Dearborn County Commissioners – Apr 1840

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the April 1840 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 3

April Session 1840

 

Page 48

B. M. & L. N. Bush – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Aurora

No. 1 – Allowed to John Cundale for keeping paupers

No. 2 – Allowed to J. Ferrce for making coffin for pauper

Samuel Calvert – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Rising Sun

No. 3 – Allowed to John H. O’Neal for articles furnished Mrs. Hogan

No. 4 – Allowed to David Thorn for removing Mrs. Hogan, a town pauper to Warsaw

No. 5 – Allowed to John Morrison for medicine and attendance on poor

No. 6 – Allowed to Tait & Summers for articles furnished Mrs. Hogan and Mrs. Toles, paupers in Randolph Township

 

Page 49

Robert Rogers and William Rogers – license to vend groceries and spirituous liquors at grocery in Rising Sun

Benjamin Sylvester – license to vend merchandise and groceries at store in Manchester Township

Page 7 – Allowed to Milo Longwood for services as overseer of the poor of Centre Township

No. 8 – Allowed to William T. Harris as overseer of the poor and as Township Trustee

No. 9 – Allowed to A. L. Goble for service summoning Jury of Inquest on drowned man and summoning witness &c.

No. 10 – Allowed to Ephraim Hollister for making coffin for drowned man

No. 11 – Allowed to Jacob Griffith for hauling coffin and drowned man to the graveyard &c.

No. 12 – Allowed to Wm. Daniel for digging grave and burying drowned man

No. 13 – Allowed to John Saltmarsh for services holding an Inquest over drowned man

No. 14 – Allowed to Holman B. Cannon for keeping paupers at the asylum

 

Page 50

Oliver Huestis – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors in Lawrenceburg

Aaron Lewis – license to retail groceries at Hartford

George W. Shane – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors

John P. King, Treasurer of Township 7, Range 3, makes report.

Y. Maryman, Treasurer of Township 4, Range 2 West, makes report.

 

Page 51

William Y. Harris, Treasurer of School Township No. 5, Range 1 West, makes report.

 

Page 52

J. P. Melleken, Treasurer of Township No. 6, Range 2 West, makes report.

 

Page 53

George Wood – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his store in Lawrenceburg

Henry Wood – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at store in Lawrenceburg

No. 15 – Allowed to Joseph Brandt for service rendered as Township Treasurer in School Township 7, Range 2 West

Joseph Brand, Treasurer of Township 7, Range 2 West made report. Paid to Merit Hubbel, Treasurer District 1; John Blaluer, Treaurer District 2, Nicholas Mason, Treasurer District 5, Arel Stewart, Treasurer District 8.

 

Page 54

George W. Shane, Treasurer of Township No. 7, Range 1 West, made report. Note against Solomon Rord and William McClure.

Joseph McHenry, Treasurer of Township No. 3, Range 2, made report.

 

Page 55

John B. Chisman, Elial Chalfant (Chaffin), and Samuel B. Wood, commissioners, made report on State Road from mouth of Hogan Creek to intersect State Road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis near the residence of William Perry. Aaron Ball, Justice of the Peace. Alterations of road on land of Joseph Kitchel, John N. Dorsey, and Elizabeth Biven.

Jehu A. Emerie – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors in Aurora

 

Page 56

Henry Walker, School Commissioner, filed report.

 

Page 57

No. 16 – Allowed to Thomas Bradley for service as Traverse Juror at Oct Term 1840

 

Page 58

No. 17 – Allowed to E. Dumont for Treasurer’s Books purchased

No. 18 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for books and stationery furnished clerk’s office

Townsend J. Taylor – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at his grocery in Wilmington

Grand Jurors for October Term 1840 of Dearborn Circuit Court:

  • Moses Latta
  • Elias Chamberlin
  • Nathaniel Todd, Sr.
  • William Armstrong
  • George P. Buell
  • James Conley
  • Abram Briggs
  • Samuel Graham
  • John Hill
  • James Chisman
  • Enoch Conger
  • John P. Case
  • Samuel Cole
  • Vincent Roberts [crossed out]
  • John B. Piatt
  • Caleb A. Craft
  • Jonathan Hill
  • William Kittle
  • John Brewington

 

Page 59

Petit Jurors for October Term 1840, 1st week:

  • Elijah Huffman
  • Jesse Vinson
  • George Givens
  • Isaac T. Cole
  • Garret Swallow
  • Robert P. Milliken
  • David Johnson, Jr.
  • James Rea, Sr.
  • Conaway Bainum
  • Randall Frazier
  • Enoch W. Jackson
  • David Barkdoll
  • Abram Eversole
  • Samuel Lewis
  • Phineas Robinson
  • George Elliott
  • Samuel Osgood
  • John Mahoney
  • Edwin Canfield
  • Benjamin F. Ferris
  • John Hansel
  • Sewetus Tufts
  • Benjamin Sylvester
  • Robert Mason

Petit Jurors for Oct Term 1840, 2nd week:

  • Thomas Record
  • Martin Powell
  • Zara Vinson
  • George Pate
  • William Lemmon
  • Daniel Hall
  • John Jenkins
  • Peter Henegan
  • James Kelley
  • Andrew Anderson
  • Thomas T. Fenton
  • John Jackson
  • George G. Brown
  • Thomas Ferrin
  • Isaac Dunn
  • John Durham, Sr.
  • George Mendall
  • Vinson Perdun
  • John Freeland
  • Enoch E. Adams
  • Joseph Baricklow
  • Thompson Doan
  • Daniel Kelsey
  • Daniel Bartholomew

Petit Jurors for Oct Term 1840, 3rd week:

  • Charles Darragh
  • William S. Grubbs
  • John Gullet
  • Aaron Pursell
  • James [Thomas crossed out] Brewington
  • Jehu A. Emril
  • James Burk
  • John Buffington, Jr.
  • William Patterson
  • Edward Grubbs
  • Jacob W. Eggleston
  • Tavner Cheek
  • Abijah H. Wilson
  • William Rawlings
  • James Senegar
  • Frederick Harwood
  • William Alcott
  • Thomas Bradley
  • Daniel Taylor
  • Stephen Stewart
  • Soloman Kittle
  • Amos T. Coyle
  • Robinson Garner
  • Isaac Alden

 

Page 60

Grand Jury for April Term 1841:

  • Jonathan Lewis
  • William J. McRary
  • William Hutchins
  • Ebenezer Roberts
  • Jacob W. Blasedel
  • William Kennedy
  • Mahlon Brown
  • Allen Wilber
  • William S. Pate
  • John Legg
  • Robert Fowler
  • James Wills
  • John B. Clark
  • Isaac Clark
  • David Barnhart
  • John Gray
  • John Dawson
  • Zachariah Barker

Petit Jurors for April Term 1841, 1st week:

  • Allen Owen
  • James Hibetts
  • John B. Durbin
  • John Crozier
  • William P. Chisman
  • Selah Holliday
  • John B. Chisman
  • John H. Oneal
  • Robert Cofield
  • John J. Levingston
  • Martin Brace
  • Vinsen Roberts
  • Thomas Darling, Jr.
  • Robert Harget
  • Henry S. Pate
  • Stephen D. Ludlow
  • Robert Rumsey
  • James V. Bruce
  • Jones McCleaster
  • James Foster
  • James Tate
  • Hugh Monroe
  • Phineas L. King
  • Mack Cheek

Petit Jurors for April Term 1841, 2nd week:

  • Crocket Crandle
  • Hosea Stillman
  • John D. Bush
  • John Munts
  • Benjamin Plummer
  • John H. Rigg
  • Gardner Elliott
  • Thomas Slack
  • John Grace
  • James G. Hunter
  • Henry Collins
  • Alexander Hopping
  • David Nevitt
  • John Hinkston
  • William Daniels, Jr.
  • Daniel Alden
  • James Johnson
  • Riley Elliott
  • James Collins
  • John McMath
  • John Shoeman
  • Samuel H. Dowden
  • Charles Jolly
  • Joseph M. Grove

Petit Jurors for April Term 1841, 3rd week:

  • John Goodwin
  • John Ferree
  • Jacob P. Dunn
  • John W. Cloud
  • James Rand
  • Andrew S. Morris
  • Henry Hancock
  • Samuel Tebbs
  • George Baty
  • Philemon Wilson
  • John Mastin
  • Israel C. Curtis
  • Laben Brimwell
  • John Tait [crossed out]
  • Martin Dashiell
  • Abram Hecter
  • George Hume
  • Isaac Oathoadt
  • Claiborne Allen
  • Gilbert T. Givens
  • William Garrison
  • Alvah Churchill
  • Allen Mathew
  • John French
  • George Darling

 

Page 61

Shadrach Hathway – license to vend merchandise and groceries both foreign and domestic

Jemison & Stairet – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries in Rising Sun

Ebenezer Dumont, Treasurer, makes report.

 

Page 62

George Cornelius and Martin Trester, commissioners, make report on state road from Lawrenceburg to Napoleon. Met at office of Benjamin Fuller in Lawrenceburg Township. Fees for Cornelius, M. Trester and N. L. Squibb. George P. Buell files remonstrance and quashed. Objections answered by Abramah Rolland and others. Dunn & Spooner, for petititoners. Luther Plummer, Merrit Hubbell and Joseph Johnson appointed viewers to meet at house of David Conger to assess damages to Buell.

 

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Page 66

No. 19 – Allowed to Francis Baldwin for holding inquest over dead man in the absence of Wm. Morgan, coroner

No. 20 – Allowed to Amaziah Bailey for making coffin for dead man and hauling same

No. 21 – Allowed to Baldwin & Shattock for digging grave and burying dead man above named

No. 22 – Allowed to Stephen Green for services as constable summoning Jury of Inquest &c. on above named dead man

No. 23 – Allowed to Dearborn County Democrat for publishing notice of above named dead man being found &c.

Charles W. Wright, agent to loan portion of Surplus Revenue, files bond with Benjamin Sylvester, David Tibbitts, General S. Jaquith, Reby Elliott, John B. Clark, James Walser, John Hansell, Hugh Noyes, William Tibbetts, George Cheek, William Dills, and Abram Ferris, as securities.

 

Page 67

No. 24 – Allowed to Josiah Chambers for paper furnished clerk’s office

David Williamson, Treasurer of Township No. 5, Range 3, makes report.

 

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Page 69

No. 24 – Allowed to Abram B. Adams for assessing Lawrenceburg Township

No. 25 – Allowed to Enoch W. Jackson for assessing Miller Township

No. 26 – Allowed to William Rawling for assessing Kelso Township

No. 27 – Allowed to Charles Jolly for assessing Logan Township

No. 28 – Allowed to Israel Noyes for assessing Manchester Township

No. 29 – Allowed to David Kerr for assessing Laughery Township

No. 30 – Allowed to Samuel B. Wood for assessing Sparta Township

No. 31 – Allowed to Isaac Randall for assessing Clay Township

No. 32 – Allowed to William Gerrard for assessing Union Township

No. 33 – Allowed to Israel C. Curtis for assessing Centre Township

 

Page 70

Ebenezer Dumont appointed to examine books of John McPike as loaning agent and make settlement with him.

Charles Dashiell, Treasurer of Township No. 6, Range 3, makes report.

Ebenezer Dumont, Treasurer of Township 5, Range 2 West, makes report.

 

Page 71A

John Dale – license to keep a tavern and retail spirituous liquors at Sparta Village in Sparta Township

James C. Cordy & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise and groceries at their store in Wilmington

No. 34 – Allowed to Rewland and Lindsay for repairs to Clerk’s and Recorder’s offices and furnishing materials

Tax rates for 1840.

 

Page 71B

No. 35 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for one day at Asylum and five days service at April Session1840

No. 36 – Allowed to David Walser for one day at Asylum and five days service at April Session1840

No. 37 – Allowed to Aaron B. Henry for five days service at April Session1840

Daniel Roberts appointed director of the asylum.

Ordered change to jail being built by Timothy Kimble.

Board adjourned.