The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the October 1840 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.
Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 3
October Session 1840
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Present:
- Charles Dashiell
- David Walser
No. 1 – Allowed to William Morgan, coroner, for four inquisitions
No. 2 – Allowed to John Brewington for summoning Jury by order of Wm. Morgan, coroner
No. 3 – Allowed to George P. Lowe for services rendered notifying friends of Dodd who was found dead in jail
No. 4 – Allowed to James C. Hinman for making coffin for child found in the Ohio River
No. 5 – Allowed to Thomas Palmer for record and paper, passage to and from Cincinnati, writing table
No. 6 – Allowed to Hiram Crowl for service as Juror at April Term 1840
L. B. Lewis – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store in Lawrenceburg
William L. Ward, county commissioner, took his seat.
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No. 7 – Allowed to Randall Frazier for making a coffin for Dodd, who hung himself in the county jail
John J. French and John Stewart make oath that new way laid out by William Patterson and Nathaniel L. Squibb of State Road from Rising Sun to Versailles, Ripley County is made convenient for travellers. Ordered old state road vacated.
John Stewart – license to vend merchandise and groceries at his store in Hartford
William Winkley – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Aurora
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Horton & Morgan – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in New Lawrenceburg
Timothy Kimball makes final settlement for building of jail.
No. 9 – Allowed to Timothy Kimball for part of above
No. 10 – Allowed to Timothy Kimball for balance due on settlement for building jail
No. 11 – Allowed to Holman Cannon for keeping paupers at the asylum
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No. 12 – Allowed to Nathaniel L. Squibb for reviewing, surveying, making report and returning same on the road from Lawrenceburg to Madison by Vevay and Rising Sun
No. 13 – Allowed to John J. French for services as commissioner on above named road
No. 14 – Allowed to Martin Stewart for services as commissioner on the above named road
Board examined law and report on State Road from Rising Sun to Versailles, Ripley County by Cornelius Miller and Elijah Lindsay, commissioners. Ordered report void. John J. French and John Stewart makes oath on new way laid out by William Patterson and Nathaniel L. Squibb. Old road ordered vacated.
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Nathaniel L. Squibb, Martin Stewart and John J. French, commissioners to view change in state road from Lawrenceburg to Madison via Rising Sun and Vevay, make report. John W. Hall, Justice of the Peace.
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Ebenezer Dumont, Treasurer, made report.
No. 15 – Allowed to William Patterson for overcharge in taxes for 1840
No. 16 – Allowed to Isaac Cannon for setting 36 lights of glass in the Court House
No. 17 – Allowed to Joseph Boon for keeping Dodd and Marshall, jail fees over shirt for prisoner
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No. 18 – Allowed to Charles Patten for irons for prisoners in Lawrenceburg Jail
Hoover & Stopher – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store in Rising Sun
Hoover & Stopher – license to keep a grocery and retail spirituous liquors at store in Rising Sun
Matter of new township prayed for by Samuel McMath and others. Continued.
No. 19 – Allowed to Daniel R. Edwards for license furnished the jailor for the comfort of prisoners
No. 20 – Allowed to James C. Cordy for articles furnished jailor
No. 21 – Allowed to Reuben Rogers for articles furnished jailor
No. 22 – Allowed to James D. Lindsay for services rendered in bringing Hoover from Lawrenceburg, prisoners from Lawrenceburg Jail to the Jail in Wilmington and other articles
No. 23 – Allowed to Justus R. Armes for keeping Henry Bennet’s wife, a pauper
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No. 24 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for books and paper for clerk’s office
James Conaway – license to vend spirituous liquors at house in Guionville
Blackmore – license to vend merchandise and groceries at Hartford
No. 25 – Allowed to William H. Glasgow for keeping prisoners and making beds &c.
Benjamin Vail – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Wilmington
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No. 26 – Allowed to Thomas Baker for wood furnished the Court House
No. 27 – Allowed to Benjamin Vail for writing paper for clerk’s office
Daniel J. Hancock and Isaac Hancock to build a toll bridge across South Hogan Creek. Approved.
George W. Lane appointed commissioner of three percent fund. Filed bond with Amos Lane, John Shoemake and Richard H. Holman, as securities.
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County receipts and expenditures for 1839.
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No. 28 – Allowed to David Walser as commissioner
No. 29 – Allowed to William S. Ward as commissioner
No. 30 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell as commissioner
Board adjourned.