The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the September 1840 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.
Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 3
September Session 1840
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Present:
- Charles Dashiell
- David Walser
- William L. Ward
Charles Dashiell elected president of board.
Allowed to Grand Jurors at April Term 1840:
- No. 1 – Omer Tousey
- No. 2 – Abijah Chamberlain
- No. 3 – Richard Grubbs
- No. 4 – Stephen Hastings
- No. 5 – Cornelius Vanhorn
- No. 6 – John B. Craft
- No. 7 – Azariah Oldham
- No. 8 – Jonathan Harpham
- No. 9 – Lewis G. Hurlbert
- No. 10 – Lewis D. Morgan
- No. 11 – Willson Dorman
- No. 12 – James M. Darragh
- No. 13 – Elias Abbott
- No. 14 – Newton M. Canfield
- No. 15 – Isaac Morris
- No. 16 – Thomas Darling
- No. 17 – George Wooley
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Allowed to Petit Jurors at April Term 1840:
- No. 18 – John W. Hall
- No. 19 – Shadrach Hathway
- No. 20 – Levi Boyd
- No. 21 – Anderson F. Gage
- No. 22 – Elial Chalfant
- No. 23 – Wesley Harrison
- No. 24 – Stephen Buffington
- No. 25 – Hugh Noyes
- No. 26 – Cyrus Mills
- No. 27 – Abram Ferris
- No. 28 – Benjamin Tufts
- No. 29 – William P. Durbin
- No. 30 – Albert G. Dils
- No. 31 – Richard N. Spicknail
- No. 32 – George Cornelius
- No. 33 – William Tate
- No. 34 – John Saltmarsh
- No. 35 – Wm. S. Ferris
- No. 36 – Mahlon Miller
- No. 37 – Charles Stevens
- No. 38 – Elias Williamson
- No. 39 – William Canfield
- No. 40 – Robert Hewitt
- No. 41 – William Jackson
- No. 42 – Jacob Larew
- No. 43 – Aaron Foulk
- No. 44 – Thomas Spicknall
- No. 45 – William Morehead
- No. 46 – Danl Grant
- No. 47 – John B. Clark
- No. 48 – John M. Pattrick
- No. 49 – Stephen Stites
- No. 50 – Jorden Abbott
- No. 51 – Thomas Stevenson
- No. 52 – Daniel Conaway
- No. 54 [sic] – Benjamin Ewbank
- No. 55 – john D. Daniel
- No. 56 – Norral Sparks
- No. 57 – Harris Fitch
- No. 58 – Martin Arnold
- No. 59 – Thos. J. Taylor
- No. 60 – David McKittrick
- No. 61 – Lavin B. Lewis
- No. 62 – James A. Walton
- No. 63 – Cornelius Miller
- No. 64 – Sampson Davis
- No. 65 – Ezekiel Jackson
- No. 66 – David Fitzgerald
- No. 67 – Mack Cheek
- No. 68 – Alfred B. Ball
- No. 69 – Cyrus Canfield
- No. 70 – Elijah Elder
- No. 71 – Riley Elliott
- No. 72 – George B. Dennis
- No. 73 – Cornelius Miller
- No. 74 – Charles W. Wright
- No. 75 – Joseph Hunter
- No. 53 [missed] – Samuel McMullen
- No. 76 – Elias Chisman
- No. 77 – Jeremiah H. Smith
- No. 78 – Willoughby Tibbs
- No. 79 – John B. Chisman
- No. 80 – Mark McCracken
- No. 81 – Elias Littell
- No. 82 – Thomas Lambertson
- No. 83 – John Durham, Sr.
