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Dearborn County Commissioners – Jun 1839

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the June 1839 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 2

June Term 1839

Page 428

Present:

David Walser
Charles Dashiell

Allowances for Grand Jurors, April Term 1839:

No. 1 – Cyrus Mills
No. 2 – Amos Morris
No. 3 – John Buffington
No. 4 – George W. Shane
No. 5 – James Murray
No. 6 – Sylvanus Brunhall
No. 7 – David Conger
No. 8 – Jesse Laird
No. 9 – Robert Fowler
No. 10 – Warner Tibbs
No. 11 – Ranzia C. Stevens
No. 12 – John Daniels
No. 13 – Thomas Hansel
No. 14 – John Rinegar
No. 15 – Ebenezer Roberts
No. 16 – John Deshiell
No. 17 – Leonard Chase
No. 18 – George Wooly

Allowances for Traverse Jurors, April Term 1839:

No. 19 – Jonathan Vail
No. 20 – Isaac Randal
No. 21 – Jno. W. Dorsey
No. 22 – John Stewart
No. 23 – Aaron B. Henry
No. 24 – John B. Chisman
No. 25 – Daniel Roberts
No. 26 – Elijah Thatcher
No. 27 – John Columbia
No. 28 – William Perry
No. 29 – Hamilton Pate
No. 30 – John Brumly, Jr.
No. 31 – Armour Stevenson
No. 32 – Dennis Riley
No. 33 – Benjamin Vail
No. 34 – Stephen Jarvis
No. 35 – Thomas Darling
No. 36 – John Neal
No. 37 – John Tait
No. 38 – George Smith
No. 39 – Abraham Hoover
No. 40 – William McBride
No. 41 – Hugh Ferry
No. 42 – Robert Hargit
No. 43 – James Smith
No. 44 – Thomas Bradly
No. 45 – John Taylor
No. 46 – Mason J. Cloud
No. 47 – Isaac W. White
No. 48 – Henry Alamong
No. 49 – Albert Ball
No. 50 – Charles Ewing
No. 51 – Robert Hargitt
No. 52 – David G. Rabb
No. 53 – Thomas Tanner
No. 54 – Mahlon Powell
No. 55 – George G. Jackson
No. 56 – Abijah Chamberlin
No. 57 – Peter Perlee
No. 58 – Nathanl L. Squibb
No. 59 – Elial Chalfaut
No. 60 – Thomas Jennings
No. 61 – James C. Cordy
No. 62 – Henry Parker
No. 63 – Isaac Jones
No. 64 – Charles L. Pate
No. 65 – Thomas Hargit
No. 66 – Alexander Downey
No. 67 – Alvy Churchill
No. 68 – John Fenemore
No. 69 – Robert Abbott
No. 70 – Benjamin Willson
No. 71 – John Brewington
No. 72 – John Hansel
No. 73 – Lemuel G. Elder
No. 74 – George P. Lowe
No. 75 – William Gerrard
No. 76 – Thomas Baker
No. 77 – George Hume
No. 78 – Dorman Holiday
No. 79 – Milo Longwood
No. 80 – Saml Lewis
No. 81 – David Nevitt
No. 82 – Joshua Sanks
No. 83 – Francis Baldwin
No. 84 – George Griffin
No. 85 – Henry Walker
No. 86 – Elias Chisman
No. 87 – Benjamin Moore
No. 88 – Chalon Miller
No. 89 – Wm. Morgan
No. 90 – John D. Martin
No. 91 – Andrew Morgan
No. 92 – A. L. Bailly
No. 93 – John Myers

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No. 94 – Allowed to Erastus Lathrop for services at court

No. 95 – Allowed to Thomas Bradley for services at court

No. 96 – Allowed to John Brewington for services at court

No. 97 – Allowed to George Hume attending on Grand Jury

No. 98 – Allowed to A. B. Adams attending Court

No. 99 – Allowed to Walter Kerr for attending Court

No. 100 – Allowed to Sheriff for cleaning Court House and candles

No. 101 – Allowed to Isaac Jones for services at Court

No. 102 – Allowed to Richard Specknail for assessing Kelso Township

No. 103 – Allowed to Ranna C. Stevens for assessing Sparta Township

Ordered Sparta Township to elect one Justice of the Peace to fill vacancy of John Columbia.

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Ordered Manchester Township to elect 2 Justices of the Peace to fill vacancies of Charles W. Wright and John B. Clark.

Mark McCracken appointed director to aid of poor asylum.

David Kerr and George W. Lane appointed Trustees of County Seminary.

No. 104 – Allowed to David Walser for service signing county orders and service as Commissioner

No. 105 – Allowed to Charles Dasheill for service as Commissioner

No. 106 – Allowed to S. S. Speakman for service as Juror

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Ordered assessment books examined. John Speidle’s land valued by board at $3500.

No. 107 – Allowed to Wilkinson Smith as Juror

Board adjourned.

Dearborn County Commissioners – Apr 1839

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the April 1839 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 2

April Session 1839

Page 398

Present:

David Walser, commissioner
Charles Dashiell, commissioner
Walter Kerr, Sheriff

No. 1 – Allowed to Spencer West for digging grave and burying a stranger

No. 2 – Allowed to Samuel Lewis for plank furnished Court House purchased of Watkins & Cochran

Matthias H. Hall – license to keep a grocery and retail spirituous liquors at their grocery in Rising Sun

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William Tibbits – license to keep a grocery and retail spirituous liquors at his grocery in Manchester Township

No. 3 – Allowed to Martin Scranton for sundry expenses paid for benefit of Josh Dalton, a transient pauper

No. 4 – Allowed to Robert Gillaspie for attendance on a transient pauper as a physician

J. Rittenhouse – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Harrison

Peter R. Persine – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store

No. 5 – Allowed to Ephraim Glasgow for Clerk’s office rent

Miles Lanap – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at

John Leeby – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries

Pepper A. French – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Rising Sun

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Joseph E. Baker – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries

Watson & Wymond – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries

Thomas Horner & Son – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries

Benj. Sylvester – license to vend merchandise and groceries

Commissioners to assess damages sustained by John Billingsly, heirs of Henry Dils, William Dils, Eleazer Small, William G. Griffin, Francis Worley, William Morgan, William Upp, Lewis and William Morgan in consequence of relocation of State Road from mouth of HoganCreek to intersect State Road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis near residence of Stokely Dils to meet at house of William Glenn in Wilmington. Continued.

Page 401

No. 6 – Allowed to Jonathan Noble for repairing desk in clerk’s office and making top to desk

Application of ferry across Ohio River at Rising Sun by John P. Scott and Trustees of Rising Sun, by James T. Brown, attorney. Petition of J. Hewit and others to keep a ferry. Continued.

No. 7 – Allowed to James Rand for services rendered as Trustee of School Township 4, Range 3 West

Hugh McClure, Treasurer of Township No. 7, Range 1 West, made report. Loans to Solomon Rood and William McClure.

Page 402

Joseph Kimpton, Treasurer of Township No. 4, Range 1 West, made report. Loans to C. Miller and John J. French.

No. 8 – Allowed to Hugh McClure for services as Treasurer of Township No. 7, Range 1 West

Lampkin & Kemp – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries

Tucker & Jinkins – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries

No. 9 – Allowed to Mason J. Cloud for services as trustee of School Township No. 7, Range 1 West

No. 10 – Allowed to Saml Prate & Co. for boards furnished to repair jail

No. 11 – Allowed to David Fisher for hauling plank and poles for jail

No. 12 – Allowed to Henry McKinzey for service rendered as Treasurer of Township 7, Range 2

No. 13 – Allowed to Thomas Baker for wood furnished Court House

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Joshua Haines – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries

No. 14 – Allowed to John Levingston for services as associate judge

No. 15 – Allowed to A. J. Cotten for service as associate judge in granting an injunction

No. 16 – Allowed to A. J. Cotten for service as associate judge in appointing a commissioner to fill the vacancy of Benj. Sylvester, resigned

No. 17 – Allowed to John Cundale for keeping paupers at asylum

No. 18 – Allowed to John Cundale for keeping paupers at asylum

No. 19 – Allowed to M. H. Harding for medicine and attendance for benefit of paupers

No. 20 – Allowed to John Cundale for schooling poor children

No. 21 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for services as clerk of Township 6, Range 3 West

Henry McKenzie, Treasurer of Township 7, Range 2 West, makes report.

Page 404

John P. King, Treasurer of Township 7, Range 3, makes report. Received from Henry Walker, School Commissioner. Paid to Isaac Morris, Treasurer of School District No. 1, Daniel Hathoway, Treasurer of School District No. 3 and Cyrus Cross, Treasurer of School District No. 3.

James P. Milliken, Treasurer of Township 6, Range 2 West, makes report. Paid to C. Row, Treasurer of District 1; Henry Snell, Treasurer of District 3; Riley Elliott, Treasurer of District 3; Henry Sikeley, Treasurer of District 4; Danl Horham, Treasurer of District 5; Francis Hansell, Treasurer of District 6; Smith Platt, Treasurer of District 7; Robert Ketcham, Treasurer of District 8; Noble Dawson, Treasurer of District 9.

Page 405

James Rand, Treasurer of Township No. 4, Range 3 West, makes report. Paid to Saml Graham, District 2; N. S. Squibb, surveying; H. Pate, District 1; C. Cooper, District 3; James T Turweleger, District 2, Weler School House; C. Cooper, District 3, Clarks School House; Jno. N. Chilington, District 4; John Cunningham, No. 4, Union School House; Benjn. Rolf, District 6.

Henry Allemony, Treasurer of Township 6, Range 3, made reports. Note on Abraham St. John. Paid to Timothy Kimball.

Page 406

A. Y. Maryman, Treasurer of Township 4, Range 2 West, makes report.

Page 407

Oliver Heustis – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors in Lawrenceburg

No. 22 – Allowed to Henry Walker as school commissioner

Richard McAdams – licene to vend foreign groceries and spirituous liquors at his grocery at James Mill

No. 23 – Allowed to James R. Miller for taking insane man to Poor House

No. 24 – Allowed to Wm. Gerrard for keeping an insane person

No. 25 – Allowed to John Smith for assisting to take an insane person to County Asylum

William Perry, Surplus Revenue Loan Agent, for settlement with William G. Monroe.

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D. E. Hartford – license to vend foreign goods and groceries

No. 25 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for Probate Court Seal, wood furnished for drying plank, knobs for drawers in desks, &c.

