Dearborn County Commissioners – Sep 1833 Session

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the September 1833 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 1

September Session 1833

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Present:

  • William Conaway
  • Charles Dashiell, elected in the room of Mark McCracken, 2nd District

William Conaway elected president pro tem.

No. 1 – Allowed to Merritt Hubble, Commissioner, for laying out a state road

No. 2 – Allowed to John Whitehead, Commissioner, for laying out above road

No. 3 – Allowed to George Waldrof, Commissioner, for laying out the above road

No. 4 – Allowed to Solomon Allen for surveying and making return of above road

No. 5 – Allowed to Jeremiah Crosby as chain carrier on above road

No. 6 – Allowed to Joshua Riely as chain carrier on the above road

 

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Merrit Hubble – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors

Albert Dils – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries at his shop in Lawrenceburg

Cyrus Mills, commissioner of state road leading from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis, filed bond.

Little W. Johnson – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise

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

No. 7 – Allowed to Dr. M. H. Harding for medicine and attendance to Ann Gay, a pauper

No. 8 – Allowed to Richard Orchard for keeping Mary Orchard, a pauper

No. 9 – Allowed to Mary Muir for keeping and boarding Rebecca Coosenberry, a pauper

 

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No. 10 – Allowed to James Vansickle for boarding and keeping Mary Ann McBride, a pauper

No. 11 – Allowed to John S. Percival, coroner, for holding an inquest on the body of a drowned man unknown

No. 12 – Allowed to Jabez Percival, Juror on the above Inquest

No. 13 – Asa Shattuck, Juror on the above Inquest

No. 14 – John Langley, Juror on the above Inquest

No. 15 – Joseph Boone, Juror on the above Inquest

No. 16 – Ira Wright, Juror on the above Inquest

No. 17 – Elias Conklin, Juror on the above Inquest

No. 18 – Edward Fairchild, Juror on the above Inquest

No. 19 – John Cothers, Juror on the above Inquest

No. 20 – Titus Beckworth, Juror on the above Inquest

No. 21 – A. R. Runion, Juror on the above Inquest

No. 22 – Hiram Wright, Juror on the above Inquest

No. 23 – Jabez Whipple, Juror on the above Inquest

No. 24 – Elijah H. Sparks for informing coroner and as a witness on the above inquest

No. 25 – Allowed to Thomas Horsley for digging grave and burying corpse

No. 26 – Allowed to William P. Richardson for his support

 

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Albert G. Sanders – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his grocery in Lawrenceburg

Treasurer’s report.

Levi North – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his grocery in Randolph Township

John M. Barker – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his grocery store in Rising Sun

 

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J. M. Allen and Eggleston – license to vend and retail foreign and domestic merchandise at their store in Cesars Creek Township

No. 27 – Allowed to Laban Bramble for killing a wolf under 6 months

Caleb A. Craft, commissioner for building a bridge over Arnold’s Creek, filed bond.

No. 28 – Allowed to Ezra Ferris for medicine and attendance to William P. Richardson and John Fancher, two paupers

No. 29 – Allowed to Spencer West for keeping and supporting Alenath Steele, an infant pauper

James Thompson and David Shane file allowance for detecting and bringing from Louisville, Truman Hubble, a horse thief. Rejected.

 

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Decoursey & Richardson – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise at their store in Rising Sun

Edward S. Bush – license to retail and vend foreign merchandise

James Lawrence – license to keep a grocery and vend and retail foreign groceries and liquors at his grocery in Jackson Township

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

 

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

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

W. W. Jordan – license to retail and vend foreign merchandise at his store in Manchester Township

No. 30 – Allowed to Isaac Dunn for his services as associate Judge March Term 1833

No. 31 – Allowed to John McPike, associate Judge

Isaac Reed filed account claiming for services for capturing a horse thief. Rejected.

Daniel Roberts presents claim for burning and making 100,000 bricks for asylum for the poor. Third payment refused as contract not fulfilled.

 

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No. 32 – Allowed to John Shook for fixing benches and making sundry other repairs to Court House

James A. Walton, Justice of Peace for Randolph Township, handed in return of an Inquest by him held on the body of Elizabeth Way of Randolph Township, who came to her death by hanging. Claim rejected.

No. 33 – Allowed to Jesse Hunt for repairs made to the jail.

No. 34 – Allowed to William Cooke, Jailor, for boarding sundry prisoners in the jail

 

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Robert Haddock – license to keep a grocery at his house in Lawrenceburg Township

No. 35 – Allowed to James Dill for record book and stationery for clerk’s office

No. 36 – Allowed to Thomas Porter, recorder, for sundry services recording deeds and bonds

No. 37 – Allowed to Mark McCracken for money advanced by him to Daniel Roberts and Zebulon M. Roberts and 6% interest

Ordered that coroner advertise sale of property on the body of Thomas Wilkinson, a drowned man.

No. 38 – Allowed to Ebenezer B. Olmsted for guarding jail

No. 39 – Allowed to William Conaway for three days services as Commissioner

No. 40 – Allowed to Charles Dashiel for three days services as Commissioner

Ordered clerk to procure transcript of state road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis.

 

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Haines & Lanius – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise at their store in Rising Sun

Petition of Ulysses Cooke, Arthur St. Clair Vance, and 24 freeholders for alteration of state road. James Walker, John Dashiell and William Purcell to view and report on alterations.

No. 41 – Allowed to Ulysses Cooke for guarding the jail

William Dils, Sheriff, presents account for guarding the jail, chopping firewood, order to be allowed to Richard Orchard. Rejected.

 

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Zadak West presented account for keeping an infant pauper. Rejected.

Board adjourned.