The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the September 1846 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.
Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 4
September Session 1846
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Present:
- David Walser
- James Grubbs
- Daniel Taylor
George W. Lane – license to keep a ferry across Ohio River opposite Aurora
No. 2802 – Allowed to Samuel James for keeping Miles Robisin, a pauper
Jacob Steinmetz – license to keep a grocery in Kelso Township
No. 2804 – Allowed to George Lamb for his temporary relief
William H. Baker – license to keep a tavern in Manchester Township
Joseph Steinmetz – license to keep a tavern
No. 2803 – Allowed to Eliakim Nicholas for his temporary relief
No. 2805 – Allowed to Jotham Clark for digging graves and burying paupers
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No. 2806 – Allowed to Lemley & Dunn for muslin furnished for making maps
No. 2807 – Allowed to George Heustice for conveying pauper to burying ground
No. 2831 – Allowed to Cyrus Armstrong for making coffins and conveying paupers to grave
William Clynch – license to keep a tavern in his house in York Township
George Voglesang – license to keep a tavern
Jeremiah Caughlin – license to keep a tavern
Caleb Wright – license to keep a store in Aurora
Leonard & Hapin – license to keep a store
No. 2843 – Allowed to John Ferris & Co. for medicine furnished paupers
No. 2844 – Allowed to Wymon & Ferris for articles furnished paupers
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No. 2810 – Allowed to Granville Love for keeping pauper
Benoni Beall – license to keep a grocery
No. 2811 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for books furnished clerk’s office
No. 2842 – Allowed to John Ferris & Co. for stationery furnished clerk’s office
No. 2864 – Allowed to Thomas Palmer for books and making indexes for office
James M. Torrence – license to keep a store in Logan Township
David A. Brooks – license to keep a store in Mooreshill
John C. Moor – license to keep a store in Mooreshill
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T. John Taylor – license to keep a store in Aurora
No. 2815 – Allowed to Jonathan Noble for receiving timber and drawing plan for Aurora Bridge
No. 2824 – Allowed to Randall Alexander for his temporary relief
No. 2813 – Allowed to Robert Thompson for boarding paupers
No. 2817 – Allowed to William Lane for Aurora Bridge
No. 2818 – Allowed to D. Pratt for timber furnished Aurora Bridge
No. 2819 – Allowed to D. Pratt for timber furnished Aurora Bridge
Allowed to James O. Smith, Thomas Wilson and George Smith as Trustees of Township 5, Range 3
No. 2820 – Allowed to Jackson Goulding for timber furnished Aurora Bridge
No. 2821 – Allowed to Nathaniel Rogers for timber furnished Aurora Bridge
No. 2822 – Allowed to Jonathan Noble for labor on Aurora Bridge
No. 2823 – Allowed to Elliott Wills for keeping paupers
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Mason & Porter – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg
No. 2829 – Allowed to Philomen Wilson for timber furnished Aurora Bridge
No. 2832 – Allowed to Philomen Wilson for toll crossing the Carlisle & White Bridge while hauling timber for Aurora Bridge
No. 2830 – Allowed to Elijah Hufman for timber furnished Aurora Bridge
No. 2832 – Allowed to Elijah Huffman for toll crossing Carlisle Bridge when delivering timber for Aurora Bridge
No. 2835 – Allowed to Abner Dill for keeping paupers
No. 2848 – Allowed to Samuel McMath as viewer of road
No. 2865 – Allowed to William Dill as viewer of road
Jacob Graff – license to keep a grocery in Manchester Township
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No. 2857 – Allowed to John F. Richards as jailor
No. 2852 – Allowed to N. H. Torbet for ink and office rent
No. 2915 – Allowed to Aaron Stilwell and William Case for digging grave and burying drowned man
No. 2914 – Allowed to George Conklin for ink, quills, and paper
Allowed to Jeremiah J. H. Brower for professional services to paupers
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Report of George W. Lane and David Walser on timber for bridge at mouth of Hogan Creek. Richard Sopris and Jonathan Noble employed to make out bill of timber.