Grant Jurors for October Term 1839:

Thomas Jones
Joel Decoursey
Joseph Churchill
Vachel Hobbs
Jonathan Noble
James Lyons
Elisha Bodine
John Larew
Arthur St. Clair
Thomas Cooper
Elias Little
David Canger
Amos Ross
David Cook
James Robinson
Francis Baldwin
John Snider
David Durham

Traverse Jury for October Term 1839, first week:

John Gibson
Christian Wilman
Maxwell Huston
Joshua Haines
Martin Stewart
William Randal
Jacob Stofer
William Wheeler
Ingold Butterfield
Ira Hill
Randall Pate
John F. Lemon
George Cooper
William Misner
Jacob Morrison
Thomas H. Milburn
Isaac Hancock
Bailey Hayes
William Barton, Jr.
Reuben Goodwin
James Lawrence
Samuel McMullen
John Ingle
Martin Trester

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Traverse Jury for October Term 1839, second week:

Daves Woodward
Dorus Thompson
Jacob Zeen
Thomas Bailey
James C. Cordry
Wiliam T. Ward
John Bledsoe
Joshua Browindon
Harrison H. Dorsey
Samuel Jelley
George W. Chisman
Abraham Roland
James H. Lane
Joseph Hall
John Hall
Jonathan Blasdell
John McCurnen
Swl Plummer
William O’Neal
Thomas Baker
Davis Davies
Jeremiah Howarton
Elijah Lake
James Daughters

Traverse Jury for October Term 1839, third week:

John K. Lewis
David Dewitt
George W. Lane
Jacob Hollowell
Enoch D. John
Thomas Ehler
Noah Dean
Leroy W Lynn
Charles W. Wright
Joel Lynn
David McClure
Jonathan Jones
A. U. Meriman
William Rodney
Joshua Yerkaz
Ezra Ferris
Jesse Hunt
Sullivan Jaquith
Asa Sheldon
Benjamin Sellers
Hugh Espey
Jacob D. Mason
William Conaway
George Johnson

Grand Jury for April Term 1840:

Azariah Oldham
Elijah Chamberlin
James A. Angevine
Richard Grubbs
Isaac Hayes
Stephen Hastings
Cornelius Vanhorn
George Waldrof
John B. Craft
Omer Tousey
Jonathan Harpham
John W. White
Lewis G. Hulbert
Lewis Morgan
Wilson Dorman
James M. Darragh
Elias Abbott
Newton Canfield

Traverse Jury for April Term 1840, first week:

Hugh Noyes
Levi Boyd
William Wade
William S. Durbin
Nicholas Stone
John W. Hall
Elial Chaffin
Anderson F. Gage
Shadrach Hathway
Stephen Buffington
Thomas Davis
Moses Horneda
William Tate
John Saltmarsh
Wesley Harrison
George Cornelius
Richard Spicknel
Amer Flake
William V. R. Peck
John Sarver
Albert G. Dils
A. L. Baily
Benjamin Tufts
Cyrus Mills

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Traverse Jury for April Term 1840, second week:

William Canfield
Robert Hewet
William Emmerson
Truman Huble
William Morehead
Thomas Darling, Jr.
Jacob Larew
Bailey Guard
Benjamin Perine, Jr.
George A. Rigg
William Jackson
William Gerrard
William F. Ferris
Elias Williamson
Mahlon Miller
Eli Scranton
Abram Ferris
Nathan Smith
Dudley Linville
Charles Stevens
Thomas Spicknel
William Cole
James Billingsly
Aaron Foulk

Traverse Jury for April Term 1840, third week:

Henry Hustaz
Daniel Grant
James M. Martin
John Clark
John M. Patrick
Thomas Curtis
Stephen [illegible]
Jacob Bostick
Jordan Abbott
Charles Bruce
Thomas Stevenson
Daniel Conaway, Jr.
Sampson Davis
Isaac Dunn
Benjamin Ewbank
John D. Daniel
Novel Sparks
Harris Fitch
Martin Arnold
Thomas J. Taylor
David McPatrick
Laven B. Lewis
James A. Walton
Cornelius Miller

Joseph McHenry, Treasurer of Township 3, Range 3, makes report.

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No. 26 – Allowed to Samuel Musgrave for furnishing a lightning rod for Court House and putting up same and other repairs to Court House

Allowances to Grand Jurors, July Term 1838:

No. 27 – Enoch Conger
No. 28 – William Dawson
No. 29 – Cornelius S. Falkner
No. 30 – John Billingsly
No. 31 – David Suthard
No. 32 – John Wallingford
No. 33 – Edward Ricketts
No. 34 – James M. Clark
No. 35 – Gersham Dunn
No. 36 – John Callihan
No. 37 – William H. Vaughn
No. 38 – Peter Hanegan
No. 39 – John Hansel
No. 40 – Almon Fairbanks
No. 41 – George Arnold

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Allowances to Traverse Jurors, July Term 1838:

No. 42 – Thomas Jennings
No. 43 – Thomas Tanner
No. 44 – Samuel H. Dowden
No. 45 – Henry Likeley
No. 46 – Nathaniel S. Squibb
No. 47 – James Lawrence
No. 48 – Philip Rowland
No. 49 – James McGuire
No. 50 – Claiborne Morris
No. 51 – Eleazer Small
No. 52 – Cyrus Smith
No. 53 – Andrew Babcock
No. 54 – Samuel Graham
No. 55 – Jeremiah Smith
No. 56 – Jefferson A. French
No. 57 – Charles Clemmons
No. 58 – Decalvas Payne
No. 59 – David G. Rabb
No. 60 – Isaac Randall
No. 61 – John Saltmarsh
No. 62 – Samuel McMullen
No. 63 – Amos Morris
No. 64 – John S. Richards
No. 65 – Henry Walker
No. 66 – James Powell
No. 67 – James Moore
No. 68 – Joseph E. Bakes
No. 69 – Henry Parker
No. 70 – Robert Walker
No. 71 – James Smith
No. 72 – Benjamin Anderson
No. 73 – James C. Cloud
No. 74 – John Taylor
No. 75 – Warren Tibbs
No. 76 – Reuben Goodwin
No. 77 – George W. Shane
No. 78 – Cyrus Mills
No. 79 – Jeremiah Nowland
No. 80 – Oliver Ludlow
No. 81 – George Dennis
No. 82 – Joel Decoursey
No. 83 – Isaiah Hayes
No. 84 – David Fleming
No. 86 – John Shanks
No. 87 – William Glenn
No. 88 – Samuel Jelly
No. 89 – Thomas Guin
No. 90 – Cornelius Snyder
No. 91 – Elias Hustis for Oct Term 1838
No. 92 – Benjamin Moore
No. 93 – John Hill
No. 94 – Elijah Blasdell
No. 95 – Jonathan Hill

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Allowances to Grand Jurors, October Term 1838:

No. 96 – George Conner
No. 97 – Read Crandle
No. 98 – Jacob Rees
No. 99 – William Rawling
No. 100 – George Darling
No. 101 – John Weathers
No. 102 – James Rand
No. 103 – Joseph Churchill
No. 104 – George Cheek
No. 105 – George W. Kingsberry
No. 106 – Harvey Scranton
No. 107 – Elijah Blasdel

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Allowances to Traverse Jurors, October Term 1838:

No. 108 – William Hinkston
No. 109 – William L. Abbott
No. 110 – Robert Wilber, Jr.
No. 111 – Dewitt Wilber
No. 112 – James Blauvett
No. 113 – John Buffington
No. 114 – John W. Cloud
No. 115 – James Y. Pollock
No. 116 – David Tibbets
No. 117 – Daniel Kelsey
No. 118 – Henry Collins
No. 119 – John Myers
No. 120 – Thomas Clack
No. 121 – Enoch W. Jackson
No. 122 – James McLain
No. 123 – Francis Worley
No. 124 – Jacob W. Eggleston
No. 125 – William Lemon
No. 126 – George Pate
No. 127 – John Parks
No. 128 – William Tanner
No. 129 – Noah Davis
No. 130 – Jehu Goodwin
No. 131 – Thomas Guion
No. 132 – James Roberts
No. 133 – Benjamin Johnson
No. 134 – Cyrus Mills
No. 135 – Amos Morris
No. 136 – James Slater
No. 137 – Samuel McMullen
No. 138 – Isaac Randall
No. 139 – Ebenezer Roberts
No. 140 – John F. Richards
No. 141 – Isaiah Hayes
No. 142 – Moses Guard
No. 143 – James Lindsey
No. 144 – Alfred A. Clark
No. 145 – Amaziah Bailey
No. 146 – Stephen D. Ludlow
No. 147 – Amos Flake
No. 148 – Amos Calden
No. 149 – Saml Osgood
No. 150 – John Saltmarsh
No. 151 – Alexander Fairbanks
No. 152 – Eli Scogin
No. 153 – George Grove
No. 154 – George W. Shane
No. 155 – Jeremiah Smith
No. 156 – William Bruce
No. 157 – Jeremiah Nowland
No. 158 – Joshua Shanks
No. 159 – John D. Martin
No. 160 – Zera L. Vincen

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Report of Wm. G. Monroe of settlement with Wm. Perry, former loaning agent of Surplus Revenue.

No. 161 – Allowed to Wm. Glasgow for ironing prisoners

Page 419

No. 162 – Allowed to Lewis & Hobbs for necessary articles furnished for the use of Peter Beykshursky, a pauper

No. 163 – Allowed to Isaac Cannon for guarding county jail

No. 164 – Allowed to Cyrus Canfield for guarding county jail

No. 165 – Allowed to Dorothy Sortwell for washing and attendance on Mrs. Miller, a pauper

No. 166 – Allowed to Aaron Ball for services as jail keeper and various services rendered prisoners

No. 167 – Allowed to Abel H. Lamphier for guarding county jail

No. 168 – Allowed to Blackley Shoemake as commissioner in locating part of state road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis

No. 169 – Allowed to James Roberts, Sr., for similar services

No. 170 – Allowed to L. B. Conger for services as surveyor in locating above named road and for making plat and field notes of same

No. 171 – Allowed to Michael Ehler as chain carrier in locating above named road

Sparks & Bodine – license to vend foreign merchandise in Logan Township

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No. 172 – Allowed to James Roberts, Jr. for carrying chain on survey of State Road

No. 173 – Allowed to True Roberts for service on State Road as marker

No. 174 – Allowed to N. H. Torbet for medicine and attendance on Elizabeth Lawrence, a pauper

Wm. G. Monroe, Treasurer, makes report.

Page 421

Henry Walker, School Commissioner, submits report.

Page 422

Blackeley Shoemake and James Roberts, Commissioners to view State Road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis near Michajah Dunn’s in Manchester Township make report.

