The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the May 1832 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.
Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 1
May Session 1832
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Present:
- Mark McCracken, President
- George Arnold
- Joseph Woods
Edward S. Bush – license to retail foreign merchandise at his store in Rising Sun
Joshua Dorman – license to keep a grocery and retail spirituous liquors in Sparta Township
Shadrach Hathaway – license to retail foreign merchandise at his store in Rising Sun
Decoursey & Richardson – license to retail foreign merchandise
J. & W. O’Neal – license to retail foreign merchandise at their store in Rising Sun
Abijah North & Co. – license to retail foreign and domestic groceries and spirituous liquors
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Henry McKenzie – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and spirituous liquors
Daniel Miller – license to retail foreign and domestic groceries
No. 1 – Allowed to Haines & Morrison for medicine and attendance to Anna Noble, a pauper
No. 2 – Allowed to Haines & Morrison for medicine and attendance to Anna Noble, a pauper
No. 3 – Allowed to Elhanan Wiley for keeping and boarding a male infant pauper
John H. Gibson – license to retail foreign and domestic groceries
Thomas Guion – license to retail foreign and domestic groceries
Assessment rolls accepted.
No. 4 – Allowed to Richard Orchard for keeping and boarding Mary Orchard, a pauper
No. 5 – Allowed to Betsy Burrows for keeping Mary Anne McBride, a pauper
No. 6 – Allowed to Mary Muir for boarding and keeping Rebecca Crusenberry, a pauper
No. 7 – Allowed to Jacob Larimore for boarding and keeping Thomas Moore, a pauper
No. 8 – Allowed to Daniel Horram for keeping Anne Gay, a pauper
Bedford & Saltmarsh – license to retail foreign and domestic groceries at their grocery in Lawrenceburgh
Reed Crandel, commissioner for state road leading from Lawrenceburg to Madison filed bond. Jacob Eggleston, security.
No. 9 – Allowed to John S. Percival, coroner, for holding a Jury of Inquest on a dead body
No. 10 – Allowed to Jabez Percival, Juror on the above Inquest
No. 11 – Allowed to John Langley, Juror on the above Inquest
No. 12 – William N. Rodgers, Juror on the above Inquest
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No. 13 – Allowed to Henry Teney, Juror on the above Inquest
No. 14 – Allowed to Michael Trester, Juror on the above Inquest
No. 15 – Allowed to Francis Welch, Juror on the above Inquest
No. 16 – Allowed to William Fooks, Juror on the above Inquest
No. 17 – Allowed to John Sarver, Juror on the above Inquest
No. 18 – Allowed to Abraham Teney, Juror on the above Inquest
No. 19 – Allowed to Spencer Davis, Juror on the above Inquest
No. 20 – Allowed to Spencer West, Juror on the above Inquest
No. 21 – Allowed to James Green, Juror on the above Inquest
No. 22 – Allowed to Charles Vattier for making coffin & use of ferry boats for a dead body
No. 23 – Allowed to Edward Fairchild for digging grave and burying dead body
No. 24 – Allowed to James Bridges for his services as witness on the foregoing Inquest
No. 25 – Allowed to Edward Fairchild for his services as witness on the above Inquest
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No. 26 – Allowed to Joseph Norris for his services as witness on the foregoing Inquest
No. 27 – Allowed to Elias Conklin for repairing stray pen and furnishing oats
Fines returned by John T Hall:
- Isaac Clarke – fined $1.00
- Peter Larr – fined $1.00
- Lucy Ann Lockwood – fined $1.00
- Daniel Sink – fined $1.50
Fines returned by Thomas Palmer:
- Alexander Kinkaid – assault & battery on Spencer West – fined $1.00
- Ulysses Cook – assault & battery on Jno Lawrence – fined $1.00
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Liquor license tax.
