Dearborn County Commissioners – Jun 1847 Session

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the june 1847 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 4

June Session 1847

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Present:

  • David Walser
  • James Grubbs
  • Daniel Taylor

No. 3470 – Allowed to Samuel Davis for professional services rendered paupers

No. 3472 – Allowed to J. C. Cordery for sundries furnished paupers

No. 3471 – Allowed to John F. Richards for services as jailor

No. 3473 – Allowed to Ira Wright for boarding and conveying pauper to County Asylum

No. 3474 – Allowed to Rhoda Dewitt for services rendered and articles furnished George Tuttle, a pauper

Benjamin Wright exempted from road work and poll tax due to disability.

No. 3475 – Allowed to Samuel James for keeping Mills Robertson, an insane person

Andrew Vetter – license to keep a tavern in Kelso Township

 

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Henry Shoe – license to keep a tavern in Kelso Township

No. 3476 – Allowed to C. C. Jaquith for assessing revenue, completing assessment roll and making return

No. 3477 – Allowed to D. G. Cromlow for assessing revenue

No. 3478 – Allowed to Daniel Conaway for assessing revenue

No. 3479 – Allowed to William Clynch for assessing revenue

No. 3480 – Allowed to James D. English for assessing revenue

No. 3481 – Allowed to Daniel Conger for assessing revenue

No. 3482 – Allowed to Seth Platt as deputy assessor

No. 3483 – Allowed to Richard Corson for repairs made on jail

No. 3484 – Allowed to A. B. Haines for professional services rendered paupers

 

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No. 3485 – Allowed to James H. Ross for groceries furnished and money expended for paupers

No. 3486 – Allowed to R. & O. Parry for groceries &c. furnished paupers

Jones & Brewington – license to keep a store in Wilmington

James Mortaw – license to keep a store in Kelso Township

Hugh Scott – license to keep a store in Kelso Township

John Hahn – license to keep a store in Kelso Township

Maurice Clump – license to keep a tavern in Kelso Township

No. 3490 & 3491 – Allowed to John B. Hall for publishing coroner’s inquest and notice to bridge builders

 

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Allowed to Hugh Scott for viewing road

David Hubbell – license to keep a store in Jackson Township

L. B. Lewis & Co. – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

Joseph Feger – license to keep a tavern in Kelso Township

 

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Report on change of state road from Aurora to A. Morgan’s Ferry through lands of William Hepworth and others. William Hepworth, by Brown his attorney, Allen Hamilton, Wm. S. Holman, and Polly Horsley, by William S. Holman their attorney, file remonstrance. Zachariah Barker, Elial Chaffin and Daniel Conaway appointed viewers.

Chester Faulkner – license to keep a store in Sparta Township

No. 3493 – Allowed to Elliott Wills for services rendered a pauper

No. 3494 – Allowed to Randall Alexander for temporary relief to paupers

No. 3497 – Allowed to Adam H. Lemmon for services rendered and articles furnished paupers

No. 3498 – Allowed to James M. Torrence for provisions &c. for pauper

No. 3499 – Allowed to J. B. Smith for professional services rendered Geo. Tuttle, a pauper

 

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No. 3496 – Allowed to Isaac Taylor for services rendered and groceries furnished George Tuttle

No. 3495 – Allowed to George Cheek for boarding and nursing Daniel Brookover and son, while confined with the small pox

Allowed to Jacob Ebersole for his medical attendance to family of Wm. Napp

No. 3501 & 3502 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for extra services and articles furnished for Clerk’s office

P. S. Spooner presented petition of Levin B. Lewis and others of Lawrenceburg Township to relocate state road from Lawrenceburg to Tanner’s Creek. Lands of W. E. Craft, Hamlet Sparks, Eliza Sparks, Omer Tousey, Philip Huffman, Jno. Blittner, heirs of Catharine Pinkard, Andrew Morgan, John Walden, John Callihan and Hugh Smith. Timothy Guard, John Shank and Daniel Donaway appointed viewers.