Page 423

John Dumont presented account in suit against Robert Moore, late treasurer.

Page 424

No. 175 – Allowed to John Aldridge for guarding the jail

No. 176 – Allowed to Elizabeth Lawrence for keeping her daughter, Elizabeth Lawrence, a pauper

J. E. Emrie – license to keep a tavern

No. 177 – Allowed to Henry Allomong as Treasurer of Township 6, Range 3 West

No. 178 – Allowed to William G. Monroe for settling with William Perry, late agent for loaning the surplus revenue

No. 179 – Allowed to Benjamin Stockman for articles furnished Mrs. Miller and two children, transient paupers

No. 180 – Allowed to Benj. Stockman for articles furnished for use fo Peter Beykyshirskey, a transient pauper

No. 181 – Allowed to David Fisher for hauling plank for jail

No. 182 – Allowed to Samuel Pratt & Co. for plank for jail

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Taxes levied for 1839.

John Cline – license to keep a grocery in Lawrenceburg

No. 183 – Allowed to Martin Stewart as assessor for Randolph Township

No. 184 – Allowed to William Gerrard as assessor for Union Township

No. 185 – Allowed to William Lemmon as assessor for Caesars Creek Township

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No. 186 – Allowed to Isaac Randall as assessor for Clay Township

No. 187 – Allowed to John Weaver as assessor for Lawrenceburg Township

No. 188 – Allowed to Thomas Darling as assessor for Miller Township

No. 189 – Allowed to Z. A. Bonham as assessor for Logan Township

No. 190 – Allowed to Israel Noyes as assessor for Manchester Township

No. 191 – Allowed to Meritt Hubble as assessor for Jackson Township

No. 192 – Allowed to Walter Kerr as assessor for Laughery Township

Assessment rolls returned to board.

David Walser appointed President of Board.

No. 193 – Allowed to David Walser as County Commissioner

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No. 194 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell as County Commissioner

David Walser appointed to contract for building an estray pen.

Board adjourned.

Dearborn County Commissioners – Mar 1839

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the March 1839 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 2

March Session 1839

Page 378

Samuel Wright – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Manchester Township

George W. Lane & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at their store in Aurora

No. 1 – Allowed to Thomas Palmer for books, stationery and office rent

Anderson & Cook – license to keep a grocery and vend spirituous liquors at their grocery in Jackson Township

S Hathway – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Rising Sun

L. R. W. Lyme – license to vend foreign merchandise ad groceries at his store in Rising Sun

Henry Shoe – license to keep a grocery to vend spirituous liquors at his store in Kelso Township

David M. Gibson – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Dearborn County

Page 379

William Dils, Lewis Morgan, William Morgan, Francis Worley, John Billingsly, Heirs of Henry Dils, William G. Griffin, and William Upp filed remonstrance against State Road from mouth of Hogan Creek to State Road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis near residence of Stokely Reny.

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No. 2 – Allowed to John Cundale, keeper of Poor Asylum, for articles furnished paupers

No. 3 – Allowed to John Cundale for keeping paupers

No. 4 – Allowed to James Boyd for finding and delivering an absconding pauper to asylum

No. 5 – Allowed to John Cundale for medical bill paid to Dr. J. M. Fuller for the benefit of paupers

No. 6 – Allowed to William Dils, Sheriff, for extra services

No. 7 – Allowed to Thomas Baker for wood furnished Court House

John P. Scott – license to keep a ferry across the Ohio River at Rising Sun

William S. Smith – license to keep a grocery and retail spirituous liquors at his grocery in Lawrenceburg

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No. 8 – Allowed to James Lawrence for assessing Jackson Township

No. 9 – Allowed to Stephen Stewart for taking Wm Black, a pauper, to asylum and provisions furnished

No. 10 – Allowed to Pepper & French for funeral purposes

No. 11 – Allowed to John H. O’Neal for taking care of Michael Doyle, a pauper

No. 12 – Allowed to John Morrison for medical aid to Wm. Granlee, a transient pauper

No. 13 – Allowed to Hewitt & Jones for articles furnished Mrs. Brittenham by order of the overseers of the poor of Randolph Township

No. 14 – Allowed to Milton Gregg for county orders and binding same

No. 15 – Allowed to Thomas C. Hall for digging a grave for Michael Doyle, deceased, a pauper

Trustees of Rising Sun by James T. Brown, their attorney, move board to reconsider license granted John P. Scott to keep a ferry across Ohio River at Rising Sun because they made application for ferry.

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Thomas Blyth – license to keep a grocery and retail spirituous liquors at his grocery in Lawrenceburg

Jacob Smith – license to keep a tavern at McKenzie’s Crossroads in Kelso Township

Thomas Muir – license to keep a grocery and retail spirituous liquors at his shop in Hardinsburg

John Hansel and A L Bailey appointed directors of Asylum.

Eleazer Small filed remonstrance against State Road.

Andrew Cochran by Lawrence, his attorney, filed petition for review of county road in Logan Township. George Arnold, Warren Tibbs and Lisle Riley to review alteration.

Page 383

No. 16 – Allowed to Aaron Ball, Sr., for attending prisoners and furnishing necessaries for same

No. 17 – Allowed to Wm. V. Cheek for Record Books, Stationery &c.

No. 18 – Allowed to David Shane for service as Petit Juror April Term 1838

No. 19 – Allowed to William Morgan for service as Petit Juror April Term 1838

No. 20 – Allowed to Hugh McClure for service as Petit Juror April Term 1838

No. 21 – Allowed to Mason J. Cloud for service as Petit Juror October Term 1838

No. 22 – Allowed to Robert Moore for service as Petit Juror October Term 1838

No. 23 – Allowed to William Morgan for service as Petit Juror October Term 1838

No. 24 – Allowed to John Levingston for service as Petit Juror October Term 1838

No. 25 – Allowed to Thomas Lambertson for service as Petit Juror October Term 1838

No. 26 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for service as Petit Juror July Term 1838

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No. 27 – Allowed to James Merrick for temporary relief as a pauper to be under the control of Benj. Sylvester

No. 28 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for fetters on prisoners

No. 29 – Allowed to Martin Trester for services as Trustee for School Township 4, Range 2 West

No. 30 – Allowed to John Livingston for services as associate Judge approving W. V. Cheek’s bond and granting an injunction

Ordered motion by Trustees of Rising Sun continued.

Order to build New Lawrenceburg and Tanners Creek bridge is revoked.

No. 31 – Allowed to Abner Tibbits for services viewing and relocating state road

No. 32 – Allowed to William Perry for service viewing and relocating state road

No. 33 – Allowed to Aaron B. Henry for service viewing and relocating state road

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No. 34 – Allowed to Eli Hall for service driving stakes on the review of state road made by Wm. Perry, A. B. Henry, and Abner Tibbetts

No. 35 – Allowed to Joseph M. Grove for service as chain carrier on view or relocating state road made by William Perry, A. B. Henry and Abner Tibbetts

No. 36 – Allowed to Madison Henry for service as chain carrier on view or relocation of State Road made by Wm. Perry, A. B. Henry and Abner Tibbetts

No. 37 – Allowed to John Smith for service as chain carrier on view or relocation of state road made by Wm. Perry, A. B. Henry and Abner Tibbitts

No. 38 – Allowed to Francis Worley for service as Petit Juror Oct Term 1838

Report of State Road from mouth of Hogan Creek to intersect the State Road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis near residence of Stokley Dils and Stokely Perry, by William Perry, Aaron B. Henry and Abner Tibbits, Commissioners. Francis Baldwin, Justice of Peace. E. B. Hunt, surveyor and engineer. M. Henry and J. Grove, chain carriers. Eli Hill and John Smith, markers and stake drivers. William Glenn, Charles Dashiel, Nathaniel L. Squibb to assess damages to William Upp, William and Lewis Morgan, Heirs of John Conn, Francis Worley, William G. Griffin, Phoebe Worley, heirs of Nathan Worley, Eleazer Small, John Billingsly, William Dils, Heirs of Henry Dils, Stokely Dils, John W. Dorsey, Jacob Dils. Viewers to meet at office of J. C. Curtis. Land of Francis Worley was land of Nathan Worley, deceased, which was partitioned among heirs: Elizabeth Worley, Andrew Worley, Henry Worley.

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No. 39 – Allowed to John D. Johnson for services as Petit Juror October Term 1838

No. 40 – Allowed to James Mills for service as Petit Juror at July Term 1838

No. 41 – Allowed to Thomas Jennings for service as Petit Juror July Term 1838

Thomas Jennings – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Wilmington

Trustees of Rising Sun, by Brown, their attorney argue against license to John P. Scott to keep a ferry across Ohio River at Rising Sun. Continued.

Page 390

William G. Monroe appointed Treasurer. Filed bond with Alexander H. Dill, John Livingston, James C. Corlly, Isaac Hancock, Daniel Conaway, Jno and William Dils, as securities.

No. 42 – Allowed to A. H. Dill for books, paper, quills, extra services, &c.

No. 43 – Allowed to William McBride as Petit Juror Oct Term 1838

No. 44 – Allowed to Mahlon Powell as Grand Juror Oct Term 1838

No. 45 – Allowed to Charles Bruce as Petit Juror Oct Term 1838

No. 46 – Allowed to Charles Bruce as Juror July Term 1838

Trustees for County Seminary appointed: Benjamin Vail, J. C. Curtis, Henry Walker, Isaac Dunn, Wm. G. Monroe, Wm. Tait, Wm. Perry, Sewell Plummer, Nathaniel L. Squibb, Ephraim Glasgow.

No. 47 – Allowed to William L. Abbot as Petit Juror Oct Term 1838

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No. 48 – Allowed to John Kyle for services as engineer at bridge sites

John Kyle, commissioner, makes report of bridge to be built over Laughery Creek at S. S. Speakman’s ferry on Rising Sun Road.

Page 392

On motion of John McPike, Court ordered Isaac H. Kiersted be sworn in relation to signatures on bond for surplus revenue loaning agent.

William G. Monroe appointed to settle with Wm. Perry, loaning agent of surplus revenue.

No. 49 – Allowed to A. J. Cotten as associate Judge accepting bonds and granting injunctions

William G. Monroe, Treasurer, submits report.

Page 393

John Cundale, keeper of Asylum, filed bond with Thomas Kyle, his security.

Page 394

No. 50 – Allowed to Elijah Christopher as Petit Juror at July Term 1838

Kerr, Conaway & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at their store in Wilmington

Benjamin Vail – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Wilmington

No. 51 – Allowed to William G. Monroe for furniture for Treasurer’s office

No. 52 – Allowed to William Spiznall as Petit Juror at July Term 1838

Page 395

Petition of James C. Cordy and other voters of Wilmington and affidavit of David Kerr, for incorporation of Wilmington. Petition as genuine by oath of Ephraim Glasgow and John Brewington. Granted.

