The following is an every name index of Dearborn County, Indiana Circuit Court Order Book 2. This book covers the second part of the October 1827 Term through the October Term 1829.
These records have been abstracted in a printed book and PDF book available on the Books page.
Digital images of these records are available on the Record Requests Page.
The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the November 1829 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.
Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 1
November 1829 Session
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Present:
Harris & Collin Fitch – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment
No. 1 – Allowed to James Walker, commissioner for laying out a state road from Madison to Lawrenceburg
No. 2 – Allowed to Isaace Pierdey for services carrying chain laying out a road from Madison to Lawrenceburg
No. 3 – Allowed to Alexander Purdy for services in carrying chain laying out a state road from Madison to Lawrenceburg
No. 4 – Allowed to William C Bramwell for his services in surveying & making out field notes of a state road from Madison to Lawrenceburg
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Elijah Gridley & Timothy Percival – license to keep a grocery and to retail foreign and domestic groceries at this shop in Lawrenceburg
No. 5 – Allowed to John M Pike for his services for surveying, making report & field notes of state road from Lawrenceburg to Rushville, $17.00
John D. Moor – license to retail foreign merchandise at his store in Harrison
No. 6 – Allowed to James Ardery for his services as commissioner in laying out a state road from Lawrenceburg to Rushville, $12.00
No. 7 – Allowed to William P. Rush for his services as commissioner in laying out a state road from Lawrenceburg to Rushville, $12.00
Fines assessed by Jonathan Vail:
Fines assessed by William Flake:
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Record of state road from Madison to Lawrenceburgh as laid out, surveyed and reported by James Vauter, David Finley and James Walker, commissioners. Named along road: Rikers Ridge (Jefferson County), Dumerus Mill (Jefferson County), Robert M Mitchel (Jefferson County), Erastus Dothrap (Dearborn County), and Parkers Mill (Dearborn County).
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Report of James Walker, Trustee of Seminary Fund.
Elias Conwell – appointed trustee of the public seminary funds. James Walker and David Bowers as securities.
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John Godley – appointed assessor of taxable property for Logan Township.
Isaac Colwell – appointed assessor of taxable property for Kelso Township
Russell Coman – appointed assessor of taxable property for Manchester Township
Isaac Spencer – appointed assessor of taxable property for Lawrenceburgh Township
William Glenn – appointed assessor of taxable property for Laughery Township
John Brewington – appointed assessor of taxable property for Sparta Township
Archibald McCabe – appointed assessor of taxable property for Cesars Creek Township
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John Thompson – appointed assessor of taxable property for Union Township
John Tervis – appointed assessor of taxable property for Randolph Township
Buell & Dunn – license to retail foreign merchandise at their store in Lawrenceburgh
No. 8 – Allowed to Noah Miller for keeping boarding and clothing Maria Matthews, a pauper
No. 9 – Allowed to Agness Garman for keeping, boarding and clothing Lucy Shed, a pauper
No. 10 – Allowed to Henry Bruce for keeping, boarding and clothing Abraham Peters, a pauper
No. 11 – Allowed to Jacob Laremore for keeping, boarding and clothing Thomas Moor, a pauper
No. 12 – Allowed to James Roberts for keeping, boarding and clothing Elismer Gay, a pauper
No. 13 – Allowed to James Darling for keeping and boarding James Anderson, a man of color, a pauper
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Edward McCart – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries at his shop in Aurora
David Weaver – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment at his house in Hartford
No. 14 – Allowed to James C. Darling for keeping and clothing, furnished funeral expenses of William Anderson, a pauper
Samuel McCurdey – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries at his house in Lawrenceburg Township
John Palmer – license to retail foreign merchandise at his house in Manchester Township
John Palmer – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Manchester Township
Martin Stewart, Justice of Peace and Supervisor for Randolph Township took his seat.
Edward Owens – license to retail foreign merchandise at his store in Hartford
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Richard Mervs – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries at his house
John Spencer – appointed pound & stray pen keeper
Laughery Township elections to be held at house of Stephen Wood in Wilmington.
