The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the March 1836 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.
Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 2
March Session 1836
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Present:
- Charles Dashiell, president
- George Arnold
- John Neal
Board opened by John Weaver, Sheriff.
Petition by Samuel B. Wood, Jonathan Vail, John Bridell, and 17 other householders for alteration in state road from Aurora to Napoleon. Road through land of Jonathan Vail, Elial Chaffin, Peter Hannegan. Phineas S. King, Harvey Moss and William Hancock appointed commissioners.
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George Bowlby appointed assessor for Logan Township
Robert Rowe Jr. appointed assessor for Kelso Township
Daniel Taylor appointed assessor for Jackson Township
Joseph Adams appointed assessor for Miller Township
Benjamin Anderson appointed assessor for Manchester Township
David V. Culley appointed assessor for Lawrenceburg Township
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Harvey Moss appointed assessor for Laughery Township
Benjamin Johnson appointed assessor for Sparta Township
Jacob W. Eggleston appointed assessor for Clay Township
Robert Turner appointed assessor for Caesars Creek Township
Joseph Woods appointed assessor for Union Township
Martin Stewart appointed assessor for Randolph Township
No. 1 – Allowed to Wm. A. Cameron for printing county expose and notice to Mechanic’s
No. 2 – Allowed to Warren Harper for attendance and sundries furnished Corben Preston, a transient pauper
No. 3 – Allowed to John H. & W. O’Neal for clothing John Gordon, Sr., a transient pauper
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No. 4 – Allowed to John D. Crontz for irons and ironing prisoners in jail
No. 5 – Allowed to Abel W. Thompson for keeping and boarding Rachel, a pauper, order to be for the use of Jones McLister
E. T. Shields and Harvey Moss given contract to plaster poor asylum.
Jacob Harwood – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Wilmington
John Decker – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Kelso Township
Elijah Thatcher – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Clay Township
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Pepper & French – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise at their store in Rising Sun
Hale and Buchanan – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise at their store in Rising Sun
No. 6 – Allowed to John Weaver for boarding prisoners, firewood, and other necessary expenses in and about the jail
No. 7 – Allowed to James Dill for marriage license book, advalorem books, quills
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Stephen Wood and Harvey Moss, commissioners for superintending the erection of Court House and Jail in Wilmington, final report.
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Sylvester & Anderson – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at their store in Manchester Township
John Palmer – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Manchester Township
John Palmer – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Manchester Township
Appointment of County Seminary Trustees:
- Jesse L Holman
- Nathaniel L Squibb
- Stephen Wood
- Ranna C. Stevens
- Robert Moore
- Daniel S. Major
- Jacob W. Eggleston
- Jonathan Vail
- Spencer Davis, Jr.
- Rower Rowe
- Daniel Plummer
- Johnson Watts
- John B. Piatt
- Basil James
- John Morrison
- Thomas Palmer
- Stephen Speakman
William H. Campbell – license to retail and vend foreign merchandise
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Walter Armstrong, Treasurer, made report.
No. 8 – Allowed to Dr. Jabez Percival for medicine and attendance on Mary French, a pauper
No. 9 – Allowed to Dr. Jabez Percival for medicine and attendance on Carbon Preston, a pauper
No. 10 – Allowed to James M. Darragh for flour, sugar and tea furnished for Carbon Preston, a pauper
No. 11 – Allowed to Moses Guard for keeping A. Green, a pauper
No. 12 – Allowed to Andrew Morgan for money advanced for removal of a transient pauper to Kentucky
No. 13 – Allowed to Abrahaham Roland for keeping Mary Ann French, a pauper
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No. 14 – Allowed to John Cook for digging grave for Preston, a pauper
No. 15 – Allowed to Eleazer Small for moving Reno and wife, paupers
No. 16 – Allowed to David Nevitt for money furnished for removing Reno and wife, paupers
No. 17 – Allowed to Aaron B. Henry for money furnished for removing Reno and wife, paupers
No. 18 – Allowed to David Nevitt for goods furnished A. Green, a pauper
No. 19 – Allowed to Sarah Elder for boarding and keeping Easter, a pauper
No. 20 – Allowed to Moses Guard for boarding and keeping Andrew Green, a pauper
No. 21 – Allowed to J. H. Lane & Co. for goods furnished George Reno and wife
No. 22 – Allowed to Eleazer Small for boarding and keeping George Reno and wife, paupers
No. 23 – Allowed to Rueben Moore for furnishing Daniel Halford, a pauper
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No. 24 – Allowed to Shields & Moss in advance on account of a contract for plastering the poor asylum
Wm. Parvin – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign, groceries and liquors
Notice for contracting some individual for keeping poor at poor asylum.
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No. 25 – Allowed to Andrew Morgan for taking up prisoners
Jesse Hunt – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Lawrenceburg
No 26 – Allowed to Dr. M. H. Harding for medicine and attendance on sundry paupers in Manchester Township
No. 27 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell as commissioner
No. 28 – Allowed to George Arnold as commissioner
No. 29 – Allowed to John Neal as commissioner
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Walter Armstrong, Treasurer, report.
Walter Armstrong appointed treasurer. Isaac Dunn and Jesse Hunt, securities.
Board adjourned.