Probate Misc. Records 1859, Index 2
Misc. Probate Book B "Orders"Index 1
Index 3
| Date | Page | |
| May 16, 1859 | Order for Election of Grand Jurors - James E. Williams, James C. Smith, Michael McAlister, John McCaslin, John Denton, Carrol Merion, Robinson Rodgers, Thomas Gray, Samuel Ridgeway, James Clayton, Tidines? L. Grayhan, James Boon, Wm B. McAlister, Nathan Clifton, Wm J. Sowell, Wm Cullum | 214 |
| Order for the Co of Van Buren to borrow ????? | 220 | |
| Order for Jas M. Brooks Treasurer to pay over money | 225 | |
| Order for J.T. Bradley clerk to purchase books | 226 | |
| Order for J.M.Brooks to pay money to Mays Griggs | 226 | |
| Order for H.T. Reed & wife for re-enstate deed? to L.R. Venable | 226 | |
| Order for W.T. McName & Elbert Smith Esqs to hold election to elect Common School Comms. | 230 | |
| Feb 26, 1859 | Order selecting a committee to locate a cite for Poor House (names mentioned: Wm R. Greeson, J.B. Jennings, A.P. Stinson) | 246 |
| Order approving the bond of Wm H. Griggs as Collector | 248 | |
| Order to have the Town of Clinton re-surveyed - surveyor Enoch Brewer | 250 | |
| Order to have new Court House built on the grounds where the old one stood | 255 | |
| Orders for Jesse Witt, Common School Com to sell 16 Section | 266 | |
| Order for J.M. Brooks to loan out money | 267 | |
| 1860 | Order to elect a panel of Grand Jurors for April 1860 term - Richard G. Huie, Thomas J. Griggs, John F. Mcalister, Robert L. Norman, John Denton, Stephen P. Pearce, Henry R. Goodnight, Wm J. Sowell, Wm Tapp, Wm Potter, Green Reed,Moses Brown, Wesly Thompson, Wm Garner, F.K. Linn, Jacob Simpkins | 267-8 |
| Order for Clerk to issue a citation to every Justice of the Peace | 268 | |
| Order for Comms. of Poor House to execute note to Treasurer | 269 | |
| Order for John L. Gatton to appear before the court | 272 | |
| Order releasing Reubin Millsaps from John L. Gattons bond | 273-4 | |
| Dec 28, 1859 | Order for Sheriff to let out Poor House to lowest bidder | 274 |
| Jan 9, 1860 | Order electing associate justice - Names mentioned: John L. Lafferty received 9 votes, Arthur Treadway received 6 votes, A.J. Leonard received 1 vote, Geo W. Harrison received 1 vote & Anderson B. Smith received 3 votes - Making Lafferty and Treadway elected. | 275 |
| Order for Sheriff to pay money to Clerk for books | 276 | |
| Order for the formation of Holley Township | 277 | |
| Order to review petition at the Oct Term to make changes in the road leading from Clinton to Richwoods. Said divin?? changes to leave the road ???? two or three hundred yards below Dr. John Nixans & intersect again near Gilbert Cottrells & the court being sufficiently advised orders that Jesse Lee, John M. Ham Sr & William Pavitt be and they are hereby appointed a jury of view to lay off and mark said deserved changes after meeting at the house of John G Nixans Esqr on some day agreed when by said Viewers and take the oath as the law directs previous to entering upon their duties and make report to the next Term of this Court. | 278 | |
| Order for John Kalis to sell 16 section (section 16 is the section always reserved for schools) | 279 | |
| Order to lay off political townships | 281 | |
| Order for Treasurer to pay money to Mays Griggs | 288 | |
| Order for all the Justices of the Peace to appear | 289 | |
| Order to change Holley Township lines | 306 | |
| April 10, 1860 | Order for the election of Grand Jury - Daniel Williams, Daniel Morrison, John F. McAlister, Elijah Hall, Wm H. Giles, carmen Watkins, Jesse M. Lee, Wm Martin, Chas Poff, Moses Cloninger, A.B. Chapman, Reubin Millsaps, Wesley Thompson, Wm F. Goff, Willoughby S. Garner, John R. Parish | 307 |
| Order allowing premium for Wolf scalps | 310 | |
| Order for Treasurer to draw money | 311 | |
| Order allowing W.H. Griggs credit for D.? list | 313 | |
| Order for Clerk to issue Daniel Griggs as guardian of minor hiers of Samuel C. Akin | 315 | |
| July 9, 1860 | Order changing lines of Peter Creek Township | 324 |
| Order for John L. Gatton, Commons School Comm report | ||
| Order for all the Justices of the Peace to Report | 332 | |
| Order for Treasurer to pay over money to contractor of court house | 332 | |
| Order setting aside a change in road | 348 | |
| Order for Grand Jury to be Elected to serve April 1861 term -David Hargis, Joseph Mcalister, James Eubanks, Green G. Barnes, John Smith, Henry R. Goodnight, Thos Segall, Wm Little, Stephen Simpkins, Calvin Brewer, Morgan Magness, Moses West, Henry Blankenship, Haywood Smith, A.B. Davis, James A. Sheanr? | 352 | |
| Order of J.L. Gatton, Common School Comm. to report | 353 | |
| Oct 10, 1860 | Order for all indebted to fo?? ton?? / Fund to appear & ??? notes | 357 |
| Jan 14, 1861 | Order electing associate justices : R.S. Hill - 7 votes, J.F. McAlister - 6 votes, Elbert Smith - 4 votes. Hill and McAlister elected | 358 |
| Jan 16, 1861 | Order for a Jury of View - O.B. Loftis, James Arnold & Haygood Smith to lay off and mark a change in road near John Thompsons | 387 |
| Order for a Jury of View - John Houges, John Lovin, John Hancock -to lay off change to road leading from John L. Thompsons, meeting to be at residence of George W. Dungan | 390 |