Remonstrance of Elijah Blasdell.

Page 396

James Murray – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Dillsboro

No. 53 – Allowed to Benjamin Sylvester for signing county orders

No. 54 – Allowed to David Walser for services March Session 1839

No. 55 – Allowed to Benjamin Sylvester for service at March Session

No. 56 – Allowed to David Walser for service at Oct Term and July Term as Petit Juror

Wm Dils appointed agent to repair jail.

Walter Kerr appointed to procure and fix a lightning rod to Court House in Wilmington

Ordered that Clerk’s office be kept in north west room upstairs in Court House and Treasurer’s office be kept in center room on north side of Court House upstairs and Recorder’s office be kept in north east room in Court House upstairs as soon as lightning rod is fixed.

Page 397

John McPike, N. H. Torbet, David Kerr, L. G. Elder, John B. Carrington, Charles Elder, Philip L. Spooner, Elisha Morgan, William Wymond, Mahlon Powell, William Glenn, Ephraim Glasgow, Thomas Jennings, John Johnson, A. Ball Jr., and James Murry bound to Indiana for John McPike, agent to loan Surplus Revenue.

Page 398

Board Adjourned.

In Vacation: Z. A. Bonham appointed assessor for Logna Township by William V. Cheek, clerk.

Dearborn County Commissioners – Jan 1839

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Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 2

January Session 1839

Page 357

Present:

Benjamin Sylvester, President
David Nevitt
David Walser

Jacob Vanwedding – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop or grocery store in Jackson Township

No. 1 – Allowed to Stephen Hisman for digging grave for a drowned man

No. 2 – Allowed to Hugh Ferry for making coffin for a drowned man

Hiram Lampkin and Erastus Lathrop – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at their shop in Aurora

Page 358

A. & R. Wilber – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Hartford

No. 4 – Allowed to Charles D. Pearson for boarding and keeping Mary Malone, a pauper

No. 5 – Allowed to Conrad Row for boarding and keeping a pauper

No. 6 – Allowed to Wm. H. Caster for medicine and attendance to a pauper

Philip Eastman – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Rising Sun

Or Canfield – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his shop in Manchester Township

No. 7 – Allowed to James M. Case for boarding and keeping a pauper

No. 8 – Allowed to Rufus Rice for coffin for a pauper

Page 359

Cornelius Miller appointed commissioner to expend $100 of 3% fund on Jelley’s Hill on state road leading from Rising Sun to Versailles. Filed bond with John J. French, security.

William Lemon appointed commissioner to expend $100 of 3% fund on a state road from Madison to Lawrenceburg. Filed bond with James Mcguire, security.

James McGuire appointed commissioner to expend to the improvement of the navigation of Laughery Creek. Filed bond with William Lemon, security.

No. 9 – Allowed to Cornelius Miller for boarding and keeping a pauper

No. 10 – Allowed to John Cundale for keeping and boarding paupers at the Poor Asylum

No. 11 – Allowed to John Cundale for medicine furnished Poor Asylum

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No. 12 – Allowed to Aaron Ball for removing paupers to Asylum

No. 13 – Allowed to John Bullock for removing Mary Sixton, a pauper, to Poor Asylum

No. 14 – Allowed to Frances Worley for boarding and keeping a pauper

Petition of 200 person residing in Laughrey and Lawrenceburg Townships for erection of a new township. Granted and Centre Township created. Election to be held at house of George W. Lane in Aurora.

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No. 15 – Allowed to Amos Jones for boarding and keeping a pauper

No. 16 – Allowed to Milton Gregg for publishing delinquent list

No. 17 – Allowed to J. C. Cordrey & Co. for goods furnished a pauper

Jeremiah Coughlan – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at his shop in Kelso Township

Jeremiah Coughlan – license to vend foreign merchandise at his house or store in Kelso Township

Page 363

Jacob Houck – license to vend foreign groceries at his shop in Lawrenceburg

Henry Reise – license to vend foreign groceries at his shop in Lawrenceburg

No. 18 – Allowed to Elias Schooley for making a coffin for a pauper

No. 19 – Allowed to William Morgan for services viewing state road

No. 20 – Allowed to Martin Trester for services viewing state road

Bird Pate – license to keep a grocery and retain foreign and domestic groceries and spirituous liquors at their house in Wilmington

Page 364

James C. Cordry & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Wilmington

No. 21 – Allowed to John Cundale for removing Patrick Wade, an insane pauper

No. 22 – Allowed to Aaron Ball for boarding prisoners in jail

Harris Fitch – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Lawrenceburg

No. 23 – Allowed to Elizabeth Lawrence for keeping Betsey Lawrence, a pauper

No. 24 – Allowed to Nelson H. Torbet for medicine and attendance on Betsey Lawrence, a pauper

No. 25 – Allowed to Nelson H. Torbet for medicine and attendance on Hicks, a pauper

Page 365

No. 26 – Allowed to Nelson H. Torbet for medicine and attendance on Martin Jackson while a prisoner in jail

Patrick O’Conner – license to keep a grocery at his shop in Kelso Township

Nathaniel L. Squibb appointed commissioner to expend $100 of 3% fund for improvement of Hartford Hill on 7 and 8 mile of the state road leading from Rising Sun to Versailles. Filed bond with Henry Walker, security.

Page 366

John B. Clark – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Manchester Township

Jesse Riley appointed assessor in Logan Township

Thomas Darling appointed assessor in Miller Township

Richard Spicknall appointed assessor in Kelso Township

Merrit Hubble appointed assessor in Jackson Township

Israel Noyes appointed assessor in Manchester Township

John Weaver appointed assessor in Lawrenceburg Township

Page 367

Walter Kerr appointed assessor in Laughery Township

Ranna C. Stevens appointed assessor in Sparta Township

Isaac Randall appointed assessor in Clay Township

William Lemon appointed assessor in Cesars Creek Township

William Gerrard appointed assessor in Union Township

Martin Stewart appointed assessor in Randolph Township

Page 368

Cleves & Karr – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Manchester Township

No. 27 – Allowed to Mahlon Powell for sundries furnished jail

No. 28 – Allowed to Alexander H .Dill for rent of clerk’s office and quills furnished clerk’s office

Page 369

James T. Brown appointed attorney in defense of the Board of County Commissioners. Except an action by Stephen Wood which is now pending in the Supreme Court. Order appointed Stephen C. Sevens is revoked.

No. 29 – Allowed to John Ferrce for making a coffin for a drowned man

No. 30 – Allowed to James R. Dennison for going to the coroner to give information of a drowned man

William H. Vaughan – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Lawrenceburg

Page 370

Laird & Porter – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Lawrenceburg

Harvey Moss & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Wilmington

Page 371

Report of William G. Monroe, Treasurer.

Page 372

No. 31 – Allowed to William Dils for wood and repairs to Court House

No. 32 – Allowed to James T. Pollock for overcharge in county tax

James Miller & Co. – license to keep a grocery and retail liquors at their shop in Randolph Township

Wetherby & Stevens – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at their house in Harrison

Page 373

Henry W. Brown – license to keep a grocery and retail liquors at his shop in Rising Sun

No. 33 – Allowed to Benjamin Sylvester for service as commissioner

No. 34 – Allowed to David Nevett for services as commissioner

No. 35 – Allowed to David Walser for services as commissioner

Ordered that a bridge be built over Tanners Creek at New Lawrenceburg made by J. Kyle, engineer. Isaac Dunn, William Tait, and Andrew Morgan, superintendents. Appointment of Stephen Ludlow as superintendent revoked and Andrew Morgan appointed in his stead.

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J. Kyle, Engineer, appointed to make an examination of site of contemplated bridge over Laughery Creek at ferry of Stephen S. Speakman on Rising Sun Road.

David Walser, commissioner of Dearborn County, enters his dissent against order by board for building the Lawrenceburg and Tanners Creek Bridge because a tax levied for that purpose would be oppressive to the people.

Board adjourned.

Dearborn County Commissioners – Dec 1838

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Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 2

December Special Session 1838

Page 355

Present:

William Dils, Sheriff
Benjamin Sylvester
David Nevett
David Walser

Election of clerk in room of James Dill, died August 1838. William V. Cheek proclaimed elected. Alexander H. Dill contested election and granted appeal in court and to file bond with William G. Monroe as security.

Page 356

Board adjourned.

Dearborn County Commissioners – Nov 1838

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Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 2

November Session 1838

Page 341

Present:

Benjamin Sylvester
David Walser

Matthew Hubble – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Jackson Township

David Nevitt took his seat.

Robert Haddock – license to vend foreign goods and groceries at his store in Miller Township

Vallorus Morse – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Union Township

Page 342

George W. Shane – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries at his shop in Logan Township

No. 1 – Allowed to John Cundale, keeper of Poor Asylum, for digging well

No. 2 – Allowed to Townsend Dickinson for repairs to Asylum

No. 3 – Allowed to J. & F. H. Hansell for glass furnished asylum and other articles

No. 4 – Allowed to John Cundale, keeper of poor asylum, for keeping the poor

No. 5 – Allowed to M. H. Harding for medicine and attendance on paupers at poor asylum

No. 6 – Allowed to E. Freman for one bucket for well at poor asylum

No. 7 – Allowed to John Kyle for hauling stone for well at poor asylum

No. 8 – Allowed to Edward Rickett for services as trustee of Fractional Township No. 3, Range 1 West

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No. 9 – Allowed to William Morgan for repairs to Wilson Creek Bridge

No. 10 – Allowed to Olmsted & Downey for digging grave for a drowned man

No. 11 – Allowed to Elias Schooly for making coffin for pauper at Poor Asylum

Jacob Harwood, Thomas H. Milburn and David Soter, commissioners of location of State Road from bridge across South Hogan Creek to Lawrenceburg and Indianapolis State Road. Elias Chisman by Dumont, his attorney, moves report set aside.

Page 344

Asa Sheldon – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Rising Sun

Lewis G. Hurlbert – license to vend foreign and domestic groceries at his shop in Aurora

Josiah Beldin and Enoch S. Adams – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at their house in New Lawrenceburg

Page 345

No. 12 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for repairs to jail

No. 13 – Allowed to John Chance for conveying Mrs. Hogshier, a pauper

Hewitt and Jones – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at their store in Rising Sun

Thomas Guion – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Clay Township

No. 14 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for services as trustee of Section 16, Township 6, Range 3 West

Jacob Harwood, Thomas H. Milburn and David Soter, commissioners for location of state road from South Hogan Creek bridge to Lawrenceburg and Indianapolis State Road. Report is set aside.