Charles W. Wright – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his grocery in Manchester
Norval Sparks – license to retail foreign merchandise at his store in Lawrenceburg
Caleb A. Craft & Son – license to retail foreign merchandise at their store in Rising Sun
Haines & Lanius – license to retail foreign merchandise at their store in Rising Sun
James & Scranton – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries at their shop in Rising Sun
James M. Darragh – license to retail foreign and domestic groceries at his grocery in Lawrenceburg
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William Runnion – license to retail foreign and domestic groceries and spirituous liquors
Samuel Howard – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Rising Sun
John M. Barker – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors
Hustis & Hopkins – license to retail foreign merchandise at their store in Manchester Township
Bowman & Rush – license to keep a grocery and retail groceries and spirituous liquors
Richard Hughes – license to keep a grocery at his house in Kelso Township
James Lawrence – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and spirituous liquors at his house in Kelso Township
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Shaw & Prautzman – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and spirituous liquors
No. 28 – Allowed to Simon Peters for keeping and boarding Abraham Peters, a pauper
No. 29 – Allowed to Rebecca Austin for keeping and boarding Anne Noble, a pauper
No. 30 – Allowed to James Walker, commissioner fo school lands, for attending sale of Section 16, Township 6, Range 1
Ordered remitted to Joseph Sylvester the tax on 160 acres of land overcharged in 1830.
Ordered remitted to Isaac Mills the tax on half quarter section of land for 1831.
Jackson Township formed.
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No. 31 – Allowed to James Paris for boarding and keeping Ruth Barrickluo, a pauper
George P. Buell – license to retail foreign merchandise at his store in Lawrenceburg
No. 32 – Allowed to David V. Culley for printing expose of receipts and expenditures
Walter Armstrong appointed treasurer
No. 33 – Allowed to Cornelius Miller for keeping and boarding Maria Matthews, a pauper
William Harrington – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors
No. 34 – Allowed to George Smith for assessing town lots in Dillsboro
No. 35 – Allowed to Jacob W. Eggleston for assessing and valuing town lots in Hillsborough
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Fines returned by Cyrus Mills:
- Gersham Dunn – assault on complaint of Joshua Rownd – fined $1.00
James Walker, Commissioner of School Lands, report.
Fines assessed by Joseph Woods:
- John Scott – assault & battery committed on the body of Jacob Neal – fined $1.00
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Report of Seminary Funds.
Fines returned by Wm Conaway:
- Samuel Jones – assault & battery committed on the body of Stephen Green – fined 3.00
- Davis Weaver – assault & battery committed on the body of John Mahaney – fined $1.00
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Fines returned by Abijah Bennet:
- John Payne – assault & battery committed on the body of Thomas Nelson – fined $1.00
Fines returned by John Saltmarsh:
- Thomas Williamson – fine assessed by Benjn Fuller and replevied
Petition of Enoch Blasdell and sundry others, proprietors of Cambridge, as heirs of Jacob Blasdel, deceased, praying the vacation of sundry lots, streets and alleys in Cambridge. Objected to by John Dawson, owner of 3 or 4 lots in town. Ordered all lots, streets and alleys in Cambridge vacated, except Main Street and certain lots.
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Russell Coman appointed collector
Collector’s report.
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No. 36 – Allowed to Horace Bassett for valuing or assessing town lots in Aurora
No. 37 – Allowed to Thomas Baggs for assessing the value to town lots in Aurora
No. 38 – Allowed to Wm. McBride for assessing the value of town lots in Wilmington
No. 39 – Allowed to Benjamin Bryan for assessing the value of town lots in Wilmington
No. 40 – Allowed to Walter Armstrong for assessing the value of town lots in Lawrenceburg
No. 41 – Allowed to John Saltmarsh for assessing the value of town lots in Lawrenceburg
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Omar Toussey – license to retail foreign merchandise at his store in Lawrenceburg
John P. Dunn – license to retail foreign merchandise at his store in Lawrenceburg
Thomas Falber – license to retail foreign and domestic groceries at his store or shop in Aurora
No. 42 – Allowed to John Garner for removing Ruth Barrickloo, a pauper
No. 43 – Allowed to David S. Major for assessing taxable property in Logan Township
No. 44 – Allowed to William Tucker for assessing taxable property in Kelso Township
No. 45 – Allowed to Benjamin Tibetts, Sr., for assessing taxable property in Manchester Township
No. 46 – Allowed to Samuel Morrison for assessing taxable property in Lawrenceburg Township
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No. 47 – Allowed to Charles Lindsay for assessing taxable property in Laughery Township
No. 48 – Allowed to Benjamin Johnson for assessing taxable property in Sparta Township
No. 49 – Allowed to Thomas Wilson for assessing taxable property in Cesars Creek Township
No. 50 – Allowed to Joseph Woods for assessing taxable property in Union Township
No. 51 – Allowed to John Lewis for assessing taxable property in Randolph Township
Treasurer’s report.
