The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the June 1848 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 4

June Session 1848

Page 323

Allowed to William Daniels for keeping paupers

Allowed to William Daniels for keeping Mr. Dales

Allowed to James Partlow for conveying drowned man to grave

Allowed to Simon Taylor for services on Aurora Bridge

Levin B. Lveers & Co. – license for grocery in Lawrenceburg Township

Jones & Brewington – license for grocery in Laughery Township

Charles Dashiell – license to keep a store in Sparta Township

Allowed to Abner T. Dill for procuring coroner and keeping asylum

 

Page 324

Allowed to Milton Gregg for extra services as Sheriff

Allowed to Daniel Chitester for viewing road

Allowed to Daniel Roberts for burying pauper

West & Jordon – license to keep a store in Manchester Township

Allowed to J. M. Cure for making coffin for pauper

Allowed to George P. Low for removing pauper to County Asylum

Allowed to Andreas Brown for services rendered pauper

Elijah Thatcher – license to keep a store in Clay Township

Michael Hoff – license to keep a store in Jackson Township

Philip C. Ross – license to keep a store in Manchester Township

 

Page 325

Allowed to Daniel Conaway as viewer of roads

Allowed to Thomas Lampkin for burying paupers

Allowed to C. C. Jaquith as Assessor

Allowed to M. Rudesell for boarding pauper

Allowed to Lovely Love for keeping pauper

Allowed to William Clynch for assessing

Allowed to David Conger for assessing

Allowed to James D. English for assessing

Allowed to John Henderson for assessing

Allowed to Servetus Tufts for assessing

Allowed to Elial Chaffin for viewing road

William Moorley exempted from road work.

Allowed to G. V. Swallow for conveying pauper to Asylum

Allowed to Joseph McWright for services rendered man found in Ohio River drowned and repairs on Jail

 

Page 326

Allowed to James M. Hayes for making coffin for drowned man

John B. Kesler – license to keep a tavern in Kelso Township

Gerard Wempe – license to keep a tavern in Kelso Township

Ellves Levingston – license to keep a store in Laughery Township

 

Page 327

Assessment of David Nicholas reduced.

Allowed to George Fry for conveying Nathan Small to Asylum

Charles Yeager – license to keep a grocery in Kelso Township

George Younker – license to keep a grocery in Kelso Township

Allowed to William V. Cheek for services as Clerk and repairs to office

Allowed to Jotham Clark for burying pauper

Allowed to William V. Cheek for judgment in case of Wm. V. Cheek vs. County Commissioners

Allowed to A. B. Haines for professional services to Mr. Gary

Allowed to John B. Hall for publishing coroner’s inquest

Allowed to George Conklin for tract book

 

Page 328

Allowed to Harding & Pate for professional services

Allowed to J. H. Brower for professional services

Allowed to Davis & Lane for paper

Allowed to George J. Linsday for making coffin for drowned man

Chister Faulkner – license to keep a store in Sparta Township

Vail & Fenemore – license to keep a store in Laughrey Township

Norval Sparks – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

Joseph Hayburn – license to keep a store in Centre Township

Ferris McCullough & Co. – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

 

Page 329

Miliken & Eldridge – license to keep as tore in Manchester Township

Wymond & Ferris – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

John Jacob Hauck – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

H. Weidlestadt – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

Stephen Levingston – license to keep a store in Wilmington

David Hubball – license to keep a store in Jackson Township

Hugh Scott – license to keep a store in York Township

 

Page 330

Allowed to William T. Miller for wood furnished paupers

Allowed to John Dowling for interest advanced by him

Allowed to George Scott for services conveying pauper to Asylum

David Reese – license to keep a ferry across Tanners Creek

Allowed to Michael Schum for burying paupers

 

Page 331

Allowed to J. Briener for professional services

Allowed to Eprhaim Hollester for setting glass

Grand Jury examined jail. Report by Mahlon Powell, foreman.

Allowed to Jacob Ebersole for professional services attending George Lamb

Allowed to E. C. Sugg for professional services attending George Lamb

Allowed to Andrew Christie for attending pauper

Allowed to R. & O. Parry for articles for clerk’s office

Allowed to E. C. Sugg for professional services rendered Mrs. Ross

Allowed to Thos. Kyle for corn, oats and hay for Asylum

 

Page 332

Allowed to Thomas Harrison for wood for Asylum

Allowed to William Kyle for hay for Asylum

Allowed to John B. Clark for articles furnished Asylum

Allowed to Josiah Chambers for articles furnished County Asylum

Allowed to John Milburn for his services as keeper of County Asylum and articles furnished Asylum

Allowed to Thos. H. Milburn for use of County Asylum

William Green – license to keep a store in Manchester Township

Allowed to Ferris McCullough & Co. for medicines furnished paupers

Allowed to William Grubbs for use of A. H. Lemmon for keeping paupers

Allowed to James H. Ross for articles furnished paupers

Allowed to Isaac Miles for articles furnished paupers

Allowed to George Sutton for professional services

 

Page 333

Allowed to John F. Richards for boarding criminals

Allowed to Charlotte Cook for interest advanced on her loan

Allowed to Jonathan Ross for making coffin for pauper

Allowed to Joseph M. Grove for services on Aurora Bridge

H. A. Moran, keeper of Hogan Creek Bridge, made report.

Allowed to E. E. Adams for stationery for Clerk’s office and Auditor’s office

 

Page 334

Joseph Fazer – license to keep a tavern in Kelso Township

Allowed to James Chilsen for services rendered pauper

Allowed to Bowers & Leroy for professional services

Matthew B. Fleet – license to keep a coffee house in Centre Township

John Johnson by William S. Holman, his attorney, files petition for swinging gate on road in Manchester and Centre Townships.

Allowed to Lewis & Eichelberger for flour furnished paupers

Allowed to Ann Fowler for temporary relief of her son, a pauper

Allowed to Theodore Gazley for services as attorney for county

 

Page 335

William Swift – license to keep a store in Kelso Township

Allowed to E. P. Bond for professional attendance on pauper

Allowed to William K. Lock for professional services rendered George Lamb

Road tax for Centre Township.

Allowed to Henry Swift for wood for Mrs. Ross, a pauper

Allowed to Wm. Sheets for books furnished county offices

Allowed to Wm. V. Cheek for extra services as clerk

 

Page 336

Daniel Conaway and Elial Chaffin, Commissioners, made report on damages by road from Aurora to Andrew Morgan’s Ferry across Laughery Creek in Centre Township. Damages sustained by William Hepworth, Mrs. Horsley, and Allen Hamilton.

 

Page 337

Allowed to Josiah Rewland for white washing Clerk’s office

Allowed to Wymond & Ferris for articles for Asylum

Allowed to C. O’Brien for office rent and stationery

Allowed to J. N. Ray for articles for Clerk’s office and Auditor

S. S. Bussell, agent for Carlisle and White, made report on South Hogan Bridge.

 

Page 338

Cornelius O’Brien, Treasurer’s report.

Report on stone work for Salt Fork Bridge.

Daniel Chiderter and Andrew Longergan make report on road in York Township. Through land of John A. Angevine, Likely Retter, H. Delleman.

 

Page 339

Virgil Dowden and other citizens of York and Miller Townships present petition for change in boundary of York Township. Refused. Appealed to Circuit Court.

Allowed to James Lester for boarding paupers

Allowed to A. B. Haines for professional services

 

Page 340

Allowed to Cummings & Hayes for making coffin for Mrs. Mellis

Allowed to Henry Swift for conveying pauper to Asylum

Allowed to James T. Brown for professional services as attorney

David Gerrard files petition for certificate of having paid more state tax than chargeable.

 

Page 341 [Continued.]

 

Page 342

Allowed to Joseph B. McRight for making coffin for drowned man

Allowed to Jothem Clark for burying drowned man

Allowed to James Partlow for conveying drowned man to grave

Allowed to Elish Cook for his temporary relief

Allowed to Walter Hunson for services procuring Coroner and summoning jury for Inquest

Allowed to Jesse Riley for services attending to corpse of drowned man at Coroner’s Inquest

Allowed to James Aikens for [?] for use of County Asylum

Allowed to John Akens for articles for County Asylum

Allowed to John Hauck for services rendered drowned man

 

Page 343

To procure a bell for Court House.

Order for money for road from Lawrenceburg and Indianapolis State Road to Brookville rescinded.

Allowed to Reuben Rogers for services as auditor

Allowed to Mann & Debzell for books for Clerk’s office

 

Page 344

Reuben Rogers, Auditor, made report.

 

Page 345

Treasurer’s report by James Grubbs.

 

Page 346

Allowed to Alexander B. Low for money advanced for use of pauper

Allowed to Townsend J. Taylor for articles for County Asylum

Allowed to D. R. Edwards for medicines for pauper

Allowed to Samuel Trester for service on Aurora Bridge

Allowed to Josiah Chambers for articles for pauper

 

Page 347

Jury selection.

 

Page 348

Grand Jurors for October Term 1848:

1. Christopher Ennis, Kelso Township
2. William Lawdon, Laughery Township
3. Milton Beach, Lawrenceburg Township
4. Richard D. Slater, York Township
5. Thos. F. Rhodes, Laughery Township
6. A. B. Cary, Lawrenceburg Township
7. John Caines, Jackson Township
8. James Cummins, Centre Township
9. James Antrim, Miller Township
10. John Goodapple, Jr., Jackson Township
11. Levi Boyce, Sparta Township
12. Amos Reese, Lawrenceburg Township
13. Alexander McKee, York Township
14. Thomas Davis, Laughery Township
15. Richard Hargate, Logan Township
16. Daniel Chitester, York Township
17. George P. Buell, Lawrenceburg Township
18. Thomas Ehler, Jackson Township

Traverse Jury for 1st week, October Term 1848:

1. James Lyonn, Caesars Creek Township
2. Charles Danough, Lawrenceburg Township
3. Elijah S. Blasdell, Manchester Township
4. Elisha Jones, Sparta Township
5. Wm. S. McClure, Jr., Logan Township
6. John Lawrence, Sr., Jackson Township
7. Philip Heber, Center Township
8. John Ewbank, Miller Township
9. John Showalter, Jackson Township
10. Elias McAdams, Centre Township
11. Daniel Cloud, Logan Township
12. John W. Lewis, Kelso Township

Traverse Jury for 2nd week, October Term 1848:

1. Charles Bruce, Laughery Township
2. N. B. Bradley, Lawrenceburg Township
3. Stokely Dills, Manchester Township
4. Robert K. Taylor, Centre Township
5. Samuel Barkdoll, Lawrenceburg Township
6. Daniel Frazier, Manchester Township
7. John Denderline, Centre Township
8. Nicholas Evans, Miller Township
9. Daniel Miliken, Manchester Township
10. James Hinds, Sparta Township
11. William Smith, Sr., Miller Township
12. Joseph McKensie, Kelso Township

Traverse Jury for 3rd week, October Term 1848:

1. Joseph Churchill, Sparta Township
2. Thos. Roberts, Lawrenceburg Township
3. John Hubball, Jackson Township
4. Caleb Cottingham, Sparta Township
5. Squire Grubbs, Logan Township
6. Alfred B. Cotton, Manchester Township
7. William Winkley, Centre Township
8. Elisha Metlar, Harrison Township
9. Jacob D. Mason, Kelso Township
10. Benjamin Sylvester, Centre Township
11. William Robertson, Miller Township
12. Michael F. Ehler, Jackson Township

Traverse Jury for 4th week, October Term 1848:

1. Philip Wise, Jackson Township
2. William Green, Centre Township
3. Samuel Craft, Lawrenceburg Township
4. John Lewis, Kelso Township
5. Dandridge Kelsey, Caesars Creek Township
6. George Conner, Miller Township
7. Solomen Maren, Kelso Township
8. Benjamin Wilson, Jr., Laughery Township
9. William Ewbank, Miller Township
10. Levi Crosby, Manchester Township
11. Ira Kimball, Laughery Township
12. Moses F. Bramble, Harrison Township

 

Page 349

Grand Jurors for April Term 1849:

1. Jacob Hindall, Jackson Township
2. B. J. Burlingame, Laughery Township
3. Wm. L. Hansell, Miller Township
4. David Crocker, Manchester Township
5. Benjamin Mulford, Sparta Township
6. Nathaniel Leonard, Harrison Township
7. Jared Michael
8. Philip Rowland, Clay Township
9. Warren West, Lawrenceburg Township
10. Richard S. Anderson, Manchester Township
11. Lazarus Cheek, Center Township
12. Thos. L. Moss, Logan Township
13. Jacob Yeager, Kelso Township
14. Jonathan Noble, Centre Township
15. Simon Winters, Lawrenceburg Township
16. William Davis, York Township
17. James A. Powell, Laughery Township
18. Aaron Scoggin, Harrison Township

Traverse Jury for 1st week, April Term 1849:

1. Robert Elliott, York Township
2. George W. S. Mitchell, Clay Township
3. A. B. Reed, Logan Township
4. John B. Siler, Jackson Township
5. Robert D. Brown, Laughery Township
6. George Swailes, Harrison Township
7. Granville Love, York Township
8. Henry Swift, Centre Township
9. James Guard, Lawrenceburg Township
10. Gersham Dunn, Manchester Township
11. John Hyatt, Centre Township
12. John Chapill, Logan Township

Traverse Jury for 2nd week, April Term 1849:

1. James Martaugh, Kelso Township
2. Peter M. DeGear, Centre Township
3. William Whitaker, Miller Township
4. Silas Balsel, Kelso Township
5. Reed Crandle, Caesars Creek Township
6. Washington Eversole, Logan Township
7. Francis Hansall, Manchester Township
8. Francis Worley, Centre Township
9. Selah Judd, Harrison Township
10. Thos. Hansell, Manchester Township
11. Alfred A. Adams, Centre Township
12. Ezekiel Jackson, Logan Township

Traverse Jury for 3rd week, April Term 1849:

1. Noah C. Durham, Manchester Township
2. David Milburn, Centre Township
3. George W. Thayer, Harrison Township
4. Thos. H. Milburn, Manchester Township
5. John B. Powell, Centre Township
6. Edward White, Harrison Township
7. Findley Watkins, Kelso Township
8. Owen D. Legg, Clay Township
9. Gehu Miller, Lawrenceburg Township
10. John Hall, York Township
11. David Dummell, Sparta Township
12. Robert Lancaster, Miller Township

Traverse Jury for 4th Week, April Term 1849:

1. Benjamin Plummer, Manchester Township
2. David Durham, Laughery Township
3. Joseph Tebb, Logan Township
4. Thos. M. Brackenridge, Harrison Township
5. Martin W. Arnold, Sparta Township
6. George H. Johnson, Manchester Township
7. George S. Williams, Jackson Township
8. Watts Johnson, Clay Township
9. James Jones, Lawrenceburg Township
10. William Harrison, Manchester Township
11. Elijah Christopher, Laughery Township
12. William Lawdon, Miller Township

 

Page 350

Abram Lozier – license to keep a store in Manchester Township

Mrs. Horsley for appeal of location of highway from Aurora to ferry of Andrew Morgan to Circuit Court. Filed bond with William S. Holman, her security.

 

Page 351

Tax Rates for 1848.

 

Page 352

Allowed to George Sutton for his professional services attending Daniel Brookes with small pox

Allowed to Horace Porter for filling up end of Aurora Bridge

Allowed to James Grubbs for superintending Salt Fork Bridge

Board adjourned.

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the March 1848 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 4

March Session 1848

Page 283

Present:

• James Grubbs
• Daniel Taylor
• Martin Trester

Allowed to Timothy Jayne for services rendered pauper

Allowed to William Daniels for keeping pauper

Allowed to A. B. Haines for professional services attending paupers

Allowed to John B. Hall for keeping County Asylum

Kelsey & Churchill – license to keep a store in Sparta Township

Priest – license to keep a store in Centre Township

M. Goldsmidt – license to keep a store in Centre Towship

 

Page 284

Allowed to John Fazan for making coffin for pauper

Henry Walker, Josiah Collins and David Walser, viewers, made report on change of road from Aurora to Hartford through lands of Alfred A. Adams and John Seth. Remonstrance from Dewit C. Wilber, Hiram Lampkin and other citizens of Center and Laughery Township.

 

Page 285

Henry Shue – license to keep a tavern in Kelso Township

Hermin Benson – license to keep a store

James C. Cordry – license to keep a store in Laughery Township

Daniel R. Edward – license to keep a store in Centre Township

 

Page 286

Isaac Mills – license to keep a store in Centre Township

Oliver Levingston – license to keep a store in Laughery Township

Hugh Smith and Co. – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg Township

Andregg & Swarts – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg Township

 

Page 287

Allowed to Watkins and Kirkpatrick, of Aurora, for oak and poplar lumber for Aurora Bidge

Allowed to Horace Porter for stone for Aurora Bridge

Allowed to Benjamin Sylvester for hauling lumber for Aurora Bridge

Allowed to Isaac N. Cochran for boarding and removing pauper to County Asylum

Allowed to James M. Hays for coffin furnished pauper

Allowed to Thomas W. Pate for labor performed on Aurora Bridge

Allowed to Thomas Wright for labor performed on Aurora Bridge

Allowed to Jacob Morrison for boards, nails and making fences at Aurora Bridge

Allowed to Jacob Morrison for wood and removing pauper from County

Allowed to Milton Taylor for provisions for paupers and for clothes

 

Page 288

Allowed for labor, hauling, &c. for Aurora Bridge:

• Samuel Trester
• Franklin Clever
• T. & J. W. Gaff
• William Cure
• John Dubin
• Chris Willman
• James Noble
• Richard Boyes
• N. Devinning
• John Chisman
• James Vinson
• W. Spaulding
• Joseph Smith
• William McCartney
• William Winkley
• E. H. Trester
• David Buffington
• Alfred Vickery
• J. W. Anderson
• Spencer West

Allowed to George Sutton for wood furnished pauper in Aurora

Allowed to Josiah Chambers & Co. for provisions furnished Mrs. Smith and family, and for Betsey Osburn, paupers

Allowed to Andrew Lewis for sawing and splitting wood and pulsing up the same in wood house

Allowed to B. Burgess for boarding paupers in Aurora

Allowed to J. Lockwood for his professional services attending William Knapp, a pauper

Joseph Blattner of Kelso Township – license to keep a grocery

 

Page 289

Allowed to John Houck for hauling coal for paupers

Levi Boyd – license to keep a store in Moores Hill

Allowed to James Fowler for 1 cord of wood for Clerk’s office

Allowed to William V. Cheek for Probate and Circuit Court Dockets

Allowed to John F. Richards for boarding and washing bed clothes in Jail for Anderson

Allowed to James Ross for flour, meal, candles, sugar, molasses, soap and &c. for paupers

William V. Cheek presents account against the county for taking down papers and records in Clerk’s office during the flood upstairs in Court House, taking same back and replacing them to their proper places, cleaning Clerk’s office and decks after flood. Board allowed $5 and refuse further payment. Appeals and files bond with John F. Cheek.

Allowed to Harding & Pate for professional services attending upon paupers

 

Page 290

S. A. Leonard – license to keep a store in Aurora

Petition of Samuel McMath and others of York Township for alteration in road from John H. Angevine’s smith shop in York Township to Tanners Creek. Through lands of W. S. Ward, James Christy, Israel Ketchum, S. McMath, Henry Likely, John Delaman, Joseph Ritter, George Endale, and S. Hammon. Daniel Conaway, Daniel Chidester, and Andrew Lonergan appointed viewers to meet at house of William Clinch.

Robert Cassaday, executor of estate of Alfred A. Storms, deceased, made report on three percent fund money expended on hill at Harrison by Alfred A. Storms.

 

Page 291

Allowed to John Lesher for taking press of Clerk’s office to shop and returning the same

Allowed to A. W. Smith for repairing gate of Court House yard

Austine Truelick – license to keep a store in New Lawrenceburg

Allowed to Wymond & Ferris for provisions and shrouds for pauper

Allowed to Wymond & Ferris for paper furnished Auditor’s office during Geo. W. Lane’s term of office

Allowed to Caleb Wright for carrying coffin from Aurora to the house of Samuel Moore to bury Peters, a pauper who died of small pox

Henry A. Moran, collector of tolls at Aurora Bridge, made report.

Allowed to Isaac Miles for provisions furnished pauper

Allowed to T. & J. W. Gaff for provisions furnished pauper

 

Page 292

Allowed to Luther Plummer as visitor to County Asylum

Allowed to Jonathan Ross as visitor to County Asylum

Allowed to Jonathan Ross for making coffin for pauper

Allowed to Luther Plummer, Sr., for cash and mending boots for pauper

Luther Plummer and Jonathan Ross, visitors to County Asylum, make report.

Andrew Lonergan, of Kelso Township – license to keep a tavern

Isaac M. Davis – license to keep a store in Sparta Township

Allowed to Thomas B. Cook for temporary relief of his father, Elisha Cook

 

Page 293

Allowed to Thomas Kyle for wood for County Asylum

Allowed to Daniel Roberts for wood for County Asylum

Allowed to Isaac Taylor for provisions furnished paupers

Allowed to William Grubbs for provisions furnished paupers

Allowed to Edward Clements for wood for County Asylum

Allowed to Alfred St. Clair for conveying pauper to County Asylum

Allowed to Abner J. Dill for medicines and whiskey for paupers

Allowed to Barr & Febiger for use of Abner Brower, Jr., for coal for poor of Lawrenceburg Township

Allowed to Abner J. Dill for keeping paupers at County Asylum

Allowed to H. Barkaloo for provisions for pauper

Stewart S. Bussell, agent for Carlisle & White, files report on South Hogan Bridge.