Page 346

Allowances for Grand Jurors, October Term 1838:

No. 15 – William Morgan
No. 16 – Mahlon Powell
No. 17 – George Conner
No. 18 – Read Crandle
No. 19 – Jacob Rees
No. 20 – William Rawling
No. 21 – George Darling
No. 22 – John Weathers
No. 23 – James Rand
No. 24 – Joseph Churchill
No. 25 – George Cheek
No. 26 – George W. Kingsbury
No. 27 – Harvey Scranton
No. 28 – Elijah Blasdel
No. 29 – Robert Moore
No. 30 – Thomas Lambertson

Allowances for Petit Jurors, October Term 1838:

No. 31 – William Hinkston
No. 32 – William L. Abbott
No. 33 – Robert Wilber, Jr.
No. 34 – Dewitt Wilber
No. 35 – James Blauvett
No. 36 – John Buffington
No. 37 – John W. Cloud
No. 38 – James T. Pollock
No. 39 – David Tebbets
No. 40 – Daniel Kelsey
No. 41 – Henry Collens
No. 42 – John Myers
No. 43 – Thomas Slack
No. 44 – Enoch W. Jackson
No. 45 – James McClain
No. 46 – Francis Worley
No. 47 – Jacob W. Eggleston
No. 48 – William Lemon
No. 49 – George Pate
No. 50 – John Parks
No. 51 – William Tanner
No. 52 – Noah Davis
No. 53 – David Walser
No. 54 – John D. Johnson
No. 55 – Jehu Goodwin
No. 56 – Joseph Adams
No. 57 – Thomas Guion
No. 58 – James Roberts
No. 59 – Benjamin Johnson
No. 60 – Cyrus Mills
No. 61 – Amos Morris
No. 62 – James Slater
No. 63 – Samuel McMullen
No. 64 – Isaac Randall
No. 65 – Ebenezer Roberts
No. 66 – Elias Hustis
No. 67 – John F. Richards
No. 68 – Isaiah Hayes
No. 69 – Moses Guard
No. 70 – James Lindsey
No. 71 – Alfred A. Clark
No. 72 – Amaziah Bailey
No. 73 – Stephen D. Ludlow
No. 74 – Amer Flake
No. 75 – Amos Colden
No. 76 – Samuel Osgood
No. 77 – John Saltmarsh
No. 78 – Alexander Fairbanks
No. 79 – Eli Scoggin
No. 80 – George Grove
No. 81 – Charles Bruce
No. 82 – George W. Shane
No. 83 – Jeremiah Smith
No. 84 – William Bruce
No. 85 – Jeremiah Nowland
No. 86 – William McBride
No. 87 – Joshua Sanks
No. 88 – Gersham Dunn
No. 89 – John D. Martin
No. 90 – Zerah Vinson

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No. 91 – Allowed to Benjamin Carlisle for medicine and attendance on George Johnson, a pauper

No. 92 – Allowed to Alexander E. Glenn for printing expose for 1837

No. 93 – Allowed to Jabez Percival for attendance on George Johnson, a pauper

No. 94 – Allowed to John K. Lewis for making coffin for George Johnson, a pauper

No. 95 – Allowed to Zerah T. Percival & Co. for shroud for a pauper

No. 96 – Allwed to James Noble as Juror October Term 1838

Page 349

No. 97 – Allowed to John D. Johnson for hauling lumber from Aurora to the Court House in Wilmington

No. 98 – Allowed to Aaron Ball for boarding prisoners in jail

No. 99 – Allowed to John Brewington as constable Oct Term 1838

No. 100 – Allowed to Walter Kerr as constable Oct Term 1838

No. 101 – Allowed to Lemuel G. Elder as constable Oct Term 1838

No. 102 – Allowed to Abram B. Adams as constable Oct Term 1838

No. 103 – Allowed to Samuel McMullen as constable Oct Term 1838

No. 104 – Allowed to Akin Kerr as constable Oct Term 1838

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No. 105 – Allowed to George Hume as constable Oct Term 1838

No. 106 – Allowed to Alexander E. Glenn as constable Oct Term 1838

No. 107 – Allowed to John F. Richards as constable Oct Term 1838

No. 108 – Allowed to Henry S. Pate as constable Oct Term 1838

No. 109 – Allowed to William Dils for wood and others articles for court Oct Term 1838

Horton & Morgan – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at their store in New Lawrenceburg

No. 110 – Allowed to Henry S. Pate as constable July Term 1838

Henry Walters – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at house in Manchester Township

Page 351

In matter of state road laid out by Jacob Hayes, Robert Harget and John Gibson, Commissioners comes William Morgan and Martin Trester, Commissioners to assess damages to Elijah Blasdel, Jehue Goodwin and Jacob Dennis.

William G. Monroe, Treasurer’s report.

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No. 111 – Allowed to Benjamin Sylvester for signing county orders and at asylum on business

No. 112 – Allowed to Alexr H. Dill for one ream of paper and extra service as clerk

No. 113 – Allowed to Benjamin Sylvester for services at session

No. 114 – Allowed to David Nevitt for services at session

No. 115 – Allowed to David Walser for services at session

Ordered that a public bridge be built over Tanners Creek at New Lawrenceburg. William Tate, Stephen Ludlow and Isaac Dunn appointed superintendents of the building of bridge.

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Calbert and Stevens – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at their store in Rising Sun

No. 116 – Allowed to Robert Haddock for services as clerk of School Section 16, Township 6, Range 1

Board adjourned.

Dearborn County Commissioners – Sep 1838

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Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 2

September Session 1838

Page 311

Present:

Benjamin Sylvester
David Walser, District No. 1

No. 1 – Allowed to John Cundale, keeper of Poor Asylum, for keeping paupers

No. 2 – Allowed to Silas Eggleston as constable summoning juries by order of coroner

No. 3 – Allowed to William Dodd for drawing coffin, two mules and a half by order of the coroner

No. 4 – Allowed to James Miller for making coffins and digging graves

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No. 5 – Allowed to Morgan & Brown for making coffin for a pauper

No. 6 – Allowed to Thomas Wright for digging grave for a pauper

Elijah Thatcher – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Clay Township

No. 7 – Allowed to Aaron Ball, Jailor, for attendance on prisoners and boarding prisoners

No. 8 – Allowed to Thomas B. Cook for removing paupers to Poor Asylum and necessaries furnished

Nathan Powell – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries at his shop in Manchester Township

Thomas Payne – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Sparta Township

Page 313

Lanius & Athern – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at their store in Rising Sun

Moore and Brooks – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at their store in Sparta Township

John W. Hall – license to vend foreign merchandise and domestic and foreign groceries at his store in Rising Sun

Bartholomew and Peek – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Aurora

Tate and Summers – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at their store in Rising Sun

Page 314

McKnight & Fisher – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at their store in Rising Sun

John B. Craft – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Union Township

North and Powell – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at their store in Randolph Township

James Miller & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at their store in Randolph Township

Sebastian Brush – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Kelso Township

George Voglesang – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his shop in Kelso Township

Page 315

Eggleston & Dodd – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at their shop in Rising Sun

No. 9 – Allowed to Milton Gregg for printing expose for 1837 and delinquent list of school commissioner for 1837 and 1838

Petition of Ezra Ferris, Abraham Rowland, Stephen Ludlow and others for alteration in state road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis through land of Abram Ferris and John Daniel. Henry Walker, John Callahan and Davis Woodward appointed commissioners to view alteration.

Page 316

George W. Shane – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Jackson Township

Daniel Godlston – license to vend foreign merchandise

David Nevitt took his seat.

Benjamin Sylvester elected president of the board.

Powell & Aldridge – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at their shop in Wilmington

Page 317

No. 10 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for repairs to jail

No. 11 – Allowed to Philip Gould in removing paupers to Poor Asylum

No. 12 – Allowed to John Jackson for assessing property in Miller Township

W. W. Jordan – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Manchester Township

George Nicholas Hornberger – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Lawrenceburg

John Langby – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and spirituous liquors at his house in Aurora

Allowances for Grand Jurors, July Term 1838:

No. 13 – William V. Cheek
No. 14 – Enoch Conger
No. 15 – William Dawson
No. 16 – Cornelius S. Faulkner
No. 17 – Hugh McClure
No. 18 – John Billingsley
No. 19 – David Southward
No. 20 – John Wallingford
No. 21 – Edward Ricketts
No. 22 – James M. Clark
No. 23 – John Callahan
No. 24 – Gersham Dunn
No. 25 – William H. Vaughn
No. 26 – Peter Hennegin
No. 27 – John Hansell
No. 28 – Almon Fairbanks
No. 29 – George Arnold

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Allowances for Petit Jurors, July Term 1838:

No. 30 – Thomas Jenning
No. 31 – Thomas Tanner
No. 32 – Samuel H. Dowden
No. 33 – Henry Likely
No. 34 – Nathaniel L. Squibb
No. 35 – James Lawrence
No. 36 – Philip Rowland
No. 37 – James McGuire
No. 38 – Claiborn Morris
No. 39 – Eleazer Small
No. 40 – Cyrus Smith
No. 41 – Andrew Babcock
No. 42 – Samuel Graham
No. 43 – Jeremiah Smith
No. 44 – George Smith
No. 45 – Jefferson A. French
No. 46 – James Mills
No. 47 – Charles Clemmons
No. 48 – Decalvas Payne
No. 49 – David G. Rabb
No. 50 – William Specknall
No. 51 – Isaac Randall
No. 52 – John Saltmarsh
No. 53 – Samuel McMullen
No. 54 – Amos Morris
No. 55 – John P. Richards
No. 56 – Henry Walker
No. 57 – James Powell
No. 58 – James Moore
No. 59 – Joseph E. Baker
No. 60 – Henry Parker
No. 61 – Robert Walker
No. 62 – James Smith
No. 63 – Charles Bruce
No. 64 – Benjamin Anderson
No. 65 – James C. Cloud
No. 66 – John Taylor
No. 67 – Warren Tibbs
No. 68 – Reuben Goodwin
No. 69 – George W. Shane
No. 70 – Cyrus Mills
No. 71 – Jeremiah Nowland
No. 72 – Oliver Ludlow
No. 73 – George Dennis
No. 74 – Joel Decoursey
No. 75 – Isaiah Hayes
No. 76 – David Fleming
No. 77 – John Shanks
No. 78 – Samuel Osgood
No. 79 – William Glenn
No. 80 – Samuel Jelly
No. 81 – Thomas Guion
No. 82 – Cornelius Snyder
No. 83 – David Walser
No. 84 – Benjamin Moore
No. 85 – John Hill
No. 86 – Elijah Blasdell
No. 87 – Mason J. Cloud
No. 88 – Jonathan Hill

