1860 Census and Phillip Dinkell

[RJNorton]

As previously mentioned the newly discovered 1840 state census for Menard County (incorrectly) lists Abraham Lincoln as one of the 4,481 residents there. Offhand I do not see what the connection would be, but could that mistake somehow explain why he is missing from the 1840 federal census?

IMO your suggestion that Lincoln was traveling, and not in Springfield when the federal census taker made his/her rounds, seems a likely explanation.