- No. 84 – David Conger
- No. 85 – John F. Richards
- No. 86 – Daniel Hathway
- No. 87 – Claibourn Allen
- No. 88 – George P. Lowe
- No. 89 – Alexander Fairbanks
- No. 90 – Lewis B. Conger
- No. 91 – Isaac Morris
- No. 92 – Daniel Grant
- No. 93 – B. T. W. S. Anderson
- No. 94 – Amos Morris
- No. 95 – John C. More
- No. 96 – Newton M. Canfield
- No. 97 – Noble Dawson
- No. 98 – Zachariah Conger
- No. 99 – Watson
- No. 100 – Thomas Baker
- No. 101 – Thomas H. Millburn
- No. 102 – Isaac Hancock
- No. 103 – Green Sparks
- No. 104 – Mahlon Hays
- No. 105 – Anderson F. Gage
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Allowed for services rendered for Dearborn Circuit Court at April Term 1840:
- No. 106 – Stephen Green for tending Grand Jury
- No. 107 – Walter Kerr, Bailiff
- No. 108 – Abram B. Adams, Bailiff
- No. 109 – John F. Richards, for summoning witnesses for Grand Jury
- No. 110 – Jesse Riley, for summoning witnesses
- No. 111 – Isaac Mills, for summoning witnesses
- No. 112 – James Harper, for summoning witnesses
- No. 113 – Isaac H. Carbaugh, for summoning witnesses
- No. 114 – Mahlon Powell, for summoning witnesses
- No. 115 – Joseph Hunter for summoning witnesses
- No. 116 – William Dils for chairs, broom, cleaning court house
No. 117 – Allowed to James Lawrence for assessing Jackson Township
Solomon Samuel – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise and groceries in Kelso Township
John Luby – license to vend foreign merchandise as peddler
No. 118 – Allowed to William Justis for one coffin for Jemima Davison, a pauper
No. 119 – Allowed to Elisha Bowers for services and boarding Jemima Davison
John Tait – license to retail foreign and domestic merchandise and groceries
Warren Tebbs – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors in Harrison
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No. 120 – Allowed to Holman Cannon for keeping paupers at asylum
James & Joseph Miller – license to retail spirituous liquors at house in Randolph Township
Hamilton Conaway – license to retail foreign merchandise and groceries at store in Guionville
No. 121 – Allowed to Daniel Roberts for moving Susan Nation, a transient pauper
No. 122 – Allowed to William Harrison for services as visitor to the asylum
No. 123 – Allowed to Daniel Roberts for services as visitor to the asylum
No. 124 – Allowed to M. H. Harding for medicine and attendance at the asylum
Abijah North and others in Randolph Township petition for alteration to state road Lawrenceburg to Madison by Vevay and Rising Sun commencing at mouth Peter Lostutter’s lane. Road through land of Levi North, Asahel North, Jonathan Howe, James Miller, Joseph Miller and Abijah North, John Wilson, James Morrison. Martin Stewart, John J. French, and Nathaniel S. Squibb appointed commissioners, to meet at office of Joel Decoursey.
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No. 125 – Allowed to J. H. Mendell for 2 coffins for transient paupers
No. 126 – Allowed to R. G. Yonge for digging grave for John Tolls, a transient paupers
No. 127 – Allowed to Harvey J. Still for expenses in burying William McCaskey, a transient pauper
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Isaac and Daniel L. Hancock opened change in State Road from Aurora to Napoleon.
No. 128 – Allowed to Betsy Cox for attendance on Bennett, a pauper
No. 129 – Allowed to James C. Cordy for 2 reams of writing paper for clerk’s office
No. 130 – Allowed to Amaziah Bailey for 3 coffins for drowned men, also for making a coffin for Mrs. Bennet, a pauper
No. 131 – Allowed to T. J. Bailey for summoning 2 Juries of Inquest over dead men for coroner
No. 132 – Allowed to J. J. Bennet for digging grave for drowned man
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No. 133 – Allowed to Philip Smith for digging grave for drowned man
No. 134 – Allowed to J. M. West for burying drowned man
John Hall – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store in York Ridge in Kelso Township
Elisha Bodine – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise and groceries at his store in Logan Township
Luther Plumer, Merit Hubble, and Joseph Johnston, commissioners to assess damages to George P. Buell by State Road from Lawrenceburg to Napoleon, Ripley County. David Conger, Justice of Peace, make report. Abram Ferris and Abraham Roland to pay Buell and residue ordered paid by County. Road marked by George Cornelius and Martin Trester is opened.
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No. 136 [sic] – Allowed to Merit Hubbell for services assessing damages on State Road leading from Lawrenceburg to Napoleon
No. 137 – Allowed to Luther Plumer for services as commissioner in assessing damages on state road leading from Lawrenceburg to Napoleon
No. 138 – Allowed to Joseph Johnston for services as commissioner in assessing damages on state road leading from Lawrenceburg to Napoleon
Ordered Thomas Wilson, a blind person, allowed relief.
Petition of John Billingsley, owner of lots in Hardinsburgh that state road from Lawrenceburg to Elizabeth Town cuts through.
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Cornelius Miller, Elijah Lindsay, and Hugh Noyes, commissioners to view state road leading from Rising Sun to Versailles, Ripley County, files report. Nathaniel L. Squibb to change road. John K. Lewis, Justice of the Peace.