 

Page 294

Allowed to Wm. P. Backet for burying pauper

Allowed to William V. Cheek for sawing wood for Clerk’s office

Allowed to Henry Goshart for freight on books

Allowed to Mann & Delgell for books for Clerk’s office

Allowed to Samuel Turner for assessment roll

Allowed to William Low for freight and drayage on box of books

 

Page 295

Allowed to John B. Vail for wood for paupers

Allowed to John B. Vail for wood for Clerk’s office

Allowed to Cochran & Lamkin for drayage on stone for Aurora Bridge

Allowed to George B. Sheldon for stoves and pipe for Clerk’s and Treasurer’s offices and County Asylum

Allowed to F. Brush for making coffin for pauper

Allowed to John Hines for digging grave for drowned man

Allowed to Anderson F. Gage for wood for paupers

Allowed to Milton Gregg for extra services as Sheriff

Lovely Love authorized to take into his charge Elizabeth Love, a pauper.

 

Page 296

Allowed to Jotham Clark for burying paupers

Allowed to Thomas Palmer for record for deeds and stationery

Jacob Weterman – license to keep a tavern in York Township

J. N. Tevaris & Co. – license to keep a store in Centre Township

Peter B. Vail – license to keep a store in Centre Township

Hiram L. Dean – license to keep a store in Centre Township

Charles Green – license to keep a store in Centre Township

 

Page 297

Alexander McCullough – license to keep a store in Centre Township

George Griffin – license to keep a store in Centre Township

Frederick Rother – license to keep a store in Centre Township

John P. Rommill – license to keep a store in Centre Township

Isaiah Jones – license to keep a store in Centre Township

Lark & Myers – license to keep a store in Centre Township

Gibson – license to keep a store in Centre Township

 

Page 298

Allowed to William Sheets for Clerk’s and Auditor’s office

Allowed to Hugh & Clark for medicine, services rendered Benjamin Conner, a pauper

Allowed to Edward Ewbank for making coffin for pauper

Allowed to H. Weidlestaedt for articles for Clerk’s office

Allowed to N. Lancaster for paper for School Commissioner receipts

Allowed to Cryus Armstrong for articles furnished paupers; making stools for Clerk’s office and Treasurer’s office

Notice for additional security required on their bonds for the safety of their loans from the Surplus Revenue Fund from following: William D. Lindsay, Gersham Dunn, N. H. Torbet, Isaac H. Carabaugh, James D. Lindsay, John Palmer, and Daniel S. Major.

 

Page 299

John Milburn – contract to keep County Asylum. Filed bond with Thomas K. Milburn, his security.

 

Page 300

Appointed Trustees for County Seminary: Daniel Conaway, R. D. Brown, Benjamin Vail, Martin Trester, Justice M. Cure, Wm. S. Holman, Wm. S. Harris, David Walser, Daniel Taylor, Charles Dashiell, Benjamin Sylvester, Richard N. Spicknall, James Grubb, and John B. Vail.

 

Page 301

Johohn B. Hall appointed as School Commissioner to fill vacancy of William Johnson (moving from county).

 

Page 302

David Nevitt and Franklin Nevitt present petition for change in State Road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis.

 

Page 303

Viewers to meet at office of F. Huffin, Aurora, to view damages in change of State Road from Aurora to A. Morgan’s ferry.

Henry A. Moran appointed collector of tolls at Hogan Creek Bridge.

Division of York Township denied.

Allowed to C. O’Brien for office rent &c., stationery and wood for office

 

Page 304

Cornelius O’Brien, Treasurer, made report.

 

Page 305

Reuben Rogers filed Auditor’s report.

 

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Page 310

Auditor and School Commissioner’s report on Township funds.

Allowed to William Johnson, School Commissioner, for receiving and disbursing principal and interest. Same to Auditor for his services.

 

Page 311

Auditor’s report on Surplus Revenue Fund. Names of borrowers:

• George Griffin
• Alexander McKinster
• Amor Flake
• John B. Clark
• William Hixan
• William Row
• W. W. Jorden
• Christopher Row
• James and Ann Kelley
• Kedwick Craestence
• Hiram Crowell
• James Daugherty
• Charles D. Elder
• David Williamson
• Samuel & Thomas Abdon
• John Mahoney
• James M. Clark
• Joseph Smith
• Joshua Low
• Jacob B. Sheppard
• Asoph Buck
• John Todd
• Meshack Roberts
• John K. Wilcox
• James Daughters
• Leonard Spicknall
• Seth Heaton
• Jacob Morrison
• William Green
• John Durham
• William Buffington
• Thomas Chisman
• Joshua Yerkis
• David Baldwin
• William Low
• William Swing
• John Homer
• John Hinds
• Ellis W. Brown
• Isaac N. Cochran
• Abram True
• John Shumake
• William Frazier
• James G. Hunter
• Daniel Worley
• Abner T. Dill
• George Robertson
• P. L. Spooner
• James Watson
• Jacob F. Crider
• Trustees of Baptist Church at Wilmington
• George W. Cochran
• Siervetus Tufts
• John Parks
• William D. Linsday
• Stephen Wood
• Mahlen Powell
• E. Glasgow
• Alvah Churchill
• Elijah Hufman
• Daniel Miliken
• B. B. Root
• Ezekiel Abram
• Gersham Dunn
• B. F. Ferris
• Azariah Oldham
• Robert D. Brown
• N. H. Torbet
• Isaac H. Carabaugh
• Andrew Cochran
• William V. Cheek
• A. B. Henry
• Benjamin Stockman
• Charles D. Elder
• Micajah Dunn
• Survitus Tufts
• James Walser
• John Ferris
• Thomas Palmer
• Theodore Gazlay
• Abram True
• James D. Linsday
• John Palmer
• John Swaits
• John Shanks
• Walter Sterr
• Merritt Hubball
• George Wooley
• Ezra Ferris
• C. C. Jaquith
• Davis Woodward
• Amos Lane
• Eliza P. Buck
• Spenser Hubball
• Downey & Gazlay
• James V. Watson
• William Dills
• D. S. Major
• E. H. McPike
• J. Caldwell
• Silas W. Egleston
• Enoch W. Jackson
• George W. Shane
• R. Abbott
• Elijah Christopher

 

Page 312 [Continued.]

 

Page 313

Auditor’s report on Bank Tax and Saline Funds. Names of borrowers:

• John Alexander
• Samuel Stage
• Rezin Hinds
• Eben Heaton
• Ellis W. Brown
• Richard Sopris

Balance due on judgment of Circuit Court in favor of E. Dumont, former Treasurer, against the securities of William G. Monroe, deceased, a former Treasurer.

George W. Lane, late Treasurer of County Seminary, presents report.

 

Page 314

Auditor’s report on United States Surplus Revenue Fund.

By whom paid:

• Vachel Hobb
• Thomas Horner
• John Johnson
• E. H. McPike
• James A. Reed
• James Griffith
• Joshua Yerkis
• John Durham
• Benjamin Noyas
• John W. Dorsey
• Stokely Dills
• Isaac Randall (estate)
• David Williamson
• Leonard Spicknall
• Stephen Buffington
• John Legg
• Joshua Clark
• Abner J. Dill
• Sparks & Bodine
• William Land
• Ross Crosley
• William Frazer
• J. & N. Clark

To whom loaned:

• Thomas Chisman
• Joshua Yerkis
• John Horner
• William Swing
• David Williamson
• Ludwick Coaltena
• Jacob F. Crider
• John Mahoney
• William Buffington
• William Frazier
• Daniel Worley

 

Page 315

Auditor’s report on Revenue Fund, Bank Tax and Saline Funds.

By whom paid:

• Spencer Hubble
• Isaac N. Cochran
• William V. Cheek
• Henry Walker
• Amos Lane
• David Williamson
• Thomas Chisman
• John Alexander
• John Shoemake
• Arthur Alexander
• Joshua Yerkis
• John Durham
• Andrew Cochran
• Benjamin Noyas
• Aaron B. Henry
• John W. Dorsey
• John Horner
• Stokely Dills
• Ephraim Glasgow
• Ezekil Abrams
• Isaac Randall
• John K. Wilcox
• Jacob B. Sheppard
• Azariah Oldham
• Hugh Stage
• Alvah Churchill
• B. F. Ferris
• William Swing
• Daniel Milikin
• David Williamson
• Joshua Low
• George Woolley
• Leonard Spicknall
• Richard Sopris
• Stephen Buffington
• James M. Clark
• William Green
• James Walser
• Rezen Hinds
• Eben Heaton
• Samuel Stage
• George Cochran
• W. W. Jordon
• Joshua Clark
• John Swartz
• John Hinds
• Abram True
• Ludwick Crastener
• T. Gazlay
• Survitus Tufts
• Asoph Buck
• Hiram Crowell
• Gersham Dunn
• Micajah Dunn
• Jacob Morrison
• Charles D. Elder
• James Daughters
• Muratt Hubball
• Spencer Hubball
• Ellis W. Brown
• David Baldwin
• Amor Flake
• John Todd
• Silas W. Egleston
• Jacob F. Crider
• Ross Crosley
• John B. Clark
• William Dills
• C. C. Jaquith
• John Shoemake
• John Shanks
• Ezra Ferris
• John Ferris
• John Mahoney
• John N. Cochran
• Thomas Palmer
• James G. Hunter
• Wm. C. Buffington
• James Watson
• Mahlon Powell
• William Row
• George Robertson
• John Mahoney
• James D. Linsday
• William Frazer
• Daniel Worley
• J. & N. Clark
• Christopher Row
• Survetus Tufts
• Samuel & Thos. Abdon
• George Griffin
• Messach Roberts
• Micajah Dunn
• Gersham Dunn
• George W. Cochran
• James & Ann Kelley
• James V. Watson
• William Hixon
• P. S. Spooner

To whom paid:

• Owen D. Legg
• Thomas Ehler
• Benjamin Sellers
• James O. Smith
• Bryant Conley
• Daniel Clancy
• B. T. W. S. Anderson
• Jesse Wilson
• W. T. Harris
• Virgil Dowden
• Charles Dashiell
• J. Hollowell
• Theodore Gazlay
• Reubin Rogers
• N. H. Torbet
• Abner T. Dill
• C. O’Brien
• R. Rogers

 

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Page 318

Auditor’s report.

Allowed to Cornelius O’Brien for receiving and disbursing funds

Allowed to Reuben Rogers for receiving and disbursing funds

 

Page 319

Allowed to Scott Horsley for conveying paupers to County Asylum

Allowed to Smith & Worley for articles for Aurora Bridge

Allowed to Martin Trester for services on Aurora Bridge

John B. Hall, School Commissioner, filed bond with A. B. Henry, W. E. Craft and David Macy, his securities.

Allowed to John B. Hall for road laws

Allowed to R. Rogers for services as auditor

Court adjourned.

 

Page 320

Deed – Reuben Rogers, Auditor, to John Baker

 

Page 321 [Continued.]

 

Page 322A

Deed – Reuben Rogers, Auditor, to Wilkison Smith

 

Page 322B [Continued.]

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the January 1848 Called Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 4

January Called Session 1848

Page 282

Present:

• James Grubbs
• Daniel Taylor

Allowed to Martin Dodsworth for labor on Aurora Bridge in high water

Allowed to William Vannetter for services on Aurora Bridge in high water

Allowed to J. W. Parker for services on Aurora Bridge in high water

David E. Rees released from bond for ferry over Tanner’s Creek.

