The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the September 1839 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.
Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 2
September Session 1839
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Present:
- Charles Dashiell
- Aaron B. Henry
Ordered Charles Dashiell be president of board.
No. 1 – Allowed to Haines & Evans for attendance on Mr. Black and medicine
No. 2 – Allowed to Haines & Evans for medicine and attendance on John Wishart, a pauper
No. 3 – Allowed to Haines & Evans for medicine and attendance for Mary Adams; also medicine and attendance for Rebecca Pane
No. 4 – Allowed to John J. French for provisions found for the support of Thomas Athe, a pauper
No. 5 – Allowed to Thomas Prons for taking care of Nathan Long, a pauper
Isaac Miles – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries
No. 6 – Allowed to Tait & Summers for temporary relief to Mr. Hogan
No. 7 – Allowed to John Morrison for medicine and attendance to Mrs. Bishop, Margaret Elrod and Mrs. Barnes
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No. 8 – Allowed to J. H. O’Neal for taking care of Theodore Rush, a pauper
John P. Scott applied for a ferry license across the Ohio River at Rising Sun. Ferry landing bounded by land bought of Rowland Robinson of John T. Nustur. Ferry granted.
No. 9 – Allowed to Robert Hargit for service viewing road
No. 10 – Allowed to Jacob Hayes for viewing a state road
No. 11 – Allowed to John Gibson, Jr., for viewing a state road
No. 12 – Allowed to E. B. Hunt for surveying and making above named state road
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Abram Eversole – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries
Henry Base – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries
Michael Mulfinger – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Lawrenceburg
No. 13 – Allowed to John Gibson for service as overseer of poor
No. 14 – Allowed to Jacob Dennis for service as overseer of poor of Miller Township
No. 15 – Allowed to Joseph Adams for services as Juror
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Wood & Evil – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at their store in Wilmington
Ordered John Hollowell be exempt from working on roads and public highways forever owing to his inability to perform hard labor.
Miles Kellogg – license to keep a grocery and vend foreign groceries and spirituous liquors
No. 16 – Allowed to Edward Freeman for keeping Eunice Hale, a pauper
David Fisher – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at Rising Sun
Tait & Summers – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store in Rising Sun
Hall & Likins – license to vend foreign merchandise and retail groceries at store in Rising Sun
William O’Neal – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store in Rising Sun
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North & Powell – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store
No. 17 – Allowed to John Chisman for digging grave and burying drowned man
No. 18 – Allowed to Amaziah Bailey for coffin for pauper
No. 19 – Allowed to Jehue Corson for digging grave &c.
No. 20 – Allowed to Amaziah Bailey for making coffins for two drowned men and taking coffins to grave
No. 21 – Allowed to P. H. Carabaugh for digging grave for drowned man
No. 22 – Allowed to Amaziah Bailey for making coffin and hauling to grave
No. 23 – Allowed to William Brown for making coffin for drowned man
No. 24 – Allowed to Milton Gregg for publications in relation to Lawrenceburg and Tanners Creek bridge
James M. Derragh – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at Lawrenceburg
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Alanson Crooker – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store in Lawrenceburg
John Brumbly – license to vend groceries and spirituous liquors at grocery in Sparta Township
Jonathan Cole – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store
Hoover & Stopher – license to vend groceries and spirituous liquors at grocery in Rising Sun
No. 25 – Allowed to Thomas Lambertson for keeping a pauper
No. 26 – Allowed to Nathaniel L. Squibb for services assessing damages on state road from mouth of Hogan Creek to state road near Stokely Dils
No. 27 – Allowed to William Glenn for service assessing damages on state road from mouth of Hogan Creek to state road near Stokely Dils
No. 28 – Allowed to Henry Alleging for service assessing damages in the above named road
G. W. Cochran & Co. – license to vend merchandise and groceries in Aurora
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Report on damages on state road from mouth of Hogan Creek to state road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis near Stokely Dils to John Billingsley, heirs of Henry Dils, William Dils, Eleazer Small, William G. Griffin, Francis Worley, William Morgan, William Upp, Louis & William Morgan. Commissioners met at home of William Glenn in Wilmington. Nathaniel L. Squibb, William Glenn and Henry Allemong, Commissioners.
No. 29 – Allowed to William & L Morgan for damages assess in above report
No. 30 – Allowed to John Billingly in above assessment of damage
No. 31 – Allowed to William Dils for damages assessed in above case
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No. 32 – Allowed to Eleazer Small for damages assessed on foregoing state road
No. 33 – Allowed to William G. Griffin for damage assessed on foregoing state road
No. 34 – Allowed to Francis Worley for damages assessed on foregoing state road
No. 35 – Allowed to William Upp for damages assessed on foregoing state road
No. 36 – Allowed to Wm. Morgan for damages assessed on foregoing state road
John Billingsly and others move to set aside above report. Continued.
