The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the January 1840 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.
Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 3
January Session 1840
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Present:
- Charles Dashiell
- David Walser
- Aaron B. Henry
No. 1 – Allowed to John Cundale for keeping paupers
No. 2 – Allowed to Abram Enoch for removing John McNeely, a pauper
No. 3 – Allowed to J. Hains for boarding McNeal, a pauper
No. 4 – Allowed to the Dearborn County Democrat
No. 5 – Allowed to Milo Longwood for services as overseer of the poor in Laughery Township
No. 6 – Allowed to John Smith for keeping William Greenley, a pauper
No. 7 – Allowed to Jehue Goodwin for services on state road from Aurora to Dillsboro, assessing damages on said road
No. 8 – Allowed to A. L. Bailey for building stove at the asylum for insane persons
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No. 9 – Allowed to Jehu Goodwin for services as overseer of the poor, for services as Congressional School Trustee
No. 10 – Allowed to Spencer Davis for services assessing damage on the state road from Aurora to Dillsboro
No. 11 – Allowed to John Cundale for sundries furnished paupers at the asylum
No. 12 – Allowed to Elias Schooley for making two coffins for paupers
No. 13 – Allowed to Elizabeth Raney for keeping George Jefferson, a transient pauper
No. 14 – Allowed to Abram Carbaugh for repairing jail
No. 15 – Allowed to Dr. M. H. Harding for attending on paupers at the asylum
Samuel McMullen – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store in Manchester Township
Jacob Smith – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Kelso Township
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George W. Shane – license vend foreign and domestic groceries and spirituous liquors at his grocery in Shane’s Cross Roads
T. T. Cannon – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Kelso Township and license to vend groceries
John VanWedding – license to keep a grocery at his house in Jackson Township and license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors
Merit Hubbell – license to retail foreign merchandise and groceries at his store
Jeremiah Coughlan – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors in Kelso Township
John Hornburger – license to vend groceries and spirituous liquors at his grocery in Lawrenceburg
Matthew Hubbel, Jr. – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Jackson Township
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Josiah Belden – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at his house in New Lawrenceburg
Harris Fitch – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Lawrenceburg
Hugh Noyes – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Manchester Township
State Road from mouth of Hogan Creek to intersect State Road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis near residence of Stokely Dils and Stokely Perry ordered opened.
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Petition of John Snider, E. Bodine, David Shane, William Shane, Z. A. Bonham, and other freeholders of Logan Township for alteration in state road from Harrison through Logan Township. Road through lands of John Godley, John Snider, M. F. Bramble, John Gould. William Purcel, George Arnold, and Meritt Hubbell appointed viewers.
Henry Walker, School Commissioner, filed receipt from Milton Gregg for printing and publishing delinquent list. Receipt from Thomas Palmer, recorder. Approved.
No. 16 – Allowed to Henry Wood for removing paupers
John B. Craft – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Rising Sun
John B. Craft – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store at James’ Mills
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No. 17 – Allowed to Robert Haddock for services as School Township Trustee
Stephen Liddle – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise at groceries at his store in Miller Township
James Miller – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Randolph Township
No. 18 – Allowed to Dr. George Sutton for professional services attending Orin Lewis, a pauper; for professional services and medicine for Penelope Gattenby, a pauper
No. 19 – Allowed to A. Bailey for making coffin for Penelope Gattenby, a pauper
Jehue Goodwin and Spencer Davis, commissioners to assess damages sustained by sundry persons whose land State Road leading from Aurora to Dillsboro, as laid out by Garret Swallow and John Hansel, make report. Land of George W. Cochran, John Gullet, Mr. Zachariah Barker, Mr. Morehead. Richard H. Holman moves to set aside assessment and appoint new viewers. Ordered not paid.
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Jacob Harwood – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Wilmington
Moore & Brooks – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Sparta Township
Ordered John Levingston, Jr. be exempt from working on roads or highways and from payment of poll tax owing to being a cripple by an injured foot.
No. 20 – Allowed to Thomas Palmer for office rent, books and stationery, recording poor indentures
No. 21 – Allowed to William G. Monroe for services as superintendent for the building of a fire proof offices, for amount paid builders of the building
No. 22 – Allowed to James Mills for services superintending the building of the fire proof offices
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No. 23 – Allowed to A. J. Cotton for services as probate Judge at Oct Term 1839
No. 24 – Allowed to John Levingston for services as probate Judge at Oct Term 1839
Allowed to following persons for attending Circuit Court at Oct Term 1839:
- No. 25 – John Brewington for attending Grand Jury
- No. 26 – Jonathan Pate for summoning witnesses for Grand Jury
- No. 27 – Erastus Lathrop for same
- No. 28 – George Hume for same
- No. 29 – Isaac Jones for same
- No. 30 – Walter Kerr for same
- No. 31 – Lemuel G. Elder for Court Bailiff
- No. 32 – A. B. Adams for same
- No. 33 – Walter Kerr for same
- No. 34 – William Dils for cleaning Court House, &c.