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No. 139 – Allowed to Thomas Wilson for first installment ordered paid to him in former order
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No. 140 – Allowed to Randall Frasher and John P. Rogers for book cases for clerk’s office
No. 141 – Allowed to Isaac Cannon for work and glass furnished and performed for and on book cases in clerk’s office
No. 142 – Allowed to John Ferree for coffin for pauper, for ballot box &c. for Lawrenceburg Township
No. 143 – Allowed to Elias Schooley for making two coffins for paupers at the asylum
James Mills – license to vend and retail foreign and domestic groceries at his shop in Wilmington
Reuben Rogers – license to vend and retail foreign and domestic merchandise and groceries
James Murray – license to vend and retail foreign and domestic merchandise and groceries
John W. Hall – license to vend and retail foreign and domestic merchandise and groceries in Rising Sun
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John Mahoney – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store in Kelso Township
Moses Turner – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store in Rising Sun
No. 144 – Allowed to John Parks for conveying transient pauper to the asylum
No. 145 – Allowed to Ingold Butterfield as Juror Oct Term 1839
No. 146 – Allowed to Isaac Miles as Juror Oct Term
No. 147 – Allowed to Moore & Brooks for articles furnished Davis, a transient pauper
No. 148 – Allowed to Joseph Boone for dieting and attendance prisoners in Lawrenceburg Jail
No. 149 – Allowed to William Brown for making one coffin in July and one in October 1838 for Kizen and Stranger
Rees House & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at their store in Lawrenceburg
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No. 150 – Allowed to Thomas Stevenson for services as overseer of the poor of Clay Township
No. 151 – Allowed to Isaac Gibson for services as overseer of the poor for Clay Township
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Treasurer produced certificates for associate judges.
No. 152 – Allowed to Dunn & Ferris for overcharge in store license
Wm. T. Ferris – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries
L. Hudson – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries in New Lawrenceburg
No. 153 – Allowed to William Dils for extra service, bringing from Lawrenceburg to Wilmington a writ of habeas corpus
No. 154 – Allowed to Amos Lane for attending case of bastardy before Justice and Circuit Court as certified by overseers of the poor of Lawrenceburg Township
Ephraim Glasgow – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store in Wilmington
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Henry Schue – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at house in Kelso Township
No. 155 – Allowed to Stephen Merrick for temporary relief to be under the control fo Benjamin Sylvester
No. 156 – Allowed to Dr. George Sutton for attendance and medicine furnished Wells, a transient pauper
No. 157 – Allowed to David Fisher for boarding &c. four prisoners, Caton, Hall, Havlus and Brown
Stephen Wood – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at house in Wilmington
No. 158 – Allowed to George Cornelius for service as commissioner in viewing and relocating a part of State Road leading from Lawrenceburg to Napoleon
No. 159 – Allowed to Martin Trester for service as Commissioner in viewing and relocating a part of state road leading from Lawrenceburg to Napoleon
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No. 160 – Allowed to Nathaniel L. Squibb for services as surveyor on road leading from Lawrenceburg to Napoleon
Ebenezer Dumont, Treasurer, files report.
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No. 161 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for books, stationery &c. for clerk’s office, for making out duplicates of taxes
No. 162 – Allowed to Sarah White for maintenance of a female pauper child as per order of the overseers of the poor of Centre Township
No. 163 – Allowed to John Wymond for articles furnished Hannel Levi, a transient pauper
No. 164 – Allowed to Lucretia Freeland for keeping Rorston, a pauper
No. 165 – Allowed to Robert Owen for keeping Susan Roston, a pauper
No. 166 – Allowed to Ebenezer Dumont for making out 13 books for enumeration of white male inhabitants above age of twenty years
No. 167 – Allowed to William Miller for repairing jail at Lawrenceburg
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Jefferson Rittenhouse – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries
Josiah Chambers – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries
James Lawrence – license to keep a grocery and retail spirituous liquors in Jackson Township
No. 168 – Allowed to Henry Walker for overcharge in tax assessed in 1840
No. 169 – Allowed to David Walser for service as commissioner
No. 170 – Allowed to William L. Ward for service as commissioner
No. 171 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for service as commissioner, including signing county orders
Meriman & Herron – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store in Hartford
Isaac and Daniel J. Hancock, applicants for charter of the South Hogan Bridge. Continued.
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No. 172 – Allowed to Daniel Edwards for window blinds furnished clerk’s office
Receipts and expenditures for county in 1839 continued.
Ordered clerk make a copy of William G. Monroe’s Treasurer’s and Collector’s Bonds and forward to prosecuting attorney and request him to commence a suit on said bonds.
Board adjourned.