The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the October 1840 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 3

October Session 1840

 

Page 97

Present:

• Charles Dashiell
• David Walser

No. 1 – Allowed to William Morgan, coroner, for four inquisitions

No. 2 – Allowed to John Brewington for summoning Jury by order of Wm. Morgan, coroner

No. 3 – Allowed to George P. Lowe for services rendered notifying friends of Dodd who was found dead in jail

No. 4 – Allowed to James C. Hinman for making coffin for child found in the Ohio River

No. 5 – Allowed to Thomas Palmer for record and paper, passage to and from Cincinnati, writing table

No. 6 – Allowed to Hiram Crowl for service as Juror at April Term 1840

L. B. Lewis – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store in Lawrenceburg

William L. Ward, county commissioner, took his seat.

 

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No. 7 – Allowed to Randall Frazier for making a coffin for Dodd, who hung himself in the county jail

John J. French and John Stewart make oath that new way laid out by William Patterson and Nathaniel L. Squibb of State Road from Rising Sun to Versailles, Ripley County is made convenient for travellers. Ordered old state road vacated.

John Stewart – license to vend merchandise and groceries at his store in Hartford

William Winkley – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Aurora

 

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Horton & Morgan – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in New Lawrenceburg

Timothy Kimball makes final settlement for building of jail.

No. 9 – Allowed to Timothy Kimball for part of above

No. 10 – Allowed to Timothy Kimball for balance due on settlement for building jail

No. 11 – Allowed to Holman Cannon for keeping paupers at the asylum

 

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No. 12 – Allowed to Nathaniel L. Squibb for reviewing, surveying, making report and returning same on the road from Lawrenceburg to Madison by Vevay and Rising Sun

No. 13 – Allowed to John J. French for services as commissioner on above named road

No. 14 – Allowed to Martin Stewart for services as commissioner on the above named road

Board examined law and report on State Road from Rising Sun to Versailles, Ripley County by Cornelius Miller and Elijah Lindsay, commissioners. Ordered report void. John J. French and John Stewart makes oath on new way laid out by William Patterson and Nathaniel L. Squibb. Old road ordered vacated.

 

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Nathaniel L. Squibb, Martin Stewart and John J. French, commissioners to view change in state road from Lawrenceburg to Madison via Rising Sun and Vevay, make report. John W. Hall, Justice of the Peace.

 

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Ebenezer Dumont, Treasurer, made report.

No. 15 – Allowed to William Patterson for overcharge in taxes for 1840

No. 16 – Allowed to Isaac Cannon for setting 36 lights of glass in the Court House

No. 17 – Allowed to Joseph Boon for keeping Dodd and Marshall, jail fees over shirt for prisoner

 

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No. 18 – Allowed to Charles Patten for irons for prisoners in Lawrenceburg Jail

Hoover & Stopher – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store in Rising Sun

Hoover & Stopher – license to keep a grocery and retail spirituous liquors at store in Rising Sun

Matter of new township prayed for by Samuel McMath and others. Continued.

No. 19 – Allowed to Daniel R. Edwards for license furnished the jailor for the comfort of prisoners

No. 20 – Allowed to James C. Cordy for articles furnished jailor

No. 21 – Allowed to Reuben Rogers for articles furnished jailor

No. 22 – Allowed to James D. Lindsay for services rendered in bringing Hoover from Lawrenceburg, prisoners from Lawrenceburg Jail to the Jail in Wilmington and other articles

No. 23 – Allowed to Justus R. Armes for keeping Henry Bennet’s wife, a pauper

 

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No. 24 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for books and paper for clerk’s office

James Conaway – license to vend spirituous liquors at house in Guionville

Blackmore – license to vend merchandise and groceries at Hartford

No. 25 – Allowed to William H. Glasgow for keeping prisoners and making beds &c.

Benjamin Vail – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Wilmington

 

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No. 26 – Allowed to Thomas Baker for wood furnished the Court House

No. 27 – Allowed to Benjamin Vail for writing paper for clerk’s office

Daniel J. Hancock and Isaac Hancock to build a toll bridge across South Hogan Creek. Approved.

George W. Lane appointed commissioner of three percent fund. Filed bond with Amos Lane, John Shoemake and Richard H. Holman, as securities.

 

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County receipts and expenditures for 1839.

 

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No. 28 – Allowed to David Walser as commissioner

No. 29 – Allowed to William S. Ward as commissioner

No. 30 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell as commissioner

Board adjourned.

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Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 3

October Special Session 1840

 

Page 96

Present:

• Charles Dashiell
• David Walser

Examined jail in Wilmington and considered completed per agreement with Timothy Kimball.

Board adjourned.

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Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 3

September Session 1840

 

Page 74

Present:

• Charles Dashiell
• David Walser
• William L. Ward

Charles Dashiell elected president of board.

Allowed to Grand Jurors at April Term 1840:

• No. 1 – Omer Tousey
• No. 2 – Abijah Chamberlain
• No. 3 – Richard Grubbs
• No. 4 – Stephen Hastings
• No. 5 – Cornelius Vanhorn
• No. 6 – John B. Craft
• No. 7 – Azariah Oldham
• No. 8 – Jonathan Harpham
• No. 9 – Lewis G. Hurlbert
• No. 10 – Lewis D. Morgan
• No. 11 – Willson Dorman
• No. 12 – James M. Darragh
• No. 13 – Elias Abbott
• No. 14 – Newton M. Canfield
• No. 15 – Isaac Morris
• No. 16 – Thomas Darling
• No. 17 – George Wooley

 

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Allowed to Petit Jurors at April Term 1840:

