The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the June 1849 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 4

June Session 1849

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Present:

• Daniel Taylor
• Martin Trester
• Jonathan Hallowell

Allowed to David Conger for assessing

Allowed to Michael Shum for burying drowned man

Allowed to John Wainscottt for services rendered drowned man and going for Coroner

Allowed to F. Butterfield for assessing

Allowed to Noble Hamilton for assessing

Allowed to John Henderson for assessing

Allowed to Wm. W. Rea for services as constable for bringing horse thief to county

Allowed to Conaway & Hume for arresting horse thief

Allowed to William Donlan for assessing

 

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James D. Bowen – license to keep a store in Sparta Township

Casper Smosmeir – license to keep a store in Caesars Creek Township

David Rees appointed Trustee for Lawrenceburg Township to fill vacancy caused by removal of Franklin Nevitt from county

Joseph Shroyer – license to keep a store in Harrison Township

David Hubball – license to keep a store in Jackson Township

 

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Allowed to C. C. Jaquith for assessing

Allowed to John B. Hall for printing road laws and publishing notices

Sewall Plummer – license to keep a store in Manchester Township

Robert K. Taylor – license to keep a store in Sparta Township

G. Cloud – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg Township

Michael Steinmetz – license to keep a grocery in York Township

 

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Joseph C. McCracken – license to keep a store in Centre Township

Charles Dashiell – license to keep a store in Sparta Township

Ferris, McCullough & Co. – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg Township

Allowed to Theodore Gazlay for services as Attorney

Allowed to Brown & Dumont for services as attorneys

Allowed to David Macy for services as attorney

Norval Sparkes – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg Township

Joseph Hayborn – license to keep a store in Centre Township

Jones & Brewington – license to keep a store in Laughery Township

 

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Charles Yeagar – license to keep a store in Kelso Township

Allowed to James Johnson for making coffin for drowned man and other services rendered by him in burying same

Allowed to Survetus Tufts for assessing

Stephen Levingston – license to keep a store in Laughery Township

Wymond & Ferris – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg Township

Allowed to Amos Carlisle for whitewashing jail

Allowed to Burk Cartley for scrubbing rooms at Jail

George Jeffers reports on Salt Fork Bridge.

 

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William Green – license to keep a store in Manchester Township

Hugh Scott – license to keep a store in York Township

Chester Faulkner – license to keep a store at Sparta Township

Philip C. Ross – license to keep a store in Manchester Township

West and Jordon – license to keep a store in Manchester Township

Levin B. Lewis – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg Township

Abram Lozier – license to keep a store in Manchester Township

Allowed to C. C. Jaquith for services on Board of Equalization

 

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Elijah Thatcher – license to keep a store in Clay Township.

Allowed to James Akins for hay for County Asylum

Allowed to Luther Plummer for fork for use of Asylum

Allowed to Luther Plummer, Sr., for fork for use of County Asylum

Allowed to John Milburn for services as keeper of Asylum

Allowed to Thomas H. Milburn for flour furnished keeper of Asylum

 

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Allowed to Allen Tucker for services rendered by order of keeper of Asylum

Allowed to Thomas Kyle for wood for use of County Asylum

Allowed to Sewell Plummer for clover and timothy seed for Asylum

Allowed to William V. Cheek for services as clerk making copies of reports of Jurors in reference to County Jail to be used in case of County vs. Callehan

Herman Benson – license to keep a store in Kelso Township

Platter & Flemming – license to keep a store in Centre Township

Allowed to Cornelius O’Brien for ink, paper and office rent

 

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Allowed to John Francis for making door for jail finding material for the same

Allowed to L. A. McGuithey for apprehending and convicting William Summerfield for horse stealing

Allowed to Hiram Wright for services in conviction of William Summerfield

Henry A. Moran reports on Aurora Bridge.

Allowed to James M. Hayes for making two coffins for drowned men

Allowed to Thomas Miller, Jas. Walser and G. Given for burying J. Jabine, a pauper of Manchester Township

Petition of Elijah Bonham to hang swinging gates on road.

 

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William Eichlebeyer appointed inspector of flour.

