The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the June 1837 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 2

June Session 1837

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Present:

• George Arnold
• John Neal
• Benjamin Sylvester

John Leeby – license to vend foreign merchandise

John Cundale – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Manchester Township

John Cundale – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Manchester Township

Patrick O’Conner – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Kelso Township

 

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No. 1 – Allowed to George Pate for services dividing school section 16, township 4, range 3 west

No. 2 – Allowed to James Rand for services in dividing school section 16, township 4, range 3 west

No. 3 – Allowed to James McGuire for services dividing school section 16, township 4, range 3 west

No. 4 – Allowed to Nathaniel L. Squibb for surveying school section 16, township 4, range 3 west

George W. Lane & Co., owner of lands at mouth of Hogan Creek – license to keep a ferry across Hogan Creek.

 

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No. 5 – Allowed to Robert Rowe, Jr., for assessing Kelso Township

No. 6 – Allowed to Simeon Tozier, keeper of poor asylum

No. 7 – Allowed to Jacob Wells for attendance to a pauper, Thomas Clarkston

No. 8 – Allowed to James Vansickle for removing Thomas Clarkston, a pauper, to asylum

James Roberts – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic grocers and liquors at his shop in Jackson Township

Daniel McMullen & Co. – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at their shop in Manchester

No. 9 – Allowed to Claiborn Allen fro his services as overseer of the poor, Laughery Township

Elisha Bodine – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Logan Township

 

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North & Powell – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Randolph Township

McKnight & Fisher – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Rising Sun

George W. Anderson & Co. – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Lawrenceburg

James C. Cloud – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Hardensburgh

 

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Joseph Smith – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house

George Nicholas Hamberger – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Lawrenceburg

Lee Rogers – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries at his grocery in Rising Sun

Bauman & Rush – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and spirituous liquors

Allowed to Grand Jurors, April Term 1837:

• No. 10 – William Tate
• No. 11 – Joshua Sanks
• No. 12 – Samuel Ewing
• No. 13 – Claiborn Allen
• No. 14 – William Wade
• No. 15 – Gilbert Platt
• No. 16 – James Maxwell
• No. 17 – Elisha Bodine
• No. 18 – Samuel B. Wood
• No. 19 – Leonard Spicknall
• No. 20 – Elias Heustis
• No. 21 – Samuel Jackson
• No. 22 – Isaac Clark

 

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Allowed to Petit Jurors, April Term 1837:

• No. 23 – William Parvin
• No. 24 – Dennis Riley
• No. 25 – Daniel Taylor
• No. 26 – Abram B. Adams
• No. 27 – Z. A. Bonham
• No. 28 – Richard Hughes
• No. 29 – Conrad Barricklow
• No. 30 – Benjamin Southard
• No. 31 – Thomas Baker
• No. 32 – Mason J. Cloud
• No. 33 – John Wilson
• No. 34 – William Olcott
• No. 35 – Joel Decoursey
• No. 36 – Jeremiah Phinney
• No. 37 – Miles Kellogg
• No. 38 – Amos Morris
• No. 39 – Lewis Morgan
• No. 40 – James Lyons
• No. 41 – John Palmer
• No. 42 – Walter Hayes
• No. 43 – Jacob Blasdell
• No. 44 – Enoch W. Jackson
• No. 45 – John Johnson
• No. 46 – Thomas Wilson
• No. 47 – Jonathan Noble
• No. 48 – Thomas Hall
• No. 49 – Garret Vanelief
• No. 50 – Lewis Snyder
• No. 51 – William Hinkston
• No. 52 – Isaac Morris
• No. 53 – James Lanegraff
• No. 54 – David Nevitt
• No. 55 – Conrad Huffman
• No. 56 – Andrew Morgan
• No. 57 – John Shoemake
• No. 58 – Samuel McMullen
• No. 59 – John Hansel
• No. 60 – John Tate
• No. 61 – Aaron B. Henry
• No. 62 – Daniel McMullen
• No. 63 – Augustus Riggs
• No. 64 – Samuel Jackson
• No. 65 – John Tibbets
• No. 66 – Samuel L. Jewett
• No. 67 – James A. Watton
• No. 68 – James Lindsey
• No. 69 – John Dawson
• No. 70 – Ira Wright
• No. 71 – James Cure
• No. 72 – David Walser
• No. 73 – John Myers
• No. 74 – William Tibbets
• No. 75 – Noyes Canfield
• No. 76 – John Goulden
• No. 77 – Clarke
• No. 78 – Moses Roberts
• No. 79 – Jonathan Blasdell
• No. 80 – Riley Elliott
• No. 81 – Nathaniel Tucker
• No. 82 – James Murrey
• No. 83 – George Goulding
• No. 84 – Cyrus Armstrong
• No. 85 – Sewell Plummer
• No. 86 – John Bennett
• No. 87 – John McNight
• No. 88 – John McCain
• No. 89 – Joseph Huston
• No. 90 – William Arnold
• No. 91 – Levi North
• No. 92 – David Barnheart
• No. 93 – Thomas Tanner
• No. 94 – William Marshall
• No. 95 – John Billingsley
• No. 96 – George Lowe
• No. 97 – William Hancock
• No. 98 – John Fenemore
• No. 99 – John Wills
• No. 100 – Cyrus Smith
• No. 101 – Lyman T. Smith
• No. 102 – David V. Culley
• No. 103 – Thos. Lambertson

 

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No. 104 – Allowed to Joshua Brewington for boarding prisoners and other matters rendered the jail

 

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No. 105 – Allowed to Cornelius Snyder for boarding a pauper

No. 106 – Allowed to John Fountain for digging grave for a pauper

No. 107 – Allowed to Sarah Elder for boarding black Easter, a pauper

No. 108 – Allowed to Joseph L. White for defending a pauper criminal

No. 109 – Allowed to William Dils, Sheriff, for hire to bailiffs, constables, wood, candles and other services rendered the Circuit Court April Term 1837

Robert Moore – treasurer’s report.

Dumonte & Test to occupy the second story of Court House at Wilmington. Alfred C. Cole to occupy room on second story of Court House.

 

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No. 110 – Allowed to Isaac Dunn for services as associate judge at April Term 1837 and attending writ of ne exeat

No. 111 – Allowed to Samuel H. Dowden for services as associate judge at April Term 1837 and attending writ of ne exeat

Thomas Palmer, seminary trustee, resigned his seat. John Myers appointed Seminary Trustee.

No. 112 – Allowed to Martin Stewart for assessing Randolph Township

No. 113 – Allowed to George Pate for assessing Cesars Creek Township

 

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No. 114 – Allowed to William McBride for repairs to Court House

No. 115 – Allowed to M. H. Hardy for medicine and attendance to paupers at asylum

Stephen C. Stevens appointed attorney in defense of Board of Commissioners, especially action by Stephen Wood in Circuit Court.

Robert Moore – treasurer’s report.

 

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Ordered clerk to make duplicate of taxes.

George W. Kengsbury, treasurer of Township No. 7, Range 1 West, made report. Received payment from J. Crosby, George Wooley, and Walter Armstrong. Outstanding payment from Solomon Road, C. Dill.

 

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No. 116 – Allowed to George Arnold for services as commissioner

No. 117 – Allowed to John Neal as commissioner

No. 118 – Allowed to Benjamin Sylvester as commissioner

Ordered that clerk proceed to change for state purposes on different assessment rolls.

 

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