Dearborn County Commissioners – Jan 1851 Called Session

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the January 1851 Called Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 5

January Called Session 1851

Page 133

Present:

  • Jonathan Hallowell
  • William S. Ward
  • Zera Vinson

Application for location of a highway through lands of Omer Tousey, Mary Pinkard  Margaret Pinkard, Catharine Pinkard, William Pinkard, Thomas Pinkard, heirs of Catharine Pinkard, deceased; Andrew Morgan, John Callahan, John Rees, David Rees, Amos Rees, John Billingsley, Perry Cobb, Mack Cheek, Lazarus Cheek, Strawder Cheek, George W. Cheek, William Cheek, Harry Cheek and McDonald Cheek, heirs of George Cheek, deceased; and Henry Walker. William T. Ferris and other file petition.

 

Page 134

Board purchased from Samuel Murphy land for use of County Asylum.

Court adjourned.