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No. 2868 – Allowed to Elisha Cook for his temporary relief
No. 2847 – Allowed to Thomas Lampkin for making coffin for drowned man
No. 2869 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for locks and harps for gates to Court House
No. 2858 – Allowed to Milton Beach for making coffin for drowned man
S. S. Bussell, agent for Carlisle & White, makes report on South Hogan Creek Bridge.
No. 2856 – Allowed to Harding & Tate for professional services for paupers
No. 2839 – Allowed to Benjamin Stockman for articles furnished pauper
Henry Moran, collector of tolls at Aurora Bridge, made report.
No. 2840 – Allowed to Samuel Morrison for copy of field notes of Dearborn County certified by Surveyor General
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John B. Clark – license to keep a store in Manchester Township
Joseph Swift – license to vend merchandise in Lawrenceburg Township
No. 2841 – Allowed to Andrew Morgan for burying clothes for William Prest
Delinquent tax list to be published in Indiana Register, published by John B. Hall in Lawrenceburg.
Ordered William V. Cheek procure weights and measures.
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Reuben Rogers, Auditor, and William Johnson, School Commissioner, make report.
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No. 2846 – Allowed to James Jennings for digging grave and burying drowned man
No. 2845 – Allowed to Peter M. Degear for materials and making coffin for drowned man
Josiah Chambers – license to keep a store
Seth Buffington – license to keep a grocery
No. 2849 – Allowed to Moses Crest for conveying drowned man to grave
No.2870 – Allowed to Seth Mayhew for articles furnished paupers
James Burke – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg
Jacob Morrison – license to keep a store in Aurora
James Cummings – license to keep a store in Aurora
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Election to be held in Clay Township for Justice of the Peace to fill vacancy of Hamilton Conaway. In Logan Township to fill place of Z. A. Bonham. In Harrison Township for additional Justice of the Peace.
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R. & O. Parry – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg
No. 2871 – Allowed to John B. Hall for county expose, notice to voters, clerk’s certificate and coroner’s inquest
Joseph West – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg
No. 2880 – Allowed to Richard Sopris for service on Aurora Bridge
No. 2872 – Allowed to Annanias Evans for his temporary relief
No. 2851 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for his extra services
Samuel McKinley – license to keep a tavern in Jackson Township
No. 2863 – Allowed to William Low for conveying drowned man to grave
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Louisa Basier – license for a store in Jackson Township
Samuel McMath and William Dils make report on damages on road laid out from South Corner of Out Lot 12 in Lawrenceburg to mouth of Tanners Creek. Lands of John Callahan, Andrew Mugan, Thomas B. Pinckard, Sharp and Cannon Miller, Elizabeth Sparks. Theodore Guzlay, attorney for Sharp and Cannon, objects to report.
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J. A. Ray – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg
Cyrus Armstrong – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg
No. 2873 – Allowed to George Sutton for professional services attending pauper
William E. Craft – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg
No. 2913 – Allowed to Reuben Rogers as Auditor
No. 2860 – Allowed to Nelson H. Torbet for receiving and disbursing Surplus Revenue
No. 2857 – Allowed to Reuben Rogers, Auditor, for receiving and disbursing Surplus Revenue
R. P. Lancaster made report on damages on road from Lawrenceburg to Brookville in Miller Township.
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No. 2846 – Allowed to Lane & Dalzell for use of clerk’s office
Petition of citizens of Jackson and Manchester Townships for road through townships. Jas P. Milliken, Benjamin Sylvester and William Tibbetts (appointed in place of David Taylor) appointed to view road.
Nelson H. Torbet, Treasurer, filed report.
Ordered Reuben Rogers, Auditor, furnish posts, nails and boards required to build a pound for strays.
Board adjourned.