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"Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 2." In the digital collection Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln2. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024.
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State of Illinois }
County of Sangamon}ss July 15, 1854
Be it known that on this day appeared before the undersigned an acting justice of the peace for said county Abraham Lincoln to me known to be the identical person he represents himself to be & who after being by me duly sworn deposes and says that he is the identical Abraham Lincoln who was captain of the 4th Illinois volunteers in the Blackhawk War and the Identical Abraham Lincoln to whom the within Land Warrant for 40 acres was issued and that he desires to locate the same in his own name.