Dearborn County Commissioners – Oct 1839

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the October 1839 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 2

October Session 1839

Page 463

Present:

  • Charles Dashiell
  • David Walser

Benjamin C. Eversole – license to vend spirituous liquors at grocery in Sparta Township

D. Blackamore Jr. – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries in Hartford

Ordered state road leading from Rising Sun to Versailles be opened 40 feet. Review made by William Patterson and Nathaniel L. Squibb.

No. 1 – Allowed to M. H. Harding for attendance and medicines for paupers at asylum

No. 2 – Allowed to John S. Burke for boarding Penelope Gattonby, a pauper

Wood & Kittle – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store

 

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George N. Hornburger – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors in Lawrenceburg

Ordered Directors of Asylum erect a building.

George Voglesang – license to keep a tavern and retail liquor

No. 3 – Allowed to John Candall for repairing fences on county land at asylum

No. 4 – Allowed to John Candale for keeping paupers

No. 5 – Allowed to John Candale for sundries for the benefit of paupers at asylum

 

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Commissioners appointed to assess damage on Aurora and Dillsboro Road by Zachariah Barker and others are appointed to assess damage sustained by John Gullet, Benjamin Tufts, Zachariah Barker, George W. Cochran, and Isaac Moorehead.

Wrixham West – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise and groceries

John Wymond – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise and groceries

Elijah S. Elder – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise and groceries

William W. Jordan – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise and groceries

No. 6 – Allowed to William Dils for materials furnished for jail and expenses &c.

 

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No. 7 – Allowed to Noyes Canfield for wood for Court House and chopping same

No. 8 – Allowed to Thomas H. Milburn for lining jail

Henry Walker, School Commissioner, filed report. Bills of A. E. Glenn, Wm. P. Stratton.

No. 9 – Allowed to Samuel Fips for keeping Jane Poe, a pauper

Charles Deshiell appointed to employ a physician to attend paupers at asylum

No. 10 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for record for Circuit Court, 2 reams paper, pasteboard, and paper case for court house

Josiah Chambers – license granted

 

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No. 11 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for signing county orders and as Commissioner

No. 12 – Allowed to David Walser as Commissioner

No. 13 – Allowed to Aaron B. Henry as Commissioner

William G. Monroe, Treasurer, makes report.

 

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No. 14 – Allowed to Jehue Goodwin for service as overseer of poor

No. 15 – Allowed to John Levingson for service as associate judge

No. 16 – Allowed to A. J. Cotten for service as associate judge

Board adjourned.