• No. 18 – John W. Hall
• No. 19 – Shadrach Hathway
• No. 20 – Levi Boyd
• No. 21 – Anderson F. Gage
• No. 22 – Elial Chalfant
• No. 23 – Wesley Harrison
• No. 24 – Stephen Buffington
• No. 25 – Hugh Noyes
• No. 26 – Cyrus Mills
• No. 27 – Abram Ferris
• No. 28 – Benjamin Tufts
• No. 29 – William P. Durbin
• No. 30 – Albert G. Dils
• No. 31 – Richard N. Spicknail
• No. 32 – George Cornelius
• No. 33 – William Tate
• No. 34 – John Saltmarsh
• No. 35 – Wm. S. Ferris
• No. 36 – Mahlon Miller
• No. 37 – Charles Stevens
• No. 38 – Elias Williamson
• No. 39 – William Canfield
• No. 40 – Robert Hewitt
• No. 41 – William Jackson
• No. 42 – Jacob Larew
• No. 43 – Aaron Foulk
• No. 44 – Thomas Spicknall
• No. 45 – William Morehead
• No. 46 – Danl Grant
• No. 47 – John B. Clark
• No. 48 – John M. Pattrick
• No. 49 – Stephen Stites
• No. 50 – Jorden Abbott
• No. 51 – Thomas Stevenson
• No. 52 – Daniel Conaway
• No. 54 [sic] – Benjamin Ewbank
• No. 55 – john D. Daniel
• No. 56 – Norral Sparks
• No. 57 – Harris Fitch
• No. 58 – Martin Arnold
• No. 59 – Thos. J. Taylor
• No. 60 – David McKittrick
• No. 61 – Lavin B. Lewis
• No. 62 – James A. Walton
• No. 63 – Cornelius Miller
• No. 64 – Sampson Davis
• No. 65 – Ezekiel Jackson
• No. 66 – David Fitzgerald
• No. 67 – Mack Cheek
• No. 68 – Alfred B. Ball
• No. 69 – Cyrus Canfield
• No. 70 – Elijah Elder
• No. 71 – Riley Elliott
• No. 72 – George B. Dennis
• No. 73 – Cornelius Miller
• No. 74 – Charles W. Wright
• No. 75 – Joseph Hunter
• No. 53 [missed] – Samuel McMullen
• No. 76 – Elias Chisman
• No. 77 – Jeremiah H. Smith
• No. 78 – Willoughby Tibbs
• No. 79 – John B. Chisman
• No. 80 – Mark McCracken
• No. 81 – Elias Littell
• No. 82 – Thomas Lambertson
• No. 83 – John Durham, Sr.
• No. 84 – David Conger
• No. 85 – John F. Richards
• No. 86 – Daniel Hathway
• No. 87 – Claibourn Allen
• No. 88 – George P. Lowe
• No. 89 – Alexander Fairbanks
• No. 90 – Lewis B. Conger
• No. 91 – Isaac Morris
• No. 92 – Daniel Grant
• No. 93 – B. T. W. S. Anderson
• No. 94 – Amos Morris
• No. 95 – John C. More
• No. 96 – Newton M. Canfield
• No. 97 – Noble Dawson
• No. 98 – Zachariah Conger
• No. 99 – Watson
• No. 100 – Thomas Baker
• No. 101 – Thomas H. Millburn
• No. 102 – Isaac Hancock
• No. 103 – Green Sparks
• No. 104 – Mahlon Hays
• No. 105 – Anderson F. Gage

 

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Allowed for services rendered for Dearborn Circuit Court at April Term 1840:

• No. 106 – Stephen Green for tending Grand Jury
• No. 107 – Walter Kerr, Bailiff
• No. 108 – Abram B. Adams, Bailiff
• No. 109 – John F. Richards, for summoning witnesses for Grand Jury
• No. 110 – Jesse Riley, for summoning witnesses
• No. 111 – Isaac Mills, for summoning witnesses
• No. 112 – James Harper, for summoning witnesses
• No. 113 – Isaac H. Carbaugh, for summoning witnesses
• No. 114 – Mahlon Powell, for summoning witnesses
• No. 115 – Joseph Hunter for summoning witnesses
• No. 116 – William Dils for chairs, broom, cleaning court house

No. 117 – Allowed to James Lawrence for assessing Jackson Township

Solomon Samuel – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise and groceries in Kelso Township

John Luby – license to vend foreign merchandise as peddler

No. 118 – Allowed to William Justis for one coffin for Jemima Davison, a pauper

No. 119 – Allowed to Elisha Bowers for services and boarding Jemima Davison

John Tait – license to retail foreign and domestic merchandise and groceries

Warren Tebbs – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors in Harrison

 

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No. 120 – Allowed to Holman Cannon for keeping paupers at asylum

James & Joseph Miller – license to retail spirituous liquors at house in Randolph Township

Hamilton Conaway – license to retail foreign merchandise and groceries at store in Guionville

No. 121 – Allowed to Daniel Roberts for moving Susan Nation, a transient pauper

No. 122 – Allowed to William Harrison for services as visitor to the asylum

No. 123 – Allowed to Daniel Roberts for services as visitor to the asylum

No. 124 – Allowed to M. H. Harding for medicine and attendance at the asylum

Abijah North and others in Randolph Township petition for alteration to state road Lawrenceburg to Madison by Vevay and Rising Sun commencing at mouth Peter Lostutter’s lane. Road through land of Levi North, Asahel North, Jonathan Howe, James Miller, Joseph Miller and Abijah North, John Wilson, James Morrison. Martin Stewart, John J. French, and Nathaniel S. Squibb appointed commissioners, to meet at office of Joel Decoursey.

 

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No. 125 – Allowed to J. H. Mendell for 2 coffins for transient paupers

No. 126 – Allowed to R. G. Yonge for digging grave for John Tolls, a transient paupers

No. 127 – Allowed to Harvey J. Still for expenses in burying William McCaskey, a transient pauper

 

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Isaac and Daniel L. Hancock opened change in State Road from Aurora to Napoleon.

No. 128 – Allowed to Betsy Cox for attendance on Bennett, a pauper

No. 129 – Allowed to James C. Cordy for 2 reams of writing paper for clerk’s office

No. 130 – Allowed to Amaziah Bailey for 3 coffins for drowned men, also for making a coffin for Mrs. Bennet, a pauper

No. 131 – Allowed to T. J. Bailey for summoning 2 Juries of Inquest over dead men for coroner

No. 132 – Allowed to J. J. Bennet for digging grave for drowned man

 

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No. 133 – Allowed to Philip Smith for digging grave for drowned man

No. 134 – Allowed to J. M. West for burying drowned man

John Hall – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store in York Ridge in Kelso Township

Elisha Bodine – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise and groceries at his store in Logan Township

Luther Plumer, Merit Hubble, and Joseph Johnston, commissioners to assess damages to George P. Buell by State Road from Lawrenceburg to Napoleon, Ripley County. David Conger, Justice of Peace, make report. Abram Ferris and Abraham Roland to pay Buell and residue ordered paid by County. Road marked by George Cornelius and Martin Trester is opened.

 

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No. 136 [sic] – Allowed to Merit Hubbell for services assessing damages on State Road leading from Lawrenceburg to Napoleon

No. 137 – Allowed to Luther Plumer for services as commissioner in assessing damages on state road leading from Lawrenceburg to Napoleon

No. 138 – Allowed to Joseph Johnston for services as commissioner in assessing damages on state road leading from Lawrenceburg to Napoleon

Ordered Thomas Wilson, a blind person, allowed relief.

Petition of John Billingsley, owner of lots in Hardinsburgh that state road from Lawrenceburg to Elizabeth Town cuts through.

 

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Cornelius Miller, Elijah Lindsay, and Hugh Noyes, commissioners to view state road leading from Rising Sun to Versailles, Ripley County, files report. Nathaniel L. Squibb to change road. John K. Lewis, Justice of the Peace.

