The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the June 1845 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 3

June Session 1845

 

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Present:

• David Walser
• John Columbia
• William S. Ward

Auditor to issue licenses to clock peddlers.

No. 1967 – Allowed to Lemley & Dunn for articles furnished paupers

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

No. 1968 – Allowed to Samuel James for boarding Mills Robinson, an insane man

No. 1969 – Allowed to David Conger for assessing

No. 1970 – Allowed to Daniel Conaway for assessing

 

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No. 1971 – Allowed to James Carpenter for assessing

No. 1972 – Allowed to William Donlan for assessing

No. 1973 – Allowed to Daniel R. L. Morgan for assessing

No. 1974 – Allowed to Aaron L. Goble for assessing

No. 1975 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for wood, freight and quills, &c.

No. 1976 – Allowed to Jotham Clark for digging graves for paupers

J. Hancock makes report of tolls collected from South Hogan Bridge.

No. 1977 – Allowed to Norval Sparks for articles furnished Probate Court

No. 1978 – Allowed to Norval Sparks fro articles furnished paupers

 

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Norval Sparks – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

No. 1979 – Allowed to William Smith for boarding pauper in Logan Township

No. 1980 – Allowed to Charles Sortwell for boarding and nursing pauper

No. 1981 – Allowed to Milo Black for professional services

No. 1982 – Allowed to John F. Richards for boarding criminals &c.

 

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No. 1983 – Allowed to Jones & Brewington for boxes furnished clerk’s office to remove the records and books from Wilmington to Lawrenceburg

No. 1984 – Allowed to George Lam for his temporary relief

No. 1985 – Allowed to Thomas Palmer for books and stationery furnished Recorder’s office

No. 1986 – Allowed to John Ferris & Co. for stationery furnished Auditor’s and Clerk’s office

No. 1987 – Allowed to John Ferris & Co. for articles furnished paupers

No. 1988 – Allowed to Daniel Lynn for temporary relief of Mrs. Roney

No. 1989 – Allowed to John Palmerton for part of interest paid on judgments in Circuit Court against Palmerton for loans of Surplus Revenue

 

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No. 1990 – Allowed to Nelson H. Torbet, Treasurer, for table and rent of office

No. 1991 – Allowed to Seth Mayhew for articles furnished paupers

No. 1992 – Allowed to Enoch W. Jackson for services as commissioner in viewing road in Kelso Township

No. 1993 – Allowed to Myron H. Harding for professional services attending paupers

No. 1994 – Allowed to Morgan and Harding for professional services attending infirm paupers

No. 1995 – Allowed to Morgan & Harding for professional services attending paupers

No. 1996 – Allowed to Thomas H. Milburn for boarding paupers at County Asylum

No. 1997 – Allowed to Thomas H. Milburn for coffin furnished pauper at asylum

No. 1998 – Allowed to A. L. Bailey for services as visitor at County Asylum

No. 1999 – Allowed to Thomas B. Motherall for removing Franks to graveyard

No. 2000 – Allowed to Cyrus Armstrong for 3 coffins for paupers

 

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No. 2012 – Allowed to Cyrus Armstrong for stools and table furnished clerk’s office

No. 2003 – Allowed to Black & Dunn for professional services attending paupers

John Ferris & Co. – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

Jones & Brewingto – license to keep a store in Wilmington

Seth Mayhew – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

 

T. J. Taylor – license to keep a store in Aurora

No. 2004 – Allowed to James P. Milliken for reviewing road in Kelso Township

 

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Thomas J. Taylor – license to keep a store in Aurora

Joseph Haburn – license to keep a store in Aurora

Gillon and Green – license to keep a store in Aurora

Allowed to Samuel McMath for surveying and making plat of school lands

Allowed to Patrick O’Brien for surveying and appraising land

Allowed to Bryant Connelly for surveying and appraising school lands

Allowed to John W. Engle for surveying and appraising school lands

 

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Enoch W. Jackson, Jas. T. Milliken, commissioners to view and vacate part of State Road from Harrison to Napoleon, made report.

Joseph Stevens, Enoch H. Miller and others presented a petition for change in location of State Road from Lawrenceburg to Brookville. Near lands of Thos. Miller. Jonathan Blasdell, John Dawson and Stephen Liddle appointed commissioners to view.

 

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Levin B. Lewis – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

Wymond & Ferris – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

Durham and Clark – license to keep a store in Wilmington

Warren Tebbs – license to keep a tavern in Harrison

Jacob Graff – license to keep a tavern in Manchester

 

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No. 2004 – Allowed to Brown & Dumont for professional services recovering judgments in Circuit Court

No. 2005 – Allowed to J. B. Gerard for professional services attending pauper

Thomas Annis of Miller Township, Timothy Kimball of Laughery Township and William Tate of Lawrenceburg appointed to examine jails in Wilmington and Lawrenceburg and report differences.

 

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No. 2006 – Allowed to Lewis Nichols for removing pauper to County Asylum

No. 2008 – Allowed to Benjamin Johnson for temporary relief of his son

No. 2011 – Allowed to James Cummings for coffin for pauper in Centre Township

Henry Moran, collector of tolls for Aurora Bridge, made report.

Matthew Hubbell – license to keep a store in Jackson Township

 

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Grand Jury for November Term 1845:

• Obadiah Bailey of Sparta Township
• Lemuel G. Elder of Laughery Township
• William Roland of Kelso Township
• William F. Stevens of Centre Township
• Alexander Fairbanks of Manchester Township
• Cornelius Vanhorn of York Township
• Isaac Hagen of Jackson Township
• Aaron B. Henry of Centre Township
• John Smith of York Township
• John Cheetham of Harrison Township
• Alfred J. Cotton of Manchester Township
• William Dunn of Manchester Township
• Josiah Morehead of Clay Township
• John Latham of Centre Township
• Thomas Guion of Clay Township
• Samuel McKinley of Jackson Township
• Humphrey Kain of Clay Township
• David R. Frayce of Miller Township

 

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Traverse Jury for November Term 1845, 1st week:

• Andrew Lonergan of Kelso Township
• John Showalter of Jackson Township
• William T. Heuckson of Logan Township
• William Lawden of Laughery Township
• Stokely Dils for Manchester Township
• Elliott Wills of Sparta Township
• Joseph Proctor of York Township
• Charles Bruce of Laughery Township
• Dewitt Fisher of Manchester Township
• Hamilton Conaway of Clay Township
• Thomas Holdren of Harrison Township
• Masten Dashiell of Sparta Township
• David Ellis of Manchester Township
• Timothy Kimball of Laughery Township
• Samuel Chapman of Kelso Township

Traverse Jury for November Term 1845, 2nd week:

• Harrison Dawson of Miller Township
• A. R. Stewart of Kelso Township
• Charles Jolley of Logan Township
• John Bromley Jr. of Sparta Township
• Elias Hustis of Manchester Township
• Joshua Seth of Centre Township
• James H. Thompson of Jackson Township
• Robert Cassiday of Harrison Township
• John Wilson of Laughery Township
• Charles Osborn of Jackson Township
• Joshua Brewington of Laughery Township
• Matthew Swan of Miller Township
• John Comforth of Clay Township
• Samuel Trester of Centre Township
• Washington Everson of Logan Township

 

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Traverse Jury for November Term 1845, 3rd week:

• Francis A. Walzer of Kelso Township
• John Blasdell of York Township
• William Stonex of Jackson Township
• Benjamin Fowler of Clay Township
• Thomas Jones of Kelso Township
• Levi Laird of Lawrenceburg Township
• John Saltmarsh of Lawrenceburg Township
• Isaac Oudthont of Sparta Township
• John T. Walker of Laughery Township
• James Mortungh of Kelso Township
• Stephen Green of Centre Township
• Lowery Loster of Jackson Township
• Laurence McGinn of Kelso Township
• Reuben Moore of Lawrenceburg Township
• William Dils of Manchester Township

Traverse Jury for November Term 1845, 4th week:

• William B. Miller of Sparta Township
• William Bennett of Manchester Township
• William Griffin of Centre Township
• William Wymond of Lawenceburg Township
• Wilson Donnan of Sparta Township
• Daniel Taylor of Jackson Township
• Patrick O’Brien of Jackson Township
• Amer Flake of Laughery Township
• Layanis Cheek of Center Township
• James Walden of Miller Township
• O. B. Priest of Lawrenceburg Township
• C. S. Faulkner of Sparta Township
• Cyrus Smith of Manchester Township
• Edward Evans of Manchester Township
• Newton M. Canfield of Centre Township

 

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Grand Jury for May Term 1846:

• Levi Bryd of Sparta Township
• Charles Dashiell of Sparta Township
• James Fowler of Lawrenceburg Township
• Thomas Langdalof of Miller Township
• Richard Hubbard of Clay Township
• William Church of York Township
• Conaway Bainum of Centre Township
• Asa Jackson of Laughery Township
• Jeremiah Newlin of Miller Township
• William Chappellon of Logan Township
• James Hibbetts of Lawrenceburg Township
• George W. Chisman of Centre Township
• John Dowlin of Kelso Township
• Daniel Chidester of York Township
• Bernard Daugherty of Kelso Township
• Spencer Davis of Sparta Township
• Stephen M. Day of Manchester Township
• Matthew Hubbell of Jackson Township