No. 35 – Allowed to Amos Lane for defending prisoners
William G. Monroe and James Mills, superintendents of the building of a fire proof building for the clerk’s and recorder’s offices at Wilmington, made report. Amour Flake and James D. Lindsay to complete building.
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Jacob Hays and Job Miller file petition for change in Rushville State Road from Lawrenceburg. Road through land of Bullock’s ford, Jacob Hayes, Job Miller, the Guards. Stephen Ludlow, Joshua Stanks and George P. Buell appointed viewers.
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Allowed for services as Grand Jurors at Oct Term 1839:
- No. 36 – Thomas Jones
- No. 37 – Joel Decoursey
- No. 38 – Joseph Churchill
- No. 39 – Vachel Hobbs
- No. 40 – Jonathan Noble
- No. 41 – James Lyons
- No. 42 – Elisha Bodine
- No. 43 – John Larew
- No. 44 – Thomas Cooper
- No. 45 – Elias Little
- No. 46 – David Cook
- No. 47 – Amos Ross
- No. 48 – John Snyder
- No. 49 – David Conger
- No. 50 – David Durham
Allowed for services as Petit Jurors at Oct Term 1839:
- No. 51 – David Woodward
- No. 52 – Dorus Thompson
- No. 53 – Jacob Zeen
- No. 54 – Thomas Bailey
- No. 55 – James C. Cordry
- No. 56 – Joshua Brewington
- No. 57 – Samuel Jelly
- No. 58 – George W. Chisman
- No. 59 – Abram Rowland
- No. 60 – John Hall
- No. 61 – Jonathan Blasdell
- No. 62 – John McKernan
- No. 63 – Lewell Plummer
- No. 64 – William O’Neal
- No. 65 – John Gibson
- No. 66 – Christian Wilman
- No. 67 – Maxwell Heuston
- No. 68 – Joshua Haines
- No. 69 – Jacob Stopher
- No. 70 – William Wheeler
- No. 71 – Ingold Butterfield
- No. 72 – Ira Hill
- No. 73 – Randall Pate
- No. 74 – John F. Lemon
- No. 75 – George Cooper
- No. 76 – William Misner
- No. 77 – Jacob Morrisson
- No. 78 – Thomas H. Milburn
- No. 79 – Isaac Hancock
- No. 80 – William Barton, Sr.
- No. 81 – Reuben Goodwin
- No. 82 – Samuel McMullen
- No. 83 – John Engle
- No. 84 – Martin Trester
- No. 85 – Thomas Baker
- No. 86 – James Daughters
- No. 87 – Thomas Ehler
- No. 88 – Noah Dean
- No. 89 – John K. Lewis
- No. 90 – Charles W. Wright
- No. 91 – A. Y. Merriman
- No. 92 – Joshua Yerkins
- No. 93 – Sullivan Jaquith
- No. 94 – Asa Sheldon
- No. 95 – Benjamin Sellers
- No. 96 – Joel Lynn
- No. 97 – Jonathan Jones
- No. 98 – William Conaway
- No. 99 – Jacob D. Mason
- No. 100 – Samuel Osgood
- No. 101 – Elial Chaffin
- No. 102 – Daniel McMullen
- No. 103 – William Lindsay
- No. 104 – William Morgan
- No. 105 – Joshua Sanks
- No. 106 – Andrew Worley
- No. 107 – Francis Worley
- No. 108 – George W. Cochran
- No. 109 – Joseph Kitchell
- No. 110 – C. Bird Pate
- No. 111 – Samuel Ewing
- No. 112 – Lemuel G. Elder
- No. 113 – James Smith
- No. 114 – Isaac Jones
- No. 115 – Daniel Conaway
- No. 116 – Charles Bruce
- No. 117 – Jacob Hayes
- No. 118 – Hugh Ferry
- No. 119 – Jones McLeaster
- No. 120 – Benjn. Stockman
- No. 121 – Ezra Guard
- No. 122 – Erastus Lathrop
- No. 123 – John Durham
- No. 124 – James Chisman
- No. 125 – Eli Hill
- No. 126 – Campbell
- No. 127 – John P. Walker
- No. 128 – Isaac Miles
- No. 129 – Hugh Espy
- No. 130 – Charles Ewing
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Commissioners appointed to assess damages to Enoch Miller in road from Lawrenceburg to Harrison failed to meet. David Tibbitts, John Palmerton and Abram Ferris reappointed commissioners to meet a office of Benjamin Fuller in New Lawrenceburg.