 

Page 86

No. 139 – Allowed to Thomas Wilson for first installment ordered paid to him in former order

 

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No. 140 – Allowed to Randall Frasher and John P. Rogers for book cases for clerk’s office

No. 141 – Allowed to Isaac Cannon for work and glass furnished and performed for and on book cases in clerk’s office

No. 142 – Allowed to John Ferree for coffin for pauper, for ballot box &c. for Lawrenceburg Township

No. 143 – Allowed to Elias Schooley for making two coffins for paupers at the asylum

James Mills – license to vend and retail foreign and domestic groceries at his shop in Wilmington

Reuben Rogers – license to vend and retail foreign and domestic merchandise and groceries

James Murray – license to vend and retail foreign and domestic merchandise and groceries

John W. Hall – license to vend and retail foreign and domestic merchandise and groceries in Rising Sun

 

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John Mahoney – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store in Kelso Township

Moses Turner – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store in Rising Sun

No. 144 – Allowed to John Parks for conveying transient pauper to the asylum

No. 145 – Allowed to Ingold Butterfield as Juror Oct Term 1839

No. 146 – Allowed to Isaac Miles as Juror Oct Term

No. 147 – Allowed to Moore & Brooks for articles furnished Davis, a transient pauper

No. 148 – Allowed to Joseph Boone for dieting and attendance prisoners in Lawrenceburg Jail

No. 149 – Allowed to William Brown for making one coffin in July and one in October 1838 for Kizen and Stranger

Rees House & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at their store in Lawrenceburg

 

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No. 150 – Allowed to Thomas Stevenson for services as overseer of the poor of Clay Township

No. 151 – Allowed to Isaac Gibson for services as overseer of the poor for Clay Township

 

Page 90

Treasurer produced certificates for associate judges.

No. 152 – Allowed to Dunn & Ferris for overcharge in store license

Wm. T. Ferris – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries

L. Hudson – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries in New Lawrenceburg

No. 153 – Allowed to William Dils for extra service, bringing from Lawrenceburg to Wilmington a writ of habeas corpus

No. 154 – Allowed to Amos Lane for attending case of bastardy before Justice and Circuit Court as certified by overseers of the poor of Lawrenceburg Township

Ephraim Glasgow – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store in Wilmington

 

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Henry Schue – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at house in Kelso Township

No. 155 – Allowed to Stephen Merrick for temporary relief to be under the control fo Benjamin Sylvester

No. 156 – Allowed to Dr. George Sutton for attendance and medicine furnished Wells, a transient pauper

No. 157 – Allowed to David Fisher for boarding &c. four prisoners, Caton, Hall, Havlus and Brown

Stephen Wood – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at house in Wilmington

No. 158 – Allowed to George Cornelius for service as commissioner in viewing and relocating a part of State Road leading from Lawrenceburg to Napoleon

No. 159 – Allowed to Martin Trester for service as Commissioner in viewing and relocating a part of state road leading from Lawrenceburg to Napoleon

 

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No. 160 – Allowed to Nathaniel L. Squibb for services as surveyor on road leading from Lawrenceburg to Napoleon

Ebenezer Dumont, Treasurer, files report.

 

Page 93

No. 161 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for books, stationery &c. for clerk’s office, for making out duplicates of taxes

No. 162 – Allowed to Sarah White for maintenance of a female pauper child as per order of the overseers of the poor of Centre Township

No. 163 – Allowed to John Wymond for articles furnished Hannel Levi, a transient pauper

No. 164 – Allowed to Lucretia Freeland for keeping Rorston, a pauper

No. 165 – Allowed to Robert Owen for keeping Susan Roston, a pauper

No. 166 – Allowed to Ebenezer Dumont for making out 13 books for enumeration of white male inhabitants above age of twenty years

No. 167 – Allowed to William Miller for repairing jail at Lawrenceburg

 

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Jefferson Rittenhouse – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries

Josiah Chambers – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries

James Lawrence – license to keep a grocery and retail spirituous liquors in Jackson Township

No. 168 – Allowed to Henry Walker for overcharge in tax assessed in 1840

No. 169 – Allowed to David Walser for service as commissioner

No. 170 – Allowed to William L. Ward for service as commissioner

No. 171 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for service as commissioner, including signing county orders

Meriman & Herron – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store in Hartford

Isaac and Daniel J. Hancock, applicants for charter of the South Hogan Bridge. Continued.

 

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No. 172 – Allowed to Daniel Edwards for window blinds furnished clerk’s office

Receipts and expenditures for county in 1839 continued.

Ordered clerk make a copy of William G. Monroe’s Treasurer’s and Collector’s Bonds and forward to prosecuting attorney and request him to commence a suit on said bonds.

Board adjourned.

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the June 1840 Special Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 3

June Special Session 1840

Page 72

Present:

• Charles Dashiell, President
• David Walser
• Aaron B. Henry
• William Dils, Sheriff

No. 1 – Allowed to Martin Stewart, assessor of Randolph Township

No. 2 – Allowed to George Pate, assessor of Cesar Creek Township

Amendments to tax rates for 1840.

No. 3 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for service at June Session 1840

No. 4 – Allowed to David Walser for service at June Session 1840

 

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No. 5 – Allowed to Aaron B. Henry for service at June Session 1840

No. 6 – Allowed to Joseph Dart for keeping prisoner and repairing jail at Lawrenceburg

Board adjourned.

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the April 1840 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 3

April Session 1840

 

Page 48

B. M. & L. N. Bush – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Aurora

No. 1 – Allowed to John Cundale for keeping paupers

No. 2 – Allowed to J. Ferrce for making coffin for pauper

Samuel Calvert – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Rising Sun

No. 3 – Allowed to John H. O’Neal for articles furnished Mrs. Hogan

No. 4 – Allowed to David Thorn for removing Mrs. Hogan, a town pauper to Warsaw

No. 5 – Allowed to John Morrison for medicine and attendance on poor

No. 6 – Allowed to Tait & Summers for articles furnished Mrs. Hogan and Mrs. Toles, paupers in Randolph Township

 

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Robert Rogers and William Rogers – license to vend groceries and spirituous liquors at grocery in Rising Sun

Benjamin Sylvester – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Manchester Township

Page 7 – Allowed to Milo Longwood for services as overseer of the poor of Centre Township

No. 8 – Allowed to William T. Harris as overseer of the poor and as Township Trustee

No. 9 – Allowed to A. L. Goble for service summoning Jury of Inquest on drowned man and summoning witness &c.

No. 10 – Allowed to Ephraim Hollister for making coffin for drowned man

No. 11 – Allowed to Jacob Griffith for hauling coffin and drowned man to the graveyard &c.

No. 12 – Allowed to Wm. Daniel for digging grave and burying drowned man

No. 13 – Allowed to John Saltmarsh for services holding an Inquest over drowned man

No. 14 – Allowed to Holman B. Cannon for keeping paupers at the asylum

 

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Oliver Huestis – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors in Lawrenceburg

Aaron Lewis – license to retail groceries at Hartford

George W. Shane – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors

John P. King, Treasurer of Township 7, Range 3, makes report.

Y. Maryman, Treasurer of Township 4, Range 2 West, makes report.

 

Page 51

William Y. Harris, Treasurer of School Township No. 5, Range 1 West, makes report.

 

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J. P. Melleken, Treasurer of Township No. 6, Range 2 West, makes report.

 

Page 53

George Wood – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Lawrenceburg

Henry Wood – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store in Lawrenceburg

No. 15 – Allowed to Joseph Brandt for service rendered as Township Treasurer in School Township 7, Range 2 West

Joseph Brand, Treasurer of Township 7, Range 2 West made report. Paid to Merit Hubbel, Treasurer District 1; John Blaluer, Treaurer District 2, Nicholas Mason, Treasurer District 5, Arel Stewart, Treasurer District 8.

