The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the June 1843 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 3

June Session 1843

 

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Present:

• William S. Ward
• David Walser
• John Columbia

James M. Torrence – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Logan Township

Philip R. Bisaer – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Jackson Township

No. 864 – Allowed to Daniel Lynn for temporary relief of Mrs. Roney, a pauper

No. 865 – Allowed to James Cummins for making coffin for transient pauper

No. 866 – Allowed to Amaziah Bailey for making coffin for transient pauper

No. 867 – Allowed to Horace Porter for attending on and burying transient pauper

 

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No. 868 – Allowed to Thomas Wilson for his temporary relief

No. 869 – Allowed to Moses Turner for articles furnished transient paupers

No. 870 – Allowed to William E. Hoovle for coffin furnished transient pauper

No. 871 – Allowed to Daniel Tapley for sundries

No. 872 – Allowed to Randal Alexander for his temporary relief

No. 873 – Allowed to Thomas H. Milburn for boarding paupers at County Asylum

No. 874 – Allowed to Thomas H. Milburn for furnishing one thousand rails for County Farm

No. 875 – Allowed to William Dorsey for coffin for child

John C. Moore – license to vend merchandise and groceries at his store in Moores Hill

 

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Joseph Haburn – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Aurora

Roland & White – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Clay Township

John Ferris & Co. – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Lawrenceburg

James Freeman – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Lawrenceburg

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

James D. Linsday – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at house in Wilmington

Joseph Stenmatez – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store

 

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James P. Cannon – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store

No. 876 – Allowed to Oliver P. Levingston as amount refunded to him for giving up right to tavern license granted him last term

 

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Thomas Summers – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Rising Sun

Lemly & Dunn – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Lawrenceburg

T. J. Taylor & Co. – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Aurora

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

North & Son – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Randolph Township

 

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North & Powell – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Randolph Township

No. 877 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for stationery for clerk’s office

No. 878 – Allowed to John Buffington for taking paupers to county asylum from Centre Township

No. 879 – Allowed to John Brewington for boarding criminals at County Jail and sundries

No. 880 – Allowed to William Chase for articles furnished pauper in Randolph Township

No. 881 – Allowed to Tait & Summers for articles furnished paupers in Randolph Township

No. 882 – Allowed to John Tait for services as Treasurer of Township 3, Range [?] west

No. 883 – Allowed to Lewis B. Conger for assessing and for his deputies

No. 884 – Allowed to Lewis B. Conger for services on Board of Equalization

No. 885 – Allowed to Peter B. Vail for medicine furnished pauper

 

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No. 886 – Allowed to George Sutton for professional services attending transient paupers in Centre, Randolph and Laughery Townships

No. 887 – Allowed to Jeriah Chambers for articles furnished paupers

 

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Jacob Morrison, late keeper of county bridge at Aurora, filed report.

No. 888 – Allowed to Milo Black for professional services attending transient pauper in Lawrenceburg Township

No. 889 – Allowed to John Hubbard, a blind man, for his temporary relief

No. 890 – Allowed to Samuel Lewis for making coffin for James Roach, a pauper

 

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Grand Jury for October Term 1843:

• John Callehan of Lawrenceburg Township
• Elias Chamberlain of Manchester Township
• Andrew Lonergan of Kelso Township
• Silas Nowland of Miller Township
• Daniel Baldridge of Logan Township
• Van Hayes of Lawrenceburg Township
• James M. Boatman of Logan Township
• Philip Roland of Clay Township
• Martin Kelley of Kelso Township
• Lewis B. Hunt of Randolph Township
• Nathaniel Todd, Sr. of Sparta Township
• Patrick O’Brien of Jackson Township
• John Elliott of Randolph Township
• Simon Conaway of Union Township
• Stephen Hastings of Union Township
• Thomas McClure of Logan Township
• Bradford B. Loring of Randolph Township
• George Ross of Lawrenceburg Township

 

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Traverse Jury for October Term 1843, 1st week:

