Legal certificate, January 19, 1841.

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Legal certificate, January 19, 1841.

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As sheriff of Sangamon County, Elkin awards James L. Lamb a piece of property on 6th Street in Springfield, Illinois, as payment for a debt of $266.29 owed to him by Stephen A. Douglas, who has fifteen months to pay the debt and redeem the land. Douglas did not do so and Lamb became the owner June 1, 1842 (according to a notation on the back).

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Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861

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Stephen Arnold Douglas (April 23, 1813 – June 3, 1861) was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois. He was one of two Democratic Party nominees for president in the 1860 presidential election, which was won by Abraham Lincoln. Douglas had previously defeated Lincoln in the 1858 United States Senate election in Illinois, known for the Lincoln–Douglas debates. During the 1850s, Douglas was one of the foremost advocates of popular sovereignty, which held that each territory should be allowe...

Elkin, William F., 1792-1880.

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Member, Illinois House of Representatives, 1828-1830, 1836-1840; Sangamon County sheriff, 1840-1844; register, Springfield Land Office, 1861-1872. From the description of Receipt, 1842 Nov. 26. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 30366248 From the description of Documents: Sangamon County, Ill., 1828-1857. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 30053844 From the description of Documents: Sangamon County, Ill., 1840-1841. ...

Lamb, James L., 1800-1873.

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Springfield, Ill. merchant who came from Fayette County Pennsylvania 1820, first settling in Kaskaskia where he was in the mercantile and pork packing business. He married Susan Cranmer, of Cincinnati, in 1824. They moved to Springfield in 1831, where he continued a mercantile and pork packing business. The Lamb family had been Quaker, but James was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Springfield and a director of the Theological Seminary of the Northwest in Chicago. From th...