Jesse L. Holman – certificate to attend Wabash Manual Labor College at Crawfordsville

Court adjourned.

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the December 1847 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 4

December Session 1847

Page 265

Present:

• James Grubbs
• Daniel Taylor
• Martin Trester

John Siegal – license to keep a grocery in Jackson Township

Allowed to John Fisher for articles furnished paupers

Allowed to Mr. Standruff for hauling boards for coal house

S. S. Bussell, agent for Carlisle & White, makes report on South Hogan Bridge.

Allowed to Samuel James for keeping pauper

Allowed to John B. Hall for printing delinquent list

Allowed to John B. Hall for publishing coroner’s inquest and notices to brick masons

 

Page 266

Cornelius C. Jaquith, Assessor, filed bond with G. S. Jaquith and Linas Hamblin, his securities. Quord Conzer, D. English, William Clynch, and John Hindman appointed deputy assessors.

George Kobb – license to keep a tavern in Harrison Township

Sebastian Blatner – license to keep a tavern in York Township

Allowed to Elisha Cook for his temporary relief

 

Page 267

Allowed to Jeremiah A. Brower for professional services attending pauper

Allowed to T. Swanz for professional services attending pauper

David Bevelhammer – license to keep a tavern in Jackson Township

Allowed to John Ferris & Co. for articles for Clerk’s office

Allowed to John Ferris & Co. for articles furnished paupers

Allowed to Mathew McCoy for boarding pauper

Allowed to William V. Cheek for extra services as Clerk

Benjamin Morgan – license to keep a grocery in Harrison Township

G. A. Cloud – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg Township

Robert Meliken – license to keep a tavern in Lawrenceburg Township

 

Page 268

Allowed to J. N. Ray for articles furnished Clerk’s office

Allowed to J. N. Ray for articles furnished Auditor’s office

Allowed to Edmund C. Cheek for wood furnished for jailor and clerk’s office

Allowed to Daniel T. Craig for wood furnished Jailor

 

Page 269

Allowed to Abram Brower for docket fee in suit of Andrew Morgan vs. County

Allowed to William V. Cheek for services as clerk in suit of Andrew Morgan vs. Board of County Commissioners

Allowed to William Danels for keeping pauper

Allowed to James Groff for boarding pauper

Allowed to William Miller for wood furnished pauper

Allowed to James Griffin for making desk and furnishing materials for Treasurer’s office

Allowed to William A. Smith for painting sign and desk for Treasurer’s office

Allowed to D. A. Rewland for articles furnished Jailor

Allowed to John Jacob Houck for articles furnished Jailor

Allowed to D. A. Rewland for articles for Clerk’s office

 

Page 270

George W. Lane – license to keep a ferry over Ohio River at Aurora

Allowed to Jacob F. Crider for wood furnished paupers

Sparkis Hamilton and Robert McGarvy – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

Allowed to Franklin Newitt for wood furnished paupers

Allowed to Elijah Linsday for viewing road

Allowed to Jeremiah Nowlin as commissioner viewing and assessing damages on road

Allowed to Richard Spicknall for viewing road

Allowed to Abram B. Adams for assisting viewers in viewing road

Ordered County Asylum release Andrew Bandle, a pauper, to the care of John Geyer.

 

Page 271

Elijah Lindsay and Jeremiah Nowlin, commissioners to assess damages on route from Lawrenceburg to mouth of Tanner’s Creek, made report. Damages to Thomas B. Pinkard, William E. Craft, Omer Tousey, John Callihan, Andrew Morgan, and Elizabeth Sparks.

 

Page 272

J. A. Curtis – license to keep a store in Aurora

Allowed to James Burke for groceries and flour furnished paupers

Allowed to Dr. George Sutton for professional services attending paupers

Henry A. Moran reports on Aurora Bridge.

Allowed to Rebecca Livingston for keeping pauper

Allowed to Mary Ann Fowler for boarding pauper

Allowed to Jonathan Ross for visiting County Asylum and repairs made to asylum house

Allowed to Abner Dill for keeping paupers at County Asylum

 

Page 273

Allowed to William H. Lock for professional services attending paupers

Allowed to Abner D. Dill for repairing asylum house

Abner D. Dill for interest refunded

Allowed to Major & Brower for services as attorneys

Allowed to Jacob N. McGall for conveying paupers to County Asylum

Andrew Morgan – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg Township

Andrew Morgan – license to keep a ferry over Laughery Creek from Aurora to Rising Sun

Joshua Seth presents petition of Hiram Lambkin and other citizens of Laughery and Centre Townships for change in Aurora and Hartford Road. Through lands of John Seth, Alfred Adams. David Walser, Josiah Collins and Henry Walker appointed viewers.

 

Page 274 [Continued.]

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Page 276

Allowed to Spencer Davis for conveying pauper to County Asylum

Allowed to Gilbert T. Givans for taking pauper to County Asylum

Allowed to Stephen Green Marshall of Aurora for filling and grading street

Allowed to Jotham Clark for burying paupers

Allowed to Cyrus Armstrong for repairs to Court House and table

Allowed to Cyrus Armstrong for articles furnished paupers

Allowed to Sheriff Gregg for fees in suit of Morgan vs. Commissioners

Allowed to Wymond & Ferris for articles furnished paupers

Allowed to John F. Richards for keeping criminals in Jail

Allowed to William H, Glasgow for ironing prisoners

 

Page 277

Petition of Joshua Brewington, of Wilmington, for damages sustained by State Road from Aurora to Ripley County. John Maston, George Cornelius and Samuel T. Johnson, Commissioners.

 

Page 278

Timothy Kimball – contract to erect jail in Lawrenceburg

 

Page 279

Allowed to Joseph West for articles furnished paupers

Allowed to N. Lancaster for printing notices

Allowed to Israel Crist for repairing seal press

Cornelius O’Brien, Treasurer, made report.

Chambers & Stevens – license to keep a store in Aurora

 

Page 280

Sylvester West – license to keep a store in Aurora

George A. Gray – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

Jehu A. Emeree – license to keep a store in Centre Township

Samuel Leenard – license to keep a store in Aurora

Walace C. Law – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

T. & J. W. Gaff – license to keep a store in Aurora

Julian D. Lawrence – license to keep a store in Wilmington

William D. Hewett – license to keep a store

 

Page 281

G. & O. Tousey – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

Jacob Harwood – license to keep a store in Aurora

Allowed to Wm. A. Kerr for digging grave and burying pauper

George P. Low for conveying pauper to County Asylum

Allowed to F. H. Benson for weights and measures

Allowed to Chambers & Co. for articles furnished paupers

Allowed to C. O’Brien for office rent

Allowed to E. E. Adams for stationery for Clerk’s office

Allowed to R. Rogers for services as Auditor

Petition of Joshua Brewington for damages. Refused. Appeal granted.

Court adjourned.

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the September 1847 Called Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 4

September Called Session 1847

Page 263

Present:

• James Grubbs
• Daniel Taylor
• Martin Trester

Patrick Fielding – contract for building the abutments and wings for a bridge across Salt Fork of Tanner’s Creek

Samuel Quigley – contract for building the abutments and wings for bridge across Salt Fork of Tanner’s Creek

 

Page 264 [Continued.]

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the September 1847 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 4

September Session 1847

Page 238

Present:

• James Grubs
• Daniel Taylor
• Martin Trester

James Grubbs elected President of Board.

Cornelius O’Brien, Treasurer, filed bond with Aaron B. Henry, Christopher C. Jaquith, Hugh Scott, Nelson H. Torbet, Daniel Conaway, William Johnson of Aurora, Thomas Palmer, John Hornberger, William E. Craft, Jacob F. Crester, Stephen East, and David Walser, his securities.

 

Page 239

S. S. Bassett, agent for Carlisle & White, submits report on South Hogan Bridge.

Jesse Hainer exonerated from road work.

Geo. Voglesang – license to keep a tavern in Kelso Township

 

Page 240

Amos Barkdoll – license to keep a tavern in Lawrenceburg Township

No. 3587 – Allowed to James Groff for keeping pauper

No. 3588 – Allowed to William Danels for keeping pauper

No. 3589 – Allowed to Samuel James for keeping Mills Robertson, an insane person

Joseph Steinmetz – license to keep a tavern in Manchester Township

George Voglesang – license to keep a tavern in Kelso Township [Error]

Jacob Steinmetz – license to keep a grocery in Kelso Township

No. 3590 – Allowed to William Grubbs for services and articles furnished Mr. Tuttle, a pauper

No. 3591 – Allowed to Hermanius Barkaloon for Mr. Tuttle, a pauper

No. 3592 – Allowed to A. H. Leneover for boarding and washing for Tuttle, a pauper

 

Page 241

J. B. Clark – license to keep a store in Manchester Township

No. 3594 – Allowed to George Cheek for keeping Daniel Brookover until his death and defraying his funeral expenses; also for keeping Brookover’s son while sick with small pox

No. 3595 – Allowed to Randall Alexander as temporary relief

Chandler & Garrrett – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg Township

No. 3596 – Allowed to Ferris McCullough for medicines furnished paupers

No. 3595 – Allowed to Matthias Gilbert for services rendered pauper and money expended by order of physician

No. 3627 – Allowed to Ferris McCullough & Co. for paper, ink &c. furnished Clerk’s office

No. 3638 – Allowed to Edward Tate for furnishing lumber and building a coal house for Clerk’s office

No. 3896/7/8 – Allowed to Daniel Conaway, John Shanks, and Timothy Guard for services as Road Commissioners

 

Page 242

Martin Jacob exonerated from road work.

R. & O. Parry – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

Allowed to R. & O. Parry for articles furnished Clerk’s Office

Allowed to John B. Hall for advertising August Election

Allowed to A. Morgan for furnishing shroud and digging grave for pauper

Allowed to Robert Peters for keeping a pauper sick with small pox

Allowed to A. B. Haines for medical attendance in Daniel Brookover, a pauper

Allowed to Dr. A. B. Haines for professional services rendered paupers

Allowed to Peter H. Ewing for constables’, jurors’ and magistrates’ fees in Inquest as to insanity of Andrew Switzer

 

Page 243

Mathias Klump – license to keep a store in Kelso Township

James M. Torrence – license to keep a store in Logan Township

Lewis S. Grazard – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg Township

Leonard & Hassan – license to keep a store in Harrison Township

Oatman Bentz – license to keep a tavern in Jackson Township

Ann McGratle – license to keep a tavern in Kelso Township

Jacob Shackerer – license to keep a tavern in Kelso Township

Allowed to Abraham Pussinger for conveying pauper to County Asylum

 

Page 244

Allowed to E. P. Bard for medical attendance on paupers

Reuben Rogers, Auditor, and William Johnson, School Commissioner, made report.