• John B. Powell of Laughery Township
• John B. Kesler of Kelso Township
• Abram Roland of Lawrenceburg Township
• Armstead Abbott of Centre Township
• George Smith of Clay Township
• Thomas Smith of York Township
• George W. Chisman of Centre Township
• W. C. Johnson of Caesars Creek Township
• Henry S. Black of Jackson Township
• John Pritchard of Sparta Township
• Joseph Lounsbury of York Township
• Alexander Steele of Centre Township
• Reuben Tucker of York Township
• John W. Hall of Randolph Township
• Jesse Laird of Lawrenceburg Township

Traverse Jury for October Term 1843, 2d week:

• Daniel Taylor of Jackson Township
• John Frazier of Miller Township
• John Campbell of Miller Township
• Robert M. Fowler of Lawrenceburg Township
• Milo Longwood of Centre Township
• Thomas Guion of Clay Township
• Rogers Ide of Sparta Township
• Johnson Watts of Caesars Creek Township
• Matthew Shoan of Miller Township
• Elial Chaffin of Sparta Township
• Thomas Cottingham of Logan Township
• Noah C. Durham of Manchester Township
• James Kelso of Kelso Township
• Abram Eversole of Sparta Township
• William Hansell of Miller Township

 

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Traverse Jury for October Term 1843, 3d week:

• John D. Conaway of Laughery Township
• Thomas Hansel of Manchester Township
• James T. Connell of Union Township
• Amos Ross of Manchester Township
• Abram Showalter of Jackson Township
• Henry Brown of Randolph Township
• Vergil Dowden of York Township
• John J. French of Randolph Township
• John Shanks of Miller Township
• William White of Kelso Township
• Elijah Fuller of Sparta Township
• James O. Smith of Clay Township
• James Laurence of Jackson Township
• Elijah Huffman of Laughery Township
• Stephen Buffington of Laughery Township

Traverse Jury for October Term 1843, 4th week:

• James McLester of Lawrenceburg Township
• Sparks Blasdell of Miller Township
• James Cummins of Centre Township
• William T. Pate of Randolph Township
• Silas Wicks of Manchester Township
• Daniel Plumer, Jr. of Manchester Township
• Jacob J. Hoak of Lawrenceburg Township
• Isaac Alden of Jackson Township
• Aaron L. Goble of Lawrenceburg Township
• Jeremiah Caughlin of Kelso Township
• Claiborn Allen of Laughery Township
• Daniel R. L. Morgan of Kelso Township
• Isaac Morris of Manchester Township
• Calvin Marble of Randolph Township
• John W. Dorsey of Manchester Township

 

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Grand Jury for April Term 1844:

• James Lindsay of Laughery Township
• William Cairns of Jackson Township
• Oliver Judd of Logan Township
• John Hunter of Randolph Township
• Ayers Bramble of Clay Township
• Hugh Scott of York Township
• Amos Noyes of Manchester Township
• Samuel Saltmarsh of Lawrenceburg Township
• Jeremiah Smith of Randolph Township
• Christopher C. Jaquith of Manchester Township
• Conrod Row of York Township
• Charles Briggs of Logan Township
• William Burrows of Clay Township
• Jacob N. Patton of Lawrenceburg Township
• Riley Elliott of Manchester Township
• Reed Crandall of Caesars Creek Township
• David Conger of Manchester Township
• William Bainum of Laughery Township

Traverse Jury for April Term 1844, 1st week:

• Robert Lancaster of Miller Township
• Wilson Dorman of Sparta Township
• Joseph Kitchell of Manchester Township
• Percy Wheeler of Sparta Township
• Seth Platt of Manchester Township
• James Thimpson of Lawrenceburg Township
• John Winkley of Centre Township
• John Luter of Manchester Township
• Michael Flake of Laughery Township
• Joseph Trester of Centre Township
• Oliver P. Ludlow of Lawrenceburg Township
• Obediah Bailey of Sparta Township
• Charles D. Elder of Laughery Township
• Samuel Trester of Centre Townshiop
• Humphery Cane of Clay Township

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Traverse Jury for April Term 1844, 3d week:

• Ezekiel M. Knapp of Miller Township
• Jonathan Blasdell of Miller Township
• James Lyons of Caesars Creek Township
• William Wade of Randolph Township
• George Goulding of Laughery Township
• Joseph P. Richardson of Randolph Township
• William Stone of Jackson Township
• Ellis W. Brown of Lawrenceburg Township
• James P. Milliken of Manchester Township
• Uriah Stevens of Centre Township
• John N. Cochran of Centre Township
• William P. Chisman of Manchester Township
• Lewis B. Conger of Jackson Township
• Elias Little of Sparta Township
• Henry Miller of Union Township

