Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1841. AUG. . 44 JOSIAH HIGGINS. AUGUST. Aug. 3Jacob Hamm, administrator of G. F. List. Bond, $4,000. County court grants $25 for the support of Henry Fulksthe rst pauper granted aid. John Lewis, having taken the contract to build the jail, is granted $966. Aug. 28The Weston Presbyterian Church organized. SEPTEMBER. Sept. 5S. L. Leonard, commissioner, reports the amount of sales of lots since his appointment is $3,635.23. Sept. 8Ira Norris, commissioner, reports that he has let out to Thos. W. Mercer, for $8,000, the contract for a lattice bridge over Platte River at Platte City, of one track, 20 feet Wide. The contract approved. Congress grants to the State of Missouri for Internal Im- provements 500,000 acres of public lands. Sept. 21Bela M. Hughes enrolled as an attorney. OCTOBER. Oct. 10Jesse Morin, superintendent of public buildings, re- ports the court-house, except plastering, complete. Medlin & Anderson did the stone-work, David Hunt the brick-work, and Sa1n1 Paul, B. R. Morton, W. D. Bonnell, and Elijah Moore the carpenter-work. The jail was nished in December. Oct. 2-3The circuit court met for the rst time in the court- house, yet unplastered. NOVEMBER. Nov. 7Josiah Higgins will proba.ted; dated March 26, 1841.. Children: 1. Josiah Higgins (ii); 2, Benjamin; 3, Harmon; 4, Jackson; .1. William; 6, Susan Cooper; 7, Jacob; 8, Peggy Ford; 9, John. Nor. 10R. B. Mitchell, administrator of Luke Dorland. Bond. $2,000; widow, Martha. Nor. 16mith &Henderson, administrators of John P. Smith. Bond. .i~25,()00. Children: 1, Wm. V. Smith; 2, Jas. C.; 3, Hiram S.; 4. H(l.l1()II1; 5. Sarah Ann Chance; 6, Mary Ann; 7, Jane C.; R. Lucretia; 9, Vebster. la-}:al mlvertisexiients are now printed at Liberty in the Far llr.-I. l.-n Hays editor. and in the Liberty Herald, J. H. Darling- Inn -dilm. Jhe latter worked on the Reveille and the Lamldmctrlr. ll.- liml in vemher. 1906. in the St. Joseph Lunatic Asylum. J..ll7.S F. ADAMS. from Tennessee. settled this year at ltillgt-l. and Sl:lll((l the town on his claim. A Saddler by trade, lu- em up :1 slmp. and a small town grew up. It was a gambling and (lllllllll,{ place. and was rst called Hell Town. He md .lar Owens. dr. of Nicholas. Children: