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Robert Vickers was [[Sheriff]].

Moses Scott Rice was County Surveyor.

===== Events =====
==== Boone County ====
  * The Burlington-Florence Turnpike is incorporated.
  * The [[towns]] of [[Burlington]] and [[Hamilton]] are authorized to levy real estate taxes.  Burlington is also authorized to levy a poll tax.
  * An election [[precincts|precinct]] is established in [[Walton]] at the home of Garrett Brooks.
  * John P. Gaines becomes the first Boone County native elected to the U.S. Congress.
  * David Leidy begins a scientific description of the fauna of [[Big Bone]].

==== Kentucky ====
  * In the "Kentucky Raid," a group of thirteen Kentucky slave catchers kidnaps fugitive slaves from farms in Cass County, Michigan, though the fugitives are freed by a local judge.  The raid is one of the incidents leading to the passage of the more stringent Fugitive Slave Act of [[1850]]. 

==== U.S. & World ====
  * Escaped [[slavery|slave]] Frederick Douglass begins publishing his abolitionist [[newspapers|newspaper]], the //North Star//.
  * The Donner Party is trapped in the Sierra Mountains for the winter. Just over half the party survives, though some resort to cannibalism. 
  * The first Chinese immigrants arrive in New York City, starting New York's famous Chinatown.

===== More Information =====
  * Boone County Tax Lists, 1847: [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/32032/0|District 1]], [[https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/32221/0|District 2]].