 

Page 245

Allowed to Nelson H. Torbet for medicines for Timothy Porter, a pauper

Allowed David Bryan as temporary relief

William Becket – license to keep a store in Dillsboro, Clay Township

Allowed to E. W. Jackson for one cord of wood furnished Clerk’s office

Allowed to Ray & Torbet for articles furnished Auditor’s office

Allowed to Ray & Torbet for articles furnished Clerk’s office

Allowed to Theodore Gazlay for professional services defending case of appeal, A. Morgan vs. Board of County Commissioners, and bringing suit for collection of loans of Surplus Revenue Fund

Allowed to John Ockuman for hauling coal and sawing and splitting wood for Clerk’s office

 

Page 246

Allowed to Rebecca Denham for keeping pauper

Alexander Beall – license to keep a store in Laughery Township

Allowed to E. Tate for lumber for county paupers

Allowed to Thomas Palmer for cleaning out coal house drayage of lumber and putting coal in coal house

Allowed to Dr. A. B. Haines for visiting paupers, medicine and prescriptions

Allowed to Josiah Chambers for sundries furnished Knapp and Peters, paupers

Allowed to George Low for conveying pauper to County Asylum

Allowed to William V. Cheek for extra services as clerk and dockets for Probate Court

Allowed to Elisha Cook for temporary relief

 

Page 247

Reuben Rogers, Auditor, made report.

Nelson H. Torbet, late Treasurer, made report.

Allowed to Levi McGuitley for mason work, materials, &c. for Auditor’s and Recorder’s offices

Allowed to John J. Houck for sundries furnished an insane person

Allowed to John J. Harok for butts and [?] for coal house for Auditor’s and Recorder’s office

 

Page 248

Jacob Hayes petitions for swinging gates on Township Road from Cambridge road near corner of Roland Duck’s and A. Howe’s land to township line near Tanner’s Creek. Granted.

John Shank, Timothy Guard and Daniel Conaway, viewers, made report on State Road from Lawrenceburg to mouth of Tanner’s Creek, made report. William S. Holman, attorney for Elizabeth Sparks, remonstrates. Thomas B. Pinkard, William C. Scott, Omer Tousey, John Oataham and Andrew Morgan file remonstrances. Elijah Lindsay, Richard Spicknall, and Jeremiah Nowlin appointed commissioners to assess damages.

 

Page 249

Allowed to Omer Tousey for coal for Court House

Allowed to Josephus Hutchins for lumber and making door frame for coal house

Allowed to O. T. Stockman for nails, glass, &c. for County Asylum

Allowed to Wm. Sheets for books and blanks for clerk’s office; tax deeds, and register of Tax titles

Allowed to James A. Ross for groceries furnished paupers

Allowed to Abner J. Dill for keeping paupers at County Asylum

 

Page 250

Amour Flake, David Kerr and George Goulding, viewers, made report on state road from Aurora to Ripley County line. Damages sustained by Geo. W. Taylor and Nelson Milburn. Robert D. Brown, Justice of the Peace. Geo. Moore, surveyor. Richard Sopris, and William Green, chainmen. Levi Morrell, axeman. S. J. Johnson, Geo. Cornelius and John Masten, commissioners.

 

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Page 252 [Continued.]

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Page 254

James Powell presented petition of James C. Cordery, Robert D. Brown and other citizens of Wilmington for incorporation of town. Includes plat map of town.

 

Page 255 [Continued.]

 

Page 256

Henry Moran, keeper of bridge over Hogan Creek at Aurora, files report.

Allowed to E. Y. Lee for medical attendance to County Asylum

Allowed to Nelson H. Torbet for rent of Treasurer’s office

Stephen Green to expend money to improve street in Aurora.

W. W. Jordan – license to keep store in Manchester Township

 

Page 257

Allowed to Wm. Wheeler as commissioner to locate road

Allowed to A. B. Henry as commissioner to locate road

Allowed to Martin Trester as commissioner to locate road

Allowed to Geo. Moore for surveying road

Allowed to Sylvanus Walbridge as chainman

Allowed to Thomas Wright as chainman

Allowed to Albert Stowe as axeman

Allowed to Milton Gregg for extra services

Saml. Wymond – license to keep a store in Dillsboro

Mauritz Klump – license to keep store [Error]

 

Page 258

Allowed to George Ross for articles furnished paupers

Wm. E. Craft – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

Cyrus Armstrong – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg Township

Allowed to Cyrus Armstrong for sundries furnished paupers

Porter & Chandler – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg Township

James Burk – license to keep a store

Chambers & Stevens – license to keep a store in Aurora

James Cummings – license to keep a store in Aurora

Milton Taylor – license to keep a store in Aurora

 

Page 259

Allowed to John F. Richards for services as jailor

T. John Taylor – license to keep a store in Aurora

John C. Moore – license to keep a store in Sparta Township

David A. Brooks – license to keep a store in Sparta Township

West and Steel – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

Thomas Eades – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

Frederick Huckery – license to keep a store in Aurora

Anthony Kastner – license to keep a store in Aurora

Jacob Graff – license to keep a tavern in Manchester Township

 

Page 260

Warren Tebbs – license to keep a tavern in Harrison Township

Abram Showalter – license to keep a store in Jackson Township

Seth Buffington – license to keep a grocery in Harrison Township

Oliver Heustis files remonstrance against opening a road laid out by Henry Haynes, Hugh Scott and Henry Allen in Jackson and Manchester Townships.

Allowed to Jacob N. McCall for conveying pauper to asylum

 

Page 261

Allowed to Harding & Pate for professional services

Allowed to R. & O. Parry for asylum

Wm. S. Ward ordered to make report on bridge over Tanner’s Creek between Dover and Elsace.

Thomas Palmer appointed superintendent of public square in Lawrenceburg.

Sparta Township to elect Justice of the Peace to fill vacancy of Wmm. Wheeler.

Allowed to John Masten for services as road commissioner

Ross & Hamilton – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

Allowed to James H. Ross for amount refunded for store license

 

Page 262

Allowed to Reuben Rogers for services as auditor

Allowed to Geo. Conklin for bottles and ink

Delinquent list to be published in Indiana Register.

Ross & Swartz – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg Township

Court adjourned.

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the July 1847 Called Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 4

July Called Session 1847

 

Page 236

Present:

• David Walser
• James Grubbs
• Daniel Taylor

Agreement with Patrick Fielding, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for bridge across the Salt Fork of Tanners Creek.

 

Page 237

James Grubbs to superintend mason work to be performed by Patrick Fielding at bridge over Salt Fork of Tanners Creek.

Court adjourned.

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the june 1847 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 4

June Session 1847

Page 206

Present:

• David Walser
• James Grubbs
• Daniel Taylor

No. 3470 – Allowed to Samuel Davis for professional services rendered paupers

No. 3472 – Allowed to J. C. Cordery for sundries furnished paupers

No. 3471 – Allowed to John F. Richards for services as jailor

No. 3473 – Allowed to Ira Wright for boarding and conveying pauper to County Asylum

No. 3474 – Allowed to Rhoda Dewitt for services rendered and articles furnished George Tuttle, a pauper

Benjamin Wright exempted from road work and poll tax due to disability.

No. 3475 – Allowed to Samuel James for keeping Mills Robertson, an insane person

Andrew Vetter – license to keep a tavern in Kelso Township

 

Page 207

Henry Shoe – license to keep a tavern in Kelso Township

No. 3476 – Allowed to C. C. Jaquith for assessing revenue, completing assessment roll and making return

No. 3477 – Allowed to D. G. Cromlow for assessing revenue

No. 3478 – Allowed to Daniel Conaway for assessing revenue

No. 3479 – Allowed to William Clynch for assessing revenue

No. 3480 – Allowed to James D. English for assessing revenue

No. 3481 – Allowed to Daniel Conger for assessing revenue

No. 3482 – Allowed to Seth Platt as deputy assessor

No. 3483 – Allowed to Richard Corson for repairs made on jail

No. 3484 – Allowed to A. B. Haines for professional services rendered paupers

 

Page 208

No. 3485 – Allowed to James H. Ross for groceries furnished and money expended for paupers

No. 3486 – Allowed to R. & O. Parry for groceries &c. furnished paupers

Jones & Brewington – license to keep a store in Wilmington

James Mortaw – license to keep a store in Kelso Township

Hugh Scott – license to keep a store in Kelso Township

John Hahn – license to keep a store in Kelso Township

Maurice Clump – license to keep a tavern in Kelso Township

No. 3490 & 3491 – Allowed to John B. Hall for publishing coroner’s inquest and notice to bridge builders

 

Page 209

Allowed to Hugh Scott for viewing road

David Hubbell – license to keep a store in Jackson Township

L. B. Lewis & Co. – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

Joseph Feger – license to keep a tavern in Kelso Township

 

Page 210

Report on change of state road from Aurora to A. Morgan’s Ferry through lands of William Hepworth and others. William Hepworth, by Brown his attorney, Allen Hamilton, Wm. S. Holman, and Polly Horsley, by William S. Holman their attorney, file remonstrance. Zachariah Barker, Elial Chaffin and Daniel Conaway appointed viewers.

Chester Faulkner – license to keep a store in Sparta Township

No. 3493 – Allowed to Elliott Wills for services rendered a pauper

No. 3494 – Allowed to Randall Alexander for temporary relief to paupers

No. 3497 – Allowed to Adam H. Lemmon for services rendered and articles furnished paupers

No. 3498 – Allowed to James M. Torrence for provisions &c. for pauper

No. 3499 – Allowed to J. B. Smith for professional services rendered Geo. Tuttle, a pauper

 

Page 211

No. 3496 – Allowed to Isaac Taylor for services rendered and groceries furnished George Tuttle

No. 3495 – Allowed to George Cheek for boarding and nursing Daniel Brookover and son, while confined with the small pox

Allowed to Jacob Ebersole for his medical attendance to family of Wm. Napp

No. 3501 & 3502 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for extra services and articles furnished for Clerk’s office

P. S. Spooner presented petition of Levin B. Lewis and others of Lawrenceburg Township to relocate state road from Lawrenceburg to Tanner’s Creek. Lands of W. E. Craft, Hamlet Sparks, Eliza Sparks, Omer Tousey, Philip Huffman, Jno. Blittner, heirs of Catharine Pinkard, Andrew Morgan, John Walden, John Callihan and Hugh Smith. Timothy Guard, John Shank and Daniel Donaway appointed viewers.

 

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Page 213

Charles Dashiell – license to keep a store

Elijah Thatcher – license to keep a store in Clay Township

No. 3507 – Allowed to Jortin Clark for taking up drowned man and going for the coroner

No. 3508 – Allowed to John B. Durbin for making 2 coffins

No. 3509 – Allowed to Mr. Stowe for taking up the body of a drowned boy and going for coroner

No. 3510 – Allowed to William Winkley for making boxes and delivering to the bodies were lying in the Ohio River

No. 3511 – Allowed to A. Hiatt for digging graves for drowned men

No. 3512 – Allowed to William Cure for conveying drowned men to their graves

No. 3506 – Allowed to T. & J. W. Gaff for sundries furnished paupers

No. 3513 – Allowed to Michael Sturn for digging graves and assisting to bury drowned man

 

Page 214

No. 3514 – Allowed to Samuel McMullen for going for coroner to hold an inquest in Manchester Township

Wymond & Ferris – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

Heinrich A. L. Weidlestaedt – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

Jacob Haeck – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

No. 3515 – Allowed to Daniel Walser for keeping John Walser, pauper

No. 3516 – Allowed to Samuel Lewis for furnishing coffin for pauper

No. 3517 – Allowed to Jones & Brewington for sundries furnished pauper

No. 3518 – Allowed to William H. Locke for medical attendance on John Walser, a pauper

 

Page 215

No. 3519 – Allowed to Granville Love for keeping pauper

No. 3520 – Allowed to William Danels for keeping pauper

No. 3521 – Allowed to James Groff for keeping pauper

Samuel W. Melsen exempted from road work.

Charles Bruce, Thomas Baker and Thomas Spicknall, viewers, make report on change of county road from William Dils’ in Manchester Township to Lawrenceburg and Madison State Road near John Johnson’s in Centre Township. Geo. Moore, surveyor. Lemuel Elder and Thomas Cheeseman, chain carriers. William Tanner, marker. William Dils, John Aldridge, Wm. Wymond, commissioners.

 

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Page 219 [Continued.]

 

Page 220

S. J. Johnson, Geo. Cornelius, and John Masten, commissioners, make report on state road. George W. Taylor and John N. Milburn remonstrate. Amour Flake, David Kerr and George Goulding appointed viewers.

Thomas Young exempted from road work.

Norval Sparks – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg Township

 

Page 221

Reuben Rogers, Auditor, makes report.

 

Page 222

Nelson H. Torbet, Treasurer, makes report.

 

Page 223

S. S. Bussell, collector of tolls at South Hogan Bridge, makes report.

No. 3522 – Allowed to Samuel Moore for attendance on pauper with small pox

No. 3547 – Allowed to N. Sparks for sundries furnished paupers

No. 3548 – Allowed to Heuster and Hayes for making coffin for pauper

No. 3549 – Allowed to Nelson H. Torbet for steel pens for and rent of Treasurer’s office

 

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Stephen Livingston – license to keep a store in Wilmington

Jury Selection.

 

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Grand Jurors for October Term 1847:

1. Thomas Cottingham, Logan Township
2. Henry Boese, Lawrenceburg Township
3. John Mahoney, Kelso Township
4. James Cummings, Centre Township
5. Benj. J. Perine, York Township
6. Joseph Trester, Centre Township
7. Peter B. Vail, Centre Township
8. Alex. D. Hopping, Centre Township
9. George B. Dennis, Lawrenceburg Township
10. William Wheeler, Centre Township
11. George A. Rigg, Centre Township
12. Wm. S. Miller, Lawrenceburg Township
13. James Johnson, Clay Township
14. Thomas H. Cloud, Harrison Township
15. Thos. Laughlin, Sparta Township
16. Matthew B. Steele, Centre Township
17. Walter Hayes, Miller Township
18. Jonathan Jones, Centre Township

Traverse Jury for 1st week, October Term 1847:

1. Richard Arnold, Logan Township
2. Norval Sparks, Lawrenceburg Township
3. Joseph Sylvester, Jr., Manchester Township
4. Jacob Mendall, Jackson Township
5. Wm. Upp, Jr., Centre Township
6. Samuel Colwell, Kelso Township
7. Thomas Hall, Clay Township
8. William Green, Manchester Township
9. Lewis D. Morgan, Centre Township
10. John Aldridge, Laughery Township
11. John H. Angevine, York Township
12. Joshua Brewington, Laughery Township

Traverse Jury for 2nd week, October Term 1847:

1. Davis Woodward, Lawrenceburg Township
2. Michael Lutz, Lawrenceburg Township
3. Messick Roberts, Kelso Township
4. Z. A. Bonham, Logan Township
5. Washington Stark, Centre Township
6. John Bean, Lawrenceburg Township
7. Thomas Lennon, Kelso Township
8. John Hendrickson, Jackson Township
9. John McMath, York Township
10. Isaac T. Cole, Clay Township
11. George Orsborn, Jackson Township
12. Thomas T. Fenton, Centre Township

Traverse Jury for 3rd week, October Term 1847:

1. John McGee, Manchester Township
2. Daniel Chittester, York Township
3. George Bowlby, Harrison Township
4. John Barkalow, Miller Township
5. Laurence Hayes, Logan Township
6. George Cook, Miller Township
7. Jas. McMullen, Manchester Township
8. Jas. Hibbetts, Lawrenceburg Township
9. Nicholas Fox, Lawrenceburg Township
10. Archibald Stewart, Kelso Township
11. Lewis G. Hulbert, Centre Township
12. Lemuel G. Elder, Laughery Township

Traverse Jury for 4th week, October Term 1847:

1. Robert H. Givan, Sparta Township
2. Josiah Beldon, Lawrenceburg Township
3. Spencer West, Lawrenceburg Township
4. John Rowland, Sparta Township
5. Isaac Ouathoudt, Sparta Township
6. James Christie, York Township
7. James M. Boatman, Logan Township
8. Ebenezer Bedumah, Sparta Township
9. Stephen East, Laughery Township
10. George W. Ward, Lawrenceburg Township
11. Jno. F. Blasdell, Kelso Township
12. James Kelso, Kelso Township

 

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Grand Jurors for April Term 1848:

1. John Burus, Sprata Township
2. Mahlon Powell, Laughery Township
3. John W. Henry, Lawrenceburg Township
4. Justus M. Cure, Laughery Township
5. Samuel Musgrave, Laughery Township
6. William Stoner, Jackson Township
7. William E. Craft, Lawrenceburg Township
8. John Stone, Jackson Township
9. Joseph Lenover, Clay Township
10. Thompson Dean, Centre Township
11. Shands Darling, Jr., York Township
12. John Liggett, Clay Township
13. Lyman T. Smith, Sparta Township
14. Thomas Justice, Sparta Township
15. Charles L. Pate, Sr., Clay Township
16. George Lozier, Manchester Township
17. Stephen Buffington, Laughery Township
18. Elijah Ellingwood, Manchester Township

Traverse Jury for 1st week, April Term 1848:

1. Nicholas Yeager, Jackson Township
2. Alvin G. Tebbs, Harrison Township
3. Milo Longwood, Centre Township
4. Ira Cowles, Clay Township
5. John McMullen, Manchester Township
6. Isaac Adair, Harrison Township
7. Landalin Guygar, Jackson Township
8. David Johnson, Centre Township
9. John D. Crontz, Lawrenceburg Township
10. Amor Flake, Laughery Township
11. James Chilson, Sparta Township
12. Allen L. Campbell, York Township

Traverse Jury for 2nd week, April Term 1848:

1. Joseph Suter, Manchester Township
2. James A. Reed, Harrison Township
3. Thomas Lynch, Kelso Township
4. Joe S. Becket, Laughery Township
5. Daivd Frazier, Miller Township
6. Joseph Hansel, York Township
7. John W. Cloud, Logan Township
8. John Milburn, Logan Township
9. Witt Fisher, Manchester Township
10. John Gibson, Miller Township
11. Cornelius S. Faulkner, Sparta Township
12. Joseph Roberts, Manchester Township

Traverse Jury for 3rd week, April Term 1848:

1. Wilson Wheeler, Sparta Township
2. Conrad Wiler, Jackson Township
3. James Palmer, York Township
4. John Seigle, Jackson Township
5. John Wooliung, Jackson Township
6. Anthony A. Pardun, Manchester Township
7. Charles Gullett, Laughery Township
8. John Callihan, Lawrenceburg Township
9. Jas. Colwell, Miller Township
10. Martin Kelly, Kelso Township
11. Joel Williams, Harrison Township
12. William Turner, Caesars Creek Township

Traverse Jury for 4th week, April Term 1848:

1. Samuel James, Laughery Township
2. James B. Laws, Sparta Township
3. Richard Hansel, Manchester Township
4. Azariah Oldham, Manchester Township
5. Bartholomew Colwell, Sparta Township
6. Josiah Collins, Laughery Township
7. Thomas Baker, Laughery Township
8. Daniel Horham, Manchester Township
9. Henry Wood, Manchester Township
10. John Lesher, Miller Township
11. Anderson F. Gage, Lawrenceburg Township
12. Bernard Dougherty, Kelso Township

 

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No. 3550  – Allowed to Daniel Hepworth for taking care of body of dead man

No. 3551 – Allowed to John Ferris & Co. for medicines &c. furnished paupers

No. 3552 – Allowed to Ferris McCullough & Co. for articles furnished auditor’s office

No. 3524 – Allowed to Cyrus Armstrong for groceries &c. furnished paupers

No. 3523 – Allowed to Daniel Wilson for summoning juries to hold inquests

No. 3553 – Allowed to Houck and Weadlestaedt for locks for jail

No. 3554 – Allowed to Margaret Zay for nursing Mrs. Summerfield

No. 35?? – Allowed to Jotham Clark for burying drowned man

Ferris & McCullough & Co. – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

No. 3525 – Allowed to Abner J. Dill for keeping paupers at Asylum

No. 3526 – Allowed to Abner J. Dill for removing pauper to Butler County, Ohio

 

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Report on county road through Jackson and Manchester Townships. Lands of Oliver Heustis, Samuel Conger, John Wimer, Ralph Evans, Henry Walters, Isaac Morris, Philip Lanegar, Henry Studer, Peter Sefert, John Ellinghouse, in Manchester Township; Thomas Ehler, Lewis B. Conger, John Hendrickson, Peter Schue, Jacob Vanwedding, in Jackson Township. Henry Haynes, Jehe H. Albert, Hugh Scott, viewers.

 

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No. 3527 – Allowed to Abner Dill for medicines, coffins &c. furnished paupers

Henry A. Moran, collector of tolls at Aurora Bridge, made report.

No. 3555 – Allowed to Wymond and Ferris for articles furnished paupers

No. 3528 – Allowed to Andrew Caton for conveying paupers to grave

No. 3529 – Allowed to William O’Brien for conveying paupers to County Asylum

No. 3556 – Allowed to Ray and Torbet for articles furnished Clerk’s office

No. 3557/8 – Allowed to J. N. Ray for paper furnished Auditor’s office; papers, sand and inkstands furnished Clerk’s office

No. 3559 – Allowed to George Cornelius for viewing state road

No. 3630 – Allowed to Samuel S. Johnson for viewing state road

No. 3560 – Allowed to Geo. Moore for surveying road, making map, field notes and report

 

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No. 3531 – Allowed to Samuel Sopris as chain carrier in locating state road

No. 3532 – Allowed to William Green for alike service

No. 3561 – Allowed to Aikin Kaar for services as above

No. 3562 – Allowed to Noah Davis as chain carrier

No. 3563 – Allowed to Joseph E. Baker as chain carrier

No. 3533 – Allowed to Levi Moral as axeman

No. 3565 – Allowed to Geo. Taylor as axeman

No. 3566 – Allowed to James Dunkin as axeman

Nelson H. Torbet, Treasurer, made report.