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No. 52 – Allowed to Virgil Pratt for services on a Jury of Inquest
No. 53 – Allowed to Jeremiah Phinney for his services in erecting a privy or necessary house on the public square near the court house and gate for the stray pen
No.53 [sic] – Allowed to David Shaw for making a coffin for a drowned man
No. 54 – Allowed to John S. Scribner, constable, attending circuit court
No. 55 – Allowed to Lemuel G. Elder, constable, attending court
No. 56 – Allowed to Hiram W. Cloud, constable, attending court
No. 57 – Allowed to Isaac Spencer for attendance in court attending juries
No. 58 – Allowed to Milton Gregg, Sheriff, for sundry articles purchased for the use of the court and services rendered
No. 59 – Allowed to Milton Gregg, Sheriff, for a stove and pipe for the use of the court house
Allowances for Grand Jurors at March Term 1832:
- No. 60 – Matthias Haines
- No. 61 – John Barrickulow
- No. 62 – John S. Olmstead
- No. 63 – James Rand
- No. 64 – Asa Shattuck
- No. 65 – Henry Sikely
- No. 66 – George Nichols
- No. 67 – Henry McKenzie
- No. 68 – James Rabb
- No. 69 – George Pate
- No. 70 – Abraham Roland
- No. 71 – Henry Collins
- No. 72 – Phineas King
- No. 73 – Joseph Plumer
- No. 74 – Abraham True
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Allowances to Petit Jurors for March Term 1832:
- No. 75 – Hugh Noyes
- No. 76 – Hamlet Sparks
- No. 77 – Samuel Frazier
- No. 78 – Blackly Shoemake
- No. 79 – James Foster
- No. 80 – James S. Hogshier
- No. 81 – Litte W. Johnson
- No. 82 – Joseph Hayes
- No. 83 – William H. Sorg
- No. 84 – Robert Wilson
- No. 85 – Aaron Ball
- No. 86 – David Fisher
- No. 87 – WIlliam Olcott
- No. 88 – Thomas McKinny
- No. 89 – Jesse Laird
- No. 90 – William Jessup
- No. 91 – John Shook, Jr.
- No. 92 – Samuel Elliott
- No. 93 – John Binegar
- No. 94 – Joseph E. Baker
- No. 95 – Samuel Wright
- No. 96 – Joseph Woods
- No. 97 – William Lampkin
- No. 98 – William S. Durbin
- No. 99 – Jonathan Reed
- No. 100 – Levi Miller
- No. 101 – Duncan Carmichael
- No. 102 – Asa Shattuck
- No. 103 – John Davidson
- No. 104 – Isaac Carabaugh
- No. 105 – George Conner
- No. 106 – Almon Fairbanks
- No. 107 – James Lewis
- No. 108 – Horace Whitney
- No. 109 – Milow Longwood
- No. 110 – William Peck
- No. 111 – James Leonard
- No. 112 – Jacob Brasher
- No. 113 – Conrad Huffman
- No. 114 – John Shanks
- No. 115 – John Saltmarsh
- No. 116 – Joshua Peck
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County taxes.
Russell Coman, Collector of Taxes for 1832 offers Oliver Hustis, Abner Tibbets, David Tibet’s and Benjamin Sylvester as securities.
Jury selection.
Seminary Funds report.
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No. 117 – Allowed to James Dill, Clerk of the Dearborn Circuit Court and this court, for extra services
No. 118 – Allowed to Milton Gregg for his extra services as sheriff
No. 119 – Allowed to A. U. Dill for rent of clerk’s office
No. 120 – Allowed to Mark McCracken for his services as commissioner of Dearborn County one day attending at the Circuit on a lawsuit and as commissioner
No. 121 – Allowed to George Arnold for his services as commissioner
No. 122 – Allowed to Joseph Woods for his services as commissioner
Walter Armstrong appointed to procure for the county the weights and measures as required by law.
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No. 124 [sic] – Allowed to Isaac Dunn for eight days services as associate judge of the Dearborn Circuit Court
No. 125 – Allowed to John McPike for eight days services as associate judge of the Dearborn Circuit Court
Board adjourned.
May 1832 Called Session
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Present:
- Mark McCracken, President
- George Arnold
- Joseph Woods
Edwin G. Pratt appointed attorney to defend the board of county commissioners in suit before Justice Saltmarsh by Jabez Percival against said board.
Thomas Guin – license to retail foreign and domestic groceries at his grocery store in Union Township
Board adjourned.