The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the March 1837 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.
Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 2
March Session 1837
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Present:
- George Arnold
- John Neal
Thomas M. Nighbert – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Clay Township
Elijah Thatcher – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Clay Township
Benjamin Perrine – license to keep a grocery or retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his house on Yorke Ridge
Jefferson Rittenhouse – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Harrison
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Benjamin Sylvester took his seat.
George Arnold appointed President of the Board
No. 1 – Allowed to Moss for viewing alteration on the state road from Aurora to Napoleon
No. 2 – Allowed to William Hancock services on state road from Aurora to Napoleon
No. 3 – Allowed to Phineas L. King services viewing alteration in the state road from Aurora to Napoleon
No. 4 – Allowed to John Buffington overcharge in payment of county tax
No. 5 – Allowed to John Tait, cororner, for holding a Jury of Inquest
No. 6 – Allowed to John Downey for holding a Jury of Inquest in the absence of the coroner
Piatt & Athern – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Union Township
No. 7 – Allowed to David Shaw for making a coffin for William Fletcher, a dead pauper
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No. 8 – Allowed to John Fountain for digging grave for William Fletcher, a dead pauper
No. 9 – Allowed to Luther Plummer for goods and other services furnished Stephen Merrick and family for temporary relief
No. 10 – Allowed to James P. Millikin for viewing state road from Sunmon’s Mill to Pipe Creek
Petition by Asahel Terrell, Edwin Canfield, David Conger, Enoch Terrell, Jacob Fielding and various other householders for alteration in state road leading from Versailles, Ripley County, to Township 6, Range 2 West that lies between Moores Hill, Sparta Township and house of Enoch M. Terrill, Manchester Township. Mark McCracken, Peter Hannifin and Riley Elliott appointed commissioners.
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William Perry, agent for distributing surplus revenue, filed his bond with Abram Ferris and Stephen Ludlow, securities.
No. 11 – Allowed to James Dill for removing the records, desks, chairs, tables and all papers relating to the clerk’s office from Lawrenceburg to Wilmington
No. 12 – Allowed to Stephen S. Walker for laying out and dressing a dead man, a pauper
Mark Muggeridge – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise at his store in Hardinsburgh
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J. & W. O’Neal – license to vend merchandise at their store in Rising Sun
No. 13 – Allowed to Elial Chaffin for services rendered in surveying, writing leases, &c. for school section, township 5, range 2 west
James Miller – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Sparta Township
Petition by Reed Crandall, Daniel Kelsey, William S. Rill, Johnson Watts, and other householders of Caesars Creek Township for alteration in state road from Lawrenceburg to Madison at William Johnson’s blacksmith shop. John Thompson, Young Johnson and Harvey Cole appointed commissioners.
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No. 14 – Allowed to Thomas Lumberton for services rendered selecting lands for school purposes in Township 6, Range 3 west
No. 15 – Allowed to Archibald H. Reed for goods furnished a pauper
No. 16 – Allowed to Walter Armstrong for money paid Simeon Tozier, keeper of the poor asylum
No. 17 – Allowed to Simeon Tozier, keeper of the poor asylum
Stephen Wood, Harvey Moss and William Conaway, commissioners appointed to superintend the erection and completion of the court house and jail in Wilmington, by Dumont, their attorney, filed claim for services rendered. Rejected and appealed to Circuit Court.
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Walter Armstrong – Treasurer’s report.
John Palmer – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Manchester Township
John Palmer – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Manchester Township
Elias Chamberlin – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Manchester Township
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Henry Walter – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Manchester Township
James C. Cloud – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors his house in Hardensburgh
Jonas Matthews – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Manchester Township
Merrit Hubbell – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries at his shop or grocery store in Jackson Township
Pepper and French – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Rising Sun
A. & R. Wilber – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Hartford
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No. 18 – Allowed to Joshua Brewington, Jailor, for attendance on prisoners and boarding prisoners
No. 19 – Allowed to James Dill for record books, paper and reeled paper for assessor’s books and furnished the clerk’s office
No. 20 – Allowed to James Dill for table for court house at Wilmington and plat form
John B. Clark – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Manchester Township
Henry McKinzie – license to vend foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Kelso Township
Remonstrance against alteration in State Road leading from Versailles to Manchester. Road ordered opened.
