Dearborn County Commissioners – Nov 1834 Session

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the November 1834 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 1

November Session 1834

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Present:

  • George Arnold
  • Charles Dashiell
  • William Conaway

William Conaway elected president of board.

A & R Wilber & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Hartford

Samuel Coles – license to retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Wilmington

No. 1 – Allowed to Prudence Trion for boarding and keeping Huldah and Mary Fairfield, paupers

No. 2 – Allowed to Lewis Trion for boarding and keeping Sarah Fairfield, a pauper

T. J. Taylor and brother – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise at their store in Wilmington

 

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No. 3 – Allowed to Simon Alexander for boarding and keeping, nursing Ann Gay, a pauper

No. 4 – Allowed to Betsey Burroughs for boarding and keeping Frances McBride, a pauper

George W. Cable – license to keep a tavern or public house in New Lawrenceburg and retail spirituous liquors at his tavern stand

No. 5 – Allowed to Nathaniel L. Squibb for services as surveyor and making report of an amendment of a part of the state road from Madison to Lawrenceburg

Isaac Lathrop – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise at his store in New Lawrenceburg

No. 6 – Allowed to Nathaniel L. Squibb for services as surveyor and making a report of a state road from Rising Sun to Lawrenceburg

 

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No. 7 – Allowed to Samuel Jelley as commissioner for viewing stat road from Rising Sun to Cross Plains

No. 8 – Allowed to George Richmond for services as commissioner for viewing state road from Rising Sun to Cross Plains

No. 9 – Allowed to Nathaniel L. Squibb, surveyor of the aforesaid road and making plot of same

No. 10 – Allowed to William Dolson for services as chain carrier laying out state road from Rising Sun to Cross Plains

No. 11 – Allowed to Robert Clark for services on state road from Rising Sun to Cross Plains

No. 12 – Allowed to Oren B. Crandall for 3 days on state road from Rising Sun to Cross Plains

No. 13 – Allowed to Elijah Grimes as chain carrier on state road from Rising Sun to Cross Plains

No. 14 – Allowed to Eli Clark as chain carrier on state road from Rising Sun to Cross Plains

No. 15 – Allowed to Alva Mead for keeping and boarding Elismer Gay, a pauper

 

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William Tibbets – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Manchester Township

Litte W. Johnson – license to retail foreign merchandise at his store in Lawrenceburg

No. 16 – Allowed to Samuel Kincaid for keeping and boarding Sarah Sullivan, a pauper

No. 17 – Allowed to Mary Muir for boarding and keeping Rebecca Crusenberry, a pauper

Ordered to be remitted to George Weaver overcharge for poll tax for 1834.

Ordered to be remitted to Christopher Jaquith overcharge for poll tax for 1834.

No. 18 – Allowed to J. Tennis for medicine and attendance on Sarah Fairfield, a pauper

Ordered to be remitted to Eli Jarred overcharge for poll tax 1834.

No. 19 – Allowed to John Dawson for services as commissioner on state road

No. 20 – Allowed to Milton Gregg for services as commissioner on state road

 

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No. 21 – Allowed to Daniel Plummer for services as commissioner on state road

No. 22 – Allowed to Robert Rowe, Jr., as surveyor on state road and making report

No. 23 – Allowed to Jonathan Blasdell, chain carrier, laying out state road

No. 24 – Allowed to James Frazier, chain carrier on state road

No. 25 – Allowed to Hiram Jackson as marker on state road

No. 26 – Allowed to Henry Huffman, a pauper

No. 27 – Allowed to James Daugherty for boarding and keeping Abraham Peters, a pauper

No. 28 – Allowed to James McCay for keeping and boarding McGuire, a pauper

No. 29 – Allowed to John S. Percival for attendance and medicine furnished Thomas Jones

No. 30 – Allowed to John D. Crontz to ironing prisoners

Ordered to be remitted to the following persons as overcharges for land tax:

  • Peter Teabow
  • Enoch W. Jackson
  • William Jessup
  • Jehue Goodwin
  • Walter Hayes
  • George Conner

 

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Cyrus Mills, commissioner, account for state road from Napoleon to Lawrenceburg. Names in account: John P. Dunn, E. Conger, A. H. Dill, John Jackson, Amos Morris, Jr.

 

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Ordered to be remitted to Jones McLister overcharge on horses.

Wm. T. Ferris & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Hartford

No. 31 – Allowed to Norman West for boarding and keeping John Wade, a transient pauper

Application of George P. Buell for an alteration in the state road leading from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis. Daniel Plummer, Jonathan Blasdel, Joseph Hayes, commissioners make report. Road commencing at Lemuel G. Elder’s, thence with line dividing lands of the heirs of Dele Elder, deceased, Ulysses Cooke and Duncan Carmichael. Road to go through George P. Buell’s farm, Dele Elder’s heirs, U. Cook, George P. Buell. Road ordered opened.

 

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[Continued.]

 

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No. 32 – Allowed to Litte W. Johnson for 9 lights and glazing windows at court house

No. 33 – Allowed to Robert Rowe, Jr., for surveying and making report of a state road

No. 34 – Allowed to Isaac Morris for marking state road

No. 35 – Allowed to Amos Morris for carrying chain in surveying state road

No. 36 – Allowed to Thomas W. Summan as commissioner laying state road

No. 37 – Allowed to Ebenezer Rowe, carrying chain in surveying state road

No. 38 – Allowed to Mark McCracken as commissioner laying state road

Anthony Frederick – license to retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Jackson Township

 

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Jacob Storms – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Logan Township

John Bledsoe – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his house or grocery in Logan Township

Benjamin Morgan – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Logan Township

William Cullen – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Rising Sun

Samuel Custis – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Manchester

No. 39 – Allowed to William Cook for boarding and keeping prisoners

Application of Mr. E. Israel, trustee for Elizabeth Israel, by his attorney William Israel, who is the owner of the land on both sides of Hogan Creek  for ferry across creek and also for ferry over Ohio River at mouth of Hogan Creek. Granted. Jesse L. Holman, security.

 

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No. 40 – Allowed to William Dils for 1 lock furnished the court house and putting on

No. 41 – Allowed to John Saltmarsh for making 11 complaints directed to the overseers of the poor of Lawrenceburg

No. 42 – Allowed to John S. Percival for medicine and attendance to John Waid, a pauper

No. 43 – Allowed to Elias Conklin for services digging grave &c., for John Waid, a pauper

Ordered remitted to George Rable overcharge in land tax.

No. 44 – Allowed to Micah Garey for boarding and keeping George Reno and wife

No. 45 – Allowed to Ephraim Hollister for coffins for paupers

 

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No. 46 – Allowed to Joseph Kitchell for digging grave for a pauper

No. 47 – Allowed to Richard Orchard for boarding and keeping Mary Orchard, a pauper

No. 48 – Allowed to Frances Welch for boarding and keeping and sundries furnished John Wade, a pauper

Ordered remitted to Andrew Morgan overcharge in county tax for silver watch.

Ordered remitted to Elizabeth St. Clair overcharge in county tax.

No. 49 – Allowed to Thomas Noble, a man of color, for boarding and keeping Rachel Powell, a pauper

David Gerard – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his house in Harrison

John Peeckman – license to retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Kelso Township

No. 50 – Allowed to Thomas Howard as trustee of school section No. 16, Township 3, Range 1 west

 

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Ordered that State Road from Rising Sun to Cross Plains in Ripley County as laid out by Samuel Jelly, George Richmond, and N. L. Squibb be opened.

No. 51 – Allowed to Isaac Townsend for boarding and keeping Elismer Gay, a pauper

No. 52 – Allowed to Oliver Heustis for 3 days as Commissioner on a state road

No 53 – Allowed to James Walker, School Commissioner, for appointing trustees

Resignation of James Walker, School Commissioner.