Grand Jury for October Term 1849:

• Francis Longworth, Logan Township
• William Knowls, Centre Township
• John M. Bottenbergh, Jackson Township
• Armitage Morgan, Harrison Township
• Newton Canfield, Centre Township
• John Elwell, Manchester Township
• John Hornberger, Lawrenceburg Township
• Survetus Tufts, Laughery Township
• Thomas McKinder, Manchester Township
• George Boulby, Harrison Township
• Francis Buffington, Centre Township
• Levi Crosby, Manchester Township
• A. B. Adams, Lawrenceburg Township
• Thos. Chance, Sparta Township
• David Palmer, York Township
• Z. A. Woolley, Logan Township
• Harrison Small, Laughery Township
• Josiah A. Clark, Manchester Township

 

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Traverse Jury for 1st week, October Term 1849:

• George Land, Laughery Township
• Robert McCracken, Miller Township
• Amos Noyas, Manchester Township
• Lorenzo D. Drain, Lawrenceburg Township
• Caleb Cottingham, Sparta Township
• Joseph Sherbaugh, Kelso Township
• Jacob W. Ewing, Lawrenceburg Township
• Jacob W. Egleston, Clay Township
• Samuel M. Conger, Manchester Township
• Jacob F. Crider, Lawrenceburg Township
• William Soot, Clay Township
• Messick Roberts, Kelso Township
• James H. Ross, Lawrenceburg Township
• James Miller, Centre Township
• Frebenin G. Lewis, Kelso Township

Traverse Jury for 2nd week, October Term 1849:

• Zephaniah Heustice, Lawrenceburg Township
• John Bromley, Jr., Sparta Township
• Isaac F. Lawrence, Jackson Township
• Elias Meleken, Lawrenceburg Township
• Aaron B. Henry, Centre Township
• Welcome Lewis, Kelso Township
• William Low, Lawrenceburg Township
• Henry Blasdell, Centre Township
• John Mahoney, Kelso Township
• Robert Lazenby, Miller Township
• Humphrey Cane, Clay Township
• Vincent Roberts, Jackson Township
• Ephraim Burroughs, Lawrenceburg Township
• Benjamin Wilson, Laughery Township
• Daniel R. L. Morgan, Kelso Township

Traverse Jury for 3rd week, October Term 1849:

• James Johnson, Miller Township
• Joshua Seth, Centre Township
• Luther Plummer, Sr., Manchester Township
• David Rees, Lawrenceburg Township
• Zachariah Sanks, Centre Township
• John Stone, Jackson Township
• Joseph Groff, Lawrenceburg Township
• Harvey Cole, Caesars Creek Township
• Jacob Knole, Kelso Township
• James Antrim, Miller Township
• S. S. Bussell, Centre Township
• David Ellis, Manchester Township
• Benjamin Stockman, Lawrenceburg Township
• William C. Johnson, Caesars Creek Township
• Addison Chandler, Manchester Township

Traverse Jury for 4th week, October Term 1849:

• Joseph White, Logan Township
• John Headley, Clay Township
• Daniel G. Lawrence, Jackson Township
• John Kolb, Harrison Township
• Samuel Jewett, Clay Township
• Francis Bodine, Manchester Township
• William Mernde, Miller Township
• Noah Davis, Laughery Township
• Jeremiah Howerton, Manchester Township
• John McClure, Logan Township
• Andrew Cunningham, Sparta Township
• William Donlan, Kelso Township
• Robert Mason, Jr., Lawrenceburg Township
• John Stockman, Centre Township
• William H. Baker, Manchester Township

 

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Grand Jury for April Term 1850:

• Thomas McCannon, Logan Township
• Elisha Jones, Sparta Township
• Jacob V. Lawrence, Jackson Township
• Robert Huddleston, Miller Township
• James Bostee, Clay Township
• John McMath, York Township
• William Demoss, Harrison Township
• Newton J. Ragsdall, Centre Township
• David Hubball, Jackson Township
• Truman F. Lapish, Harrison Township
• John Clen, Caesars Creek Township
• James Palmer, Kelso Township
• Wm. T. Hinckson, Logan Township
• Wilson Dorman, Sparta Township
• Stephen M. Day, Manchester Township
• Walter Bazley, Lawrenceburg Township
• William Sawdon, Laughery Township
• William Rowling, Kelso Township

Traverse Jury for 1st week, April Term 1850:

• Joseph Backert, Lawrenceburg Township
• David McKituck, Clay Township
• John Henderson, Jackson Township
• Anson Canfield, Lawrenceburg Township
• Abram Eversol, Sprata Township
• Joseph Brand[?], Kelso Township
• Joshua Sanks, Sr., Lawrenceburg Township
• William P. Beckett, Clay Township
• Roland Ellis, Manchester Township
• John Anders, Harrison Township
• James Fletcher, Clay Township
• John Dorman, Manchester Township
• Henry Isgregg, Logan Township
• Obediah Bailey, Sparta Township
• Jacob Castor, Jackson Township

Traverse Jury for 2nd week, April Term 1850:

• E. W. Jackson, Miller Township
• Wm. B. Miller, Sparta Township
• Conrad Rowe, York Township
• James T. Cloud, Harrison Township
• Thomas Heff, Laughery Township
• John Huber, Kelso Township
• William Reed, Sr., Lawrenceburg Township
• James Carabaugh, Sparta Township
• John Black, Jackson Township
• George Rummell, Logan Township
• Wilkenson Smith, Laughery Township
• Elias Heustice, Manchester Township
• Jacob B. Hallowell, Logan Township
• William Turner, Caesars Creek Township
• Samuel McKinley, Jackson Township

Traverse Jury for 3rd week, April Term 1850:

• James Burke, Lawrenceburg Township
• Thomas Curtis, Lawrenceburg Township
• Anthony Gass, Manchester Township
• Henry Nowlin, Miller Township
• Peter Perlee, Clay Township
• Homer Palmerton, Manchester Township
• James Grubbs, Miller Township
• Elliott Wells, Sparta Township
• George M. Lozier, Manchester Township
• Elijah Blasdell, Miller Township
• James Rand, Caesars Creek Township
• Archibald Stewart, Jackson Township
• Jonathan Barber, Logan Township
• Benjamin Brewington, Sparta Township
• John Lawrence, Jackson Township

 

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Traverse Jury for 4th week, April Term 1850:

• Jeremiah Crosby, Lawrenceburg Township
• James Hinds, Sparta Township
• Nicholas Yeager, Jackson Township
• Thomas Annis, Miller Township
• David Grove, Centre Township
• William S. Ward, York Township
• David Frazier, Miller Township
• Peter M. Degiar, Centre Township
• George Robertson, York Township
• David Nevitt, Lawrenceburg Township
• Alexander Low, Jr., Centre Township
• Abram Showalter, Jackson Township
• Omer Tousey, Lawrenceburg Township
• Myran Warner, Caesars Creek Township
• William Stone, Jackson Township

Allowed to E. E. Adams for stationery for Clerk’s office

Order releasing David Rees from his bond as keeper of ferry over Tanners Creek rescinded.

Allowed to Jeremiah Crosby for painting at Jail

 

Page 433

Auditor’s report on receipts and expenditures of county.

 

Page 434

Treasurer’s report.

 

Page 435 [Continued.]

 

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Allowed to T. J. Bailey, collector of tax in Aurora, for tax due on county property in Aurora

Allowed to Elish McNeeley for services as Superintendent of public lot at Court House in Lawrenceburg

Allowed to E. Dumont for sum expended by him over sum paid on his bonds

Petition of George D. Sanks, William Wymond and others for rescind order of Board authorizing Aaron B. Henry to erect swinging gates across road. Continued.

 

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Edward Reeves – license to keep a store in Centre Township

Omer T. Stockman – license to keep a store in York Township

Allowed to Ferris McCullough & Co. for ink for Recorder and Auditor’s office

Allowed to Nimrod Lancaster for publishing election notices and notices of county orders

Allowed to Joseph Morrow for apprehending and time spent in attending court as witness in the convicting Wm. Summerfield for horse stealing

William S. Ward allowed to make his report for erecting bridge in Kelso Township over Tanners Creek.

Allowed to John F. Richards for keeping criminals in Jail

 

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Tax rates for 1849.

 

Page 439

John Callihan, Abram B. Adams and Andrew Morgan appointed commissioners to assess damages to owner of land.

Petition of Peter and Joseph Henegan to attach their lands to Laughery Township.

Citizens of Centre and Manchester Townships to attach a portion of Lawrenceburg Township to Centre Township. Withdrawn.

Allowed to Christopher Rowe for conveying man to County Asylum

 

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Election of county for or against selling property at Wilmington belonging to county (the Seminary property exclusive).

Allowed to Reuben Rogers for services as Auditor

Court adjourned.

 

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Deed – Reuben Rogers, Auditor, to David Rudisell

 

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Deed – Reuben Rogers, Auditor, to Robert Hudson

 

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