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Mark McCracken, Manchester Township, appointed commissioner to superintend the application of appropriations of the 3% fund.
No. 21 – Allowed to Archibald H. Reed for [illegible] got by the sheriff for jail
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No. 22 – Allowed to Alexr H. Dill for rent of clerk’s office
No. 23 – Allowed to William Dils for extra services as sheriff, wood furnished court house, &c.
No. 24 – Allowed to Benjamin Sylvester for services on state road
No. 25 – Allowed to George W. Lane for store tax paid through mistake
George W. Lane & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Aurora
Jacob Harwood – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Wilmington
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Isaac Hancock & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Wilmington
Conaway and Munroe – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Wilmington
No. 26 – Allowed to Mahlon Powell for repairs to jail in Wilmington
No. 27 – Allowed to Daniel S. Major for services as attorney to poor overseers of Lawrenceburg Township
No 28 – Allowed to Nelson H. Tabet for attendance on a pauper
No. 29 – Allowed to Nelson H. Tabet for medicine and attendance to Mary Hior, a pauper
No. 30 – Allowed to A. L. Child for medicine and attendance to paupers at asylum
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Petition by Abel Gould, John R. Round and other householders for alteration in state road from Aurora to Watson’s Tavern in Manchester Township as laid out by David Loter and Thomas Milburn. Road passes land of Wilson Dorman, Elbin Noxe. Asael Terrell, Hugh Noyes and Daniel Hathaway appointed commissioners.
No. 31 – Allowed to Ephraim Hollister for making coffin for a pauper
No. 32 – Allowed to John S. Percival for medicine to Ebin B. Olmstead, a pauper
No. 33 – Allowed to Jeremiah H. Brower for medicine and attendance to Wm. Daugan, a pauper
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Motion by Dumont, attorney, in matter of state road from Harrison to Amos Boardmon’s in Ripley County. Road ordered opened.
Appointment of Trustees of County Seminary:
- Thomas Palmer
- Robert Moore
- James Walker
- Jesse L. Holman
- Spencer Davis
- Jonathan Vail
- Nathaniel L. Squibb
- Benjamin Walker
- Alexander E. Glenn
- John Tait
- William S. Durbin
- John B. Clarke
- Bazil James
- Archibald H. Reed
- Robert Rowe, Jr.
- Jacob W. Eggleston
- Jeremiah H. Brower
F. & H. Baldwin – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Aurora
No. 34 – Allowed to Henry Walker for book purchased by School Commissioner fo school purposes
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No. 35 – Allowed to Henry Walker, School Commissioner, for transcribing the records in said office
County Expose for 1836.
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Mark McCracken and Walter Armstrong, commissioners to examine and investigate transactions of Lawrenceburg Bridge Company made report.
Mark McCracken, commissioner of 3% fund, filed bond with Stephen Wood, as security.
Ordered notice to receive proposals for keeping of the poor at asylum in Manchester Township.
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No. 36 – Allowed to William Dils, Sheriff, for summoning commissioners to called court and summoning Walter Armstrong and Mark McCracken and examine bridge
No. 37 – Allowed to Walter Armstrong, commissioner to examine transactions of the Lawrenceburg Bridge Company
No. 38 – Allowed to Mark McCracken, commissioner to examine transactions of the Lawrenceburg Bridge Company
No. 39 – Allowed to George Arnold as commissioner
No. 40 – Allowed to John Neal as commissioner
No. 41 – Allowed to Benjamin Sylvester as commissioner
Robert Moore appointed treasurer, filed bond with William Glenn, Thomas Miller, James R. Moore, Benjamin Moore and Henry Walker, securities.
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Regular session changed to 3d Monday in April.
Board adjourned.