No. 15 – Allowed to Ezra Ferris for medical attendance and medicine furnished to Elizabeth Walters, a pauper
No. 16 – Allowed to Arthur St. Clair Vance for his services as clerk to the commissioner for perpetuating testimony
No. 17 – Allowed to John Porter for his services as commissioner for perpetuating testimony of last records
Moore and Pepper – license to retail foreign merchandise at their store in Rising Sun
No. 18 – Allowed to David V. Culley for printing county orders
No. 19 – Allowed to James Williamson for keeping, clothing and boarding Roxanna Loder, a pauper
No. 20 – Allowed to James Williamson for keeping, clothing and boarding Roxanna Loder, a pauper
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No. 21 – Allowed to Sparks and John for goods furnished Araminta Keith, a pauper
No. 22 – Allowed to James McLister for digging grave for Araminta Keith, a pauper
No. 23 – Allowed to Mary Moore for boarding, clothing and keeping Araminta Keith, a pauper
No. 24 – Allowed to Mahlon Brown for boarding, clothing and keeping Mary Ann McBride, a pauper
No. 25 – Allowed to M. S. Ferris for medicine furnished Mary Ann McBride, a pauper
No. 26 – Allowed to Ewing & Gibson for goods furnished Mary Ann McBride, a pauper
No. 27 – Allowed to William Cook for boarding prisoners in jail
Merritt Hubbell – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries
Fines assessed by Martin Stewart:
Fines assessed by Abijah Bennet:
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Fines assessed by Benjn Fuller:
Fines assessed by Laban Bramble:
Fines assessed by John Lyons:
Fines assessed by John Palmer:
Fines assessed by Thomas Palmer, Lawrenceburg Township:
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Record of state road leading from Lawrenceburgh to Rushvill as laid out, surveyed and reported by John McPike, James Ardery and William P. Rush, commissioners. Named along road: Jesse Hunt, S. Ludlow, George H. Dunn, Joshua Strow, Cap. Crandon, Walker, W. Rowe, Richard and Leonard Spicknal, Gidney’s Lane, Robert Row, John Bottz, Isaac Alden, Squire Summon, Lewis Bennet, Walger, W. George, W. Gorge, N. Hankins, Joseph Henderson, Thomas Henry, Wm Hill.
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Petition of sundry citizens of Dearborn County praying a reduction in the rate of ferriage at the ferry across Hogan Creek.
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Spark & John – license to retail foreign merchandise at store in Lawrenceburg
James B. Deemer – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors
Jesse Hunt – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Lawrenceburg
Oliver Huestis – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Manchester Township
Shadrach Hathaway – license to retail foreign merchandise at his store in Rising Sun
No. 28 – Allowed to William Tate for making a coffin for Araminta Keith
No. 29 – Allowed to James Williamson for keeping, boarding and clothing Roxanna Loder, a pauper
No. 30 – Allowed to James Dill for extra service as clerk for 6 months
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No. 31 – Allowed to John Spencer for extra service as sheriff
No. 32 – Allowed to James Dill for book & stationary furnished for the recorders and clerks office
Board altered rates of ferriage at the ferry across Hogan Creek.
Fines assessed by Mark McCracken:
No. 33 – Allowed to Test & Dunn for repairs to Jail Lock
No. 34 – Allowed to John Spencer for locks & services attending this court and probate court
Fines assessed by James W. Hunter:
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Aaron Foulk – license to retail foreign merchandise at his store in Aurora
Mark Muggerridge – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries at his shop
William Cullen – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries at his store or house in Rising Sun
Jane Hagerman, administratrix of Daniel Hagerman, deceased, late Treasurer of Dearborn County by John Spencer her agent – final settlement.
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Account of receipts and expenditures of the County of Dearborn.
To Associate Judges:
To Sheriff:
To Constables:
William Cook, jailor boarding:
Commissioners Court for perpetuated testimony:
James Dill, clerk, $30.00
Assessors of taxable property:
Daniel Hagerman, late treasurer, $60.00
Thomas Palmer, present treasurer, $22.14
John Spencer for collecting taxes, $104.81
Ezra Ferris for interest bearing orders, $194.81
Court Expenses:
Jail laying out, prision bounds, etc.:
State Roads
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A. P. & J. Andrews – license to retail foreign merchandise at their store in Hartford
Benjamin B. Bonham – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries at his house in Cambridge
No. 36 – Allowed to James Cosseboom for keeping, boarding and clothing Elizabeth Walters
Thomas M. Wittey – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries
The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the May 1829 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.
Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 1
May 1829 Session
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Present:
Commissioners sworn into office.
Mark McCracken elected president of board for 12 months.
