The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the April/May 1837 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.
Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 2
April/May Session 1837
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Present:
- John Neal
- Benjamin Sylvester
Dils and Jaquith – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Manchester Township
George Arnold took his seat.
John Michael Mulfinger – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise at his store in Lawrenceburg Township
No. 1 – Allowed to Richard Cain for keeping Cynthia Ann Dawson, a pauper child
Jacob Myers – license to keep a tavern and public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Union Township
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Ordered that James R. Dennison, a cripple, be exempt from working the roads
Moses Turner – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Rising Sun
N. L. Hall & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Rising Sun
J. Miller & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise at theirs tore in Randolph Township
Obadiah Bailey – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Moore’s Hill
S. Hathaway – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Rising Sun
R. E. McCreary – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store at Moore’s Hill
Haines and Lanius – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Rising Sun
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Jesse Hunt – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Lawrenceburg
William Tibbetts – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise at his store in Manchester Township
No. 2 – Allowed to Simeon Tozier for keeping and supporting paupers in poor asylum
No. 3 – Allowed to Daniel L. Livings, Joseph Wood and Wm. B. Phelps, Trustees of Congressional Township No. 3, Range 2 West, for surveying and subdividing school section No. 16 in said township
Report of treasurer of Congressional Township No. 3, Range 2 West.
Report of John Barricklow, treasurer of Congressional Township No. 4, Range 1 west.
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Norval Sparks – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise at his store in Lawrenceburg
No. 4 – Allowed to George Sutton for visits and medicine to Mary Redding and family, paupers
No. 5 – Allowed to Joseph E. Milburn for boarding and keeping Mary Hyer, a pauper
James T. and Samuel Pallack – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise at their store in Randolph Township
Archibald H. Reed – license to keep a tavern of entertainment at his house in Wilmington
Abm B. Adams – license to keep a tavern and public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in New Lawrenceburg
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Elijah Christopher & Co. – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and spirituous liquors in Wilmington
No. 6 – Allowed to Joshua Brewington, jailor, for furnishing and providing provisions and firewood to 2 prisoners
Thomas Blythe – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors in Lawrenceburg
Lawrenceburg Bridge Company matter postponed.
Folbre and Dean – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise at their store in Aurora
No. 7 – Allowed to James Dill for extra services
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Piatt & Athearn – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise at their store in Union Township
Joshua Dorman – license to keep a grocery at his house in Sparta Township and retail foreign and domestic groceries and spirituous liquors
Benjamin Sylvester, Thomas Kyle and William Harrison appointed as committee to inspect and report on poor asylum
Asahel Tyrrel and Daniel Hathaway, commissioners, made report on state road laid out by David Loter and Thomas Milburn and proposed alteration by Jacob Fielding and others. John B. Clark, Justice of Peace. Alteration rejected.
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Report of Walter Armstrong, late treasurer.
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No. 8 – Allowed to John Huffington for removing paupers to asylum and services rendered
No. 9 – Allowed to John Johnston for removing chairs, benches and table from Lawrenceburg to Wilmington
No. 10 – Allowed to William A. Camron for advertising school lands
No. 11 – Allowed to William A. Cameron for publishing expose, commissioner’s notice and other services
Israel C. Curtis – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Aurora
Daniel Bartholomew – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Aurora
No. 12 – Allowed to Mahlon Powell for repairs to jail
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Robert Moore – treasurer’s report.
No. 12 [sic] – Allowed to William Dils for wood to be furnished, hauling furniture from old court house
No. 13 – Allowed to Joshua Brewington for rent of clerk’s office
No. 14 – Allowed to James Merrick and family who are in part paupers, by way of temporary relief
No. 15 – Allowed to John Flanagan and family who are in part paupers, by way of temporary relief
No. 16 – Allowed to Betsey Lawrence, a woman of color, who is in part a pauper and diseased for temporary relief
No. 17 – Allowed to Samuel D. Day for medicine and attendance on Betsy Lawrence, a colored pauper
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Cyrus Delong – license to vend and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his grocery store in Rising Sun
No. 18 – Allowed to Edward B. Hunt for assessing Lawrenceburg Township
No. 19 – Allowed to Walter Kerr for assessing Laughery Township
No. 20 – Allowed to John H. Bowlby for assessing Logan Township
No. 21 – Allowed to Jacob W. Eggleston for assessing Clay Township
No. 22 – Allowed to John Jackson for assessing Miller Township
No. 23 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for assessing
No. 24 – Allowed to Joseph Wood for assessing Union Township
Henry Allemony, township treasurer of Township 6, Range 3 West, made report.
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Philip Roland, treasurer of school township No. 5, range 3 west, made report.
No. 25 – Allowed to Thomas Palmer for rent of recorder’s office, removing furniture and record books from Lawrenceburg to Wilmington
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Lewis and Hobbs – license to vend foreign merchandise at store in Lawrenceburg
Alanson Crooker – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Lawrenceburg
Wrinham West – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Lawrenceburg
Ezra Ferris – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Lawrenceburg
Z. Bedford & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Lawrenceburg
Zachariah Bedford & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Lawrenceburg
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John P. Dunn and Company – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise at their store in Lawrenceburg
Mark McCracken, commissioner of 3% fund, made report.
Alexander Hamilton Dill appointed agent of renting and leasing court house in Lawrenceburg.
No. 32 [numbered after entry] – Allowed to John Neal for purpose of purchasing a cooking stove for poor asylum
James & Philip Lawrence – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise at their store
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William Rodney – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Lawrenceburg
Litte W. Johnson – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Lawrenceburg
No. 26 – Allowed to Francis Baldwin for holding coroner’s inquest, furnishing coffin, digging grave for a man who died suddenly in Aurora
No. 27 – Allowed to George Arnold as commissioner
No. 28 – Allowed to John Neal as commissioner
No. 29 – Allowed to Benjamin Sylvester as commissioner
No. 30 – Allowed to John Neal for monies expended in purchasing shirts for two prisoners
No. 31 – Allowed to Mark McCracken for assessing Manchester Township
No. 32 – John Langley – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic liquors at his shop in Aurora
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Board adjourned.