Dearborn County Commissioners – Sep 1843 Session

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the September 1843 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 3

September Session 1843

 

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Present:

  • David Walser
  • John Columbia
  • William S. Ward

No. 945 – Allowed to John D. Johnson for temporary relief of Annis Evans, a pauper of Sparta Township

No. 946 – Allowed to Obediah B. Priest for temporary relief of Mrs. Walden

No. 947 – Allowed to Daniel Lynn for temporary relief of Mrs. Roney

William Clynah – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at house in York Township

 

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George Voglesong – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at house in Kelso Township

Andrew Anderson – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at house in Kelso Township

Jacob Hummell – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at house in Kelso Township

Oliver P. Levingston – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at house in Wilmington

Bradford J. Hathaway – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Rising Sun

John W. Hall – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Rising Sun

Shedrick Hathaway – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Rising Sun

 

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John B. Clark – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Manchester Township

E. Dumont, Treasurer, made report.

 

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Reuben Rogers – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Wilmington

Stephen Abbott excused from working on public roads.

Petition to view books of Treasurer of Township 6, Range 2 west. Signed by James Angevine, Richard N. Spicknall, Hugh Scott, Edward Freeman, Elias Schooley. Summon issued.

 

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Page 948 – Allowed to Stephen Hastings as Juror

No. 949 – Allowed to Greensberry Ricketts for removing paupers to County Asylum

No. 950 – Allowed to George Tague for attending on transient pauper

No. 951 – Allowed to Thomas Wilson for his temporary relief

William H. Baker – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at house in Manchester

Jeremiah Coughlan – license to keep a grocery and retail spirituous liquors at house in Kelso Township

 

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No. 952 – Allowed to Daniel Roberts for services as visitor to County Asylum

No. 953 – Allowed to Daniel Roberts for services in removing a pauper from County Asylum to Ripley County

No. 954 – Allowed to William Harrison for services as visitor to the County Asylum

No. 955 – Allowed to John Hubbard for his temporary relief

No. 956 – Allowed to Thomas H. Milburn for repairing cistern at County Asylum

No. 957 – Allowed to Thomas H. Milburn for boarding paupers at County Asylum

No. 958 – Allowed to Randall Alexander for his temporary relief

Allowed to Martin Stewart for services as Clerk of Township 3, Range 2

Aaron Y. Meryman – license to vend merchandise and groceries

 

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& R. Wilber – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Hartford

No. 959 – Allowed to Jacob Ebersole for professional services attending on John Porter

No. 960 – Allowed to John Brewington for boarding criminals at County Jail

No. 961 – Allowed to William Johnson for extra services as School Commissioner

No. 981 – Allowed to William H. Glasgow for services repairing County Jail

Andrew Lonergan, County Assessor, filed bond with Martin Kelly and Christopher Rowe, his securities.

 

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R. H. & O. L. Parry – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Lawrenceburg

Haines & Plummer – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Manchester Township

 

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No. 962 – Allowed to Jones & Brewington for ticking for bed at County Jail

No. 963 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for paper for clerk’s office

No. 964 – Allowed to E. Dumont for rent of office

Josiah Chambers – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Aurora

Wood & Burke – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Lawrenceburg

Joseph Stenmatez – license to keep a grocery and retail spirituous liquors at house in Kelso Township

John B. Kessler – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at house in Kelso Township

 

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Samuel McKinley – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at house in Jackson Township

James H. Lane – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Lawrenceburg

William McBride, toll gatherer at Aurora Bridge, made report.

J. R. Cole & Co. – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Hartford

No. 965 – Allowed to William Morrison for painting at clerk and recorder’s office and County Jail

No. 966 – Allowed to Watts & Dunn for printing

No. 967 – Allowed to Benj. F. Fuller for amount expended by him

 

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George Ross – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in New Lawrenceburg

Abel C. Pepper – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Rising Sun

No. 968 – Allowed to Abram Rector for removing pauper to County Asylum

Theodore Gazley made application for President and Trustees of Rising Sun for establishment of a ferry from Pennsylvania Street across Ohio River. Asaph Buck, attorney for John P. Scott, for ferry license. Theodore Gazley filed petition to vacate ferry now used by John P. Scott at Rising Sun. Continued.

 

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William Glenn – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Aurora

L. S. Grizzard – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Lawrenceburg

John Jacob Houk – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Lawrenceburg

William E. Craft – license to vend merchandise  and groceries at store in Lawrenceburg

Isaac F. Craft – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Lawrenceburg

John Parkinson – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Logan Township

 

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John Parkinson – license to keep a grocery and retail spirituous liquors at house in Logan Township

No. 969 – Allowed to George Sutton for professional services atending on  pauper in Aurora

No. 970 – Allowed to George Sutton for professional services attending on paupers in Wilmington

No. 971 – Allowed to Robert Conaway for rent of office for County Auditor

No. 972 – Allowed to Josiah Chambers for articles furnished paupers in Centre Township

No. 973 – Allowed to William S. Ward for temporary relief of Mrs. Merrick, a pauper

No. 974 – Allowed to Jefferson Rittenhouse for amount overpaid by him on his license

No. 975 – Allowed to Benj. Vail for paper for auditor’s office

No. 976 – Allowed to James D. Linsday for amount refunded to him on condition that he surrender his license

No. 977 – Allowed to George W. Lane for services as Auditor

 

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Ordered Auditor to issue summons commanding Charles Dashiell, William S. Ward, David Walser, William Gerrard, and William Wheeler to made report of his proceedings as agent of 3% fund.

Money appropriated to build a bridge across Tanners Creek on State Road from Dover to New Alsace in Kelso Township. William S. Ward appointed agent.

James P. Milliken made report as Treasurer of Township 6, Range 2.

Court adjourned.