The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the May 1836 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.
Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 2
May Session 1836
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Present:
- George Arnold
- John Neal
- Charles Dashiell
No. 1 – Allowed to John Weaver, Sheriff, for his extra service and one cord of wood for court house and cutting same
No. 2 – Allowed to James Dill for his extra services
No. 3 – Allowed to Alexander H. Dill for rent of clerk’s office
No. 4 – Allowed to Prudence Tryon for boarding and keeping Huldah and Mary Jane Fairfield
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Petition of James Murray and sundry other householders for alteration of state road from Rising Sun to Cross Plains, Ripley County. Rejected.
No. 5 – Allowed to Daniel Kelsey for services as School Trustee of School Section 16, Township 5, Range 3 West
No. 6 – Allowed to Philip Rowland for services as School Trustee of School Section 16, Township 5, Range 3 West
Lewis & Hobbs – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Lawrenceburg
Bowman & Rush – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign merchandise at their grocery in Rising Sun
John Langley – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign merchandise and domestic groceries and spirituous liquors at his house in Aurora
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R. E. McCreary – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise at his store at Moore’s Hill
Road report of road commencing at end of Jonathan Vail’s lane to front of Elial Chaffin’s house to Peter Hennegan’s house. Wm. Hancock, Harvey Moss and Phineas L. King, commissioners. Part of alteration opened.
No. 7 – Allowed to William Brown balance on contract for carpenter’s work and materials furnished poor asylum
No. 8 – Allowed to Dr. John S. Percival for medicine and attendance on prisoners in jail
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No. 9 – Allowed to Crontz & Patton for services in ironing prisoners
No. 10 – Allowed to Betsey Burroughs for boarding and keeping Mary Ann McBride, a pauper
No. 11 – Allowed to John Cundale for boarding and keeping Roswell Crow, a pauper
No. 12 – Allowed to James Matthews for boarding and keeping Patrick McGuir, a pauper
Elisha Bodine – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Logan Township
Edward S. Bush – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Lawrenceburg
Philip Eastman – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Rising Sun
No. 13 – Allowed to Simon Tozier on account of a contract for keeping the poor asylum
No. 14 – Allowed to John Stewart for boarding and keeping Lucy Simons, a pauper
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No. 15 – Allowed to Samuel Fuller for boarding and keeping Ephraim Russel and Hiram Russel
No. 16 – Allowed to Dr. John Edwards for medical attendance to paupers
No. 17 – Allowed to Heaculanium Russell for attendance to Ephraim Russell, a pauper
No. 18 – Allowed to Edward Williams for boarding and keeping Maria Matthews, a pauper
No. 19 – Allowed to Hugh McMullen for boarding and keeping Elismer Gay, a pauper
No. 20 – Allowed to Amster Pote for boarding and keeping Elismer Gay, a pauper
No. 21 – Allowed to Samuel M. Mullen for boarding and keeping Ann Saunders, a pauper
No. 22 – Allowed to Richard Ellenwood for boarding and keeping James Saunders, a pauper
No. 23 – Allowed to James Daugherty for boarding and keeping Abram Peters, a pauper
No. 24 – Allowed to Israel Tennis for medicine and attendance Hannah Lewis, a pauper
No. 25 – Allowed to Plummer & Hansel for goods furnished paupers
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No. 26 – Allowed to Thomas Tryon for goods furnished Hannah Lewis, a pauper
Norval & Green Sparks – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Lawrenceburg
John Benneger and Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Lawrenceburg
John P. Dunn & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Lawrenceburg
Walter Armstrong, Treasurer – report
James M. Darragh – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Lawrenceburg
No. 27 – Allowed to Shields & Moss for plastering poor asylum
Moses Turner – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Rising Sun
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Haines & Lanius – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Rising Sun
Walter Armstrong’s Treasurer’s report.
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Peter Brown – license to vend foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Rising Sun
Thomas Davis – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Rising Sun
John Weaver, Sheriff, authorized to procure clothes for prisoners.
J. H. Lane – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Lawrenceburg
Allowances for Grand Jurors, March Term 1836:
- No. 28 – Thomas Darling
- No. 29 – Mark McCracken
- No. 30 – Benjamin Noyes
- No. 31 – Thomas Howard
- No. 32 – Samuel Fulton
- No. 33 – Thomas Palmer
- No. 34 – Harvey Moss
- No. 35 – John Chance
- No. 36 – Elias Litte
- No. 37 – Jeremiah Crosby
- No. 38 – Jacob Fielding
- No. 39 – Henry Walker
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Allowances to Petit Jurors, March Term 1836:
- No. 40 – Joshua Sanks
- No. 41 – Thomas Kirkpatrick
- No. 42 – Mahlon Brown
- No. 43 – Robinson Gardner
- No. 44 – Robert Moore
- No. 45 – James Cannon
- No. 46 – George Abraham
- No. 47 – Elijah Fuller
- No. 48 – James Daughters
- No. 49 – Thomas Wills
- No. 50 – Edward Owens
Allowances to Constables, March Term 1836:
- No. 51 – Francis Baldwin
- No. 52 – John H. O’Neal
- No. 53 – James C. Cloud
No. 54 – Allowed to Maria Huffman for boarding and keeping Nancy Dawson and child, paupers
Grand Jury selection for September Term 1836:
- John Monroe
- George Towsey
- Abraham Showalter
- Abraham Eversole
- Elijah Lindsy
- Daniel Roberts
- Stephen Liddle
- George Pate
- Z. A. Bonham
- George Clarke
- John B. Clark
- Julius James
- Jacob Dennis
- William How
- John Larew
- Thomas Slack
- Abraham Perdun
- John Binnegar
Petit Jurors for September Term 1836, 1st week:
- Amaziah Bailey
- Nathan Finch
- James Billingsly
- George Waldroff
- John C. Moore
- Andrew Anderson
- James McKinney
- Samuel Hollowill
- John Gibson, Jr.
- Levi Miller
- Luther Plummer
- William Wheeler
- James Rabb
- Mason J. Cloud
- George P. Buell
- William Perry
- Patrick Hume
- William Higby
- William H. Loyd
- William Johnson
- John Clifton
- James Woods, Sr.
- Warren Tibbs
- Enoch W. Jackson
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Petit Jurors for September Term 1836, 2nd week:
- William Patterson
- George Mendell
- Jesse Laird
- John Columbia
- Charles McClary
- James Leonard
- Nathaniel Clark
- Isaac Adair
- Hugh Noyes
- John Kelso
- Albert Dils
- Cornelius Vanhorn
- John McGaffin
- James Clement
- John M. Patrick
- John Buffington
- William Pursell
- Arthur St. Clair Vance
- William Allen
- John Godley
- John Snyder
- Thomas Ewbank
- James Randall
- Elisha Mettler
Grand Jurors for March Term 1837:
- Joshua Sanks
- Samuel Ewing
- Isaac Clark
- William Tate
- Samuel B. Wood
- William Wade
- Stephen Ludlow
- Elisha Bodine
- Claiborn Allen
- Samuel Jackson
- Gilbert Platt
- John Clarke
- William Shepherd
- Peter Hennegin
- Garret Larew
- Elias Hustis
- James Maxwell
- Leonard Spicknall
Petit Jurors for March term 1837, 1st week:
- William Olcott
- Andrew Morgan
- David Nevitt
- Walter Hayes
- Benjamin Southard
- James R. Geddis
- Jeremiah Howerton
- John Wilson
- Abraham B. Adams
- James Lyons
- Daniel Taylor
- Obadiah Bailey
- Richard Hughes
- Benjamin Sylvester
- Abijah Mendall
- William Glenn
- Jefferson Rettenhouse
- Jesse Cooper
- Thomas Wilson
- Jacob Blasdel
- Aaron Folk
- Conrad Barricklow
- John Palmer
- Johnson Watts
Petit Jurors for March Term 1837, 2d week:
- Levi North
- Nathaniel Tucker, Sr.
- William Hancock
- Joseph P. Richardson
John McCain - James Murrey
- John Daniels
- Riley Elliott
- George Golding
- Cyrus Armstrong
- Joseph Heuston
- Walter Armstrong
- Jonathan Blasdell
- Joel Decoursey
- John McNight
- Lymon T. Smith
- David V. Culley
- John Bennett
- Ezra Ferris
- John Shoemaker
- Sewell Plummer
- William Marshall
- William B. Arnold
- David Barnhart
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William Rodney – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Lawrenceburg
Caleb R. West & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Lawrenceburg
No. 55 – Allowed to Samuel H. Dowden for one day on writ of habeas corpus and 3 days at March Term of Circuit Court
Deduction in grocery tax for license of William Parvin
A. H. Reed – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Wilmington
Stevens & Glenn – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Wilmington
Thomas Guion – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Clay Township
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Jeremiah Howerton – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail liquors at his house in Manchester Township
No. 56 – Allowed to John Weaver for boarding prisoners in jail
No. 57 – Allowed to Peer H. Carabough for boarding and keeping Pricella Cook, a pauper
No. 58 – Allowed to Ira Wright for keeping paupers
No. 59 – Allowed to Peter Moore for boarding and keeping Mary Hyer, a pauper
No. 60 – Allowed to Thomas Palmer for books for recorder’s office and office rent
No. 61 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell as commissioner
No. 62 – Allowed to George Arnold as commissioner
No. 63 – Allowed to John Neal as commissioner
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No. 64 – Allowed to William A. Camron for publishing notice of poor asylum and notice for overseers of the poor
Board adjourned.