Dearborn County Commissioners – Jan 1839

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

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 2

January Session 1839

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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

 

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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

 

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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

 

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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

 

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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

 

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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.

 

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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

 

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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

 

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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

 

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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

 

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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

 

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Report of William G. Monroe, Treasurer.

 

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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

 

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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.