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Note from page 12: 1. Written out by WHH in the form of a letter and signed by Hardin Bale.

Note from page 13: 2. Located at Miller's Ferry on the Sangamon, a widely used crossing between Petersburg and Havana, the projected town of Huron was surveyed by AL and its plat recorded on May 21, 1836. See CW 1:48ff. and Harry E. Pratt, The Personal Finances of Abraham Lincoln (Springfield, Ill., 1943), 58 — 59.