 

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Henry Walker appointed School Commissioner

Ordered remitted to James S. Thompson overcharge on one silver watch

Ordered remitted to John Palmer overcharge for 70 acres land

Thomas Slack – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his house in Kelso Township

John Palmer – license to vend foreign merchandise at his house in Manchester Township

Elijah Thatcher – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Laughery Township

Jefferson Rittenhouse – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Harrison

 

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No. 55 – Allowed to William Dils, late Sheriff, for extra service

Robert Haddock – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his house in Miller Township

No. 56 – Allowed to President and Select Council of Lawrenceburg for use of the President and Directors of the Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Indiana against Dearborn County

No. 57 – Allowed to Edward Patten, Clerk, for costs of a suit the corporation of Lawrenceburg for the use of the President and Directors of the Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Indiana against Dearborn County

No. 58 – Allowed to William Dils, Sheriff, for costs of a suit the corporation of Lawrenceburg for the use of the Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Indiana

Allowances for witnesses in the suit of Corporation of Lawrenceburg for the use of the Bank of Indiana against Dearborn County:

  • No. 59 – Allowed to John Porter as witness
  • No. 60 – Allowed to James Dill as witness
  • No. 61 – Allowed to John Weaver as witness
  • No. 62 – Allowed to Mark McCracken as witness
  • No. 63 – Allowed to John Barricklow as witness
  • No. 64 – Allowed to Walter Armstrong as witness
  • No. 65 – Allowed to Jesse Hunt as witness
  • No. 66 – Allowed to George H. Dunn as witness

 

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No. 67 – Allowed to Switzerland County for jury fees in aforesaid suit

No. 68 – Allowed to the attorney prosecuting the aforesaid suit

No. 69 – Allowed to Charles Spooner as witness

No. 70 – Allowed to John Gray as witness

No. 71 – Allowed to John Spencer as late Sheriff for costs in the aforesaid suit

Allowances to Grand Jurors, Sep Term 1834:

  • No. 72 – Jacob W. Eggleston
  • No. 73 – Nathan Melburn
  • No. 74 – William Lanius
  • No. 75 – Leonard Spicknall
  • No. 76 – Daniel Taylor
  • No. 77 – William Patterson
  • No. 78 – John Colden
  • No. 79 – Sewell Plumer
  • No. 80 – Joseph Adams
  • No. 81 – Abijah Chamberlin
  • No. 82 – William S. Ward
  • No. 83 – Henry McKinzie
  • No. 84 – Asa Jaquith
  • No. 85 – John Maxwell
  • No. 86 – Joel Antrim

 

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Allowances to Petit Jurors, Sep Term 1834:

  • No. 87 – Samuel Coles
  • No. 88 – William U. Loyd
  • No. 89 – George W. Ward
  • No. 90 – James Hillhouse
  • No. 91 – Richard Hughes
  • No. 92 – James Jones
  • No. 93 – Russel Coman
  • No. 94 – Richard Arnold
  • No. 95 – Samuel Saltmarsh
  • No. 96 – Adam Flake
  • No. 97 – Thomas Jones
  • No. 98 – John Daugherty
  • No. 99 – Tavner Cheek
  • No. 100 – James Patterson
  • No. 101 – Enoch W. Jackson
  • No. 102 – Samuel Elliott
  • No. 103 – James Walker
  • No. 104 – James Lawrence
  • No. 105 – William Griffith
  • No. 106 – Abraham Roland
  • No. 107 – Jacob Brasher
  • No. 108 – Milton Gregg
  • No. 109 – John Bottz
  • No. 110 – John Davidson
  • No. 111 – John Weathers
  • No. 112 – Patterson
  • No. 113 – Salmon B. Warren
  • No. 114 – John Fuller
  • No. 115 – Anderson F. Gage
  • No. 116 – John Palmer
  • No. 117 – Benjn Sellers
  • No. 118 – William Freeman
  • No. 119 – Eleazer Small
  • No. 120 – Asa Shattuck
  • No. 121 – Amos Morris
  • No. 122 – Thomas K. Coles
  • No. 123 – James Cloud
  • No. 124 – J. R. Nelson
  • No. 125 – Richard Abbott
  • No. 126 – Alanson Hunter
  • No. 127 – Jacob Barnhart
  • No. 128 – John Ewbank
  • No. 129 – Alfred J. Cotten
  • No. 130 – William Cheesman
  • No. 131 – Dennis Riley
  • No. 132 – John Daniel
  • No. 133 – John Ules
  • No. 134 – John Gullett

