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

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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

 

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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

 

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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.

 

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Henry Walker, School Commissioner, submits report.

 

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

 

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

 

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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.