The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the January 1836 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.
Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 2
January Session 1836
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Present:
- George Arnold
- John Neal
No. 1 – Allowed to N. & G. Sparks for clothing furnished prisoners now in jail
No. 2 – Allowed to Prudence Tryon for boarding and keeping Halsa and Mary Jane Fairfield
No. 3 – Allowed to John Weaver, Sheriff, for 2 cords of wood furnished Court and sawing and cutting the same
No. 4 – Allowed to Abijah Bennett for sundries furnished a pauper
No. 5 – Allowed to Robert Montgomery for medicine and attendance to a transient pauper
No. 6 – Allowed to Edward Williams for boarding and keeping Maria Matthews, a pauper
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No. 7 – Allowed to John Morrison for sundries, attendance and medicine furnished a pauper
Shedrach Hathaway – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Rising Sun
Ordered that citizens of Caesars Creek Township elect Justice of Peace in room of Laban Bramble who now resides in Clay Township.
Noyes & McMikin – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Manchester Township
Adams and Elliott – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in New Lawrenceburg
No. 8 – Allowed to James Boyle for sundries furnished a pauper
No. 9 – Allowed to James Russell for sundries to a pauper
No. 10 – Allowed to Sarah Sherrod for boarding and keeping Andrew Green, a pauper
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No. 11 – Allowed to James Boyle for boarding and keeping Scott Pemmings, a pauper
No. 12 – Allowed to Stephen Stewart for boarding and keeping a pauper
No. 13 – Allowed to James P. Millikin for his services taking enumeration of male inhabitants over 21 years
No. 14 – Allowed to John Stewart for boarding and keeping Lucy Simmons, a pauper
No. 15 – Allowed to J. & W. O’Neal for goods furnished a pauper
No. 16 – Allowed to Hall and Tapley for making coffin for pauper
No. 17 – Allowed to James Boyle for boarding a transient pauper
A. & R. Wilber – license to vend foreign merchandise in Hartford
Harris Fitch – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail liquors at his house in Lawrenceburg
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Charles Dashiell took his seat.
No. 18 – Allowed to Thomas Wright for boarding and keeping William Jones, a pauper
No. 19 – Allowed to David Brunner for boarding and keeping Moses Switzer, a pauper
No. 20 – Allowed to John Morrison for attendance and medicine furnished a pauper
No. 21 – Allowed to Isaac Jackson for taking enumeration of male inhabitants over age 21
No. 22 – Allowed to James Matthews for boarding and keeping Patrick McGuire, a pauper
Caleb A. Craft and Son – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Rising Sun
Ordered remitted to Hiram Jackson overcharge
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Pepper and James – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Rising Sun
P. & H. James – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise at their store in Rising Sun
No. 23 – Allowed to Hiram Jackson overcharge in county tax on land
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Merritt Hubble – license to keep a grocery at his establishment in Jackson Township
No. 24 – Allowed to Erastus Judd for killing a wolf
Caesars Creek Township to elect Justices of Peace in room of Laban Bramble, stricken off into Clay Township and William Lemon whose term of service expired. Logan Township to elect one Justice of Peace in room of John Godley, resigned.
William Cullen – license to keep a grocery at his house in Rising Sun
No. 25 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for money by him advanced to William Brown, the contractor for doing the carpenter work of the poor asylum
Obadiah Bailey – license to retail and vend foreign merchandise at his store at Moore’s Hill
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No. 26 – Allowed to Dr. John S. Percival for medicine and attendance on a prisoner in Jail
George Durham – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail liquors at his house
No. 27 – Allowed to Culley & Cole for publishing and giving notice of contract to build poor asylum
No. 28 – Allowed to John Aikons for services in piling up brick on the poor asylum
Robert Rowe, Jr., appointed assessor for Kelso Township
George Bolsby appointed assessor for Kelso Township
Daniel Taylor appointed assessor for Manchester Township
Sewell Plummer appointed assessor for Manchester Township
Benjamin Johnson appointed assessor for Sparta Township
Jacob W. Eggleston appointed assessor for Clay Township
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Robert Turner appointed assessor for Cesars Creek Township
John Gray appointed assessor for Union Township
Martin Stewart appointed assessor for Randolph Township
David Kerr appointed assessor for Laughery Township
Asa Smith appointed assessor for Lawrenceburg Township
Isaac Jackson appointed assessor for Miller Township
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No. 29 – Allowed to A. Horton for flannel furnished a pauper
James C. Cloud – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Hardinsburgh
Isaac Hancock & Co. – license to retail and vend foreign merchandise at their store in Wilmington
No. 30 – Allowed to James C. Cloud for taxes by him overpaid through mistake for John Buffington
Petition of William Saltmarsh, Jacob Haines, Frederick Myers, Daniel Miller, Zachariah S. Conger, Jacob Stagner, Jacob Michael, Enoch Conger, Cyrus Mills, Henry Walter, John Wimer, William Larrison, and other freeholders of Manchester and Jackson Townships against location of state road. James P. Milliken, Benjamin Sylvester and William Dawson appointed commissioners.
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No. 31 – Allowed to James C. Cloud for taking enumeration of free male inhabitants in Lawrenceburg Township
Enoch Adams and Gardner Elliott, by Lawrence their attorney – application for grocery in Lawrenceburg. Overruled and taken to Circuit Court.
No. 32 – Allowed to William Cooke, Jailor, for boarding sundry prisoners and furnishing firewood
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Samuel Curtis – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Manchester Township
Elias Chamberlin – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail liquors at his house in Lawrenceburg Township
George W. Lane & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Aurora
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Henry McKinzie – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Kelso Township
Account of Expenditures and Receipts for 1834.
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Notice for proposals for the plastering of poor asylum.
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J. B. & W. A. Clark – license to retail foreign merchandise at their store in Manchester Township
No. 33 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for attendance at asylum
No. 34 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell as commissioner
No. 35 – Allowed to George Arnold as commissioner
No. 36 – Allowed to John Neal as commissioner
Board adjourned.