 

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Charles Dashiell – license to keep a store

Elijah Thatcher – license to keep a store in Clay Township

No. 3507 – Allowed to Jortin Clark for taking up drowned man and going for the coroner

No. 3508 – Allowed to John B. Durbin for making 2 coffins

No. 3509 – Allowed to Mr. Stowe for taking up the body of a drowned boy and going for coroner

No. 3510 – Allowed to William Winkley for making boxes and delivering to the bodies were lying in the Ohio River

No. 3511 – Allowed to A. Hiatt for digging graves for drowned men

No. 3512 – Allowed to William Cure for conveying drowned men to their graves

No. 3506 – Allowed to T. & J. W. Gaff for sundries furnished paupers

No. 3513 – Allowed to Michael Sturn for digging graves and assisting to bury drowned man

 

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No. 3514 – Allowed to Samuel McMullen for going for coroner to hold an inquest in Manchester Township

Wymond & Ferris – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

Heinrich A. L. Weidlestaedt – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

Jacob Haeck – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

No. 3515 – Allowed to Daniel Walser for keeping John Walser, pauper

No. 3516 – Allowed to Samuel Lewis for furnishing coffin for pauper

No. 3517 – Allowed to Jones & Brewington for sundries furnished pauper

No. 3518 – Allowed to William H. Locke for medical attendance on John Walser, a pauper

 

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No. 3519 – Allowed to Granville Love for keeping pauper

No. 3520 – Allowed to William Danels for keeping pauper

No. 3521 – Allowed to James Groff for keeping pauper

Samuel W. Melsen exempted from road work.

Charles Bruce, Thomas Baker and Thomas Spicknall, viewers, make report on change of county road from William Dils’ in Manchester Township to Lawrenceburg and Madison State Road near John Johnson’s in Centre Township. Geo. Moore, surveyor. Lemuel Elder and Thomas Cheeseman, chain carriers. William Tanner, marker. William Dils, John Aldridge, Wm. Wymond, commissioners.

 

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S. J. Johnson, Geo. Cornelius, and John Masten, commissioners, make report on state road. George W. Taylor and John N. Milburn remonstrate. Amour Flake, David Kerr and George Goulding appointed viewers.

Thomas Young exempted from road work.

Norval Sparks – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg Township

 

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Reuben Rogers, Auditor, makes report.

 

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Nelson H. Torbet, Treasurer, makes report.

 

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S. S. Bussell, collector of tolls at South Hogan Bridge, makes report.

No. 3522 – Allowed to Samuel Moore for attendance on pauper with small pox

No. 3547 – Allowed to N. Sparks for sundries furnished paupers

No. 3548 – Allowed to Heuster and Hayes for making coffin for pauper

No. 3549 – Allowed to Nelson H. Torbet for steel pens for and rent of Treasurer’s office

 

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Stephen Livingston – license to keep a store in Wilmington

Jury Selection.

 

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Grand Jurors for October Term 1847:

  1. Thomas Cottingham, Logan Township
  2. Henry Boese, Lawrenceburg Township
  3. John Mahoney, Kelso Township
  4. James Cummings, Centre Township
  5. Benj. J. Perine, York Township
  6. Joseph Trester, Centre Township
  7. Peter B. Vail, Centre Township
  8. Alex. D. Hopping, Centre Township
  9. George B. Dennis, Lawrenceburg Township
  10. William Wheeler, Centre Township
  11. George A. Rigg, Centre Township
  12. Wm. S. Miller, Lawrenceburg Township
  13. James Johnson, Clay Township
  14. Thomas H. Cloud, Harrison Township
  15. Thos. Laughlin, Sparta Township
  16. Matthew B. Steele, Centre Township
  17. Walter Hayes, Miller Township
  18. Jonathan Jones, Centre Township

Traverse Jury for 1st week, October Term 1847:

  1. Richard Arnold, Logan Township
  2. Norval Sparks, Lawrenceburg Township
  3. Joseph Sylvester, Jr., Manchester Township
  4. Jacob Mendall, Jackson Township
  5. Wm. Upp, Jr., Centre Township
  6. Samuel Colwell, Kelso Township
  7. Thomas Hall, Clay Township
  8. William Green, Manchester Township
  9. Lewis D. Morgan, Centre Township
  10. John Aldridge, Laughery Township
  11. John H. Angevine, York Township
  12. Joshua Brewington, Laughery Township

Traverse Jury for 2nd week, October Term 1847:

  1. Davis Woodward, Lawrenceburg Township
  2. Michael Lutz, Lawrenceburg Township
  3. Messick Roberts, Kelso Township
  4. Z. A. Bonham, Logan Township
  5. Washington Stark, Centre Township
  6. John Bean, Lawrenceburg Township
  7. Thomas Lennon, Kelso Township
  8. John Hendrickson, Jackson Township
  9. John McMath, York Township
  10. Isaac T. Cole, Clay Township
  11. George Orsborn, Jackson Township
  12. Thomas T. Fenton, Centre Township

Traverse Jury for 3rd week, October Term 1847:

  1. John McGee, Manchester Township
  2. Daniel Chittester, York Township
  3. George Bowlby, Harrison Township
  4. John Barkalow, Miller Township
  5. Laurence Hayes, Logan Township
  6. George Cook, Miller Township
  7. Jas. McMullen, Manchester Township
  8. Jas. Hibbetts, Lawrenceburg Township
  9. Nicholas Fox, Lawrenceburg Township
  10. Archibald Stewart, Kelso Township
  11. Lewis G. Hulbert, Centre Township
  12. Lemuel G. Elder, Laughery Township

Traverse Jury for 4th week, October Term 1847:

  1. Robert H. Givan, Sparta Township
  2. Josiah Beldon, Lawrenceburg Township
  3. Spencer West, Lawrenceburg Township
  4. John Rowland, Sparta Township
  5. Isaac Ouathoudt, Sparta Township
  6. James Christie, York Township
  7. James M. Boatman, Logan Township
  8. Ebenezer Bedumah, Sparta Township
  9. Stephen East, Laughery Township
  10. George W. Ward, Lawrenceburg Township
  11. Jno. F. Blasdell, Kelso Township
  12. James Kelso, Kelso Township

 

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Grand Jurors for April Term 1848:

  1. John Burus, Sprata Township
  2. Mahlon Powell, Laughery Township
  3. John W. Henry, Lawrenceburg Township
  4. Justus M. Cure, Laughery Township
  5. Samuel Musgrave, Laughery Township
  6. William Stoner, Jackson Township
  7. William E. Craft, Lawrenceburg Township
  8. John Stone, Jackson Township
  9. Joseph Lenover, Clay Township
  10. Thompson Dean, Centre Township
  11. Shands Darling, Jr., York Township
  12. John Liggett, Clay Township
  13. Lyman T. Smith, Sparta Township
  14. Thomas Justice, Sparta Township
  15. Charles L. Pate, Sr., Clay Township
  16. George Lozier, Manchester Township
  17. Stephen Buffington, Laughery Township
  18. Elijah Ellingwood, Manchester Township

Traverse Jury for 1st week, April Term 1848:

  1. Nicholas Yeager, Jackson Township
  2. Alvin G. Tebbs, Harrison Township
  3. Milo Longwood, Centre Township
  4. Ira Cowles, Clay Township
  5. John McMullen, Manchester Township
  6. Isaac Adair, Harrison Township
  7. Landalin Guygar, Jackson Township
  8. David Johnson, Centre Township
  9. John D. Crontz, Lawrenceburg Township
  10. Amor Flake, Laughery Township
  11. James Chilson, Sparta Township
  12. Allen L. Campbell, York Township

Traverse Jury for 2nd week, April Term 1848:

  1. Joseph Suter, Manchester Township
  2. James A. Reed, Harrison Township
  3. Thomas Lynch, Kelso Township
  4. Joe S. Becket, Laughery Township
  5. Daivd Frazier, Miller Township
  6. Joseph Hansel, York Township
  7. John W. Cloud, Logan Township
  8. John Milburn, Logan Township
  9. Witt Fisher, Manchester Township
  10. John Gibson, Miller Township
  11. Cornelius S. Faulkner, Sparta Township
  12. Joseph Roberts, Manchester Township

Traverse Jury for 3rd week, April Term 1848:

  1. Wilson Wheeler, Sparta Township
  2. Conrad Wiler, Jackson Township
  3. James Palmer, York Township
  4. John Seigle, Jackson Township
  5. John Wooliung, Jackson Township
  6. Anthony A. Pardun, Manchester Township
  7. Charles Gullett, Laughery Township
  8. John Callihan, Lawrenceburg Township
  9. Jas. Colwell, Miller Township
  10. Martin Kelly, Kelso Township
  11. Joel Williams, Harrison Township
  12. William Turner, Caesars Creek Township

Traverse Jury for 4th week, April Term 1848:

  1. Samuel James, Laughery Township
  2. James B. Laws, Sparta Township
  3. Richard Hansel, Manchester Township
  4. Azariah Oldham, Manchester Township
  5. Bartholomew Colwell, Sparta Township
  6. Josiah Collins, Laughery Township
  7. Thomas Baker, Laughery Township
  8. Daniel Horham, Manchester Township
  9. Henry Wood, Manchester Township
  10. John Lesher, Miller Township
  11. Anderson F. Gage, Lawrenceburg Township
  12. Bernard Dougherty, Kelso Township

 

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No. 3550  – Allowed to Daniel Hepworth for taking care of body of dead man

