The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the May 1827 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.
Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 1
May Session 1827
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Present:
- Philip Eastman, Justice of Peace, Supervisor for Randolph Township
- James Murray, Justice of Peace, Supervisor for Union Township
- Dale Elder, Justice of Peace, Supervisor for Lawrenceburg Township
- Isaac Colwell, Justice of Peace, Supervisor for Kelso Township
- John Godley, Justice of Peace, Supervisor for Logan Township
- Laban Bramble, Justice of Peace, Supervisor for Cesars Creek Township
- Davis Weaver, Supervisor of Laughery Township (no one legally elected to succeed him, given seat at board)
- James Powell, Supervisor for Laughery Township (election in March set aside)
- Mark McCracken, Esquire, Justice of Peace, Supervisor for Manchester Township
Supervisors sworn into office for 1827. John Godley elected president pro tempore of board.
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Election for President of Board – Davis Weaver, four votes; Mark McCracken, four votes. Drew lots for president and Mark McCracken became President for one year.
Bedford & Saltmarsh – store license
Zacheriah Bedford – tavern license
Ordered to be remitted to Isaac Morris for the 1825 & 1826 Poll Tax, his having been a non-resident during those years
No. 1 – Allowed to Labon Matthews for keeping, boarding and clothing Maria Matthews, an insane pauper
No. 2 – Allowed to The Trustees of Springfield Township, Hamilton County, Ohio for keeping and removing Rebeccah Crusenberry, a pauper of Dearborn County
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No. 3 – Allowed to John Gray for his services as commissioner in viewing and marking a state road from Lawrenceburg to Brookville
No. 4 – Allowed to Henry McKenzie for his services in surveying a road from Lawrenceburg to Brookville
No. 5 – Allowed to Joseph Dart for his services in carrying chains laying out a road from Lawrenceburg to Brookville
No. 6 – Allowed to Isaac Southard for his services in carrying chains laying out a road from Lawrenceburg to Brookville
No. 7 – Allowed to Isaac Colwell as commissioner for viewing and laying out a state road from Lawrenceburg to Brookville
No. 8 – Allowed to John Dawson for his servies as commissioner for viewing and laying out a state road from Lawrenceburg to Brookville
No. 9 – Allowed to John Porter for his services as commissioner for perpetuating testimony of burnt deed and burnt records up to this date
No. 10 – Allowed to George H. Dunn as commissioner for his services in perpetuating testimony of burnt deeds & burnt records
No. 11 – Allowed to Arthur St. Clair for his services as commissioner in perpetuating testimony of burnt records and burnt deeds
John D Moore – license to retail foreign merchandise at his store in Harrison
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James M Donagh – license to retail foreign merchandise at his store in Lawrenceburg
John Arnold – license to retail foreign merchandise at his store in Aurora
No. 11 – Allowed to Daniel Hagerman for his services in recording deeds & as clerk to the commissioners for perpetuating testimony of burnt deeds and burnt records and furnishing a desk
No. 12 – Allowed to Daniel Hagerman for sundry expenditures and services for the use of the county, as clerk to the Board of Commissioners for perpetuating testimony
John Gray, owner of the land on the east side of Tanner’s Creek at its mount – granted license to keep a ferry across Tanners Creek at its mouth and also across the Ohio River
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John Gray – license to keep a tavern at his house in Lawrenceburg
No. 13 – Allowed to Peter Johnson for keeping and boarding David Wright, a pauper
No. 14 – Allowed to John From an for making return of elections in 1826
No. 15 – Allowed to Jonathan Harpham for his services as owner of the poor in Laughery Township
No. 16 – Allowed to Daniel Lynn for his services as overseer of the poor of Laughery Township
No. 17 – Allowed to David Bowers for his services as overseer of the poor of Laugery Township
Edmond C. Peekover – license to retail foreign merchandise at his store in Manchester Township
Elias Conwell – license to retail foreign merchandise at his store in Aurora
Omar & George Toussey – license to retail foreign merchandise
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No. 18 – Allowed to William Cooke as jailor for boarding and attending prisoners, firewood and repairs to jail
No. 19 – Allowed to Omar Toussey residue of a Judgment for sundries furnished a pauper
No. 20 – Allowed to Jacob Larrimore for keeping and boarding Thomas Moore, a pauper
No. 21 – Allowed to Peter Demoss for boarding and keeping Araminta Keith, a pauper
No. 22 – Allowed to Vinson Crusenberry for keeping and boarding Rebeccah Crusenberry, a pauper
No. 23 – Allowed to Reichard Prest for boarding and keeping Francis Davis, a pauper
No. 24 – Allowed to Thomas Longley for his extra services as Sheriff of Dearborn County
No. 25 – Allowed to Philip Eastman for holding a Jury of Inquest over a drowned person in the absence of the coroner
No. 26 – Allowed to Samuel S. Scott as a Juror holding a Jury of Inquest on a drowned person
No. 27 – Allowed to Platt S. Thompson as a Juror holding a Jury of Inquest on a drowned person
No. 28 – Allowed to John F Clement as a Juror holding a Jury of Inquest on a drowned person
No. 29 – Allowed to Peter G Daubenheyer as a Juror holding a Jury of Inquest on a drowned person
No. 30 – Allowed to Cabel Campbell as a Juror holding a Jury of Inquest on a drowned person
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No. 31 – Allowed to David Lowe as a Juror holding a Jury of Inquest on a drowned person
No. 32 – Allowed to Joseph Mack as a Juror holding a Jury of Inquest on a drowned person
No. 33 – Allowed to William Crouch as a Juror holding a Jury of Inquest on a drowned person
No. 34 – Allowed to Hugh Bills as a Juror holding a Jury of Inquest on a drowned person
No. 35 – Allowed to Samuel Brown as a Juror holding a Jury of Inquest on a drowned person