 

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George W. Shane, Treasurer of Township No. 7, Range 1 West, made report. Note against Solomon Rord and William McClure.

Joseph McHenry, Treasurer of Township No. 3, Range 2, made report.

 

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John B. Chisman, Elial Chalfant (Chaffin), and Samuel B. Wood, commissioners, made report on State Road from mouth of Hogan Creek to intersect State Road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis near the residence of William Perry. Aaron Ball, Justice of the Peace. Alterations of road on land of Joseph Kitchel, John N. Dorsey, and Elizabeth Biven.

Jehu A. Emerie – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors in Aurora

 

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Henry Walker, School Commissioner, filed report.

 

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No. 16 – Allowed to Thomas Bradley for service as Traverse Juror at Oct Term 1840

 

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No. 17 – Allowed to E. Dumont for Treasurer’s Books purchased

No. 18 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for books and stationery furnished clerk’s office

Townsend J. Taylor – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his grocery in Wilmington

Grand Jurors for October Term 1840 of Dearborn Circuit Court:

• Moses Latta
• Elias Chamberlin
• Nathaniel Todd, Sr.
• William Armstrong
• George P. Buell
• James Conley
• Abram Briggs
• Samuel Graham
• John Hill
• James Chisman
• Enoch Conger
• John P. Case
• Samuel Cole
• Vincent Roberts [crossed out]
• John B. Piatt
• Caleb A. Craft
• Jonathan Hill
• William Kittle
• John Brewington

 

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Petit Jurors for October Term 1840, 1st week:

• Elijah Huffman
• Jesse Vinson
• George Givens
• Isaac T. Cole
• Garret Swallow
• Robert P. Milliken
• David Johnson, Jr.
• James Rea, Sr.
• Conaway Bainum
• Randall Frazier
• Enoch W. Jackson
• David Barkdoll
• Abram Eversole
• Samuel Lewis
• Phineas Robinson
• George Elliott
• Samuel Osgood
• John Mahoney
• Edwin Canfield
• Benjamin F. Ferris
• John Hansel
• Sewetus Tufts
• Benjamin Sylvester
• Robert Mason

Petit Jurors for Oct Term 1840, 2nd week:

• Thomas Record
• Martin Powell
• Zara Vinson
• George Pate
• William Lemmon
• Daniel Hall
• John Jenkins
• Peter Henegan
• James Kelley
• Andrew Anderson
• Thomas T. Fenton
• John Jackson
• George G. Brown
• Thomas Ferrin
• Isaac Dunn
• John Durham, Sr.
• George Mendall
• Vinson Perdun
• John Freeland
• Enoch E. Adams
• Joseph Baricklow
• Thompson Doan
• Daniel Kelsey
• Daniel Bartholomew

Petit Jurors for Oct Term 1840, 3rd week:

• Charles Darragh
• William S. Grubbs
• John Gullet
• Aaron Pursell
• James [Thomas crossed out] Brewington
• Jehu A. Emril
• James Burk
• John Buffington, Jr.
• William Patterson
• Edward Grubbs
• Jacob W. Eggleston
• Tavner Cheek
• Abijah H. Wilson
• William Rawlings
• James Senegar
• Frederick Harwood
• William Alcott
• Thomas Bradley
• Daniel Taylor
• Stephen Stewart
• Soloman Kittle
• Amos T. Coyle
• Robinson Garner
• Isaac Alden

 

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Grand Jury for April Term 1841:

• Jonathan Lewis
• William J. McRary
• William Hutchins
• Ebenezer Roberts
• Jacob W. Blasedel
• William Kennedy
• Mahlon Brown
• Allen Wilber
• William S. Pate
• John Legg
• Robert Fowler
• James Wills
• John B. Clark
• Isaac Clark
• David Barnhart
• John Gray
• John Dawson
• Zachariah Barker

Petit Jurors for April Term 1841, 1st week:

• Allen Owen
• James Hibetts
• John B. Durbin
• John Crozier
• William P. Chisman
• Selah Holliday
• John B. Chisman
• John H. Oneal
• Robert Cofield
• John J. Levingston
• Martin Brace
• Vinsen Roberts
• Thomas Darling, Jr.
• Robert Harget
• Henry S. Pate
• Stephen D. Ludlow
• Robert Rumsey
• James V. Bruce
• Jones McCleaster
• James Foster
• James Tate
• Hugh Monroe
• Phineas L. King
• Mack Cheek

Petit Jurors for April Term 1841, 2nd week:

• Crocket Crandle
• Hosea Stillman
• John D. Bush
• John Munts
• Benjamin Plummer
• John H. Rigg
• Gardner Elliott
• Thomas Slack
• John Grace
• James G. Hunter
• Henry Collins
• Alexander Hopping
• David Nevitt
• John Hinkston
• William Daniels, Jr.
• Daniel Alden
• James Johnson
• Riley Elliott
• James Collins
• John McMath
• John Shoeman
• Samuel H. Dowden
• Charles Jolly
• Joseph M. Grove

Petit Jurors for April Term 1841, 3rd week:

• John Goodwin
• John Ferree
• Jacob P. Dunn
• John W. Cloud
• James Rand
• Andrew S. Morris
• Henry Hancock
• Samuel Tebbs
• George Baty
• Philemon Wilson
• John Mastin
• Israel C. Curtis
• Laben Brimwell
• John Tait [crossed out]
• Martin Dashiell
• Abram Hecter
• George Hume
• Isaac Oathoadt
• Claiborne Allen
• Gilbert T. Givens
• William Garrison
• Alvah Churchill
• Allen Mathew
• John French
• George Darling

 

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Shadrach Hathway – license to vend merchandise and groceries both foreign and domestic

Jemison & Stairet – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries in Rising Sun

Ebenezer Dumont, Treasurer, makes report.

 

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George Cornelius and Martin Trester, commissioners, make report on state road from Lawrenceburg to Napoleon. Met at office of Benjamin Fuller in Lawrenceburg Township. Fees for Cornelius, M. Trester and N. L. Squibb. George P. Buell files remonstrance and quashed. Objections answered by Abramah Rolland and others. Dunn & Spooner, for petititoners. Luther Plummer, Merrit Hubbell and Joseph Johnson appointed viewers to meet at house of David Conger to assess damages to Buell.

 

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No. 19 – Allowed to Francis Baldwin for holding inquest over dead man in the absence of Wm. Morgan, coroner

No. 20 – Allowed to Amaziah Bailey for making coffin for dead man and hauling same

No. 21 – Allowed to Baldwin & Shattock for digging grave and burying dead man above named

No. 22 – Allowed to Stephen Green for services as constable summoning Jury of Inquest &c. on above named dead man

No. 23 – Allowed to Dearborn County Democrat for publishing notice of above named dead man being found &c.

Charles W. Wright, agent to loan portion of Surplus Revenue, files bond with Benjamin Sylvester, David Tibbitts, General S. Jaquith, Reby Elliott, John B. Clark, James Walser, John Hansell, Hugh Noyes, William Tibbetts, George Cheek, William Dills, and Abram Ferris, as securities.

 

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No. 24 – Allowed to Josiah Chambers for paper furnished clerk’s office

David Williamson, Treasurer of Township No. 5, Range 3, makes report.