No. 3551 – Allowed to John Ferris & Co. for medicines &c. furnished paupers

No. 3552 – Allowed to Ferris McCullough & Co. for articles furnished auditor’s office

No. 3524 – Allowed to Cyrus Armstrong for groceries &c. furnished paupers

No. 3523 – Allowed to Daniel Wilson for summoning juries to hold inquests

No. 3553 – Allowed to Houck and Weadlestaedt for locks for jail

No. 3554 – Allowed to Margaret Zay for nursing Mrs. Summerfield

No. 35?? – Allowed to Jotham Clark for burying drowned man

Ferris & McCullough & Co. – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

No. 3525 – Allowed to Abner J. Dill for keeping paupers at Asylum

No. 3526 – Allowed to Abner J. Dill for removing pauper to Butler County, Ohio

 

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Report on county road through Jackson and Manchester Townships. Lands of Oliver Heustis, Samuel Conger, John Wimer, Ralph Evans, Henry Walters, Isaac Morris, Philip Lanegar, Henry Studer, Peter Sefert, John Ellinghouse, in Manchester Township; Thomas Ehler, Lewis B. Conger, John Hendrickson, Peter Schue, Jacob Vanwedding, in Jackson Township. Henry Haynes, Jehe H. Albert, Hugh Scott, viewers.

 

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No. 3527 – Allowed to Abner Dill for medicines, coffins &c. furnished paupers

Henry A. Moran, collector of tolls at Aurora Bridge, made report.

No. 3555 – Allowed to Wymond and Ferris for articles furnished paupers

No. 3528 – Allowed to Andrew Caton for conveying paupers to grave

No. 3529 – Allowed to William O’Brien for conveying paupers to County Asylum

No. 3556 – Allowed to Ray and Torbet for articles furnished Clerk’s office

No. 3557/8 – Allowed to J. N. Ray for paper furnished Auditor’s office; papers, sand and inkstands furnished Clerk’s office

No. 3559 – Allowed to George Cornelius for viewing state road

No. 3630 – Allowed to Samuel S. Johnson for viewing state road

No. 3560 – Allowed to Geo. Moore for surveying road, making map, field notes and report

 

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No. 3531 – Allowed to Samuel Sopris as chain carrier in locating state road

No. 3532 – Allowed to William Green for alike service

No. 3561 – Allowed to Aikin Kaar for services as above

No. 3562 – Allowed to Noah Davis as chain carrier

No. 3563 – Allowed to Joseph E. Baker as chain carrier

No. 3533 – Allowed to Levi Moral as axeman

No. 3565 – Allowed to Geo. Taylor as axeman

No. 3566 – Allowed to James Dunkin as axeman

Nelson H. Torbet, Treasurer, made report.

 

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David Reese – license to keep a ferry at mouth of Tanner’s Creek

John Callihan – license to keep a ferry at mouth of Tanner’s Creek

Jacob Gysi & Co. – license to keep a store in Laughery Township

Milliken & Eldridge – license to keep a store in Manchester Township

No. 3534/5 – Allowed to Geo. B. Sheldon for stove and pipe elbow to pipe and sand boxes furnished clerk’s office and for repairing stove pipe in Court House

Election in Lawrenceburg Township for Justice of the Peace in place of Elijah Rich.

No. 3564 – Allowed to Nelson H. Torbet for attendance and medicines for Mary Lamb, a pauper

No. 3584 – Allowed to William Clynch, of York Township, for return of license fee

 

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No. 3535 – Allowed to David Bryan for temporary relief

No. 3567 – Allowed to Jno. Langley for money by him paid pauper

Tax rates for 1847.

 

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No. 3537 – Allowed to William Godley for articles furnished paupers

No. 3539 – Allowed to Elisha Cook for temporary relief

No. 3568/9 – Allowed to Nimrod Lancaster for printing blanks for Auditor’s office; advertising coroner’s inquests

 

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No. 3570 – Allowed to Geo. Cauklin for paper and ink furnished Auditor’s office

No. 3571/2 – Allowed to Mann & Delzell for books and paper furnished Auditor’s office and books furnished Clerk’s office

Jacob F. Creder appointed salt inspector.

David Springer exempted from road work.

No. 3573 – Allowed to Reuben Rogers as Auditor

D. A. Rewland – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

Proposal of Patrick Fielding and Co. for bridge across Salt Fork of Tanners Creek accepted.

 

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Joseph Hayburn – license to keep a store in Aurora

No. 3546 – Allowed to C. C. Jaquith for services on Board of Equalization

Court adjourned.