The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the March 1833 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.
Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 1
March Session 1833
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Present:
- George Arnold
- William Conaway
Thomas Guion – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Laughery Township
Thomas Guion – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Laughery Township
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No. 1 – Allowed to Alexander Hamilton Dill for two record books, one for school commissioner and one for clerk’s office to keep records of School Trustees and forfeited lands
No. 2 – Allowed to A. H. Dill for a cord of wood furnished the Court House and cutting the same
Thomas Folber – license to keep a tavern and public house of entertainment at Aurora
No. 3 – Allowed to Benjamin Dolph for killing seven wolves under the age of 6 months
No. 4 – Allowed to William Cooke, Jailor, for boarding and fire wood furnished John G. Houny, William Dixon, Joshua Northern, Andrew Rider, William Fleming and Charles Reder and making bed tick for prisoners
No. 5 – Allowed to James Walker, School Commissioner, for 2 days services
No. 6 – Allowed to William Cooke for firewood furnished the probate court February 1833
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Thomas K. Cole – license to keep a store and retail foreign merchandise at his store in Wilmington
No. 7 – Allowed to Thomas Milburn as Grand Juror September 1832 omitted to be entered at the Nov Session 1832 from the fault of the clerk
Pinkney James & Co. – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise
No. 8 – Allowed to David V. Culley for publishing an account of receipts and expenditures
No. 9 – Allowed to John S. Percival for medicine and attendance to Thomas Steel, a pauper
No. 10 – Allowed to Dr. John S. Percival, Coroner, for holding an Inquest on the body of Thomas Wilkinson, a drowned man
No. 11 – John T. Bishop, Juror on the above Inquest
No. 12 – Thomas Brannon, Juror on the above Inquest
No. 13 – Alfred K. Jefferes, Juror on the above Inquest
No. 14 – Francis Welch, Juror on the above Inquest
No. 15 – A. R. Runyon, Juror on the above Inquest
No. 16 – Joseph Boon, Juror on the above Inquest
No. 17 – Thomas Blithe, Juror on the above Inquest
No. 18 – William Patterson, Juror on the above Inquest
No. 19 – Abel Thompson, Juror on the above Inquest
No. 20 – John Gattenby, Juror on the above Inquest
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No. 21 – Horace Whitney, Juror on the above Inquest
No. 22 – Marcas Beach, Juror on the above Inquest
No. 23 – Allowed to six witnesses
No. 24 – Allowed to Charles Spooner for making coffin for drowned [man]
No. 25 – Allowed to Spencer West for hauling coffin to graveyard
No. 26 – Allowed to Elias Conklin for digging grave for drowned man
No. 27 – Allowed to Richard Moran for washing drowned man
Ordered that $1.20 be deducted from John S. Percival’s county order on the above inquest for clothing of a deceased person
E. D. John and West – license to retail foreign merchandise at his store in Lawrenceburg
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William Hamilton appointed Trustee for School Section 16, Township 5, Range 1 West in the room of Nathan Gilbert (removed from county).
Mark McCracken joined the board.
Aaron Foulke – license to retail foreign merchandise at his store in Aurora
Ordered the purchase of a certain piece of land made by Mark McCracken from Phoebe Pate of fifty acres for erecting an asylum for the support and accommodation of the poor.
Ordered that the location of the County Seminary be at Wilmington.
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No. 28 – Allowed to William Cooke, Jailor, for guarding the jail in which is confined sundry criminals
Toussey & Dunn – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise
No. 29 – Allowed to Richard Orchard for guarding the Jail in which sundry criminals are confined
Omer Toussey – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Lawrenceburg – refused
No. 30 – Allowed to George Arnold as Commissioner
No. 31 – Allowed to William Conaway as Commissioner
Joseph E. Baker – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment at his house in Manchester Township
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No. 32 – Allowed to John Shanks for removing Adam Payne and Rachel Payne, two paupers
No. 33 – Allowed to George Johnson for ironing and repairing Irons for sundry prisoners confined in Jail
Ordered that Asenath Steele, infant daughter of Thomas Steele, deceased, be deemed and considered as a pauper, and be provided for by the overseers of the poor for Lawrenceburg Township.
No. 34 – Allowed to Mark McCracken for his services as commissioner
George Johnson – license to keep a grocery at his shop in Lawrenceburg
Board to receive proposals for county asylum.
Board adjourned.