The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the November 1836 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.
Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 2
November Session 1836
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Present:
- George Arnold
- Benjamin Sylvester
Caleb A. Craft – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Rising Sun
Patrick O’Conner – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Kelso Township
Oliver Heustis – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Manchester Township
James C. Cordey – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Wilmington
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Thomas Falber – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Aurora
Thomas Slack – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Kelso Township
J. Harwood & Co. – license to retail and vend foreign merchandise at their store in Wilmington
William Tibbetts – license to retail and vend foreign merchandise
No. 1 – Allowed to Sarah Elder for boarding and keeping a colored pauper
No. 2 – Allowed to Charles Dashiell for services attending at the asylum
No. 3 – Allowed to John Wymond for removing Allen, a pauper
Robert Haddock – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Miller Township
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Lawrence and McKendall – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Jackson Township
Ferris and Scoggin – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Lawrenceburg
John Todd – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Manchester Township
B. T. W. S. Anderson – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries and liquors at his shop in Manchester Township
No. 4 – Allowed to Simeon Tozier for sundries furnished paupers and for coffins, digging graves and other articles
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Petition of Archibald H. Reed and other inhabitants of Wilmington to elect an additional Justice of Peace for Laughery Township.
George W. Lane & Co., owners of lands formerly belonging to Charles Vattier, since to William Israel, make application for ferry over Hogan’s Creek at its mouth and a ferry over Ohio River from mouth of Hogan Creek. Established.
No. 4 – Allowed to Isaac Dunn as one of the associate judges attending court and attending sundry writs of habeas corpus
Andrew Morgan – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise at his store in New Lawrenceburg
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No. 5 – Allowed to William Cooke, Jailor, for boarding and keeping prisoners
John Cundale – license to vend and retail foreign merchandise at his store in Manchester Township
George W. Shaw – license to keep a grocery and retail foreign and domestic groceries at his grocery store in Logan Township
Charles W. Wright – license to vend foreign merchandise at his store in Manchester Township
No. 6 – Allowed to John Cundale for keeping and boarding a pauper
No. 7 – Allowed to John Cundale for boarding and clothing Roswell Crow, a pauper
No. 8 – Allowed to Simon Tozier for balance of keeping paupers
Warren Tibbs – license to keep a tavern and public house of entertainment at his house in Harrison
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No. 9 – Allowed to William Dils, Sheriff, for attendance on prisoners and boarding prisoners
No. 10 – Allowed to Alexander H. Dill for rent of clerk’s office
Richard C. Langdon – license to keep a tavern and public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in New Lawrenceburg
No. 11 – Allowed to James Dill extra services as clerk
No. 12 – Allowed to Harris Fitch for carrying prisoners to Wilmington
No. 13 – Allowed to Harris Fitch for keeping George A. Dugan, a transient pauper and removing said pauper to county asylum
Harris Fitch – license to keep a tavern or public house of entertainment and retail spirituous liquors at his house in Lawrenceburg
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Allowances to Grand Jurors at September Term 1836:
- No. 14 – William Conaway
- No. 15 – Elijah Lindsay
- No. 16 – Henry Parker
- No. 17 – James Bruce
- No. 18 – Mahlon Powell
- No. 19 – James Rabb
- No. 20 – John Buffington
- No. 21 – Joshua Philips
- No. 22 – Andrew Stephenson
- No. 23 – Isaac Bruce
- No. 24 – William Hancock
- No. 25 – Noyes Canfield
- No. 26 – Samuel Cole
- No. 27 – John B. Clarke
- No. 28 – Z. A. Bonham
- No. 29 – Thomas Slack
- No. 30 – Julius James
- No. 31 – Abraham Showaller
- No. 32 – John Lawrence
- No. 33 – Stephen Liddle
- No. 34 – Abm Eversole
- No. 35 – Elijah Lindsey
- No. 36 – Daniel Roberts
Allowances to Petit Jurors at September Term 1836:
- No. 37 – Samuel Hollowell
- No. 38 – John Clifton
- No. 39 – James Rabb
- No. 40 – James Billingsley
- No. 41 – William Higby
- No. 42 – Andrew Anderson
- No. 43 – Enoch W. Jackson
- No. 44 – James Woods, Sr.
- No. 45 – William Perry
- No. 46 – John Gibson
- No. 47 – William Parvin
- No. 48 – William H. Loyd
- No. 49 – Mason J. Cloud
- No. 50 – John Buffington
- No. 51 – William Wheeler
- No. 52 – William Morgan
- No. 53 – Martin Trester
- No. 54 – George Grove
- No. 55 – Levi Miller
- No. 56 – James Lindsey
- No. 57 – James Daugherty
- No. 58 – Peter Allen
- No. 59 – William Johnson
- No. 60 – John Johnson
- No. 61 – Henry Rigg
- No. 62 – Charles Bruce
- No. 63 – Orison Gray
- No. 64 – William Wymond
- No. 65 – William Williams
- No. 66 – George Lowe
- No. 67 – John Bruce
- No. 68 – George Baker
- No. 69 – George Lowe
- No. 70 – George Harwood
- No. 71 – David Johnson
- No. 72 – Thomas Baker
- No. 73 – Ranna Stevens
- No. 74 – Benjamin Johnson
- No. 75 – William E. Thompson
- No. 76 – Robert E. Wilber
- No. 77 – George Mendel
- No. 78 – John Columbia
- No. 79 – William Rollin omitted March Term 1836
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No. 80 – Allowed to Ebenezer Dumont for defending a pauper criminal
No. 81 – Allowed to A. C. Cole for defending a pauper
No. 82 – Allowed to Lemuel G. Elder for attendance as constable September 1836
No. 83 – Allowed to Walter Kerr for attendance as constable September 1836
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Walter Armstrong – treasurer’s report.
No. 84 – Allowed to William Dils, Sheriff, for sundries furnished the court at Wilmington and cleaning Court House
No. 85 – Allowed to Stephen Green as constable attending Grand Jury September Term 1836
J. & F. Hansell – license to vend foreign merchandise at their store in Manchester Township
No. 86 – Allowed to Samuel H. Dowden for attending on 3 writs of habeas corpus as associate judge
No 87 – Allowed to William Cook for boarding prisoners and repairs to jail
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William Dils, Sheriff, presented claim for summoning witnesses before Grand Jury. Postponed.
Walter Armstrong and Mark McCracken appointed commissioners to examine books and transactions of Lawrenceburg Bridge Company.
No. 88 – Allowed to William A. Camron for printing 9 quire of county orders
No. 89 – Allowed to Z. A. Bonham as Juror September Term 1836
Ordered state road at county line near Moore’s Hill as laid out by Oliver Hustis and Reuben Sutton to state road leading from Lawrenceburg to Indianapolis be opened.
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No. 90 – Allowed to George Arnold for services as commissioner
No. 91 – Allowed to Benjamin Sylvester for services as commissioner