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.