No. 37 – Allowed to Stephen Burr for shoes found Mrs. Miller, a transient pauper
No. 38 – Allowed to N. L. Squibb as Commissioner and Surveyor on state road from Rising Sun to Versailles
No. 39 – Allowed to William Patterson as Commissioner on state road from Rising Sun to Versailles
No. 40 – Allowed to A. Y. Maryann for carrying chain on state road from Rising Sun to Versailles
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Report of State Road leading from South Hogan Creek Bridge to Lawrenceburg and Indianapolis State Road near North Hogan school house. Surveyor, Col. Nathaniel L. Squibb. Joseph Fitzpatrick and Alexander Lowe Jr., chain carriers. John H. Kelly, ax man. L. G. Elder, Walter Kerr, William Williams, Commissioners. Road ordered opened.
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No. 41 – Allowed to John D. Bush for carrying chain on state road from Rising Sun to Versailles
No. 42 – Allowed to Walter Kerr for services as commissioner locating state road from South Hogan Bridge to North Hogan school house
No. 43 – Allowed to William Williams for services locating state road from South Hogan Bridge to North Hogan school house
No. 44 – Allowed to Leml G. Elder for services locating state road from Hogan Bridge to North Hogan School House
No. 45 – Allowed to N. L. Squibb for surveying road from Hogan Bridge to North Hogan School House
No. 46 – Allowed to Joseph Fitzpatrick for service rendered in carrying chain
No. 47 – Allowed to Alexander Lowe Jr. for chain carrying on state road
No. 48 – Allowed to John H. Kelly for services as ax man on state road
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Report of State Road from Rising Sun to Versailles, Ripley County by William Patterson and Nathaniel L. Squibb, Commissioners. John D. Bush and Aaron Y. Merman, chain carriers.
John Gullet, Benj Liepto, Zachariah Barker, George W. Cochran, and Isaiah Morehead file remonstrance against State Road from Aurora to Dillsboro for damages.
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Report of Road from Aurora to Dillsboro by Garrett Swallow and John Hansel, Commissioners. Israel C. Curtis, Justice of Peace. Nanthaniel L. Squibb, surveyor. Elijah D. Reno and William Winkly, chain carriers. Melville Cannon, marker. Luther Plummer, Spencer Davis and John Goodwin appointed to assess damages that John Gullet will sustain by road being opened, land sold to James Miller and Nathan Wallace. Also damages to Benjamin Tufts, Zachariah Barker, George W. Cochran (mentions land of John Huffington, Martin Cozine, deceased, Cornelius V. Norris, Ira Wright, Everett Milburn, Widow Fox, William Wheeler), Isaiah Morehead (mentions Samuel Frazier).
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No. 49 – Allowed to Nathaniel L. Squibb as surveyor on Aurora and Dillsboro road
No. 50 – Allowed to E. D. Reno as chain carrier on above named road
No. 51 – Allowed to William Winkley as chain carrier on above named road
No. 52 – Allowed to Milville Cannon as blazer on above road
No. 53 – Allowed to George Withrow for service on above road
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No. 54 – Allowed to Garrett Swallow for service as Commissioner on state road from Aurora to Dillsboro
No. 55 – Allowed to John Hansell for service as Commissioner on state road aforesaid
Wm. Grossnider – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries
Aaron Ball, Jr. – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries
Norval Sparks – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store in Lawrenceburg
No. 56 – Allowed to E. Jackson Court for services summoning Jury of Inquest on body of E. A. Smith
No. 57 – Allowed to Dr. Davis for service in examination of E. A. Smith by request of Jury of Inquest
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No. 58 – Allowed to Campbell & Bennett for making poplar coffin for pauper
No. 59 – Allowed to Thomas Lumberton as Trustee of Township 6, Range 3 West
Joseph Hayborn – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store in Aurora
No. 60 – Allowed to Ellis Crowley for jail fees
No. 61 – Allowed to Abraham Harbaugh for keeping Orrill Lewis, a sick pauper
No. 62 – Allowed to N. H. Torbet for medicine and attendance for prisoners
No. 63 – Allowed to John Dumont for professional services rendered in filing declaration against Robt. More and security on his Treasurer’s bond
Bailey & Dashiell – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store
A. L. Mason & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store
Wm. P. Mahew – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store
Pattrick O’Connor – license to vend foreign merchandise
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James T. Pollock – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries
No. 64 – Allowed to Ebenezer Dumont for services as trustee of Township 5, Range 2 West
No. 65 – Allowed to A. J. Cotten for services rendered as associate Judge
No. 66 – Allowed to A. J. Cotten for service as associate Judge
No. 67 – Allowed to John Levingston for services as associate Judge and sundry service rendered in vacation
No. 68 – Allowed to Richd H. Holman for defending a prisoner
No. 69 – Allowed to Charles H. Test for defending a prisoner
No. 70 – Allowed to Robert E. Cutler for defending a prisoner