Traverse Jury for April Term 1844, 2d week:

• Thomas Lindsay of Randolph Township
• Cornelius S. Faulkner of Sparta Township
• Marshal Elliott of Caesars Creek Township
• Jacob Rees of Lawrenceburg Township
• Alexander Hopping of Centre Township
• John Downey of Union Township
• Daniel Weason of Kelso Township
• Wilson H. Swales of Logan Township
• Isaac Stone of Randolph Township
• William Roland of Kelso Township
• William Wood of Union Township
• Horace Porter of Randolph Township
• John Hill of Manchester Township
• John W. Cloud of Logan Township
• William Griffin of Centre Township

 

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Traverse Jury for April Term 1844, 3d week:

• Warrin Tebbs of Logan Township
• Martin W. Arnold of Sparta Township
• James McGinnis of York Township
• Wrixham West of Lawrenceburg Township
• Merrit Hubbell of Jackson Township
• Mahlon Brown of Union Township
• William Patterson of Caesars Creek Township
• Aaron Miller of Clay Township
• James Bostick of Clay Township
• John Bronely, Jr. of Sparta Township
• Thomas W. Pate of Caesars Creek Township
• Edmund Squibb of Randolph Township
• James McLain of Clay Township
• Christian Lostutter of Randolph Township
• John Chanse of Sparta Township

William McBride, toll gatherer of Aurora Bridge, filed report.

 

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No. 891 – Allowed to Ellen Watkins for nursing a pauper in Centre Township

No. 892 – Allowed to Riley Holaway for nursing, burying, &c. a transient pauper in Centre Township

No. 893 – Allowed to Charles W. Hutchins for work on blanks

No. 894 – Allowed to George Sutton for his professional services attending on pauper

No. 895 – Allowed to William H. Glassgow for sundries

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

Jones & Bruce – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Wilmington

No. 896 – Allowed to Mahlon Powell for services as Sheriff

 

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No. 897 – Allowed to E. Morgan for book for auditor’s office

No. 898 – Allowed to Ebenezer Dumont for books for treasurer’s office

Tax rates for 1843.

 

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No. 899 – Allowed to Jonathan Dearborn for making desk for Probate Court

No. 900 – Allowed to William A. Kerr for estray pen

No. 901 – Allowed to William A. Kerr for digging grave for James Roach, a pauper

No. 902 – Allowed to William A. Kerr for cutting wood for Court House

No. 903 – Allowed to B. J. Z. Beal for professional services attending Frederick Hoff

No. 904 – Allowed to Levin B. Lewis for advances made to Nancy Stout, a pauper in Lawrenceburg Township

No. 905 – Allowed to Sebastian Striegel for boarding, nursing and taking care of Frederick Huff, a pauper of Laughery Township

No. 906 – Allowed to William Bainum for cord of wood for Court House

No. 907 – Allowed to Benjamin Vail for stationery for auditor’s office

No. 908 – Allowed to George W. Lane for services as Auditor

 

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Petition for alteration of York Township. Continued.

Citizens in neighborhood of Aurora Bridge want bridge to be free. Will be made free when people pay the balance due Lane & Buell for purchase.

Thomas Annis, Treasurer of Congressional Township, made report. Includes reports of:

• Thomas Annis, Township 6, Range 1
• Abram Hyter, Township 7, Range 1
• Jesse Wilson, Township 4, Range 2
• John R. Ross, Township 5, Range 2
• Charles Dashiell, Township 6, Range 3
• Robert Harris, Township 3, Range 2
• James McKee, Township 7, Range 2
• John Hunter, Township 3, Range 1
• James P. Mulleken, Township 6, Range 2
• James O. Smith, Township 5, Range 3
• John J. French, Township 4, Range 1
• James Rand, Township 4, Range 3
• William T. Harris, Township 5, Range 1
• D. Hathaway, Township 7, Range 3

 

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George W. Lane, Auditor, made report of Receipts and Expenditures.

 

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Ebenezer Dumont, Treasurer, made report.

 

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Board approved reports of Auditor and Treasurer.

Court adjourned.

 

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