Traverse Jury for May Term 1846, 1st week:

• Benjamin Gould of Manchester Township
• Stephen Liddle Jr. of Miller Township
• Joseph Stevens of Miller Township
• Robert Turner of Caesars Creek Township
• John McMath of York Township
• John Buffington Jr. of Centre Township
• Thomas W. Pate of Caesars Creek Township
• John Huddleston of York Township
• Bryant Connelly of Jackson Township
• Isaac T. Cole of Clay Township
• Joel Lynn of Laughery Township
• William Caniday of Logan Township
• James Palmer of Kelso Township
• Isaac Shutts of Sparta Township
• William Hutchens of Lawrenceburg Township

 

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Traverse Jury for May Term 1846, 2nd week:

• Benjamin Burlinghame of Laughery Township
• William Misner of Clay Township
• Thomas Wright of Centre Township
• Nathaniel Leonard of Harrison Township
• William Cunfield of Manchester Township
• James Lyons of Caesars Creek Township
• Hiram Lamkin of Centre Township
• Thomas M. Brackenridge of Harrison Township
• George Durling of Manchester Township
• Jacob Hollowell of Logan Township
• Jefferson Rittenhouse of Harrison Township
• A. J. Alden of Jackson Township
• Henry White of Logan Township
• James D. English of Sparta Township
• Benjamin Sellers of Laughery Township

Traverse Jury for May Term 1846, 3rd week:

• Joshua Lawes of Sparta Township
• Thomas Bullock of Lawrenceburg Township
• Thomas Annis of Miller Township
• Jeremiah Howerton of Manchester Township
• Walter Kerr of Laughery Township
• Edward Rowe of Harrison Township
• William Cannes of Jackson Township
• Covington Cornelius of Harrison Township
• Jacob F. Corder of Lawrenceburg Township
• John D. Crontz of Lawrenceburg Township
• John McConnell of Laughery Township
• Oliver P. Ludlow of Lawrenceburg Township
• Ephraim Littell of Sparta Township
• James McLain of Clay Township
• George Runnells of Logan Township

 

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• Traverse Jury for May Term 1846, 4th week:
• Michael Kelley of Kelso Township
• Joshua Shane of Logan Township
• John Barton of Manchester Township
• Cyrus Armstrong of Lawrenceburg Township
• Selah Judd of Harrison Township
• Simeon Vinson of Clay Township
• Samuel Osgood of Miller Township
• Christopher Rowe for Kelso Township
• Daniel S. Craig of Miller Township
• Samuel Hudson of Lawrenceburg Township
• George Givan of Manchester Township
• Israel Cust of Lawrenceburg Township
• Justus M. Cure of Laughery Township
• Robert P. Lancaster of Miller Township
• John Crozier of Miller Township

No. 2012 – Allowed to Columbus S. Stevenson for rent of house furnished paupers

No. 2026 – Allowed to Jacob F. Crider for wood furnished paupers

No. 2027 – Allowed to Mayhew and Watts for articles furnished paupers

 

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Houck & Weadelstaadt – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

No. 2013 – Allowed to John Ferris & Co. for quills and paper furnished clerk’s office

No. 2014 – Allowed to Houck & Weadelstaedt for a chain for gate to Court House yard

No. 2015 – Allowed to Hiram Ferrand for boarding and nursing pauper

No. 2016 – Allowed to Andrew Lonergan for assessing

No. 2037 – Allowed to Richard Sopris for funeral expenses of pauper in Centre Township

 

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Taxes levied for 1845.

 

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David Rummell – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Sparta

W. Comegys – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Lawrenceburg

John C. Moore – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Sparta Township

George Morrison – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Centre Township

 

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Henry Walters – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Manchester Township

Conger and Plummer – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Manchester Township

John F. & Davis W. Cheek – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Lawrenceburg

Gusy Moore appointed surveyor. [Benjamin crossed out.]

No. 2021 – Allowed to Randall Alexander for his temporary relief

No. 2022 – Allowed to Ananias Evans for temporary relief

 

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Report of visitor of County Asylum by Benjamin Resunner and A. L. Baiiley.

Paupers present:

• Abram Peters
• Clarrisa Orchard
• Wenney Hannegan
• Henry Andrews
• Hannah White
• John Hannegan
• William Holmes
• Elizabeth Love
• John Harrison
• Daniel Schaffer
• Lydia Ann White

Discharged last quarter:

• Martin Alexander
• Rebecca Fenton
• Julia Ann Dawson and child

Died

• Nella Spires (23 Mar 1845)

Report of Nelson H. Torbet, Treasurer.

Court adjourned.