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Petition of John Billingsly for change in road from mouth of Hogan Creek to interect road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis near residence of William Perry. Land near William Upp. Abraham Eversole, Noyes Canfield and Thomas Tanner appointed viewers.
William and Lewis Morgan present petition for change in road from mouth of Hogan Creek to interect road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis near residence of William Perry. Abraham Eversole, Noyes Canfield and Thos. Tanner appointed viewers.
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No. 131 – Allowed to Jacob P. Dunn for service at April Term 1839 as Juror
No. 132 – Allowed to John Callahan for services as Juror at April Term 1839
No. 133 – Allowed to John Saltmarsh for service as juror at April Term 1839
No. 134 – Allowed to William Jackson for service as juror at April Term 1839
Clerk to retain county orders allowed to individuals for damages sustained by state road from mouth of Hogan Creek to interect road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis near residence of William Perry and Stokey Dils until road opened.
John B. Clark – license to retail merchandise and groceries at his store in Manchester Township
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William G. Monroe, Treasurer, makes report.
No. 135 – Allowed to E. B. Hunt for services surveying, fixing the grade of the river Hill and maping the state road from mouth of Hogan Creek to interect road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis near residence of Wm. Perry
No. 136 – Allowed to N. H. Torbet for attendance and medicine for Wintermott and Mason in jail
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No. 137 – Allowed to James Lyons for services as overseer of the poor for Caesars Creek Township
No. 138 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for books and stationery, for stoves and expenses, for office rent, for cord wood for court house
Jacob Harwood – license to vend groceries at his grocery in Wilmington
Morgan & Horton – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in New Lawrenceburg
George Ross – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in New Lawrenceburg
No. 139 – Allowed to Stephen C. Stevens for attending the suit of Stephen Wood against the County in the Circuit and Supreme Court
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No. 140 – Allowed to William H. Glasgow for keeping prisoners in jail, ironing same, firewood and sundries furnished prisoners
Isaac Hancock and Daniel J. Hancock present petition for change in State Road from Aurora to Napoleon. George W. Lane, Stephen Buffington and Conaway Bainum appointed viewers.
Henry Walker and George Cheek present petition for relocation of road from mouth of Hogan Creek to interect road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis near residence of William Perry. Noyes Canfield, Abraham Eversole and Thomas Tanner appointed viewers.
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William Dils, Ann Dils and Elizabeth Morgan present petition for relocation of road from mouth of Hogan Creek to interect road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis near residence of William Perry. Noyes Canfield, Abraham Eversole and Thomas Tanner appointed viewers.
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Abram B. Adams appointed assessor in Lawrenceburg Township.
Charles Jolly appointed assessor in Logan Township.
William Rawling appointed assessor in Kelso Township.
James Laurence appointed assessor in Jackson Township.
Israel Noyes appointed assessor in Manchester Township.
Enoch W. Jackson appointed assessor in Miller Township.
Samuel B. Wood appointed assessor in Sparta Township.
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David Kerr appointed assessor in Laughery Township.
Israel C. Curtis appointed assessor in Centre Township.
Isaac Randall appointed assessor in Clay Township
George Pate appointed assessor in Caesars Creek Township.
William Gerard appointed assessor in Union Township.
Martin Stewart appointed assessor in Randolph Township.
Hurlbert & Wood – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Aurora
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Enoch W. Jackson presents petition for alteration in Manchester and Elizabeth Town State Road. Jacob Hayes, David Marsh and Enoch Miller appointed viewers.
Lemuel E. Elder and Walter Kerr present petition for change in boundary line of Laughery Township. Ordered land included in Township.
Isaac Hancock and Daniel J. Hancock present petition to build a toll bridge over South Hogan Creek between Aurora and Wilmington.
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Thompson & H. L. Dean – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Aurora
County jail destroyed by fire. Proposals to be received.
No. 141 – Allowed to William Dils, Sheriff, for conveying prisoners to jail in Lawrenceburg, firewood and sundries procured for keeping prisoner at Lawrenceburg
Ordered Alexander Hamilton Dill, late clerk, return to clerk’s office all county books.
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No. 142 – Allowed to Stephen Merrick for temporary relief, to be under control of Benjamin Sylvester
No. 143 – Allowed to Elizabeth Lawrence for temporary relief, to be under control of Wm. V. Cheek
Ordered notice in for letting of the poor and the asylum.
No. 144 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell as commissioner and signing orders
No. 145 – Allowed to David Walser as commissioner
No. 146 – Allowed to Aaron B. Henry as commissioner
Court adjourned.