

Caleb Short /

Robert Eckles / /

Hamilton Hough / /

John R. Miller / /

Archibald Hanna / /

E. D. Baker / /

E. H. Ormsby / /

Lewis Richard / /

Elijah Howland / /

Orson Hempsted /

Daniel Woodworth / /

Samuel Houston / /

Thomas Tibbs

A B V B Humphreys / /

Thompson Piles / /

Dewey Whitney / /

Thomas L. M^cKinney / /

Washington Stephenson / /

11 2 15 9 11 2 3 3

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J. P. Constable


William Southwick /

John Houston / /

John Dickey / /

George Gregory / /

L. M. Greene / /

John A. Lightfoot / /

John Woods / /

Thomas D. Lee / /

Joseph Insley /

Oliver Hillman / /

N. W. Edwards / /

John F. Raque / /

Dudley Bradstreet / /

John G. Ransom / /

James Parkisson / /

Elijah Casey / /

Charles R. Matheny /

Gunnel M^cKinney / /

J. N. Francis / /

Joseph Thayer / /

Abner Y. Ellis / /

Elias K. Weaver / /

William Farnsworth / /

John Mullen / /

Thomas Simpkin / /

William Butler / /

Sullivan Conant / /

Henry Gable / /

John T Stuart /

James M^cGibbon / /

Francis Webster / /

8 1 22 3 13 7 2 2

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Charles M^cGraw / /

Nathaniel Hay / /

Thomas J. Taylor / /

Thomas Hanter / /

George Trotter / /

Pleasant Walters / /

James W Keys / /

F. C. Thornton / /

William M^cLease / / /

George Woods / /

Elijah West / /

John S. Saunders / /

George Shafer / /

James Bartlett / /

Ira Sanford / /

Washington Crowder / /

John Taylor / /

C. L. Burger / /

Daniel Nott / /

M. L. Knapp

Jonathan Saunders / /

James M. Bradley / /

Patrick Mullin / /

E. B. Hawley / /

R. P. Abel / /

Hezekiah Ham / /

Benjamin Ferguson / /

F. A. Patterson / /

R. H. Beach / /

John Dryer / /

Thomas Orr / /

John Taylor / /

11 6 14 5 11 9 5 1

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Eastman Britton Taylor Maxwell Maxey Stapleford Chapman Fail Parkisson

John Stripling / /

Henry Jones / /

John C. Jones / /

Drury Bondurant / /

William Lavely / /

Simon Proctor / /

John Capps / /

Daniel Mifflin / /

George Welsh / /

William Bradley / /

John Myers / /

Benjamin Cracroft / /

W^m A. Bennett / /

John Smith / /

John H. Robinson / /

W^m G. Abrams / /

J. N. Anderson / /

Gideon Rathbone / /

Hiram Wood / /

Hugh Carlon / /

Thomas Moffitt / /

Franklin Dychus / /

Rudolph Hooken / /

Amos Brown / /

Thomas Flanagan / /

Augustus Sargeant / /

Robert St John / /

James Center / /

Pleasant W Stowe / /

John St. John / /

James Q. Wills / /

Samuel Lyons / /

17 5 10 2 6 13 3 5 2

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Reuben Radford / /

Henry F. Lueket / /

Virgil Hickox / /

James Bruer / /

B, John Powell / /

Benjamin F. Parkisson / /

William Mott / /

Julius Sampson / /

John Trumbo / /

Milford Elliott / /

James Engles / /

P. C. Canedy / /

John M Spurgen / /

Thomas Langwell / /

John Decamp / /

Albert Crowder / /

Goldsby Carter / /

Josiah Dickersham / /

Thomas Talbott / /

John Lyons / /

Thomas D. Baker / /

Moses Pilcher / /

Wesley Arnold /

George W. Spotswood / /

Lawrence White / /

John Lanterman / /

William Craig / /

Edmund Roberts / /

John Calhoun / /

B. D. Campbell / /

Job 1 Gregory / /

Thomas Wright / /

20 4 7 6 6 18 2

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Names of Voters J. P. Constable