A. S. Jonas – license to retail foreign merchandise
Charles W. Wright – license to keep a grocery and retail spirituous liquors
No. 1 – Allowed Ebenezer W Bedonnaugh for his servies in keeping and boarding David Warren, a pauper, and funeral expenses
No. 2 – Allowed to George H. Dunn for his services as Judge of the commissioners court for perpetuating testimony
Abijah North – license to keep a grocery and retail spirituous liquors
No. 3 – Allowed to Daniel Hagerman, Esquire, for his services for recording deeds as clerk of this commission
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No. 4 – Allowed to William Hawkins for his services in surveying and laying out a road from Lawrenceburg to Brookville
No. 5 – Allowed to Solomon Allen for his services in surveying, marking and making a plat of a road from Lawrenceburg to Brookville, $4.00
Ansel Beach – payment of store and grocery license
No. 6 – Allowed to Ezra Ferris for sundry and county orders
W. McCaslin – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment at his house in Hardinsburgh
Test & Dunn – license to retail foreign merchandise
Darragh & Askew – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries
John Myers – license to keep a tavern
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Stephen Wood – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors
Little W. Johnson – license to keep a grocery and retail spirituous liquors at his grocery in Lawrenceburg
No. 7 – Allowed to Jacob Larimer for keeping and boarding Thomas Moore, a pauper, and medical attendance
No. 8 – Allowed to Timothy Davis for keeping board and clothing Richard Moran and family
No. 9 – Allowed to Timothy Davis for boarding and keeping Adam Harvey, a pauper
Fines assessed and collected by Thomas Palmer, Justice of Peace for Lawrenceburg Township:
Fines assessed and collected by Isaac Colwell, Justice of Peace for Kelso Township:
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Fines assessed by John Lyons, Justice of Peace for Cesars Creek Township:
Fines assessed by John Godley, Justice of Peace for Logan Township:
Fines assessed by Jonathan Vail, Justice of Peace for Sparta Township:
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Fines assessed by Laban Bramble, Justice of Peace for Cesars Creek Township:
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Election of treasurer in room of Daniel Hagerman, Esquire, deceased – Thomas Palmer elected treasurer.
Motion by Mr. Lane, ordered that Richard Moran and family be no longer considered as fit subjects to be supported by the county and overseers of the poor of Lawrenceburgh Township will govern themselves accordingly.
Fines assessed by David Bowers, Justice of Peace for Laughrey Township:
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Application of Charles Vattier, who is the owner of the land on both sides of Hogan Creek, to establish a ferry across creek at its mouth.
Application of Charles Vattier, who is the owner of fractional sections 32 and 33, Township 5, Range 1 west, for a ferry on said fractional sections across the Ohio River.
Hogan Creek ferry rate change.
George Toussey – license to retail foreign merchandise
Joseph E. Baker – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment
Alanson Hill – license to retail foreign merchandise
Absalom Runnin – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries at his shop in Lawrenceburg
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Fines assessed by Isaac Colwell
Benjamin B. Bonham – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries at his house in Cambridge
John Alprato – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries at his house in Lawerenceburg
Luke Evil – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment at his house in Aurora
George W. Cochran – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries at his house in Aurora
Elias Conwell – license to retail foreign merchandise
William Cook, Jailor or prison keeper of Dearborn County, account of sundry jail fee: Isaiah Couch, John B. Myers, James Smith, James Fitzpatrick, Ezekiel Biship, & Mary Greathouse, confined on criminal charges amounting to $9.00, account rejected by the court.
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Omar & George Toussey – license to retail foreign merchandise at their store
Omar Toussey – license to retail foreign merchandise
No. 10 – Allowed to Thomas B. Pinkard for visits and medical attendance and medicine to Richard Moran, a pauper
No. 11 – Allowed to Thomas B. Pinkard for visits, medicine, and attendance to one Heney, a pauper
No. 12 – Allowed to John S. Percival for medicine and attendance to Richard Moran, a pauper
No. 13 – Allowed to John S. Percival for medical attendance to Araminta Keith, a pauper
No. 14 – Allowed to Joshua Sanks for four furnished a pauper, Richard Moran
Ordered to be remitted to Jeddi Clark for overcharge of county tax for forty acres of land
No. 15 – Allowed to Richard Prest for ironing prisoners
Bond given by Thomas Palmer, treasurer, with John Gray and Timothy Davis as his sureties.
Caleb A. Craft – license to retail foreign merchandise
Haines & Lanius – license to retail foreign merchandise
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Samuel Howard – license to retail foreign merchandise
Bowman & Rush – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries at their house in Rising Sun
William Cullen – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries at his store or house in Rising Sun
Elections in Laughrey Township be held at the house of James Lindsay.
No. 16 – Allowed to William Skinner for assessing taxable property for Logan Township
No. 17 – Allowed to Isaac Caldwell for assessing taxable property in Kelso Township
No. 18 – Allowed to Thomas Lambertson for assessing taxable property in Sparta Township
No. 19 – Allowed to Archibald McCabe for assessing taxable property in Cesars Creek Township
No. 20 – Allowed to John Lewis for assessing taxable property in Randolph Township
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No. 21 – Allowed to James Powell for assessing taxable property in Laughery Township
No. 22 – Allowed to James W. Hunter for assessing taxable property in Lawrenceburg Township
No. 23 – Allowed to Mark McCracken for assessing taxable property in Manchester Township
Jane Hagerman, administratrix of Daniel Hagerman, deceased, late treasurer of Dearborn County, by John Spencer, his agent – store and tavern licenses paid to treasurer.