 

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David Reese – license to keep a ferry at mouth of Tanner’s Creek

John Callihan – license to keep a ferry at mouth of Tanner’s Creek

Jacob Gysi & Co. – license to keep a store in Laughery Township

Milliken & Eldridge – license to keep a store in Manchester Township

No. 3534/5 – Allowed to Geo. B. Sheldon for stove and pipe elbow to pipe and sand boxes furnished clerk’s office and for repairing stove pipe in Court House

Election in Lawrenceburg Township for Justice of the Peace in place of Elijah Rich.

No. 3564 – Allowed to Nelson H. Torbet for attendance and medicines for Mary Lamb, a pauper

No. 3584 – Allowed to William Clynch, of York Township, for return of license fee

 

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No. 3535 – Allowed to David Bryan for temporary relief

No. 3567 – Allowed to Jno. Langley for money by him paid pauper

Tax rates for 1847.

 

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No. 3537 – Allowed to William Godley for articles furnished paupers

No. 3539 – Allowed to Elisha Cook for temporary relief

No. 3568/9 – Allowed to Nimrod Lancaster for printing blanks for Auditor’s office; advertising coroner’s inquests

 

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No. 3570 – Allowed to Geo. Cauklin for paper and ink furnished Auditor’s office

No. 3571/2 – Allowed to Mann & Delzell for books and paper furnished Auditor’s office and books furnished Clerk’s office

Jacob F. Creder appointed salt inspector.

David Springer exempted from road work.

No. 3573 – Allowed to Reuben Rogers as Auditor

D. A. Rewland – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

Proposal of Patrick Fielding and Co. for bridge across Salt Fork of Tanners Creek accepted.

 

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Joseph Hayburn – license to keep a store in Aurora

No. 3546 – Allowed to C. C. Jaquith for services on Board of Equalization

Court adjourned.

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the March 1847 Called Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 4

March Called Session 1847

Page 177

Present:

• David Walser
• James Grubbs
• Daniel Taylor

No. 3255 – Allowed to Israel Crist for repairing locks and door of jail

No. 3256 – Allowed to John F. Richards for extra services as jailor

No. 3257 – Allowed to John F. Richards for scrubbing, white washing jail

Election in Kelso Township for Justice of the Peace in place of John Mahoney.

Election in Lawrenceburg Township for Justice of the Peace in place of John Saltmarsh.

 

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Reuben Rogers, Auditor, filed report.

 

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Reuben Rogers, Auditor, and William Johnson, School Commissioner, filed report.

 

Page 185

Surplus revenue paid by: Abram Roland, N. H. Torbet, Hiram Crowell, A. H. Dill, Samuel H. Spooner, William Tibbetts, Asaph Buck, Owen D. Legg, Benj. Noyes, Thompson Dean, Thomas Roberts, William Clynch. Loand to: William Green, Philip L. Spooner, Ellis W. Brown, Owen D. Legg, James G. Hunter, William Frazier, James and Ann Kelly, Joseph Smith, Meshack Robert, William Low, Saml. Stage, Reizar Hinds, Eben Heaton, E. M. Brown.

 

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Borrowers of United States Surplus Revenue Fund:

• Abram True
• Benjamin Noyas
• James Daughters
• John Shoemake
• Seth Heaton
• Hiram Crowell
• Hugh Stage
• John B. Clark
• John Johnson
• Jacob W. Eggleston
• Charles D. Elder
• Isaac Reed
• William W. Jordan
• James Daugherty
• Joshua Lowe
• Ebenezer Dumont
• James M. Clark
• Philip L. Spooner
• John Todd
• Edmund C. Cheek
• Isaac N. Cochran
• Trustees Bpt. Church
• Amer Flake
• John W. Dorsey
• Asaph Buck
• John Hinds
• John Durham, Sr.
• Jacob B. Shepherd
• Jno. K. Wilcox
• Geo. Griffin
• Geo. W. Palmer
• William Hixon
• John Legg
• Elnathan Horr
• Leonard Spicknall
• Geo. Robertson
• Abner Dill
• William Green
• William Row
• Christopher Row
• John Mahoney
• Thompson Dean
• Saml. & Thos. Abdon
• Jacob Morrison
• William Green
• Ellis W. Brown
• James G. Hunter
• William Frazier
• Jas. & Ann Kelly
• Joseph Snuth
• Meshiah Roberts
• William Low
• David Williamson
• David Baldwin
• Daniel Milliken
• William D. Lindsay
• Azaniah Oldham
• A. Cochran
• Geo. Woolley
• Servetus Tuft
• James Watson
• C. C. Jaquith
• Merrit Hubbell
• J. Swartz
• Leonard Spicknall
• Stephen Buffington
• N. H. Torbet
• James Walser
• Davis Woodward
• Ezra Ferris
• Stokelly Dils
• Stephen Wood
• Mahlon Powell
• William Dils
• Sparks & Bodine
• Aaron B. Henry
• Benj. Stockman
• Benj. F. Ferris
• Joshua Clark
• Jonathan Pate
• John Shanks
• Charles D. Elder
• Cornelius Miller
• James Griffith
• William V. Cheek
• Walter Kerr
• Jno. N. Cochran
• Henry Walker
• J. A. Reed
• Abram True
• Amos Lane
• Ephraim Glasgow
• David Macy
• James V. Watson
• John Palmer
• John Parks
• Alvah Churchill
• E. Abrams
• Isaac Randall
• Henry Walker
• Thomas Palmer
• Micajah Dunn
• John B. Hall
• Theodore Gazlay
• James D. Lindsay
• Elijah Huffman
• Isaac H. Cosbough
• William V. Cheek
• Henry Walker
• Spencer Hubbell
• John Ferris
• William Land
• Benjamin B. Root
• Doconey & Gazlay
• Robert D. Brown
• William V. Cheek
• Gersham Dunn
• Daniel S. Major
• Edmund H. McPike
• Benjamin Tufts
• George W. Cochran
• J. & N. Clark
• J. Colwell
• Silas W. Eggleston
• Enoch W. Jackson
• Geo. W. Shane
• Thomas Horner
• Vachel Hobbs
• R. Abbott
• Ross Crossly
• Joshua Yerkes
• Elijah Christopher
• John Durham, Jr.

 

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Interest received and disbursed from Surplus Fund: John Todd, Samuel H. Spooner, William Dils, Enoch W. Jackson, Alvah Churchill, John Alexander, Arthur Alexander, William Hixon, Andrew Cochran, Nelson H. Torbet, John Wilcox, Benjamin Noyas, John Durham, A. H. Dill, William Green, A. H. Dill, Baptist Church at Wilmington, Merrit Hubbell, John Swartz, Ezekiel Abrahams, Isaac Reed, George Woolley, Thompson Dean, John Shepherd, Mahlon Powell, James M. Clark, Walter Kerr, Leonard Spicknall, Isaac H. Carbaugh, Hiram Crowell, C. C. Jacquith, Saml. H. Spooner, Theodore Gazlay, Philip L. Spooner, Alex. McKinster, John Johnson, James Walser, Abram True, Samuel Stage, Reizen Hinds, Eben Heaton, David Macy, Benjamin Stockman, Cornelius Miller, E. Dumont, John Durham, Edmund C. Cheek, W. W. Jordan, Azariah Oldham, Charles D. Elder, Elnathan Horr, Sparks and Bodine, William Laird, John N. Cochran, George Griffin, James Daughters, Ellis W. Brown, Sewetus Tufts, Ezra Ferris, John B. Clark, William Clinch, Jacob W. Eggleston, Silas W. Eggleston, Daniel Milliken, John Todd, Nelson H. Torbett, Jno. Parks, E. Glasgow, James A. Reed, John Shanks, David Baldwin, Amor Flake, Josephus Clark, William V. Cheek, Jonathan Pate, John Hinds, William Tibbetts, James Griffith, Owen D. Ligg, John Legg, James G. Hunter, William Row, J. Clark, A. Buck, James D. Lindsay, Geo. Robertson, Joshua Low, Abram True, Davis Woodward, William Lindsay, Christopher Rowe, William Frazier, John Mahoney, Abner Dill, Saml. & THos. Abdon, Elijah Huffman, Trustees of Baptist Church at Wilmington, James Watson, Jas. & Ann Kelly, Thomas Palmer, Joseph Smith, Meshich Roberts, William Lowe, Abram Peaslie, B. T. W. S. Anderson, B. Connelly, Benj. Sellers, Daniel Clancy, William T. Harris, John Hunter, Jesse Wilson, James O. Smith, Jared Michael, Robert Harris, Charles Dashiell, Reuben Rogers, Daniel Baldridge, Nelson H. Torbet, James Rand, Virgil Dowden, Gazlay & Raymond, Geo. W. Lane, Reuben Rogers, N. H. Torbet.

 

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No. 3247 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for cash paid to D. Conklin for books for clerk’s office

No. 3258 – Allowed to James Duncan for digging grave for pauper

No. 3259 – Allowed to William and Edward Yate for lumber to repair seats in Court House

Bank Tax and Saline Funds: Ellis W. Brown, Eben Heaton, John Alexander, Samuel Stage, Reizen Hinds.

 

Page 193

Nelson H. Torbet, Treasurer, filed report.

No. 3248 – Allowed to Croutz & Burroughs for blacksmithing for County purposes

No. 3250 – Allowed to Reuben Rogers for receiving and disbursing funds

No. 3254 – Allowed to Robert Patton for plastering Court House

 

Page 194

Enoch Hayes remonstrates against opening of State Road from Lawrenceburg to Brookville.

No. 3249 – Allowed to Nelson H. Torbet for receiving and disbursing funds

 

Page 195

James Ross – license to vend merchandise at Lawrenceburg Township

Michael Hoff – license to vend merchandise at Jackson Township

Security of following borrowers of Surplus Fund insufficient: Stokely Dils, Isaac H. Carbungh, Spencer Hubbell, Merrit Hubbel, James A. Reed, James Griffith, John Sevart, John Parks, Micajah Dunn, Gersham Dunn, Stephen Buffington, Servetus Tufts, Theodore Gazlay, Daniel S. Major, David Williamson, John N. Cochran, Joshua Clark, John Durham, Jr.,

 

Page 196

No. 3260 – Allowed to James Francis for repairing benches and other repairs

No. 3261 – Allowed to Jacob P. Dunn for rails and painting benches in Court House

 

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Board examined school fund.

Court adjourned.

 

Page 198

Deed – Reuben Rogers, Auditor, to Christopher Ennis

 

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Deed – Reuben Rogers, Auditor, to Christopher Sites

 

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Road tax in Lawrenceburg Township.

 

Page 204

Daniel Taylor, John Bennet, and George W. Lane, file report on division of school and surplus revenue funds.

 

Page 205 [Continued.]

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the March 1847 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 4

March Session 1847

Page 152

Present:

• David Walser
• James Grubbs
• Samuel Taylor

No. 3150 – Allowed to Josiah Chambers for articles furnished Aurora Bridge

No. 3149 – Allowed to Josiah Chambers for articles furnished paupers

No. 3151 – Allowed to Granville Love for boarding Elizabeth Love, a pauper

No. 3152 – Allowed to Varnal Trulock for taking charge of drowned man and assisting to bury the same

Boyd & David – license to keep a store in Sparta Township

Julian D. Lawrence – license to keep a store in Laughery Township

 

Page 153

Daniel R. Edwards – license to keep a store in Aurora

Report of Abram Ferris, Abram Roland and Charles Dashiell on road leading from High Street to mouth of Tanner’s Creek. Land of William E. Craft, Mrs. Elizabeth Sparks, Sharp & Carmon, children of Thomas B. Pinkard, O. Tousey, Andrew Morgan.

