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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.