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No. 89 – Allowed to Elias Schooly for making coffin for a pauper

No. 90 – Allowed to John Cundale for necessaries furnished paupers at Poor Asylum

No. 91 – Allowed to Jeremiah Nowland for keeping James Smith, a pauper

Page 320

Mathias Hall – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and spirituous liquors at his shop at James Mill in Union Township

No. 92 – Allowed to Jacob Blasdell, Sherwood Blasdell and Benjamin Embank to be expended by them on Salt Fork Bridge in repairing the same

Joseph Barricklow – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Rising Sun

Wrixham West – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Lawrenceburg

Alanson Crooker – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Lawrenceburg

Benjamin Stockman – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his house in Lawrenceburg

Page 321

Hurlbert and Ferris – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at their store in Aurora

Barricklow and Baxter – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign groceries and liquors at their shop in Rising Sun

Mark McCracken and Hugh McMath, commissioners to view part of Lawrenceburg and Brockville road through land of Malechi Worst. Petition of Robert Rowe, Jr., John Hambleton and others. Samuel McMath, Jr., surveyor. John Hamburgh, John [blank] and Jacob [blank], chain carriers. Andrew Laneger, Justice of Peace. Applicants to pay costs. Appeal to Circuit Court granted. Bond filed with Henry McKenzie, security.

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Sherwood Blasdell and Benjamin Embank appointed superintendents of Salt Fork Bridge in room of John Dawson and Samuel H. Dowden, who refused to serve.

Daniel J. Hancock – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Aurora

Joseph Haburn – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Aurora

Page 324

No. 93 – Allowed to John Livingston as associate judge July Term 1838

No. 94 – Allowed to Alfred J. Cotten as associate judge July Term 1838

No. 95 – Allowed to Johnson Watts in viewing state road from Lawrenceburg to Madison

Chambers – license to vend foreign merchandise and foreign and domestic groceries at his store in Wilmington

No. 96 – Allowed to Samuel H. Dowden for serving on writ of habeas corpus

Abram B. Adams and Alfred A. Adams – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at their store in New Lawrenceburg

John Gray – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Lawrenceburg

Page 325

No. 97 – Allowed to John Livingston for appointing a clerk in room of James Dill, deceased

No. 98 – Allowed to Alfred J. Cotten for appointing a clerk in room of James Dill, deceased

No. 99 – Allowed to James Bastick for viewing road from James Mill up South Side of Laughery

No. 100 – Allowed to Philip Rowland for viewing road from James Mill up South Side of Laughery Creek

No. 101 – Allowed to Nelson H. Torbet for medicine and attendance on Betsey Lawrence, a pauper

No. 102 – Allowed to Betsey Lawrence for boarding and nursing Betsey Lawrence, a pauper

Robert Hargett, Jacob Hayes and John Gibson appointed commissioners to view road from Salt Fork Bridge in Miller Township to E. W. Jackson to Gibson’s meeting house to the Napoleon and Harrison State Road. They make report. Elijah Blasdell, Jacob Dennis, and Jehu Goodwin by James Brown their attorney file objection. Johnson Watts, William Morgan and Martin Trester appointed to meet at house of Charles Wright in Manchester Township and view road and assess damages.

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William G. Monroe, Treasurer, appointed collector and filed bond with Alexander H. Dill, William Dis, Isaac Hancock, David Kerr, Thomas Jennings, Daniel Conaway Jr., and James C. Cordrey as securities.

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No. 103 – Allowed to George W. Lane & Co for boards furnished for Court House

No. 104 – Allowed to Isaac Carabaugh for removing paupers to Poor Asylum

Christopher and Wood – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at their shop in Wilmington

No. 105 – Allowed to Lewis and Rogers for making and repairing benches and sash to Court House

No. 106 – Allowed to Step Merrick and family, who are in part paupers, by way of temporary relief. Money to be placed in the hands of Benjamin Sylvester to furnish family as need requires.

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No. 107 – Allowed to John Gray, who is in part a pauper, by way of temporary relief. Money to be placed in the hands of Wm. Dils to furnish said family as need requires.

James Bastick and Philip Rowland, commissioners, make report on road at James Mill. Dismissed.

Henry Walker and Davis Woodward, commissioners to view Lawrenceburg and Indianapolis State Road where it passes through land of Stephen Ludlow and John Daniel, make report. Road through land of Abram Ferris. Benjamin Fuller, Justice of Peace. Road opened.

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No. 108 – Allowed to John Huffington and others for timber furnished work and repairs on bridge across South Hogan on road from Wilmington to Aurora

Pepper and French – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at their store in Rising Sun

No. 109 – Allowed to Alexander H. Dill for book and other articles purchased by James Dill, late clerk, for use of clerk’s office

No. 110 – Allowed to William Dils, Sheriff, as extra and other service

No. 111 – Allowed to George Hume for service as constable attending Grand Jury July Term 1838

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No. 112 – Allowed to Lemuel G. Elder for services as constable July Term 1838

No. 113 – Allowed to John Brewington for services as constable July Term 1838

No. 114 – Allowed to John F. Richards for services as constable July Term 1838

No. 115 – Allowed to Isaac Jones for service as constable July Term 1838

No. 116 – Allowed to Jesse Riley for services as constable July Term 1838

No. 117 – Allowed to Walter Kerr for service as constable July Term 1838

No. 118 – Allowed to William Dils for cleaning Court House bucket and 3 tumblers furnished the court

No. 119 – Allowed to Obediah Priest for services as constable July Term 1838

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Patrick O’Conner – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Kelso Township

Henry McKinzie – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Kelso Township

Benjamin Sylvester appointed superintendent to employ person for digging a well on asylum farm and to grade ground around poor asylum.

Overseers of Poor to make report annually at May Session.

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Report of Wm. G. Monroe, Treasurer.

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William Morgan appointed to keep Wilson Creek bridge in repair.

No. 120 – Allowed to Ephraim Glasgow fore rent for clerk’s office

No. 121 – Allowed to Stephen Wood for rent for clerk’s office

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No. 122 – Allowed to William Conaway as commissioner

No. 123 – Allowed to David Nevett as commissioner

No. 124 – Allowed to Alexander H. Dill for one record book for Circuit Court and stationery for clerk’s office

No. 125 – Allowed to Benjamin Sylvester as commissioner

No. 126 – Allowed to David Nevitt as commissioner

No. 127 – Allowed to David Walser as commissioner

No. 128 – Allowed to Alexander H. Dill for assessors and collectors books made by James Dill, late clerk

David Nevitt was appointed to procure a relinquishment from Lawrenceburg and Tanners Creek Bridge Company of Bridge over mouth of Tanner’s Creek. Company refused to sell or relinquish charter.

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Board pledges to build a bridge over Tanners Creek at New Lawrenceburg. David Nevitt appointed to receive relinquishment of Lawrenceburg and Tanners Creek Bridge Company.

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Board adjourned.

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Dearborn County Commissioners – Jun 1838

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Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 2

June Special Session 1838

Page 310

Present:

William Conaway
David Nevitt

James T. Brown appointed attorney for bringing a suit against Robert Moore, late treasurer, Robert Glenn, Thomas Miller, James R. Moore, Benjamin Moore, and Henry Walker, his securities, for balance due county.

Board adjourned.

Dearborn County Commissioners – May 1838

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Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 2

May Session 1838

Page 276

Present:

Benjamin Sylvester
David Nevitt

Hoover and Stopher – license to keep a grocery and vend foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at their shop in Rising Sun

Moses Turner – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise and groceries at his house in Rising Sun

John Wallingford – license to keep a grocery and vend foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Hartford

Joshua Dorman – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Sparta Township

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J. B. Sparks – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise at their store in Logan Township

No. 1 – Allowed to David Tibbets for viewing and assessing damages in a change on Lawrenceburg and Rushville state road

No. 2 – Allowed to Benjamin Walker for viewing and assessing damages in change on Lawrenceburg and Rushville state road

No. 3 – Allowed to Samuel Saltmarsh for viewing and assessing damages in change on Lawrenceburg and Rushville state road.

No. 4 – Allowed to Wm. A. Bodine for removing J. & W. Flanigen to poor asylum

Elias Neal – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Rising Sun

William Tibbets – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise at his store in Sparta Township

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Petition of Robert Rowe, Jr., John Hambleton and other freeholders for change in Lawrenceburg and Brockville state road through land of Malichi Worst. Signed by Robt. Rowe Jr., John Hambleton, James Byrne, Thomas Baxter, David D. Davis, Wm. Rawling, And. Lonergan, Lawrence McGuire, Charles McWittry, Patk O’Brien, Henry Knote, Valentine Lawrence, Jacob Mason, Philip Lawrence, John Lackey, Welcome Lewis, Jonathan Lewis, John Richards. Samuel McMoth, Mark McCracken and Hugh Noyes appointed to view alteration.

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Pinkney James and others who reside on Laughery Creek above James’ Mills. file petition for a road on the South side of Laughery Creek beginning at James’ Mills. Signed by P. James, James M. Haistings, James Patterson, Stephen R. Tinker, David B. Barnheart, John Weathers, Edward Daughty, Renselear Weathers, John Conaway, George Weaver, Charles Marsh, Martin Scranton, William Kittle, David Fisher, Hugh Monroe, William Oxley, John Pugsley, Henry Miller, Lewis French, John Downey, Harvey Scranton, Anthony Mccain, Daniel McIntyre, and James Conley. Thomas Guion, James Bostick and Philip Rowland appointed to view proposed road.

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Charles W. Wright, Aaron B. Henry and Joseph Trester, commissioners to view state road from Aurora up North Hogan, where it passes lands of Elias and James Chisman, make report. Took oath from David Kerr, Justice of Peace.

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Lawrenceburg and Rushville State Road surveyed by John Huffington, John Parks and David Walser. Commissioners to assess damages of alteration, Samuel Saltmarsh, Benjamin Walker and David Tibbets took oath before John B. Clark, Justice of Peace. Reported damages to Jacob Hayes, Job Miller and James McKinney. Road opened through land of George Blasdell, E. & J. Jackson, E. Ewbank, James McKinney, Henry Newton, Hayes, Miller, and Jacob Hayes.

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William Hancock – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise and groceries at his store in Wilmington.

