Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Springfield, Illinois” in chapter 2 of John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History:
..., yet residing in Macon County, hired themselves to Denton Offutt to take a flatboat from Beardstown, Illinois [on the Illinois River], to New Orleans; and for that purpose were to join him-Offutt-at Springfield, Illinois , so soon as the snow should go off. When it did go off, which was about the first of March, 1831, the county was so, flooded as to make traveling by land impracticable, to obviate which difficulty th...
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