GDG- 13 for Indiana - 9 from New Jersey on 13th

[Dennis Lawrence]

Monday, March 1, 1830.
En route to Vincennes, IN.
	

"On the first of March, 1830, Lincoln's  father determined to emigrate once 
more. . . . The emigrant company was made up of Thomas Lincoln's family, 
and the families of Mrs. Lincoln's two sons-in-law. Their means of progress 
and conveyance were ox-wagons, one of which Abraham Lincoln drove." [Mrs. 
Harriet Hanks Chapman said they had three wagons, two drawn by two yoke of 
oxen each, and one by two teams of horses.

Company consists of Thomas Lincoln, his wife Sarah Bush Lincoln and her 
son, John D. Johnston; Dennis Hanks, his wife Sarah E. Hanks, their 
daughters Sarah Jane, Nancy M. and Harriet, and son John Talbot; Squire 
Hall, his wife Matilda and their son John; and Abraham Lincoln, 13 in all. 
Sarah E. Hanks and Matilda Hall were daughters of Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln.

There is no distinct proof of route followed by Lincoln party on 225-mile 
journey from Gentryville to Decatur, Illinois, except from Vincennes to 
Lawrenceville. Indiana
Lincoln Memorial Way Commission chose Troy-Vincennes trail, which passed 
through Polk Patch [now Selvin], Petersburg, and Monroe City. Probably four 
or five days completed 75-mile journey to Vincennes.LL,

More on Thomas Lincoln's 
resettlment.  http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/presidents/site22.htm


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Wednesday, March 1 1865


The Thirteenth Amendment had fought a long battle through a contentious 
Congress just to make it to the ratification process. Now it was wending 
its way through the legislatures of states that had themselves been torn 
over the issue of slavery for decades. In perhaps the oddest coincidence of 
the process, on this day the amendment was ratified in Wisconsin--and 
rejected in New Jersey. This is not as suprising as it may seem today. 
Wisconsin had never allowed slavery, but it was perfectly legal in the 
Garden State. In fact, it took the eventual passage of the 13th Amendment 
to free the last nine slaves in New 
Jersey.  http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/ThisDay.asp  Civil War Interactive