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Norval Sparks – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise and groceries at this store in Lawrenceburg

No. 5 – Allowed to John Cundale for booking and keeping the paupers at the poor asylum

James Cannon – license to keep a grocery and vend foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Kelso Township

James Blauvelt – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail liquors at his house in Kelso Township

Dunn & Ferris – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise at their store in Lawrenceburg

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Bedford & Saltmarsh – license to vend foreign and domestic groceries at their store in Lawrenceburg

Lewis and Hobbs – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise and groceries at their store in Lawrenceburg

J. H. Brower – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Lawrenceburg

Ephraim Glasgow – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment at his house in Wilmington

John Bennegar – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store

John Bennegar – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise at his store in Lawrenceburg

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John H. O’Neal – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Rising Sun

John Cline – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Lawrenceburg

No. 6 – Allowed to Claiborne Allen as trustee of Second District, Township 4, Range 2 West

Report of proposed alteration of state road from Aurora up North Hogan Creek, through land of W. V. Cheek, Henry and Amer Bruce. Armer Stevenson and James Boyd, commissioners. Oath taken before Aaron Ball, Justice of Peace. Road opened. Road by farm of John Powell vacated.

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No. 7 – Allowed to James Boyd for service on aforesaid road

No. 8 – Allowed to Armer Stevenson for services on aforesaid road

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Folbre, Baldwin & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Aurora

Folbre & Dean – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise and groceries at their store in Aurora

No. 9 – Allowed to John B. Clarke for necessaries furnished a pauper

No. 10 – Allowed to Rufus Rice for making coffin for a pauper

No. 11 – Allowed to James P. Millikin for removing Silas Sanders, transient pauper

No. 12 – Allowed to Mark McCracken for issuing order for the removal of a pauper

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James M. Darragh – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Lawrenceburg

No. 13 – Allowed to William Tibbets for goods &c. furnished John Hall, a pauper

No. 14 – Allowed to William Dils for wood, cutting same and repairs to Court House

Albert G. Dils – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Manchester Township

Glasgow and Miller – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at their store in Wilmington

Jefferson Rettenhouse – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Harrison

John T. Bird – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Jackson Township

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Elias Chamberlin – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Manchester Township

James C. Cloud – licene to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Hardinsburg

Thomas T. Taylor – license to vend foreign merchandise and domestic groceries at his house or store in Aurora

Craft Lynn and Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at their store in Rising Sun

James T. Pollock – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Randolph Township

Townsend J. Taylor – license to vend foreign and domestic groceries at his store in Wilmington

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St. Clair & Lane – license to vend merchandise and groceries at their store in Lawrenceburg

Elijah Elder – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his shop in Lawrenceburg

James and Philip Lawrence – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at their store in Jackson Township

No. 15 – Allowed to Simeon Tozier for furniture, bedding, &c. purchased for Poor Asylum

No. 16 – Allowed to Simeon Tozier for keeping paupers at Poor Asylum

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Grand Jurors for July Term 1838:

William Vaughan
Edward Ricketts
John Frazier
Peter Henigen
John Hansel
William Steele
Enoch Conger
William Dawson
Almon Fairbanks
William Specknall
John Callahan
Gersham Dunn
Hugh McClure
Cornelius S. Faulkner
Charles Clements
Henry Walker

Petit Jurors for July Term 1838, 1st Week,

Joseph Meeker
Benjamin Rollins
Thomas Lindsay
Moses Turner
Welcom Lewis
Ezra Guard
George Cubbage
William Ozier
Henry McKinzie
Asa Smith
John Billingsley
Ephraim Smith
John Foster
Jefferson A. French
David Southward
Decalvis Payne
Thomas Jennings
David G. Rabb
William V. Cheek
George Arnold
James Clarke
James Mills
John Wallingford
Andrew Worley

Petit Jurors July Term 1838, 2nd Week:

James Lindsey
John Palmerton
Thomas Tanner
Samuel H. Dowden
George Beaty
George Smith
Thomas Townsend
James Lawrence
Claiborn Morris
John Munce
Henry Likely
John Shoemake
Benjamin Walker
Philip Rowland
Abraham L. Bailey
Laben Lodge
Samuel Graham
Daniel Lawrence
Nathaniel L. Squibb
James McGuire
Cyrus Smith
Eleazer Small
Andrew Babcock
Jeremiah Smith

Grand Jurors October Term 1838:

George W. Kingsbrery
Bradley Loring
Read Crandle
Jacob Rees
William Rawling
Harvey Scranton
George Darling
George Conner
William Morgan
Mahlon Powell
John Weathers
James Rand
Joseph Churchill
John Larrison
George Cheek
William Upp

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Petit Jurors October Term 1838, 1st Week:

Z. A. Bonham
Obadiah Bailey
Henry Collins
David Griffin
William L. Abbott
Enoch W. Jackson
James Blauvett
Robert Wilber Jr.
Thomas Slack
Samuel Saltmarsh
Charles Bird Pate
John B. Craft
James T. Pollock
Dewitt Wilber
Lewis Jolley
John W. Cloud
Daniel Kelsey
John Myers
Cyrus Mills
Joseph Saltmarsh
William Flinkston
William Rodney
Simon Tozier
Enoch Blasdel

Petit Jurors October Term 1838, 2nd Week:

Benjamin Johnson
Isaac Adair
Nathan Powell
Moses D. Boardman
Noah Davis
David Walser
Wm. S. Ward
Jacob W. Eggleston
William Tanner
George Pate
William Lemon
Jehee Goodwin
John Parks
William Glenn
James McClain
Joseph Adams
John D. Johnson
John Buffington
Amaziah Bailey
Thomas Guion
David Tibbets
Isaac Cochran
James Roberts
Francis Worley

Grand Jurors April Term 1839:

Jesse Laird
John Gray
Robert Fowler
Phineas L. King
Hamilton Smith
Isaac Fisher
Warren Tibbs
Ranna C. Stevens
David Guard
John Daniels
Thomas Hansel
Litle W. Johnson
John Binnegar
Ebenezer Roberts
John Dashiell
Leonard Chace

Petit Jurors April Term 1839, 1st Week:

William H. Powell
Daniel Tapley
Robert E. McCreary
James Thompson
Jonathan Vail
Samuel Dow
James Cannon
Thomas Darling
Joseph Trester
George Bowlsby
Moses Latta
John Neal
Benjamin Stackman
Thomas Falbre
Henry Farrar
John Tait
Elisha Meltter
George Smith
Abraham Hoover
Timothy Kimble
William McBride
Hugh Ferry
Robert Hargett
William Perry

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Petit Jurors April Term 1839, 2nd Week:

Thomas Riley
William Oxley
Isaac Randall
John W. Dorsey
John Stewart
Joseph P. RIchardson
George W. Cochran
Henry Miller
Aaron B. Henry
William Brown
John Chisman
Daniel Roberts
Robert Ray
Elijah Thatcher
John Columbia
Hamilton Pate
John Brumley, Jr.
Armer Stevenson
Benjamin Vail
Joseph Groof
Samuel Evans
Dennis Riley
Stephen Jarvis
Jacob Dennes

Henry Walker, School Commissioner, made report.

Joseph McHenry, Treasurer of Congressional Township No. 3, Range 2 west, made report.

Timothy Kimble, Treasurer of Congressional Township No. 5, Range 2 west, made report.

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Philip Rowland – Treasurer of Congressional Township No. 5, Range 3 west, made report.

Joseph Kimpton, Treasurer of Congressional Township No. 4, Range 1 west, made report.

Thomas Smith, Treasurer of Congressional Township No. 6, Range 1 west, made report.

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Thomas J. Taylor – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Aurora

Israel C. Curtis – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Aurora

William Conaway took his seat.

No. 17 – Allowed to George W. Kingsbury as associate judge granting injunctions

No. 18 – Allowed to Alfred J. Cotten as associate judge granting injunctions, attending circuit court and approving clerk’s bond

No. 19 – Allowed to John Livingston as associate judge granting injunctions, attending circuit court and approving clerk’s bond

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No. 20 – Allowed to James Dill for extra service as clerk

Report of Robert Moore, late Treasurer.

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No. 21 – Allowed to Martin Stewart for assessing property in Randolph Township

No. 22 – Allowed to Walter Kerr for assessing property in Laughery Township

No. 23 – Allowed to Z. A. Bonham for assessing property in Logan Township

No. 24 – Allowed to Robert Turner for assessing property in Cesars Creek Township

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No. 25 – Allowed to Ranna C. Stevens for assessing property in Sparta Township

No. 26 – Allowed to Ayers Bramble for assessing property in Clay Township

No. 27 – Allowed to John Weaver for assessing property in Lawrenceburg Township

No. 28 – Allowed to John D. Bush for assessing property in Union Township

Report of William G. Monroe, Treasurer.

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Isaac Hancock – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Wilmington

J. & F. Hansel – license to vend foreign merchandise and foreign groceries at their store in Manchester Township

Jacob Myers – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Union Township

Thomas Jennings – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Wilmington

No. 29 – Allowed to Mark McCracken for assessing taxable property in Manchester Township

No. 30 – Allowed to John Ellis as juror April Term 1838

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No. 31 – Allowed to John Parks as juror April Term 1838

No. 32 – Allowed to Elvah Churchell as juror April Term 1838

No. 33 – Allowed to Gersham Dunn as juror April Term 1838

No. 34 – Allowed to William Morgan as juror April Term 1838

No. 35 – Allowed to Thomas Tanner as juror April Term 1838

No. 36 – Allowed to John J. French as juror April Term 1838

No. 37 – Allowed to Levi Boyd as juror April Term 1838

No. 38 – Allowed to J. T. Cole as juror April Term 1838

No. 39 – Allowed to James McClure as juror April Term 1838

No. 40 – Allowed to Philip Rowland as juror April Term 1838

No. 41 – Allowed to Claiborne Morris as juror April Term 1838

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Petition of William Glenn and other citizens of Dillsboro for incorporation of Dillsboro. Oath of Samuel Wymond. Granted.

No. 42 – Allowed to Alexr H. Dill for ruled paper purchased for assessor’s books and one record book for clerk’s office

Assessment books examined.

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Taxes for 1838. Ordered clerk make duplicate taxes.

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No. 43 – Allowed to William McBride for building a outhouse at the Court House in Wilmington

No. 44 – Allowed to Jacob Hayes for damages assessed by commissioners in a change of Lawrenceburg and Rushville State Road

No. 45 – Allowed to Job Miller for damages assessed in changed of Rushville & Lawrenceburg State Road

John Buffington appointed to superintend repairing the bridge over South Hogan on the road from Wilmington to Aurora.

