On the commissioners' docket is found a record of the first appraisement of property in Madison county, from which the following items are culled: "June 11, 1810, ordered that there be allowed to John Simpkins the sum of $6.25 for five days attendance while listing and appraising houses, making out duplicates and returning the same for Union township by order of the board." Joseph Kendle was paid the same sum for a like work in Stokes township; David Foster, $5 for four days, listing, etc., in Deer Creek; James Ewing, $5 for four days, in Darby; Thomas Foster, $3.12½ for a similar labor in Jefferson, and Samuel Scott, $5 for four days, appraising and listing, in Pleasant township. At the same time Patrick McLene was appointed lister for resident lands in Madison county, and subsequently was paid $27 for eighteen days of service in performing said work.