Robert W. Memfield / /

Jesse Steele / /

E. R. Wiley / /

Elijah Tomlinson / /

Ira Rathbone / /

John [Harris?] / /

Owen Humphreys / /

Berry Carter / /

John M^cKinney / /

Moses Martin / /

Eli Cook / /

William Archer / /

George Taylor / /

Harman Haggard / /

W^m L Vanderin / /

Joseph Woodruff / /

Martin Shire / /

Caleb Dardenne / /

F. A. M^cNeil / /

John H. Atkinson / /

James Trotter / /

Nicholas Bryant / /

William Drennan / /

George Farley Samuel Lyons / /

J. P. Irwin / /

J. M. James / /

John Armstrong / / /

Daniel Sickner / /

Oliver Elliott / /

Abel Conner

John D. Jones / /

Samuel Dillon / /

David Talbott / /

4 12 3 13 10 5 12 5

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James G. Johnson / /

Thomas C. Brown / /

Jacob Howell / /

Isaac Taylor / /

W^m P. Boyce / /

Thomas A [King?] / /

Stacy B. Opdycke / /

James Gilbert / /

John S. Hilman / /

Riley Tate / /

William Thornton /

John Hay / /

Philip Ridgeway / /

Samuel Howell / /

W. T. Hatch / /

W^m H. Vickers / /

W^m H Robbins / /

W^m Herndon Sen^r / /

B. R. Biddle / /

Joshua Brown / /

Joel Adams / /

Lorin Brown / /

John Morgan / /

Sanford Petty / /

Thomas J. Jones / /

Gentry M^cGee / /

W^m B King / /

Morris Doyle / /

Wharton Ransdell / /

Uriah Mann / /

Patrick Golden / /

Nathan Adams / /

16 4 12 11 9 8 1 2

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W^m M^cDonald / /

W^m Cudmore / /

Zechariah Ogden / /

W^m Black / /

Isom Atkins / /

Benson Hinkle / /

Foley Vaughn / /

John S. Roberts / /

Warren Hobbs / /

Joshua Amos / /

William Andrew / /

Caswell Stripling / /

Levi Jones / /

James R. Gray / /

John Turner / /

William Wigginton / /

A W. Cutter / /

B. A. Parnell / /

Andrew J. Lanterman / /

W^m D. Dormady / /

Abram Lanterman / /

Randolph Rhodes / /

Virginius Williams / /

W. S. Moore / /

George Feagan / /

George Myers / /

John H. Morgan / /

Samuel Hill / /

Samuel Brown / /

Erastus Wright / /

Elias Hutchinson / /

John B Kirkpatrick / /

16 4 12 3 13 13 1 2

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J. P. Constable


Elijah Taylor / /

John Lindsay Jun^r / /

Jared Ford / /

Samuel Hesser / /

A. D. M^cGraw / /

William W. Watson / /

Walter Penniru / /

Daniel E. Ruckel / /

J. B. Moodey / /

E. C. Lewis / /

Thomas J. Shepherd / /

John Feagan / /

W^m L. Cardwell / /

William Hall / /

Jonathan Mobley /

Bennett Newton / /

Archibald Hood / /

William Heddy /

J. H. Johnson / /

Robert Steele / /

Ethan T. Cabaniss / /

Amos Camp / /

Winchester Howse / /

W^m B. Carter / /

James Douglass / /

Jonas Whitney / /

Benjamin Applegate / /

William Carpenter / /

Charles Arnold / /

E. Butler / /

Garett Elkin / /

Moses Laswell / /

18 5 8 5 9 15 2

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Fry Martin / /

John Watkins / /

James Smith / /

Lewis Wright / /

Andrew Elliott / /

S. M. Sill / /

James K. Trotter / /

T. J. Turley / / /

J. A. Corneau / /

John Heisner /

William Hinton /

Reuben Sharp /

Daniel Stout / /

M. Glenn / /

James Ross / /

Samuel Shanks / /

Peter VanBergen / /

William Mowry /

Harrison Watson / /

W^m A. Knight / /

Addison Hickox / /

Presley A. Saunders / /

Andrew Day / /

M. Eastham / /

George Kendall / /

Cornelius Rathbone / /

George M^cDonald / /

Loraine Ransom / /

Edward George / /

Josiah Francis / /

Joel Cantrell / /

Jefferson Phillips / /

13 6 10 6 10 11 2 3

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J. P. Constable


Martin Kochersperger / /

Merit Chapin / /

D. F. Grosh / /

B. F. Jewitt / /

N. C. Pepper / /

D. Sampson / /

Caleb Wall /

Isaac S. Britton / /

Joseph Torrey / /

John C. Maxey / /

Benjamin Talbott / /

B. S. Clements / /

Russel Newman / /

Jemru Carrigan / /

Thomas Ragsdale / /

E. S. Phelps / /

Washington Iles / /

John Crowder / /

John B Watson / /

A R Robinson / /

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At an Election held in the Court-House in the Springfield Precinct, on the 12^th day of February A. D. 1838, the following ^named^ persons received the number of votes annexed to their respective names. Viz: for the following described offices. to wit:

Marvellous Eastham had two hundred & thirty-six votes for Justice of the Peace

Isaac S. Britton had sixty-nine votes """"""

Francis Taylor had one hundred & ninety-eight votes """"""

Samuel Lyons had four votes """"""

George W. Maxwell had seventy-five votes for Constable

John C. Maxey had one hundred & fifty-four votes ""

Edward Stapleford had one hundred & ninety-one votes ""

John Chapman had forty-six votes ""

Isaac Fail had thirty-two votes ""

Certified by us.

E. S. Phelps }

Washington Iles Judges of

} John C. Crowder Election

{ John B Watson

Attest Clerks of

A R Robinson Election

1“b” written over “s”

Marvellous Eastham	had two hundred & thirty-six	votes	for Justice of the Peace
Isaac S. Britton	had sixty-nine	votes	""""""
Francis Taylor	had one hundred & ninety-eight	votes	""""""
Samuel Lyons	had four	votes	""""""
George W. Maxwell	had seventy-five	votes	for Constable
John C. Maxey	had one hundred & fifty-four	votes	""
Edward Stapleford	had one hundred & ninety-one	votes	""
John Chapman	had forty-six	votes	""
Isaac Fail	had thirty-two	votes	""

				E. S. Phelps	}
				Washington Iles		Judges of
			}	John C. Crowder		Election

	{	John B Watson
Attest						Clerks of
		A R Robinson			Election