first flatboat journey to New Orleans, [195];

second flatboat journey to New Orleans, [23]-[34];

clerk at New Salem, [26]-[34];

Offutt's store closed, [35];

brief career as country merchant, [42]-[44];

blacksmith trade considered, [42];

surveys and plans Petersburg, [47], [67];

notion to become a carpenter, [71]

Law career,

early interest in law, [9], [19];