 

Page 154

Petition of Samuel Weitzel, Geo. W. Lane, Josiah Chambers and others of Center Township for change in State Road from Aurora to A. Morgan’s Ferry. Land of J. W. Cochran, E. Conwell, J. Langley, Mrs. Fairchild, Geo. W. Lane, E. Basset, M. B. Steel, W. J. and C. Hiatt, J. Sutton, A. Stow, Norris’ heirs, Hepworth, Horseley, H. Swift. William Wheeler, Aaron B. Henry and Martin Trester appointed viewers.

 

Page 155

Election in Miller Township for Justice of the Peace in place of William Jackson.

No. 3074 – Allowed to Abram Ferris for viewing road

No. 3075 – Allowed to Abram Roland for viewing road

No. 3072 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for viewing road

 

Page 156

No. 3153 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for articles furnished clerk’s office

No. 3154 – Allowed to Joseph West for provisions for paupers

No. 3155 – Allowed to Mrs. Mary Miller for services as midwife for pauper

No. 3156 – Allowed to Samuel James for keeping an insane person

No. 3157 – Allowed to Elliott Wills for keeping Sarah Alexander, a pauper

No. 3158 – Allowed to Randall Alexander for his temporary relief

Isaac Davis – license to keep a store in Sparta Township

P. O’Conner – license to keep a store in Kelso Township

 

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No. 3159 – Allowed to Jabez Whipple for taking care of pauper

No. 3160 – Allowed to Jabez Whipple for removing May Jane Morrison, who was likely to become a public charge, from Dearborn County

No. 3162 – Allowed to Jotham Clark for burying pauper

No. 3160 – Allowed to Thomas B. Cook fro his temporary relief

No. 3165 – Allowed to Jabez Whipple for taking charge of Hezekiah Downs, a pauper

No. 3165 – Allowed to J. S. Kelly for articles furnished paupers

No. 3166 – Allowed to John S. Kelly for articles furnished paupers

No. 3167 – Allowed to J. M. Fuller for his professional services to pauper

No. 3168 – Allowed to J. M. Fuller for his professional services to paupers

No. 3169 – Allowed to Leanard and Hassan for articles furnished paupers

No. 3163 – Allowed to William Daniels for keeping paupers

No. 3170 – Allowed to E. Y. Lee for professional services attending pauper

 

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No. 3171 – Allowed to E. Y. Lee for professional services rendered pauper

William Wymond, William Dills, and John Aldridge make report on road from William Dils’ to John Johnson’s. Geo. Moore, surveyor. Lemuel Elder and Thomas Chaseman, chain carriers. William Turner, marker. John Johnson remonstrates against report. Charles Bruce, Thomas Spickerall, and Thomas Baker appointed viewers.

 

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No. 3175 – Allowed to Abner Dill for articles furnished paupers

No. 3176 – Allowed to Abner Dill for keeping paupers at County Asylum

No. 3177 – Allowed to Harding & Tate for visiting criminal while sick in prison

No. 3179 – Allowed to Harding & Tate for professional services rendered paupers

No. 3180 – Allowed to Rebecca Douglass for taking care and nursing Mrs. Nehwire and child, paupers

No. 3181 – Allowed to Heitmier & Cross for groceries furnished paupers

No. 3182 – Allowed to Russell Hollister for sitting glass for clerk’s office

 

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No. 3183 – Allowed to J. Morrison, S. Jones and H. Moran for receiving Aurora Bridge

No. 3184 – Allowed to Calvin A. Simonton for wood furnished Mrs. Knapp, a pauper

Jonathan Hall – license to keep a store in York Township

No. 3185 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for Samuel Ross and family for temporary relief

No. 3192 – Allowed to Houck and Wedelstaedt for articles furnished paupers

Jacob Wittiman – license to keep a grocery in York Township

No. 3188, 3189, 3190 – Allowed to J. N. Ray for articles furnished Recorder’s, Clerk’s and Auditor’s offices

No. 3191 – Allowed to Wymond and Ferris for articles furnished paupers

Geo. & O. Tousey – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

 

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No. 3186 – Allowed to G. & O. Tousey for articles furnished clerk’s office

No. 3187 – Allowed to Anderson F. Gage for furnishing Hannah Levi, a pauper

Allowed to John Ferris for articles furnished paupers

S. S. Bussell filed report on South Hogan Bridge.

 

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Jacob Sneider and others of York Township present petition to vacate road. Land of James A. Angevine, Herman’s Mill, Landerlia Herman, Theresa Herman, George Enderly, Yellman.

No. 3208 – Allowed to Christian Williamson for setting grate in jail

No. 3206 – Allowed to John Ferris for articles furnished Auditor’s office

No. 3207 – Allowed to John Ferris for articles furnished clerk’s office

 

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No. 3193 – Allowed to Edmund C. Cheek for wood furnished jail

No. 3194 – Allowed to Norval Sparks for sundries furnished paupers

No. 3195 – Allowed to Omer Tousey for coal furnished clerk’s office

No. 3196 – Allowed to Omer Tousey for coal furnished Court House

No. 3197 – Allowed to Seth Mayhew for articles furnished paupers

Tax rate for 1846.

Henry A. Moran appointed collector.

No. 3239, 3240, 3241 – Allowed to Mann & Jebzell for books for Auditor’s, Clerk’s and Recorder’s office

 

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No. 3209 – Allowed to Enoch E. Adams for articles furnished pauper

Henry A. Moran, Collector of tolls at Aurora Bridge, filed report.

Abner Dill’s proposal to keep paupers at County Asylum accepted. Filed bond with William V. Cheek, his security.

Appointed Trustees of County Seminary: Daniel Conaway, Robert D. Brown, Benjamin Vail, John Spidel, David Durham, William Tell Harris, Geo. W. Lane, Daniel Taylor, Charles Dashiell, Benjamin Sylvester, William S. Holman, Richard N. Spicknall, Jeremiah Nowlin and Rees H. Parry.

 

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No. 3198 – Allowed to Eldridge & Tate as Physicians for County Asylum

No. 3199 – Allowed to Adam H. Lemmon for services rendered paupers

George W. Lane makes report on Common School Fund and U. S. Surplus Revenue Fund. Mortgages to transfer to Ohio County:

• S. Wilson
• J. McPherson
• Ths. Linville
• Edmund C. Cheek
• Isaac Randall
• Jonas Leason
• Joseph M. Groves
• Joseph Peters
• Calvin Marble
• Conaway Bainum
• Joel Lynn
• J. Harpham
• Benj. Walker
• Hiatt & Noble
• Parker Rogers
• John Morrison
• William Morley
• Samuel Kennedy
• William Knowles
• Isaac H. Carbaugh
• Espy
• John N. Cochran
• John D. Lytle
• Lewis B. Hunt
• John Seth
• William Morrison
• Andrew Lonergan
• Jeremiah Howerton
• Jonathan Harpham
• Samuel James
• James Learnard
• William N. Cooper
• Russell
• Ham. S. Pate
• William Flynn
• William Glenn
• Samuel T. Covington
• Thomas Palmer
• John B. Durbin
• Henry Walker
• Cornelius Miller
• Stephen Stewart
• J. M. Stewart
• John McKain
• Ezra Lamkin
• Thomas Hiff
• John N. Cochran

 

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Nelson H. Torbet, Treasurer, filed statement on volunteers for Mexican War:

• Jabez Healy, Logan Township
• Thomas Medd, Logan Township
• Simeon Bradley, Lawrenceburg Township
• Andrew Custy, Lawrenceburg Township
• James Foster, Lawrenceburg Township
• A. Gamble, Lawrenceburg Township
• James Gilmore, Lawrenceburg Township
• David Gilliland, Lawrenceburg Township
• Nelson Hamel, Lawrenceburg Township
• Samuel Hines, Lawrenceburg Township
• John Laffolet, Lawrenceburg Township
• Harvey McKnight, Lawrenceburg Township
• Thos Motherall, Lawrenceburg Township
• Andrew Moss, Lawrenceburg Township
• Thos McKnight, Lawrenceburg Township
• William North, Lawrenceburg Township
• Joseph Ross, Lawrenceburg Township
• William H. Reed, Lawrenceburg Township
• William C. Truett, Lawrenceburg Township
• John Todd, Lawrenceburg Township
• Geo. W. Knapp, Centre Township
• D. G. Conger, Manchester Township

 

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George W. Lane submitted report on distribution of Surplus Revenue Fund. Ohio County entitled to money from Thos. Dean, William Green, Isaac Reed, Ed. C. Cheek, Jacob W. Eggleston, Ebenezer Dumont, Elnathan Horr, Geo. W. Palmer, Henry Walker, John B. Hall, Cornelius Miller, William V. Cheek, David Macy and Jonathan Pate.

 

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Andrew Cunningham – license to keep a store in Sparta Township

No. 3210 – Allowed to Nelson H. Torbet for articles for Treasurer’s office and rent for same

 

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S. McConnell – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

No. 3211 – Allowed to John Ferris for articles furnished paupers

Allowed to Mann & Delzell for books furnished Auditor’s office, Clerk’s office and Recorder’s office

Andrew Lonergan – license to retail liquors at his house in Kelso Township

Joseph Blatner – license to retail liquors at house in Kelso Township

E. Y. Lee employed as Physician for County Asylum.

No. 3212 – Allowed to Hugh Marsh for services rendered paupers

No. 3204 – Allowed to John F. Richards for services as jailor

 

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No. 3213 – Allowed to George Conklin for books furnished Auditor’s office

No. 3215 – Allowed to Owen D. Legg for interest advanced upon payment of loan

Petition of citizens of Jackson and Manchester Townships for county road. Henry Haines, Hugh Scott, and Henry Albert appointed viewers.

No. 3216 – Allowed to C. O’Brien for specific purposes

No. 3217 – Allowed to William Wymond for viewing road

No. 3218 – Allowed to William Dils for viewing road

No. 3219 – Allowed to John Aldridge for viewing road

No. 3220 – Allowed to Thomas Chisman as chain carrier

No. 3221 – Allowed to Lemuel G. Elder as chain carrier

No. 3222 – Allowed to William Tanner as marker

 

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No. 3223 – Allowed to George Moore for surveying road

Nelson H. Torbet, Treasurer, filed report.

Allowed to William Johnson, School Commissioner, for receiving and disbursing funds

 

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Allowed to Reuben Rogers, Auditor, for receiving and disbursing funds

No. 3233 – Allowed to Richard Sopris for conveying paupers to County Asylum

No. 3205 – Allowed to Reuben Rogers as Auditor

Luther Plummer and Jonathan Ross appointed visitors to County Asylum.

Columbus Jaquith, Assessor, appointed James D. English, deputy assessor.

Court adjourned.