 

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No. 24 – Allowed to Abram B. Adams for assessing Lawrenceburg Township

No. 25 – Allowed to Enoch W. Jackson for assessing Miller Township

No. 26 – Allowed to William Rawling for assessing Kelso Township

No. 27 – Allowed to Charles Jolly for assessing Logan Township

No. 28 – Allowed to Israel Noyes for assessing Manchester Township

No. 29 – Allowed to David Kerr for assessing Laughery Township

No. 30 – Allowed to Samuel B. Wood for assessing Sparta Township

No. 31 – Allowed to Isaac Randall for assessing Clay Township

No. 32 – Allowed to William Gerrard for assessing Union Township

No. 33 – Allowed to Israel C. Curtis for assessing Centre Township

 

Page 70

Ebenezer Dumont appointed to examine books of John McPike as loaning agent and make settlement with him.

Charles Dashiell, Treasurer of Township No. 6, Range 3, makes report.

Ebenezer Dumont, Treasurer of Township 5, Range 2 West, makes report.

 

Page 71A

John Dale – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at Sparta Village in Sparta Township

James C. Cordy & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at their store in Wilmington

No. 34 – Allowed to Rewland and Lindsay for repairs to Clerk’s and Recorder’s offices and furnishing materials

Tax rates for 1840.

 

Page 71B

No. 35 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for one day at Asylum and five days service at April Session1840

No. 36 – Allowed to David Walser for one day at Asylum and five days service at April Session1840

No. 37 – Allowed to Aaron B. Henry for five days service at April Session1840

Daniel Roberts appointed director of the asylum.

Ordered change to jail being built by Timothy Kimble.

Board adjourned.

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the March 1840 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 3

March Term 1840

Page 26

Present:

• Charles Dashiell
• David Walser
• Aaron B. Henry

No. 1 – Allowed to John Cundale, superintendent of county asylum, for boarding paupers

No. 2 – Allowed to John Cundale for contingencies for the county asylum

Petition of Isaac and Daniel J. Hancock for building a bridge across South Hogan Creek is continued.

Petition of Philemon Wilson and John Smith – Ordered land be stricken off Sparta Township and attached to Laughery Township.

No. 3 – Allowed to Phineas S. King for services as Traverse Juror April Term 1838

No. 4 – Allowed to A. L. Bailey for services as director of the asylum

A. L. Bailey and William Harrison appointed directors of the asylum.

 

Page 27

Ebenezer Dumont appointed Treasurer.

John Benegar – license to vend merchandise in Lawrenceburg

Basil James – license to vend merchandise in Rising Sun

Petition for change in part of State Road from Lawrenceburg to Napoleon, Ripley County which is situated on lands of George P. Buell, Lawrenceburg Township. Road through land of Stpehn Ludlow, George P. Buell, Abraham Roland. Martin Trester, George Cornelius and William Pursell appointed viewers.

 

Page 28

William S. Smith – license to retail spirituous liquors in Lawrenceburg

Jacob Hayes, David Marsh and Enoch H. Miller made report on alteration in Manchester to Elizabethtown State Road. Edward B. Hunt, surveyor.

 

Page 29 [Continued.]

 

Page 30

Noyes Canfield, Abram Eversole and Thomas Tanner, Commissioners to view change in road from mouth of Hogan Creek to interect road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis near residence of William Perry, make report. Francis Baldwin and Aaron Ball, Justices of the Peace. Change petitioned by John Billingsley, William and Lewis Morgan, William Dils, the heirs of William Morgan, Henry Walker, and George Cheek. Road opened.

 

Page 31

David Tibbets, John Palmerton and Abram Ferris, Commissioners to assess damages to Enoch Miller from road from Lawrenceburg to Harrison, make report. Abram Ferris dissents. Benjamin Fuller, Justice of the Peace.

 

Page 32

Geo. W. Lane, Conaway Bainum and Stephen Buffington, commissioners to view change in state road from Aurora to Napoleon, petitioned for by Isaac and Daniel J. Hancock, made report. Israel C. Curtis, Justice of the Peace. Road ordered opened.

 

Page 33

No. 5 – Allowed to Thomas Baker for wood for Court House

No. 6 – Allowed to Z. A. Bonham for services as commissioner on state road from Harrison to Brookville

No. 7 – Allowed to Samuel Hollowell for same services

No. 8 – Allowed to Hugh McClure for same

No. 9 – Allowed to Lemuel Hudson for hauling from Lawrenceburg to Wilmington a model for the Tanners Creek Bridge

 

Page 34

Petition of John W. Dorsey, Joseph Ketchell and Elizabeth Bivan (widow of Thomas Bivan) for change in road from Aurora to interect road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis near residence of Stoekly Perry and Stokely Dils, which was located by Aaron B. Henry, William Perry and Abner Tibbetts. Samuel B. Wood, Elial Chaffin and John Chisman appointed viewers.

 

Page 35

No. 10 – Allowed to B. F. Ferris for shroud for pauper

No. 11 – Allowed to A. Bailey for making coffin for Mrs. Sarah Wills, a transient pauper

No. 12 – Allowed to William S. Mysnor for binding out Moore’s and Warner’s daughters

Levi Boyd – license to vend merchandise in Moore’s Hill

Board accepted proposals of Holman B. Cannon to keep paupers at asylum.

 

Page 36

Columbus S. Stevenson – license to vend merchandise and groceries at his store in Lawrenceburg

No. 13 – Allowed to M. H. Harding for medicine and attendance for paupers at the asylum

Warren Tebbs – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors in Harrison

Thomas Blith – license to retail spirituous liquors and groceries in Lawrenceburg

No. 14 – Allowed to Peter Spangler for keeping and removing James Hall, a transient pauper

Jacob Smith – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors in Kelso Township

 

Page 37

No. 15 – Allowed to Amour Flake and James Lindsay for building fire proof office in Wilmington for Clerk’s and Recorder’s offices

Proposal of Timothy Kimball accepted to build jail.

Ebenezer Dumont, County Treasurer, filed bond with Jacob Wiggleston, Noah Davis, Lemuel G. Elder, Phineas L. King, George Cornelius, William V. Cheek, James P. Millikin, Israel Noyes, Mahlon Powell, William Williams, Elial Chaffin and Stephen Wood, his securities.

No. 16 – Allowed to John Hansel for services rendered as visitor to the asylum

No. 17 – Allowed to George Arnold for services viewing road from Harrison in Logan Township and making return

No. 18 – Allowed to Merit Hubbell for viewing roads above named

No. 19 – Allowed to William Purcel

 

Page 38

No. 20 – Allowed to C. Crookshank for surveying road from Harrison in Logan Township

No. 21 – Allowed to Bowlby & Merril for chain carrying on above named road

Ebenezer Dumont, Treasurer, makes report.

