Dearborn County Commissioners – Jan 1836

The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the January 1836 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 2

January Session 1836

Page 72

Present:

  • George Arnold
  • John Neal

No. 1 – Allowed to N. & G. Sparks for clothing furnished prisoners now in jail

No. 2 – Allowed to Prudence Tryon for boarding and keeping Halsa and Mary Jane Fairfield

No. 3 – Allowed to John Weaver, Sheriff, for 2 cords of wood furnished Court and sawing and cutting the same

No. 4 – Allowed to Abijah Bennett for sundries furnished a pauper

No. 5 – Allowed to Robert Montgomery for medicine and attendance to a transient pauper

No. 6 – Allowed to Edward Williams for boarding and keeping Maria Matthews, a pauper

 

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No. 7 – Allowed to John Morrison for sundries, attendance and medicine furnished a pauper

Shedrach Hathaway – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Rising Sun

Ordered that citizens of Caesars Creek Township elect Justice of Peace in room of Laban Bramble who now resides in Clay Township.

Noyes & McMikin – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Manchester Township

Adams and Elliott – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in New Lawrenceburg

No. 8 – Allowed to James Boyle for sundries furnished a pauper

No. 9 – Allowed to James Russell for sundries to a pauper

No. 10 – Allowed to Sarah Sherrod for boarding and keeping Andrew Green, a pauper

 

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No. 11 – Allowed to James Boyle for boarding and keeping Scott Pemmings, a pauper

No. 12 – Allowed to Stephen Stewart for boarding and keeping a pauper

No. 13 – Allowed to James P. Millikin for his services taking enumeration of male inhabitants over 21 years

No. 14 – Allowed to John Stewart for boarding and keeping Lucy Simmons, a pauper

No. 15 – Allowed to J. & W. O’Neal for goods furnished a pauper

No. 16 – Allowed to Hall and Tapley for making coffin for pauper

No. 17 – Allowed to James Boyle for boarding a transient pauper

A. & R. Wilber – license to vend foreign merchandise in Hartford

Harris Fitch – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail liquors at his house in Lawrenceburg

 

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Charles Dashiell took his seat.

No. 18 – Allowed to Thomas Wright for boarding and keeping William Jones, a pauper

No. 19 – Allowed to David Brunner for boarding and keeping Moses Switzer, a pauper

No. 20 – Allowed to John Morrison for attendance and medicine furnished a pauper

No. 21 – Allowed to Isaac Jackson for taking enumeration of male inhabitants over age 21

No. 22 – Allowed to James Matthews for boarding and keeping Patrick McGuire, a pauper

Caleb A. Craft and Son – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Rising Sun

Ordered remitted to Hiram Jackson overcharge

 

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Pepper and James – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Rising Sun

P. & H. James – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise at their store in Rising Sun

No. 23 – Allowed to Hiram Jackson overcharge in county tax on land

 

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Merritt Hubble – license to keep a grocery at his establishment in Jackson Township

No. 24 – Allowed to Erastus Judd for killing a wolf

Caesars Creek Township to elect Justices of Peace in room of Laban Bramble, stricken off into Clay Township and William Lemon whose term of service expired. Logan Township to elect one Justice of Peace in room of John Godley, resigned.

William Cullen – license to keep a grocery at his house in Rising Sun

No. 25 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for money by him advanced to William Brown, the contractor for doing the carpenter work of the poor asylum

Obadiah Bailey – license to retail and vend foreign merchandise at his store at Moore’s Hill

 

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No. 26 – Allowed to Dr. John S. Percival for medicine and attendance on a prisoner in Jail

George Durham – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail liquors at his house

No. 27 – Allowed to Culley & Cole for publishing and giving notice of contract to build poor asylum

No. 28 – Allowed to John Aikons for services in piling up brick on the poor asylum

Robert Rowe, Jr., appointed assessor for Kelso Township

George Bolsby appointed assessor for Kelso Township

Daniel Taylor appointed assessor for Manchester Township

Sewell Plummer appointed assessor for Manchester Township

Benjamin Johnson appointed assessor for Sparta Township

Jacob W. Eggleston appointed assessor for Clay Township

 

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Robert Turner appointed assessor for Cesars Creek Township

John Gray appointed assessor for Union Township

Martin Stewart appointed assessor for Randolph Township

David Kerr appointed assessor for Laughery Township

Asa Smith appointed assessor for Lawrenceburg Township

Isaac Jackson appointed assessor for Miller Township

 

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No. 29 – Allowed to A. Horton for flannel furnished a pauper

James C. Cloud – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Hardinsburgh

Isaac Hancock & Co. – license to retail and vend foreign merchandise at their store in Wilmington

No. 30 – Allowed to James C. Cloud for taxes by him overpaid through mistake for John Buffington

Petition of William Saltmarsh, Jacob Haines, Frederick Myers, Daniel Miller, Zachariah S. Conger, Jacob Stagner, Jacob Michael, Enoch Conger, Cyrus Mills, Henry Walter, John Wimer, William Larrison, and other freeholders of Manchester and Jackson Townships against location of state road. James P. Milliken, Benjamin Sylvester and William Dawson appointed commissioners.

 

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No. 31 – Allowed to James C. Cloud for taking enumeration of free male inhabitants in Lawrenceburg Township

Enoch Adams and Gardner Elliott, by Lawrence their attorney – application for grocery in Lawrenceburg. Overruled and taken to Circuit Court.

No. 32 – Allowed to William Cooke, Jailor, for boarding sundry prisoners and furnishing firewood

 

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Samuel Curtis – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Manchester Township

Elias Chamberlin – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail liquors at his house in Lawrenceburg Township

George W. Lane & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Aurora

 

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Henry McKinzie – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Kelso Township

Account of Expenditures and Receipts for 1834.

 

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Notice for proposals for the plastering of poor asylum.

 

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J. B. & W. A. Clark – license to retail foreign merchandise at their store in Manchester Township

No. 33 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for attendance at asylum

No. 34 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell as commissioner

No. 35 – Allowed to George Arnold as commissioner

No. 36 – Allowed to John Neal as commissioner

Board adjourned.