Ordered the clerk furnish the prosecuting attorney a copy of Robert Moore’s bond (late Treasurer) to bring suit on bond against Robert Moore, William Glenn, Thomas Miller, James R. Moore, Benjamin Moore, and Henry Walker, his securities for balance due county.

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No. 46 – Allowed to William Conaway as commissioner

No. 47 – Allowed to Benjamin Sylvester as commissioner

No. 48 – Allowed to David Nevitt as commissioner

No 49 – Allowed to William Conaway for signing orders last session

Court adjourned.

Dearborn County Commissioners – Mar 1838

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the March 1838 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 2

March Session 1838

Page 249

Present:

Benjamin Sylvester
David Nevitt

A. & R. Welber – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise at their store in Hartford

William Conaway took his seat.

No. 1 – Allowed to Simeon Tozier, keeper of poor asylum

No. 2 – Allowed to Aaron Ball for boarding, provision and wood furnished prisoners

Thomas Blythe – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors in Lawrenceburg

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Torrence Curry Bruce exonerated from future liability to work public roads and highways.

No. 3 – Allowed to David Nevitt as Petit Juror

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Thomas Guion – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise at his store in Clay Township

Elias and James Chisman and various other freeholders by Dumont, their attorney of change in state road from Aurora up North Hogan Creek through lands of Elias and James Chisman, William V. Cheek, Jacob Harwood, David Loter, and Thomas H. Milburn, N. Canfield. Petition signed by: Noyes Canfield, Joseph Harwood, Elishu Powell, William Record, John Hollowell, Henry Bruce, Sr., Henry Buell, Jr., Stephen Bruce, John Bruce, T. C. Bruce, Philemon Wilson, Benjamin Vail, Elias Chisman, G. W. Chisman, Samuel Cole, William Bainum Jr., Charles Burk, B. P. Moore, Alexander Syace, William Benham, Thomas Jennings, Robert Moore, George Hume, James Boyd, Thomas Spicknall, Thomas J. Taylor, James Powell, Wm. Williams, L. G. Elder, Mahlon Powell, Thomas Baker, James C. Cordry, Luke Evill, J. Hancock, David Kerr, Walter Kerr, Wm. G. Monroe, David Johnston, Charles Bruce, Geo. L. Whitely, Elijah Christopher, Joshua Brewington, John B. Chisman, James M. Chisman, William Chisman, John Johnston, John Powell, John D. Johnston, James Mills, Thomas Palmer, John P. Rogers, E. C. Chisman, Justus M. Cure, Newton M. Canfield, Quiller Aldridge, Thomas Barlow, Willis Barlow, Cyrus Canfield, David Fosher, William V. Cheek, and Samuel D. Day. Charles W. Wright, Joseph Trester and Aaron B. Henry appointed to view alterations.

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John Buffington, John Parks and David Walser, commissioners, make report for change in Lawrenceburg and Rushville State Road. Took oath before David Kerr, Justice of Peace. Road through land of George Blasdell, E. & J. Jackson, B. Embank, James McKinney, Henry Newton, Guard, J. Miller, and Jacob Hayes. Robert Rowe, surveyor. Jacob Hayes, Job Miller and James McKinney object. Benjamin Walker, Jr., Samuel Saltmarsh and David Tibet’s appointed to view damages of proposed alteration.

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Warren W. Weatherby – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Harrison

No. 4 – Allowed to John Buffington for viewing change on Lawrenceburg and Rushville state road

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No. 5 – Allowed to John Parks for viewing change in Lawrenceburg and Rushville state road

No. 6 – Allowed to David Walser for services viewing change in Lawrenceburg and Rushville state road

No. 7 – Allowed to Robert Rowe for surveying and platting change in Lawrenceburg and Rushville state road

State Road from Aurora to Dillsboro, motion of George W. Lane. Road ordered opened.

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White & Lambden – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise at their store in Randolph Township

Bazil James – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise at his store in Rising Sun

Ezra Ferris – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise at his store in Lawrenceburg

John B. Clark – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise at his store in Manchester Township

No. 8 – Allowed to Robert Moore for record book for treasurer’s office

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Treasurer’s report by Robert Moore.

Merrit Hubbell – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise at his store in Jackson Township

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No. 9 – Allowed to Robert Rowe for platting change of Lawrenceburg and Rushville State Road

No. 10 – Allowed to Robert Rowe Jr. for assessing Kelso Township

No. 11 – Allowed to James Dill for paper and rent of Clerk’s office

No. 12 – Allowed to William Dils, Sheriff, for extra services and 1 cord of wood

No. 13 – Allowed to Ebenezer Dumont for extra services as township trustee

No. 14 – Allowed to Joshua Brewington for boarding Joseph Darragh in jail

Petition of John Powell and other freeholder for change in state road from Aurora up North Hogan Creek. Road through land of John Powell, W. V. Cheek, Henry and Amer Bruce. Signed by John Powell, James Vinson, Elihu Powell, Mahlon Powell, Samuel Cole, G. A. Rigg, John B. Chisman, James V. Bruce, Moses Walters, Henry Bruce Jr., W. C. Lindsey, Benjamin P. Melson, Andrew Stevenson, Nathan L. Milburn, John Graves, T. C. Bruce, Stephen Bruce, John Bruce, John Brewington, Stephen Wood, Thomas Paine, Joseph Parker, Noyes Canfield, Abraham Carrabough, James Parsons, C. Huffman, Harvey Moss, Thomas Jennings, G. W. Chisman, Thos. Spicknall, William Chisman, Thomas Baker, W. A. Kerr, A. R. Drraper, James Chisman, Elias Chisman, Charles Burk, John Hinds, J. Mills, WIllis Barlow, William Barlow, D. A. Brooks, Amour Flake, William Bell, Stephen Jarvis, Thomas Simons, David Maxton, John Mahany, William V. Cheek, Walter Kerr, John Johnston, William Williams, John Buffington Sr., Asa Shattuck, Thompson Dean, G. Fablre, John Curry, James Mills, Hiram Taylor, James Powell, George P. Lowe, Orinson Richardson, William Specknall, Phelomon Wilson, L. G. Elder, David Walser, David Harwood, Andrew Miller, Elijah Bruce, Bonoi Thompson, Isaac Hancock, David Kerr, William Wheeler, Wm. G. Monroe, Aquilla Aldrige, Wm. H. Glasgow, G. W. Thornton, Michael Flake, N. H. Terbet, Elijah Lindsey, Wm. Record, Ephraim Glasgow, James Lindsay, Luke Evill, Thomas Young, James C. Cordry, Thomas Sterling, B. P. Moore, Samuel Moore, T. J. Taylor, William Bainum, Aaron Miller, John Parks, George Hume, Warner Sanks, Cyrus Canfield, James Read, John Moore, Joshua Brewington, George Baker, Archibald Brashears, Charles Bruce, Hugh Jackson, Zerah Vinson, Joseph Harwood, John D. Johnson, Wm. G. Marshall, Robert Moore, John B. Powell, Geo. U. Johnson, James Lindsey, S. D. Day, Benjn. Vail, John Rogers, Jonathan Noble, Aaron Ball Sr., Wm. Penewell, Thomas Palmer, James Linegan, Benjamin George L. Whitely, John Buffington Jr., Christian Willman, Stephen Buffington, Henry Walker, Selah Holliday, Samuel T. Sawyer, Joseph Cochran, H. Baldwin, Wm. Winkley, T. J. Taylor, Andrew Worley, Wm. Bruce, Samuel Marsh, Josiah Caldin, and Henry Bruce. Armer Stephenson, Jesse Laird and James Boyd appointed to view alteration.

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Petition of Elias Little, Thomas F. Wright and others for part of Sparta Township to be attached to Clay Township. Granted.

Robert Moore, Treasurer, made report.

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Glenn and Stevens – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise at their store in Dillsboro

Jacob Harwood – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Wilmington

Hamilton Pate – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Clay Township

No. 15 – Allowed to Stephen Merrick and family who are in part paupers, by way of temporary relief. This money to be placed in hands of Benjamin Sylvester to furnish family as need requires.

William Perry, trustee of surplus revenue filed bond with Abram Ferris, Stephen Ludlow and Henry M. Farrer, his securities.

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No. 16 – Allowed to Thomas Palmer for rent of Recorder’s office and record books and stationery

Cornelius Snyder – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment at his house in Rising Sun

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Benjamin Perrine – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise at his store in Kelso Township

No. 17 – Allowed to Samuel D. Day for medicine and attendance on a pauper

No. 18 – Allowed to Betsey Lawrence for boarding and nursing a pauper

Appointed trustees of County Seminary:

Daniel Conaway Jr.
Robert Moore
Spencer Davis
Benjamin Vail
Nathaniel L. Squibb
Benjamin Walker
John Tait
W. S. Durbin
John B. Clarke
Aaron B. Henry
Jacob W. Eggleston
J. H. Brower
Ebenezer Dumont
William V. Cheek
George W. Lane
William Perry
Henry Walker

No. 19 – Allowed to Benjamin Sylvester and others as securities of Russel Coman for costs paid in suit of Indiana on relation of treasurer of Dearborn County against them which judgment of Circuit Court has been reversed by Supreme Court

John Cundale, keeper of poor asylum, filed bond with Daniel Roberts and William Harrison, his securities.

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Pledge to build bridge across Tanner’s Creek if stockholders of Lawrenceburg and Tanners Creek Bridge Company surrender their stake. David Nevitt appointed to attend to relinquishments and donations.

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No. 20 – Allowed to Benjamin Sylvester for visiting and examining poor asylum

No. 21 – Allowed to William Conaway as commissioner

No. 22 – Allowed to David Nevitt as commissioner

No. 23 – Allowed to Benjamin Sylvester as commissioner

Appropriation for repairing Salt Fork Bridge. Saml. H. Dowden, John Dawson and Jacob Blasdel appointed superintendents.

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William McBride to erect public square in Wilmington.

William G. Monroe appointed treasurer. Filed bond with Jesse L. Holman, John Dashiell, Charles Dashiell, Caleb A. Craft, John B. Craft and Robert Wilber, as securities.

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William Perry filed bond as agent to loan of surplus revenue. Abram Ferris, Stephen Ludlow and Henry M. Farrar, his securities.

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Expenditures and receipts of county.

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Board adjourned.

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Caleb A. Craft, John B. Craft, Charles Dashiell, John Dashiell, Jesse L. Holman, and Robert Wilber, securities for Wm. G. Monroe as treasurer – bond rescinded in regard to Robert Wilber.

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