No. 71 – Allowed to William Dils for extra services and getting prisoners returned from Ohio
No. 72 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for extra services, office rent, table, books, paper, quill
No. 73 – Allowed to William Glasgow for keeping prisoners
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No. 74 – Allowed to William Pennewell for services guarding jail
No. 75 – Allowed to Samuel Lewis for services guarding jail
No. 76 – Allowed to Samuel Benson for services guarding jail
No. 77 – Allowed to Wm. A. Kerr for services guarding jail
John Rinegar – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries
Dunn & Ferris – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries
Gersham Dunn – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries
Lewis Snyder – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries
John Ferris & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries
Thomas W. Pate – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries
Reuben Rogers – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries
B. F. Ferris – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries
St. Clair & Lane – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries
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E. S. Close – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries
Weaver & Cobb – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries
W. L. Stephens – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries
James Laurence – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries
Moore & Stevens – license to vend foreign merchandise and grocery
No. 78 – Allowed to Cyrus Canfield for guarding jail
No. 79 – Allowed to Isaac L. Cannon for guarding jail
No. 80 – Allowed to George Sutton for a post mortem examination
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William G. Monroe, Treasurer, makes report.
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No. 81 – Allowed to George Baker for guarding jail
David Shane appointed appraiser of damages sustained by John Godley on the Whitewater Canal for materials used for the use of said canal.
No. 82 – Allowed to Abel H. Lamphear for services as Jailor and other services boarding prisoners
No. 83 – Allowed to John Oldridge for service guarding jail
No. 84 – Allowed to A. Ball, Jr., Noyes Canfield, and John Burbage, overseers of the poor of Laughery Township
No. 85 – Allowed to Aaron B. Henry for service as Juror
No. 86 – Allowed to N. H. Torbet for medicine and attendance on Elizabeth Lawrence, a pauper
No. 87 – Allowed to William Simpson for guarding jail
No. 88 – Allowed to Aaron B. Henry for service as overseer of poor of Lawrenceburg Township
No. 89 – Allowed to John Gray who is in part a pauper for temporary relief, to the Care of William Dils
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Lewis & Hobbs – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries in Lawrenceburg
Folbre & Lathrop – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries in Aurora
No. 90 – Allowed to John Cundale for contingencies for paupers, for keeping paupers
No. 91 – Allowed to Stephen Ludlow, Isaac Dunn and Ezra Guard, relocating commissioners on state road from Lawrenceburg to Harrison, including their services and service of chain carriers
No. 92 – Allowed to N. L. Squibb for surveying and platting road from Lawrenceburg to Harrison
Henry Walker appointed appraiser of damages sustained by Walter Hayes on Whitewater Canal for materials used.
No. 93 – Allowed to John Cundale for conveying Eunice Hall to asylum
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Receipts and Expenditures of County for 1838.
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Report of road from Lawrenceburg to Harrison by Isaac Dunn, Stephen Ludlow and Ezra Guard, Commissioners. Mentions land of Andrew Morgan and Isaac Hays. Nathaniel L. Squibb, county surveyor. John Guard and Levi Chisman, chain carrier. Enoch Miller filed remonstrance for damages. David Tibbitts, John Palmerton and Abram Ferris appointed Commissioners to meet at office of Benjamin Fuller.
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Christopher & Wood – license to vend foreign merchandise and spirituous liquors at grocery in Wilmington
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No. 94 – Allowed to M. H. Harding for medicine and attendance in pauper asylum
No. 95 – Allowed to Elias Schooley for making a coffin for pauper
No. 96 – Allowed to Alexander Beall for services as school master, teacher of paupers
Ordered a fire proof house be built at west end of court house for Clerk’s and Recorder’s office. William G. Monroe, William Perry and James Mills appointed superintendents.
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No. 97 – Allowed to Aaron B. Henry for services as commissioner
Alteration in County Commissioners’ districts:
- 1st District – Townships of Clay, Caesars Creek, Union, Randolph and part of Center Township.
- 2nd District – Laughery, Sparta, Manchester and Jackson Townships.
- 3rd District – Townships of Kelso, Logan, Miller, Lawrenceburg and part of Center Township.
No. 98 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for services as commissioner
No. 99 – Allowed to D. Walser for services as commissioner
Board adjourned.