 

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Ordered State Road from Ohio state line at road leading from Cincinnati through Elizabethtown to intersect the Indianapolis state road near Charles W. Wright’s in Manchester Township as laid out by Milton Gregg, John Dawson and Daniel Plummer opened.

Ordered that the clerk take bond of Henry Walker for the faithful performance of his trust as School Commissioner. Benjamin Walker, Robert Wilber, James Walker, Daniel Conaway, Peter Allen, Thomas K. Cole, Stephen Wood and William Hancock, securities.

 

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No. 135 – Allowed to Mary Muir for boarding and keeping Rebecca Croosenberry, a pauper

No. 136 – Allowed to Thomas Porter for office rent and recording deeds

No. 137 – Allowed to John Weaver, sheriff, for wood and sundries furnished the Circuit Court, Sep 1834

No. 138 – Allowed to James Thompson 7 days as constable, Sep Term 1834

No. 139 – Allowed to William Tucker for 3 days as constable, Sep Term 1834

No. 140 – Allowed to Tudor Lucas for 1 day as constable, Sep Term 1834

No. 141 – Allowed to Lemuel G. Elder for 7 days as constable, Sep Term 1834

No. 142 – Allowed to John Weaver, sheriff, for extra services

 

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No. 143 – Allowed to James Dill for extra services as clerk

No. 144 – Allowed to Alexander H. Dill for rent of clerk’s office

Ordered remitted to James W. Hunter for overcharge on town lot

No. 145 – Allowed to Daniel Kelso for defending Thomas Jones, a pauper criminal

Ordered remitted to Jesse Hunt overcharge on pleasure carriage

Ordered remitted to Amos Lane overcharge on 2 wheeled carriage

No. 146 – Allowed to John McPike for printing advertisements relative to collector

No. 147 – Allowed to Isaac Dunn for 8 days service as Judge of Circuit Court

No. 148 – Allowed to Isaac Dunn for 3 days service attending associate Judge to make orders of publication in the case of Hamblin vs. Hamblin, Harper vs. Harper and Harwood vs. Cochran

No. 149 – Allowed to John McPike for 8 days service as associate judge

 

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No. 150 – Allowed to John McPike for 4 days service as associate judge attending to a writ of habeas corpus in the case of W. McClean, 1 day ordering publication in the case of Hamblin vs. Hamblin, Harper vs. Harper, and Harwood vs. Harwood

No. 151 – Allowed to David V. Culley for printing advertisement relative to county collectors

No. 152 – Allowed to Caleb R. West for paper furnished the clerk’s office

No. 153 – Allowed to Catharine Vaneleaf for boarding and keeping Mary Hire, a pauper

No. 154 – Allowed to John Callahan for viewing and laying state road from Rising Sun to Lawrenceburg as commissioner and returning report

No. 155 – Allowed to John J. French for 3 days as commissioner viewing and laying state road from Rising Sun to Lawrenceburg

Ordered remitted to Ezekiel Jackson overcharge on his land tax

No. 156 – Allowed to Adeline Collins, a pauper for temporary relief

No. 157 – Allowed to Joel Decoursey for 3 days as commissioner viewing and laying state road from Rising Sun to Lawrenceburg

 

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Ordered remitted to John Snyder overcharge for poll tax

Ordered remitted to Benjamin Hootan overcharge for 2 horses

No. 158 – Allowed to Ralph Durbin, chain carrier on the road from Lawrenceburg to Rising Sun

No. 159 – Allowed to William Sarritt, chain carrier on the road from Rising Sun to Lawrenceburg

