Papers, May 16 & Nov. 15, 1854.

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Papers, May 16 & Nov. 15, 1854.

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DeWitt County Circuit Court documents. One with written instructions to the jury re: reasons why the defense will ask for a new trial in the Austin Ritchie vs. Ransom Adair slander case. Moore & Lincoln for the defense. Second document is a motion to set aside the verdict in the Joseph Ryan vs. Perce, Keith and Clark with reasons why. Lincoln & Moore for the defense.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Illinois. Circuit Court (DeWitt County)

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Moore, Clifton H., -1901

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DeWitt County, Illinois lawyer, with whom Abraham Lincoln occasionally worked, while he was riding the circuit. From the description of Papers, May 16 & Nov. 15, 1854. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 52975263 ...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...