Dearborn County Commissioners – Sep 1846 Session

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

Page 112

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

 

Page 115

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

 

Page 117

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

 

Page 118

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.

 

Page 119

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.

 

Page 121

Reuben Rogers, Auditor, and William Johnson, School Commissioner, make report.

 

Page 122

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

 

Page 123

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.

 

Page 124

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

 

Page 125A

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.