The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the November 1833 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 1

November Session 1833

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Present:

• William Conaway, 1st District
• Charles Dashiell, 2nd District

William Conaway appointed President for session.

No. 1 – James Roach for keeping Abraham Peters, a pauper

Daniel Bartholomew – license to retail foreign merchandise at his store in Aurora

William Cullen – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors

Shadrach Hathaway – license to retail foreign merchandise at his store in Rising Sun

A. R. Wilber & Co. – license to retail foreign merchandise at their store in Hartford

Hiram Barker & Co. – license to retail foreign merchandise at their store in Wilmington

 

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Pepper & James – license to retail foreign merchandise

Luther Plummer – license to retail foreign merchandise at his store in Manchester Township

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

John Puckner – license to retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors in Kelso Township

No. 2 – Allowed to Edward Williams for keeping Maria Matthews, a pauper

No. 3 – Allowed to Wm. L. Conwell for killing one wolf

No. 4 – Allowed to Isaac Dunn for services as associate judge of Dearborn Circuit Court September 1833

No. 5 – Allowed to John McPike for services as associate judge of Dearborn Circuit Court September 1833

No. 6 – Allowed to William Dils, Sheriff, at the Sept Term 1833, [?] of two constables, fixing stove and furnishing part of the stove pipe, firewood, making fires, furnishing grooms, candles &c.

 

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No. 7 – Allowed to Jabez Whipple, constable, attending the Grand Jury, September Term 1833

Allowances for Grand Jurors:

• No. 8 – Samuel Jelly
• No. 9 – Zachariah S. Conger
• No. 10 – Jonathan Vail
• No. 11 – Jesse Hunt
• No. 12 – James Babcock
• No. 13 – Robert Rowe, Sr.
• No. 14 – Joshua Sanks
• No. 15 – Cornelius Miller
• No. 16 – Elisha Cox
• No. 17 – Joseph Adams
• No. 18 – Benjamin Walker
• No. 19 – Thomas Palmer
• No. 20 – James McGuire
• No. 21 – Daniel Tapley
• No. 22 – James Angevine

Allowances for Petit Jurors, September Term 1833:

• No. 23 – George Grove
• No. 24 – James McKinney
• No. 25 – Isaiah Hayes
• No. 26 – Ebenezer Wood
• No. 27 – Abraham Eversoll
• No. 28 – Daniel Hathaway
• No. 29 – William Marshall
• No. 30 – Benjamin Gould
• No. 31 – John Darling
• No. 32 – Almon Fairbanks
• No. 33 – Merritt Scoggin
• No. 34 – Henry Allemong
• No. 35 – John Billingsley
• No. 36 – Michael Flake
• No. 37 – Benjamin Noyes
• No. 38 – Abraham Roland
• No. 39 – William Patterson
• No. 40 – John B. Clarke
• No. 41 – William Moore
• No. 42 – Davis Woodward
• No. 43 – Amos Morris
• No. 44 – Abel Thompson
• No. 45 – Michael Trester
• No. 46 – Asa Smith
• No. 47 – Abraham Perdun
• No. 48 – David Conger
• No. 49 – Henry Bonner
• No. 50 – John Ferrce
• No. 51 – George Larrison
• No. 52 – Mark McCracken
• No. 53 – William Tucker
• No. 54 – Isaac Bruce
• No. 55 – Morgan Welch
• No. 56 – Albert G. Dils
• No. 57 – Aaron B. Henry
• No. 58 – Samuel Frazier
• No. 59 – James Lyons
• No. 60 – William Lemon
• No. 61 – James Cornelius
• No 62 – James D. Gidney
• No. 63 – Robert Fowler
• No. 64 – Squire Watts
• No. 65 – Daniel Wood
• No. 66 – Amsted Abbott
• No. 67 – Benjamin Wilson
• No. 68 – Elijah D. Reno
• No. 69 – Isaac Colwell
• No. 70 – Cornelius S. Cozine
• No. 71 – Tudor Lucas
• No. 72 – William R. Pond
• No. 73 – John Fuller
• No. 74 – Micah Garey
• No. 73 [sic] – Joel Beach
• No. 74 – Jediah Clarke
• No. 75 – Thomas Bolling
• No. 76 – Zadock West
• No. 77 – Enoch Conger
• No. 78 – David Nevitt
• No. 79 – Wm. H. Loyd
• No. 80 – Gorge W. Ward
• No. 81 – Abijah Bennett
• No. 82 – John Shook
• No. 83 – Benjamin Stockman
• No. 84 – William Tate
• No. 85 – Henry Hopkins
• No. 86 – Robert Conaway

 

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No. 87 – Allowed to Dr. Jabez Percival for medicines and attendance to T. B. Preston, a transient pauper

Samuel Cole – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries

No. 88 – Allowed to Elias Conklin, digging a grave for pauper Asenath Steele

No. 89 – Allowed to Spencer West for keeping Asenath Steele, a pauper

No. 90 – Allowed to Micah Garey for keeping Martha Middledich, a pauper

No. 91 – Allowed to John Ferrce for making coffin for Asenath Steele, a pauper

No. 92 – Allowed to James Dill for record book and stationery for clerks office

No. 93 – Allowed to A. U. Dill for office rent

William Tibbetts – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors

 

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William Parvin – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries

No. 94 – Allowed to Davis Weaver for viewing an alteration in the state road leading from Lawrencburg to Madison

No. 95 – Allowed to Elizabeth Duncan for keeping Mary Ann McBride, a pauper

George Arnold, commissioner of District No. 3, took his seat.