James Dill – state road was marked, surveyed and laid out (about 1823), commencing at Madison through Vevay, Rising Sun and Aurora to Lawrenceburg – Abel C. Pepper, Thomas Armstrong, and David McCoy were believed to be commissioners who surveyed, marked, and established road – Deponent has no recollection of seeing more than Abel C. Pepper and Thomas Armstrong engaged in the work – record of road lost in 1826 fire. Board orders road opened.
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Fine collected by William Howlet:
Fines assessed by Martin Stewart :
Fines assessed by Philip Eastman, then a Justice of Peace, transferred to John Neal, Justice of Peace:
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Abijah North – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries at his house in Randolph Township
Ewing and Gibson – license to retail foreign merchandise at their store
Fines returned by Benjamin Fuller:
Petition of Edward Rickets and 12 freeholders of Randolph Township – praying the vacation of a certain part of the state road leading from Lawrenceburg to Madison – road declared vacated
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Basil James – license to retail foreign merchandise at his store in Rising Sun
John McPike – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries at his shop in Lawrenceburg
Shadrach Wilber – license to retail foreign merchandise at his store in Hartford
John Durham – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment at his house in Hartford
No. 24 – Allowed to James Cosseboom for keeping and boarding Elizabeth Walters, a pauper
No. 25 – Allowed to John Demoss for keeping and boarding Araminta Keith, a pauper
No. 26 – Allowed to Polly Moore for keeping and boarding Araminta Keith, a pauper
No. 27 – Allowed to Thomas Lemon for keeping and boarding Rebeccah Crusenberry, a pauper
No. 28 – Allowed to Henry Bruce for keeping and boarding Abraham Peters, a pauper
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No. 29 – Allowed to Obadiah Stevens for keeping and boarding John Winings, a pauper
No. 30 – Allowed to Arthur St. C. Vance for house rent to Richard Moran, a pauper
No. 31 – Allowed to Thomas Palmer for making orders for relief of and for removing paupers
No. 32 – Allowed to Blakely Shoemaker for keeping and boarding Anne Gay, a pauper
No. 33 – Allowed to Cornelius Miller for keeping and boarding Maria Matthews, a pauper
No. 35 – Allowed to Jeremiah finney for repairing the roof of the jail
Tax on ferries for 1829:
Ordered that Hezekiah Shook be exonerated from part of tavern license.
Bedford & Saltmarsh – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries
Jury selection.
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No. 36 – Allowed to Arthur St. Clair Vance for his services as clerk to the commissioners for perpetuating testimony and stationery furnished
No. 37 – Allowed to John Porter for his services as commissioner for perpetuating testimony of last record
No. 38 – Allowed to James Dill for extra services as clerk
No. 39 – Allowed to James Dill for books and stationery furnished for the recorders and clerk offices
Lister’s books examined.
No. 40 – Allowed John Spencer for his services as Sheriff
John Spencer – elected collector of state and county revenue for 1829. John Dawson and Ezekiel Jackson as sureties.
Overcharges to be remitted:
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Overcharges to be remitted:
Fines collected by John Spencer, Sheriff:
Fines assessed by Mark McCracken:
Board ordered $1.00 be remitted to Oliver Hustis, overcharge in tax on tavern license.
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Jane Hagerman, administratrix of Daniel Hagerman, deceased, by John Spencer her agent – county revenue.
Items entered to the credit of Daniel Hagerman, late treasurer.
Lister appointed for Union Township having failed to perform his duty, the clerk is directed to make a duplicate for said township from lister’s book of 1828.
The following is an index to Deed Book F from Switzerland County, Indiana. This book covers deeds registered between November 1829 and May 1836.
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The following is an index to Deed Book D from Switzerland County, Indiana. This book covers deeds registered between February 1829 and March 1832.
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The following is an index to Deed Book A from Dearborn County, Indiana. This book covers deeds registered between June 1829 and July 1830. See also Dearborn County Land Records for more deed indexes.
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The following is an index to Deed Book A from Dearborn County, Indiana. This book covers deeds registered between June 1828 and June 1829. See also Dearborn County Land Records for more deed indexes.
To request digital images of deeds, visit the Record Requests Page.
The Vevay, Switzerland County, Newspaper Index is split into multiple parts. This section gives births, marriages, divorces, deaths and estates found in Vevay newspapers from 1824 to 1849. Visit the Vevay Newspaper Index page to learn more about the index and how to access the newspapers.
Digital copies of the newspapers listed in this index are available through the Record Requests Page.
Switzerland County, Indiana probate records include the Probate Record Books, sometimes called the Probate Complete Record Books. The original records are stored at the Switzerland County Court House. They are also available on microfilm from the Family History Library and the Indiana State Library.
The index includes the following Probate Record Books: