Dearborn County Commissioners – Dec 1846 Session

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the December 1846 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 4

December Session 1846

Page 134

Present:

  • David Walser
  • James Grubbs
  • Daniel Taylor

Report on Aurora Bridge by Jacob Morrison, Jonathan Jones and Henry A. Moran.

Petition of freeholders in Laughery, Manchester and Centre Townships for change of road from William Dil’s (Manchester Township) to John Johnson’s (Centre Township). Lands of Thomas Tawrce, Walter Kerr, Sarah Elder, Joseph Huston, Charles Elder and John Johnson. William Wymond, William Dils and John Aldridge appointed viewers.

 

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No. 3021 – Allowed to Joseph Smith for beef furnished paupers

No. 3022 – Allowed to Scott Horsley for conveying pauper to asylum

Tranger and Eads – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

George Holb – license to keep a tavern in Harrison Township

John Seigle – license to keep a tavern in Jackson Township

John B. Kesler – license to keep a tavern in Kelso Township

Herman Benson – license to keep a grocery in Kelso Township

 

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Sebastian Blatner – license to keep a tavern in York Township

Henry S. Black – license to keep a tavern in Jackson Township

Frederick Rowther – license to keep a grocery in Centre Township

Cathrine Rhodes – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg

Isaac Miles – license to keep a store in Clay Township

No. 3037 – Allowed to Washington Baker for hauling benches from Wilmington to Lawrenceburg

No. 3035 – Allowed to John Hornberger for lumber for building stray pen

No. 3032 – Allowed to Joseph West for groceries furnished paupers

 

Page 138

Columbus Jaquith, Assessor, appoints William Clynch, David Conger, Daniel Conaway and Seth Platt as deputy assessors.

Theodore Gazlay, attorney for Benedict Streigle and others of York Township, presents petition for vacation of road.

No. 3034 – Allowed to Theodore Gazlay and Henry Raymond for professional services bringing suits to recover debts due surplus revenue fund

No. 3026 – Allowed to J. N. Ray for articles furnished clerk’s office

Andrew Morgan – license to keep a ferry across Laughery Creek on road from Aurora to Rising Sun

 

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No. 3039 – Allowed to George B. Sheldon for articles for Court House

No. 3040 – Allowed to Jothem Clark for building stray pen

No. 3038 – Allowed to Seth Mayhew for articles furnished paupers

No. 3051 – Allowed to S. Chandler for articles furnished paupers

No. 3041 – Allowed to Josiah Chambers for articles furnished Aurora Bridge

No. 3042 – Allowed to Jonathan Noble for articles for Aurora Bridge

No. 3043 – Allowed to Smith & Wortley for services blacksmithing for Aurora Bridge

No. 3044 – Allowed to George Smith fro blacksmithing for Aurora Bridge

 

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No. 3067 – Allowed to Thomson Dean for rent of ground occupied by materials for Aurora Bridge

No. 3045 – Allowed to Jonathan Noble for building Aurora Bridge

No. 3046 – Allowed to Henry Raymond for articles furnished jail

No. 3047 – Allowed to Wymond & Ferris for articles furnished paupers

No. 3052 – Allowed to John Houck for posts furnished for pound

No. 2053 – Allowed to John Ferris for Auditor’s office

No. 3054 – Allowed to John Ferris for articles for clerk’s office

No. 3055 – Allowed to John Ferris for articles furnished paupers

No. 3049 – Allowed to William V. Cheek for extra services

No. 3050 – Allowed to Wm. V. Cheek for Commissioners vs. John Callihan

No. 3051 – Allowed to Harding and Tate for professional services attending paupers

 

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Theodore Gazlay, attorney for Benedict Streigle and others of York Township, presents petition to vacation road.

No. 3056 – Allowed to John Wilson for services taking care of paupers

No. 3057 – Allowed to J. M. Fuller for professional services attending pauper

John Wilson exempted from performing labor on road on account of his inability to perform such labor on account of his lameness.

No. 3058 – Allowed to Abner Dill for keeping paupers at County Asylum

No. 3059 – Allowed to D. Doyle for keeping pauper

No. 3061 – Allowed to William Low for hauling coal, lumber and wood

No. 3060 – Allowed to William C. Craft for coal furnished Auditor’s and Recorder’s office

No. 3062 – Allowed to Houck & Widdelstaedt for articles furnished jail

 

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No. 3102 – Allowed to Omer Tousey for coal furnished Court House

No. 3063 – Allowed to J. M. Cure for making coffins for paupers

No. 3064 – Allowed to John B. Hall for publishing delinquent list

No. 3065 – Allowed to John B. Hall for publishing Coroner’s Inquest

No. 3066 – Allowed to E. C. Cheek for keeping pauper

No. 3069 – Allowed to Kerr and Vail for articles furnished paupers

Kerr and Vail – license to keep a store in Laughery Township

No. 3112 – Allowed to R. F. Brown for publishing coroner’s inquest

No. 3070 – Allowed to Truman F. Lapish for keeping pauper

 

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No. 3071 – Allowed to Isaac Adair for boarding pauper

No. 3072 – Allowed to John S. Whitehead for boarding pauper

No. 3073 – Allowed to John C. Clover for his professional services attending paupers

No. 3074 – Allowed to Eliakim Nicholas for his temporary relief

No. 3108 – Allowed to John H. McNeely for conveying pauper to asylum

No. 3109 – Allowed to D. A. Rewland for articles furnished paupers

No. 3075, 3076, 3077 – Allowed to George W. Lane for receiving and disbursing funds

No. 3080 – Allowed to Nelson H. Torbet for wood, coal and rent of office

No. 3078 – Allowed to Randall Alexander for his temporary relief

No. 3079 – Allowed to Elliott Wills for keeping pauper

No. 3068 – Allowed to Dr. Sturm for professional services attending paupers

 

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Jaran & Johnson – license to keep a store in Centre Township

No. 3082 – Allowed to Granville Love for keeping pauper

Nelson H. Torbet, Treasurer, filed report.

 

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

No. 3083 – Allowed to Samuel James for keeping pauper

No. 3084 – Allowed to Cyrus Armstrong for chairs furnished Court House

No. 3085 – Allowed to Silas Hamson for making coffin for and assisting to bury pauper

No. 3086 – Allowed to Elisha Cook for his temporary relief

Daniel Conaway sworn in as deputy assessor.

Sylvester – license to keep a store in Manchester Township

No. 3087 – Allowed to Mary Ann Fowler for taking care and keeping pauper

No. 3088 – Allowed to Brown & Dumont for cash paid by them to Lindsay and Musgrove for estimating jails in Lawrenceburg and Wilmington

 

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Theodore Gazlay, attorney, presents petition from citizens of York Township to revoke order allowing Aaron B. Henry to erect swinging gates on road.

No. 3110 – Allowed to James G. Hunter for making coffin for pauper

No. 3089 – Allowed to John F. Richards as jailor

No. 3090 – Allowed to Thos Palmer for copying field notes of Dearborn County

No. 3091 – Allowed to Thomas Palmer for Geo. Conklin for binding field notes

 

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Petition of Abram Brower and other citizens of Lawrenceburg Township for change in road from Lawrenceburg to mouth of Tanners Creek. Near land of William E. Craft, Mrs. Elizabeth Sparks, Sharpe & Carman, children of Thomas B. Pinkard, O. Tousey, Andrew Morgan. Signed by Wm. V. Cheek and 38 other citizens. Intention of Hamlet Sparks and others for alteration in road. Abram Ferris, Abram Roland and Charles Dashiell appointed viewers.

 

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Ferry rates for crossing Tanners or Laughery Creeks.

 

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Land at south end of old bridge of Hogan Creek at Aurora be rented to Alexander C. McCullough.

No. 3092, 3093, 3094, 3095 – Allowed to Milton Gregg for extra services as sheriff, desk for sheriff, coal for Court House, repairing same

No. 3096 – Allowed to Edmund C. Cheek for clothes furnished pauper and washing clothes for same

No. 3097 – Allowed to Timothy Kimball for making coffin for pauper

No. 3098 – Allowed to David Walser for superintending foundation of Aurora Bridge

No. 3100 – Allowed to William Glasgow for ironing prisoners

 

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Allowed to Annanias Evans for his temporary relief

Allowed to Reuben Rogers as Auditor

Court Adjourned.

Affidavit of Samuel Humble to prove purchase of land