No. 36 – Allowed to Robert Espy as a Juror holding a Jury of Inquest on a drowned person
No. 37 – Allowed to Lewis Mead as a Juror holding a Jury of Inquest on a drowned person
No. 38 – Allowed to Nicholas Shaeffer as a Juror holding a Jury of Inquest on a drowned person
No. 39 – Allowed to Doctor Jabez Percival for medicine and attendance to Francis Davis, a pauper, residue of a Judgment obtained in the Dearborn Circuit Court
No. 40 – Allowed to James Dill, Clerk of the Dearborn Circuit Court, for cost on the suit Percival vs. the Overseers of the Poor of Lawrenceburgh Township
No. 41 – Allowed to Thomas Longley, Sheriff of Dearborn County, for costs in the suit Percival vs. the Overseers of the Poor of Lawrenceburgh Township
No. 42 – Allowed to N. E. Howard attorney’s fee in the suit Percival against the overseers of the Poor of Lawrenceburgh Township
No. 43 – Allowed to Henry Bowers as a witness in the above suit
No. 44 – Allowed to Marmaduke Ferris as a witness in the above suit
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No. 45 – Allowed to Ezra Ferris as a witness in the suit Percival against the overseers of the poor of Lawrenceburg Township
No. 46 – Allowed to David Fisher as a witness in the above suit
No. 47 – Allowed to Mrs. Davis as a witness in the above suit
No. 48 – Allowed to John S. Percival as a witness in the above suit
No. 49 – Allowed to Omar Toussey as a witness in the above suit
No. 50 – Allowed to Amos Lane as a witness in the above suit
No. 51 – Allowed to John Lawrence as a witness in the above suit
No. 52 – Allowed to William Conaway for keeping Abraham Peters, a pauper
No. 53 – Allowed to James Dill for extra services as clerk of the Dearborn Circuit Court and Clerk of this court
John Myers – license to keep a tavern at his house in Wilmington
Jonathan Shepherd – license to keep a tavern at his present tenement in Lawrenceburg
Buell and Dunn – license to retail foreign merchandise at their store in Lawrenceburg
Daniel Plummer, David Bowers, and John Porter – appointed commissioners to superintend the erection of the public buildings to be erected in Lawrenceburg, the seat of Justice of Dearborn County according to act of State of Indiana entitled “An act providing for the relocation of the seat of Justice in the county of Dearborn – passed and approved January 26th 1827”
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No. 54 – Allowed to James Dill for cash paid to John Thompson, Thomas Hendricks, Benjamin Ferguson and David Hoover the commissioners who relocated the seat of Justice of Dearborn County in March 1827
No. 54 [sic] – Allowed to John Steele for his services in listing or assessing Taxable property in Randolph Township in 1827
No. 55 – Allowed to David Walser for his services in listing or assessing Taxable property in Laughery Township
No. 56 – Allowed to Joseph Wood for his services in listing or assessing Taxable property in Union Township
No. 57 – Allowed to John Dashiell for his services in listing or assessing Taxable property in Sparta Township
No. 58 – Allowed to James W. Hunter for his services in listing or assessing Taxable property in Lawrenceburg Township,
No. 59 – Allowed to Mark McCracken for his services in listing or assessing Taxable property in Manchester Township, $16.00
No. 60 – Allowed to John Godley for his services in listing or assessing Taxable property in Logan Township, $12.00
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No. 61 – Allowed to Isaac Colwell for his services in listing or assessing Taxable property in Kelso Township, $10.00
No. 62 Allowed to Archibald McCabe for his services in listing or assessing Taxable property in Cesars Creek Township, $12.00
Henry W. Hampton – license to keep tavern at Rising Sun
L. Ballman & B. Rush – license to keep a tavern
Order appointing commissioners to superintend the building of a Court House in Lawrenceburg postponed
No. 63 – Allowed to Gregg & Culley for printing done for the use of the county, $10.50
Record of the state road leading from Lawrenceburg to Brookville as laid out by John Gray, John Dawson, and Isaac Calwell, commissioners. Appointed Henry McKenzie, surveyor; Joseph Hart and Isaac Southard, chain carriers
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Jurors selected for two succeeding terms of Dearborn Circuit Court.
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Davis Weaver – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment at his house in Hartford
Samuel S. Scott – license to keep a tavern at Rising Sun
No. 64 – Allowed to David Guard for his services in viewing a state road from Lawrenceburg to Brookville
James Watson – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment
No. 65 – Allowed to William Hamilton for his services as overseer of the poor
Thomas Shaw – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment
No. 66 – Allowed to Amos Lane for his services as attorney in defending three suits for the overseers of the poor of Lawrenceburg Township, $15.00
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Thomas Longley, Esquire, Sheriff of Dearborn County – relinquishes or declines serving as collector of state and county taxes for 1827
Jesse Hunt, James W. Hunter and George H. Dunn, appointed commissioners to superintend the erection of the Court House or public buildings to be erected in Lawrenceburg
John Spencer – appointed to be collector of state and county taxes for Dearborn County for 1827. John Dawson and Ezekiel Jackson, his securities.
Treasurer be authorized to receive from David Askew a proportionable part of his Tavern license
Treasurer be authorized to receive from Daniel Hankins a proportionate part of his store license
Ordered that 1000 county orders be printed for the use of the county board of supervisors.
No. 67 – Allowed to John Spencer for Books and Stationery furnished for the board of commissioners appointed to perpetuate testimony and his expenses in procuring the same
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List of Ferry Taxes
James Danagh – tavern license to keep a public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors
Treasurer’s report