 

Page 39

William V. Cheek, clerk of Circuit Court, files report. Names of persons fined at April and October Terms of Circuit Court 1839:

• James Vansickle – contempt – $3.00
• Edward Ricketts – failing to report – $3.00
• John Howard – disturbing religious ? – $5.00
• Henry McKenzie – failing to report – $3.00
• Hugh McClure – failing to report – $3.00
• John Daniels – failure to report – $3.00
• Henry Walker – contempt – $1.00
• Isaac W. White – trespass, A & B – $0.01
• Curry Bruce – riot – $10.00
• Michael Trester – trespass, A & B – $3.00
• James B. Hazlett – larceny – $15.00
• John Milburn – trespass, A & B – $2.00
• John Milburn – trespass, A & B – $2.00
• Amos T. Coyle – trespass, A & B – $3.00
• William Milburn – trespass, A & B – $3.00
• Alex. E. Glenn and Wm. Ozier – sci fa on recognizance – $50.00
• Alfred Brown – burglary and larceny – $30.00
• William P. Palmer – sci fa on recognizance – $250.00
• Thomas C. Hall – riot – $212.00
• Abijah A. Bennett – riot – $150.00
• Mathias Hall – riot – $25.00
• Peter Cruger – riot – $10.00
• James Tait – riot – $10.00
• Cornelius Snyder – riot – $35.00
• Joseph Trester and Thomas Folbre – not serving as juror – $2.00
• William Howe – indictment township juror – $5.00
• John Howard – trespass, A & B – $3.00
• Laura Kelsey – riot – $25.00
• Bartholomew Caldwell – trespass, A & B – $5.00
• John Wintermott and Wm. Mason – indict for petit larceny – $2.00
• Thomas Pain – retailing – $2.00
• Richard Rains – indict A & B – $3.00
• C. Bird Pate – adultery – $150.00
• Ebenezer Dumont – Indict betting – $5.00

 

Page 40

Petition by John Snider to review location of State Road from Harrison in Logan Township. Merit Hubble, George Arnold and Wm. Pursel, viewers, make report. George Bowlby, Justice of the Peace. Ordered opened.

 

Page 41 [Continued.]

 

Page 42

William G. Munroe, late treasurer, entitled to credit paid by him to John Cundale.

Charles W. Wright – license to vend merchandise and groceries in Manchester Township

Ephraim Glasgow, Wm. Glenn, John Columbia, James W. Weaver, Joel Lymer, George Cornelius, James Mills, Richd. H. Holman, Horrace Bassett, William Perry, Henry Walker and John Tait appointed trustees of County Seminary.

Thomas and James Stevenson – license to vend merchandise and groceries at Dillsboro

Thomas J. Taylor – license to vend merchandise and groceries in Aurora

John Dall – license to vend merchandise and groceries in Sparta Township

 

Page 43

Petition of Jacob Hayes and Job Miller for alteration in Rushville State Road from Lawrenceburg. Stephen Ludlow, Joshua Lanks and Geo. P. Buell, viewers, make report. Road ordered opened.

Board sells old jail to Timothy Kimball.

 

Page 44

Holman C. Camron (or Cannon), keeper of the asylum, filed bond with William Harrison, security.

 

Page 45

David Fitzgerald – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors in Manchester Township

Patrick O’Connor – license to keep a grocery to retail spirituous liquors in Kelso Township

William M. French – license to vend merchandise and groceries

No. 22 – Allowed to James Caldwell and Reuben C. Jackson for services as chain carrier

 

Page 46

No. 23 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for services as school trustee of Township 6, Range 3 West

No. 24 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for sundries furnished Clerk’s office, making out assessment rolls, extra services,

No. 25 – Allowed to James Mills (appointed to superintend erection of jail) to advance sum to Timothy Kimball, contractor to build jail

Order requiring Alexander H. Dill, late Clerk, to return to Clerk’s office books, papers, &c. which remained in his possession is rescinded.

M. H. Harding employed to attend to the Poor at the Asylum.

No. 26 – Allowed to William Dils, Sheriff, for extra services

 

Page 47

No. 27 – Allowed to Aaron B. Henry as Commissioner

No. 28 – Allowed to David Walser as commissioner

No. 29 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell as commissioner

No. 30 – Allowed to Henry Walker for extra services as school commissioner

Court adjourned.

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the February 1840 Called Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 3

February Called Session 1840

Page 24

Present:

• Charles Dashiell
• David Walser
• Aaron B. Henry
• Walter Kendel, Sheriff

Ebenezer Dumont appointed County Treasurer to fill place of William G. Monroe, deceased.

Ebenezer Dumont filed bond with Stephen Wood, Charles Bruce, Phineas L. King, Noyes Canfield, William V. Cheek, George Cornelius, John Columbia, Elial Chaffin, William Williams, Lemuel G. Eld?, William Glenn and John Levingston, as securities.

 

Page 25

Hugh Monroe pays county money left in his hands by William G. Monroe, deceased, to Ebenezer Dumont.

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the January 1840 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 3

January Session 1840

Page 1

Present:

• Charles Dashiell
• David Walser
• Aaron B. Henry

No. 1 – Allowed to John Cundale for keeping paupers

No. 2 – Allowed to Abram Enoch for removing John McNeely, a pauper

No. 3 – Allowed to J. Hains for boarding McNeal, a pauper

No. 4 – Allowed to the Dearborn County Democrat

No. 5 – Allowed to Milo Longwood for services as overseer of the poor in Laughery Township

No. 6 – Allowed to John Smith for keeping William Greenley, a pauper

No. 7 – Allowed to Jehue Goodwin for services on state road from Aurora to Dillsboro, assessing damages on said road

No. 8 – Allowed to A. L. Bailey for building stove at the asylum for insane persons

 

Page 2

No. 9 – Allowed to Jehu Goodwin for services as overseer of the poor, for services as Congressional School Trustee

No. 10 – Allowed to Spencer Davis for services assessing damage on the state road from Aurora to Dillsboro

No. 11 – Allowed to John Cundale for sundries furnished paupers at the asylum

No. 12 – Allowed to Elias Schooley for making two coffins for paupers

No. 13 – Allowed to Elizabeth Raney for keeping George Jefferson, a transient pauper

No. 14 – Allowed to Abram Carbaugh for repairing jail

No. 15 – Allowed to Dr. M. H. Harding for attending on paupers at the asylum

Samuel McMullen – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store in Manchester Township

Jacob Smith – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Kelso Township

 

Page 3

George W. Shane – license vend foreign and domestic groceries and spirituous liquors at his grocery in Shane’s Cross Roads

T. T. Cannon – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Kelso Township and license to vend groceries

John VanWedding – license to keep a grocery at his house in Jackson Township and license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors

Merit Hubbell – license to retail foreign merchandise and groceries at his store

Jeremiah Coughlan – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors in Kelso Township

John Hornburger – license to vend groceries and spirituous liquors at his grocery in Lawrenceburg

Matthew Hubbel, Jr. – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Jackson Township

 

Page 4

Josiah Belden – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at his house in New Lawrenceburg

Harris Fitch – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Lawrenceburg

Hugh Noyes – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Manchester Township

State Road from mouth of Hogan Creek to intersect State Road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis near residence of Stokely Dils and Stokely Perry ordered opened.