No. 160 – Allowed to John S. Percival, coroner, for holding jury of inquest on the body of a drowned man

No. 161 – Zachariah Bedford, Juror on above Inquest

No. 162 – N. West, Juror on above Inquest

No. 163 – John Hood, Juror on above Inquest

No. 164 – Horace Whitney, Juror on above Inquest

No. 165 – John Gattenby, Juror on above Inquest

No. 166 – Geo. W. Ward, Juror on above Inquest

No. 167 – John Bruce, Juror on above Inquest

No. 168 – Jabez Whipple, Juror on above Inquest

No. 169 – This. Bags, Juror on above Inquest

No. 170 – A. R. Runnion, Juror on above Inquest

No. 171 – Joseph Norris, Juror on above Inquest

No. 172 – Wm. Whipple, Juror on above Inquest

No. 173 – Charles Vattier, ferrying Jurymen

No. 174 – Wm. Wheeler giving information of the above drowning

No. 175 – Norman West and Jabez Whipple, digging grave for drowned man

No. 176 – James Moffat, making coffin for drowned man

Luther Plummer – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise at his store in Manchester

No. 177 – Allowed to Abraham Perdun for keeping and boarding and burying John Thompson, a pauper

 

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No. 178 – Allowed to John Perdun, making coffin for John Thompson, a pauper

No. 179 – Allowed to Richard Orchard for guarding the jail 1833

Abraham B. Adams – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in New Lawrenceburg

No. 180 – Allowed to William Cook for guarding the jail 1833

No. 181 – Allowed to Dr. Jabez Percival for medicine and attendance to John Wade, a pauper

Petition of Thomas Horsley and various freeholders of Laughery Township that late location of state road from Lawrenceburg to Rising Sun passes through his farm and will be greatly injurious and ruinous to his farm. Isaiah Hayes, Joseph Trester, and Henry Walker appointed commissioners to view and report on road alteration.

 

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Ordered remitted to William & Butten overcharge tax on 160 acres in Sparta Township

Remonstrance of Andrew Morgan, John Billingsley, Samuel Fulton, A. Moore and James Billingsley, freeholders of Randolph Township against the location of the state road as laid out by John Callahan, John J. French and Joel Decoursey through part of Randolph Township it commences at the upper line of John J. French’s land, will be injurious to public interests.Isaiah Hayes, Joseph Trester and Henry Walker appointed commissioners to view alteration.

Duffy and Davidson – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at their shop in Lawrenceburg

 

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Thomas Porter, Recorder, having now resigned, the Board appoints Asa Smith to be recorder. Asa Smith, security.

Application of Elijah Horsley, owner of inlots in Decatur. Establish a public ferry across the Ohio River. Harris Fitch, security.

No. 182 – Allowed to Jeremiah Sullivan attorney prosecuting a suit for the county against Russell Coman and others in Dearborn Circuit Court

No. 183 – Allowed to Amos Lane, attorney prosecuting two suits for the county

No. 184 – Allowed to William Conaway for his services as commissioner

No. 185 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for his services as commissioner

 

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No. 186 – Allowed to George Arnold for his services as commissioner

Jeremiah Sullivan appointed attorney in the defense of the Board of County Commissioners in all suits, especially an action by William Allen in Dearborn Circuit Court

No. 187 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for 2 days service as commissioner at Sep Session for attending

 

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No. 188 – Allowed to George Arnold for his services as commissioner 1 day levying county tax

No. 189 – Allowed to William Conaway for 1 day as commissioner levying taxes

No. 190 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for 1 day as commissioner levying county tax

John S. Percival, coroner, rendered an account of sundry clothing found on drowned man and sold by him.

David Guard & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Lawrenceburg

County expose postponed to January.

 

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No. 191 – Allowed to William Conaway for services as commissioner

No. 192 – Allowed to George Arnold for services as commissioner

No. 193 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for services as commissioner

Board adjourned.

Henry McKenzie filed treasurer’s receipt and obtained permit for a grocery.