No. 96 – Allowed to Dr. John S. Percival for medicines and attendance to Steele’s child, a pauper

No. 97 – Allowed to William Cooke, Jailor, for boarding Abm McCullaugh, a prisoner, in jail

No. 98 – Allowed to Daniel Roberts for 1000 clapboards for covering brick of poor asylum

No. 99 – Allowed to Daniel Roberts for the balance of the 2nd payment due for making brick for poor asylum

No. 100 – Allowed to Daniel Roberts for the last and final payment for making brick for the poor asylum

No. 101 – Allowed to Wm. Purcell for reviewing and reporting an alteration in the state road leading from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis

No. 102 – Allowed to James Walker for similar services as above

 

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No. 103 – Allowed to John Dashiells for similar services as above

No. 104 – Allowed to John Dashiell for reviewing an alteration in the state road leading from Lawrenceburg to Madison

No. 105 – Allowed to Arthur St. Clair Vance for surveying and platting an alteration in the state road from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis

No. 106 – Allowed to James Walker, School Commissioner for advertising elections of school trustees and giving certificates thereof

No. 107 – Allowed to Thomas Porter for record books and taking testimony

No. 108 – Allowed to John Lawrence defending a suit for overseers of the poor June 1833

The papers handed in by Dr. Percival relative to a road near Aurora being so entirely informal, rejected.

William Steel – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Sparta Township

Fines returned by Isaac Colwell:

• George Lewis – assault & battery on B. B. Bonham  – fined $1.00
• John Walker – assault & battery on John McClary – acquitted
• John B. Lawrence & Abner Dill – affray at the house of James Lawrence in Jackson Township – fined $1.00 each

 

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Fines returned by Robt Rowe:

• Sebastian Bover – assault & battery on the body of Francis A. Walliser – fined $2.00

Fines returned by D. Weaver, Laughery Township:

• John Harwood – fined $1.50
• Hugh Alexander – fined $1.00
• Griffin Lawrence – fined $2.00
• James Boggs – fined $2.00
• Charles Vattier, fined $3.00
• Tavner Cheek – fined $6.00
• Henry Bruce – fined $1.00

 

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Fines returned by John Columbia:

• Harrison Low – assault & battery on the body of Seven Rigin – fined $1.00
• Nehemiah Hubbard – assault & battery on the body of Alonzo Bunel – fined $6.00

List of fines returned by Richard Hughes, Jackson Township:

• John Brush – assault & battery on the body of Jacob Will – fined $3.00
• David Wilson and Alexander U. R. Hendricks – profane swearing – fined $1.00

 

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George Arnold elected President of board.

Robert Wilber’s account for services rendered as returning Judge of Elections from Laughery Township. Rejected.

Thatcher & Knapp – license to retail foreign merchandise

No. 109 – Allowed to Benjn S. Noble for sundries furnished Thomas Preston, a pauper

No. 110 – Allowed to Dr. John S. Percival for medicine and attendance to T. B. Preston, a pauper

No. 111 – Allowed to Amos Lane, attorney, for defending county in a suit brought by the bank

 

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No. 112 – Allowed to William Dils for lock and fixing the same on jail door

James Cloud – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors

No. 113 – Allowed to Wm. Dil, Sheriff, for serving process in behalf of the county on a suit dismissed

Aaron Faulk – license to retail and vend foreign merchandise at his store in Aurora

No. 114 – Allowed to James Dill, his extra service as clerk

No. 115 – Allowed to William Dils, Sheriff, for extra services as Sheriff

William Armstrong’s Treasurer’s report.

No. 116 – Allowed to Mark McCracken for monies borrowed by him to pay for the county asylum

 

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James Walker, John Dashill and William Purcell, commissioners, report on proposed alteration in the state road leading from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis. Warren Tibbs, John Barrickulow and Ranna C. Stevens appointed to view and report the damages which will accrue to the lands of Stephen Ludlow and Elizabeth Sparks by proposed alteration.

William Allen, owner and proprietor of a mill and mill dam on Laughrey Creek, claims to be allowed damages assessed by a Jury of Inquest for damages he would sustain by complying with laws relating to erecting mill dams. Claim rejected and appealed.

 

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Fines assessed by John Saltmarsh:

• Charles Brasher – assault & battery – fined $1.00
• George Cheek – assault & battery – fined $1.00
• Henry Bruce – assault & battery – fined $1.00
• William Priest – assault & battery – fined $1.00
• Elias Tunny – assault & battery – fined $1.00
• William Daniel – assault & battery – fined $1.00

Fines assessed by James W. Hunter:

• Benjamin Rena – assault on Jacob Frazee – fined $1.00
• Robert Robertson – on complaint of Benjamin Conner – assault & battery – fined $1.00
• James Dill – on complaint of John Lawrence – assault & battery – fined $1.00

 

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No. 117 – Allowed to William Conaway for his services as commissioners

No. 118 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for his services as commissioners

No. 119 – Allowed to George Arnold for services as commissioner

No. 120 – Allowed to George Arnold for service as commissioner

 

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No. 121 – Allowed to William Conaway for service as commissioner

No. 122 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for service as commissioner

No. 123 – Allowed to Mark McCracken for service as commissioner

No. 124 – Allowed to William Conaway for extra services inspecting brick for poor asylum

Account of expenditures and receipts.

 

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