 

Page 5

Petition of John Snider, E. Bodine, David Shane, William Shane, Z. A. Bonham, and other freeholders of Logan Township for alteration in state road from Harrison through Logan Township. Road through lands of John Godley, John Snider, M. F. Bramble, John Gould. William Purcel, George Arnold, and Meritt Hubbell appointed viewers.

Henry Walker, School Commissioner, filed receipt from Milton Gregg for printing and publishing delinquent list. Receipt from Thomas Palmer, recorder.  Approved.

No. 16 – Allowed to Henry Wood for removing paupers

John B. Craft – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Rising Sun

John B. Craft – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store at James’ Mills

 

Page 6

No. 17 – Allowed to Robert Haddock for services as School Township Trustee

Stephen Liddle – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise at groceries at his store in Miller Township

James Miller – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Randolph Township

No. 18 – Allowed to Dr. George Sutton for professional services attending Orin Lewis, a pauper; for professional services and medicine for Penelope Gattenby, a pauper

No. 19 – Allowed to A. Bailey for making coffin for Penelope Gattenby, a pauper

Jehue Goodwin and Spencer Davis, commissioners to assess damages sustained by sundry persons whose land State Road leading from Aurora to Dillsboro, as laid out by Garret Swallow and John Hansel, make report.  Land of George W. Cochran, John Gullet, Mr. Zachariah Barker, Mr. Morehead. Richard H. Holman moves to set aside assessment and appoint new viewers. Ordered not paid.

 

Page 7

Jacob Harwood – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Wilmington

Moore & Brooks – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Sparta Township

Ordered John Levingston, Jr. be exempt from working on roads or highways and from payment of poll tax owing to being a cripple by an injured foot.

No. 20 – Allowed to Thomas Palmer for office rent, books and stationery, recording poor indentures

No. 21 – Allowed to William G. Monroe for services as superintendent for the building of a fire proof offices, for amount paid builders of the building

No. 22 – Allowed to James Mills for services superintending the building of the fire proof offices

 

Page 8

No. 23 – Allowed to A. J. Cotton for services as probate Judge at Oct Term 1839

No. 24 – Allowed to John Levingston for services as probate Judge at Oct Term 1839

Allowed to following persons for attending Circuit Court at Oct Term 1839:

• No. 25 – John Brewington for attending Grand Jury
• No. 26 – Jonathan Pate for summoning witnesses for Grand Jury
• No. 27 – Erastus Lathrop for same
• No. 28 – George Hume for same
• No. 29 – Isaac Jones for same
• No. 30 – Walter Kerr for same
• No. 31 – Lemuel G. Elder for Court Bailiff
• No. 32 – A. B. Adams for same
• No. 33 – Walter Kerr for same
• No. 34 – William Dils for cleaning Court House, &c.

No. 35 – Allowed to Amos Lane for defending prisoners

William G. Monroe and James Mills, superintendents of the building of a fire proof building for the clerk’s and recorder’s offices at Wilmington, made report. Amour Flake and James D. Lindsay to complete building.

 

Page 9

Jacob Hays and Job Miller file petition for change in Rushville State Road from Lawrenceburg. Road through land of Bullock’s ford, Jacob Hayes, Job Miller, the Guards. Stephen Ludlow, Joshua Stanks and George P. Buell appointed viewers.

 

Page 10

Allowed for services as Grand Jurors at Oct Term 1839:

• No. 36 – Thomas Jones
• No. 37 – Joel Decoursey
• No. 38 – Joseph Churchill
• No. 39 – Vachel Hobbs
• No. 40 – Jonathan Noble
• No. 41 – James Lyons
• No. 42 – Elisha Bodine
• No. 43 – John Larew
• No. 44 – Thomas Cooper
• No. 45 – Elias Little
• No. 46 – David Cook
• No. 47 – Amos Ross
• No. 48 – John Snyder
• No. 49 – David Conger
• No. 50 – David Durham

Allowed for services as Petit Jurors at Oct Term 1839:

• No. 51 – David Woodward
• No. 52 – Dorus Thompson
• No. 53 – Jacob Zeen
• No. 54 – Thomas Bailey
• No. 55 – James C. Cordry
• No. 56 – Joshua Brewington
• No. 57 – Samuel Jelly
• No. 58 – George W. Chisman
• No. 59 – Abram Rowland
• No. 60 – John Hall
• No. 61 – Jonathan Blasdell
• No. 62 – John McKernan
• No. 63 – Lewell Plummer
• No. 64 – William O’Neal
• No. 65 – John Gibson
• No. 66 – Christian Wilman
• No. 67 – Maxwell Heuston
• No. 68 – Joshua Haines
• No. 69 – Jacob Stopher
• No. 70 – William Wheeler
• No. 71 – Ingold Butterfield
• No. 72 – Ira Hill
• No. 73 – Randall Pate
• No. 74 – John F. Lemon
• No. 75 – George Cooper
• No. 76 – William Misner
• No. 77 – Jacob Morrisson
• No. 78 – Thomas H. Milburn
• No. 79 – Isaac Hancock
• No. 80 – William Barton, Sr.
• No. 81 – Reuben Goodwin
• No. 82 – Samuel McMullen
• No. 83 – John Engle
• No. 84 – Martin Trester
• No. 85 – Thomas Baker
• No. 86 – James Daughters
• No. 87 – Thomas Ehler
• No. 88 – Noah Dean
• No. 89 – John K. Lewis
• No. 90 – Charles W. Wright
• No. 91 – A. Y. Merriman
• No. 92 – Joshua Yerkins
• No. 93 – Sullivan Jaquith
• No. 94 – Asa Sheldon
• No. 95 – Benjamin Sellers
• No. 96 – Joel Lynn
• No. 97 – Jonathan Jones
• No. 98 – William Conaway
• No. 99 – Jacob D. Mason
• No. 100 – Samuel Osgood
• No. 101 – Elial Chaffin
• No. 102 – Daniel McMullen
• No. 103 – William Lindsay
• No. 104 – William Morgan
• No. 105 – Joshua Sanks
• No. 106 – Andrew Worley
• No. 107 – Francis Worley
• No. 108 – George W. Cochran
• No. 109 – Joseph Kitchell
• No. 110 – C. Bird Pate
• No. 111 – Samuel Ewing
• No. 112 – Lemuel G. Elder
• No. 113 – James Smith
• No. 114 – Isaac Jones
• No. 115 – Daniel Conaway
• No. 116 – Charles Bruce
• No. 117 – Jacob Hayes
• No. 118 – Hugh Ferry
• No. 119 – Jones McLeaster
• No. 120 – Benjn. Stockman
• No. 121 – Ezra Guard
• No. 122 – Erastus Lathrop
• No. 123 – John Durham
• No. 124 – James Chisman
• No. 125 – Eli Hill
• No. 126 – Campbell
• No. 127 – John P. Walker
• No. 128 – Isaac Miles
• No. 129 – Hugh Espy
• No. 130 – Charles Ewing

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Page 12

Commissioners appointed to assess damages to Enoch Miller in road from Lawrenceburg to Harrison failed to meet. David Tibbitts, John Palmerton and Abram Ferris reappointed commissioners to meet a office of Benjamin Fuller in New Lawrenceburg.

 

Page 13

Petition of John Billingsly for change in road from mouth of Hogan Creek to interect road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis near residence of William Perry. Land near William Upp. Abraham Eversole, Noyes Canfield and Thomas Tanner appointed viewers.

William and Lewis Morgan present petition for change in road from mouth of Hogan Creek to interect road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis near residence of William Perry. Abraham Eversole, Noyes Canfield and Thos. Tanner appointed viewers.

 

Page 14

No. 131 – Allowed to Jacob P. Dunn for service at April Term 1839 as Juror

No. 132 – Allowed to John Callahan for services as Juror at April Term 1839

No. 133 – Allowed to John Saltmarsh for service as juror at April Term 1839

No. 134 – Allowed to William Jackson for service as juror at April Term 1839

Clerk to retain county orders allowed to individuals for damages sustained by state road from mouth of Hogan Creek to interect road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis near residence of William Perry and Stokey Dils until road opened.

John B. Clark – license to retail merchandise and groceries at his store in Manchester Township

 

Page 15

William G. Monroe, Treasurer, makes report.

No. 135 – Allowed to E. B. Hunt for services surveying, fixing the grade of the river Hill and maping the state road from mouth of Hogan Creek to interect road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis near residence of Wm. Perry

No. 136 – Allowed to N. H. Torbet for attendance and medicine for Wintermott and Mason in jail

 

Page 16

No. 137 – Allowed to James Lyons for services as overseer of the poor for Caesars Creek Township

No. 138 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for books and stationery, for stoves and expenses, for office rent, for cord wood for court house

Jacob Harwood – license to vend groceries at his grocery in Wilmington

Morgan & Horton – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in New Lawrenceburg

George Ross – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in New Lawrenceburg

No. 139 – Allowed to Stephen C. Stevens for attending the suit of Stephen Wood against the County in the Circuit and Supreme Court

 

Page 17

No. 140 – Allowed to William H. Glasgow for keeping prisoners in jail, ironing same, firewood and sundries furnished prisoners

Isaac Hancock and Daniel J. Hancock present petition for change in State Road from Aurora to Napoleon. George W. Lane, Stephen Buffington and Conaway Bainum appointed viewers.

Henry Walker and George Cheek present petition for relocation of road from mouth of Hogan Creek to interect road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis near residence of William Perry. Noyes Canfield, Abraham Eversole and Thomas Tanner appointed viewers.

 

Page 18

William Dils, Ann Dils and Elizabeth Morgan present petition for relocation of road from mouth of Hogan Creek to interect road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis near residence of William Perry. Noyes Canfield, Abraham Eversole and Thomas Tanner appointed viewers.

 

Page 19

Abram B. Adams appointed assessor in Lawrenceburg Township.

Charles Jolly appointed assessor in Logan Township.

William Rawling appointed assessor in Kelso Township.

James Laurence appointed assessor in Jackson Township.

Israel Noyes appointed assessor in Manchester Township.

Enoch W. Jackson appointed assessor in Miller Township.

Samuel B. Wood appointed assessor in Sparta Township.

 

Page 20

David Kerr appointed assessor in Laughery Township.

Israel C. Curtis appointed assessor in Centre Township.

Isaac Randall appointed assessor in Clay Township

George Pate appointed assessor in Caesars Creek Township.

William Gerard appointed assessor in Union Township.

Martin Stewart appointed assessor in Randolph Township.

Hurlbert & Wood – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Aurora

 

Page 21

Enoch W. Jackson presents petition for alteration in Manchester and Elizabeth Town State Road. Jacob Hayes, David Marsh and Enoch Miller appointed viewers.

Lemuel E. Elder and Walter Kerr present petition for change in boundary line of Laughery Township. Ordered land included in Township.

Isaac Hancock and Daniel J. Hancock present petition to build a toll bridge over South Hogan Creek between Aurora and Wilmington.

 

Page 22

Thompson & H. L. Dean – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Aurora

County jail destroyed by fire. Proposals to be received.

No. 141 – Allowed to William Dils, Sheriff, for conveying prisoners to jail in Lawrenceburg, firewood and sundries procured for keeping prisoner at Lawrenceburg

Ordered Alexander Hamilton Dill, late clerk, return to clerk’s office all county books.

 

Page 23

No. 142 – Allowed to Stephen Merrick for temporary relief, to be under control of Benjamin Sylvester

No. 143 – Allowed to Elizabeth Lawrence for temporary relief, to be under control of Wm. V. Cheek

Ordered notice in for letting of the poor and the asylum.

No. 144 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell as commissioner and signing orders

No. 145 – Allowed to David Walser as commissioner

No. 146 – Allowed to Aaron B. Henry as commissioner

Court adjourned.

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the October 1839 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 2

October Session 1839

Page 463

Present:

• Charles Dashiell
• David Walser

Benjamin C. Eversole – license to vend spirituous liquors at grocery in Sparta Township

D. Blackamore Jr. – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries in Hartford

Ordered state road leading from Rising Sun to Versailles be opened 40 feet. Review made by William Patterson and Nathaniel L. Squibb.

No. 1 – Allowed to M. H. Harding for attendance and medicines for paupers at asylum

No. 2 – Allowed to John S. Burke for boarding Penelope Gattonby, a pauper

Wood & Kittle – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store

 

Page 464

George N. Hornburger – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors in Lawrenceburg

Ordered Directors of Asylum erect a building.

George Voglesang – license to keep a tavern and retail liquor

No. 3 – Allowed to John Candall for repairing fences on county land at asylum

No. 4 – Allowed to John Candale for keeping paupers

No. 5 – Allowed to John Candale for sundries for the benefit of paupers at asylum

 

Page 465

Commissioners appointed to assess damage on Aurora and Dillsboro Road by Zachariah Barker and others are appointed to assess damage sustained by John Gullet, Benjamin Tufts, Zachariah Barker, George W. Cochran, and Isaac Moorehead.

Wrixham West – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise and groceries

John Wymond – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise and groceries

Elijah S. Elder – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise and groceries

William W. Jordan – license to vend foreign and domestic merchandise and groceries

No. 6 – Allowed to William Dils for materials furnished for jail and expenses &c.

 

Page 466

No. 7 – Allowed to Noyes Canfield for wood for Court House and chopping same

No. 8 – Allowed to Thomas H. Milburn for lining jail

Henry Walker, School Commissioner, filed report. Bills of A. E. Glenn, Wm. P. Stratton.

No. 9 – Allowed to Samuel Fips for keeping Jane Poe, a pauper

Charles Deshiell appointed to employ a physician to attend paupers at asylum

No. 10 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for record for Circuit Court, 2 reams paper, pasteboard, and paper case for court house

Josiah Chambers – license granted

 

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No. 11 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for signing county orders and as Commissioner

No. 12 – Allowed to David Walser as Commissioner

No. 13 – Allowed to Aaron B. Henry as Commissioner

William G. Monroe, Treasurer, makes report.

 

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No. 14 – Allowed to Jehue Goodwin for service as overseer of poor

No. 15 – Allowed to John Levingson for service as associate judge

No. 16 – Allowed to A. J. Cotten for service as associate judge

Board adjourned.