Transcribed and annotated by, and copyright 2023 to, Meri Arnett-Kremian.

Extracted from a handwritten sheaf of papers collectively entitled Grainger County, Tennessee, Common School Papers 1833-1834, with the following attribution:
Copied by Olivia M. Mason for Grainger County
Completed August 31, 1938
Mrs. Margaret H. Richardson
Mrs. P. J. Allen

The pages may have been compiled for the Historical Records Survey of the Works Progress Administration.  The FamilySearch microfilm number is 007896497.  Click here to browse the original microfilm images.

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District No. 14

Trustees of District No. 14 (Bond)
John T. Curl, Chairman

Know all men by these presents that we Thomas Acuff, David Watson, Charles Reyes, John Robertson, John Acuff, all of the County of Grainger and State of Tennessee trustees of School District No. 14 are held and firmly bound until John T. Curl, Chairman of the Board of Common School Commissioners for Grainger County, and his Successors in Office, in the penal sum of one hundred dollars the payment whereof well and truly to be made. We bind our selves and each of us, our heirs, executors & firmly by these presents

The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas the bounden Thomas Acuff, David Watson, Charles Reyes, John Robertson, John Acuff have been duly elected trustees of the school District No. 14 of Grainger County, now if they shall well and truly and faithfully appropriate to the use and benefit of a common school in said District. All sums of money which they may receive from the board of Common School Commissioners of Grainger County

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or from any other Source or Sources for that purpose. Then the above obligation to be void otherwise to be and remain in full force and virtue.

Signed with our names & Sealed with our Seals this 19th of August 1833.

Thomas Acuff (Seal)
David Watson (Seal)
John D. Acuff (Seal)
Charles Reyes (Seal)
John Robertson (Seal)

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District No. 14 – continued

State of Tennessee
Grainger County

We whose names are undersigned being chosen Trustees for the fourteenth Common School District in Grainger County Do Certify that there is a comfortable school house in Said District ready for teaching school in agreeable to law in such case made and provided. Given under our hand and Seal this 2nd day of July 1833.

John Robertson (Seal)
David Watson (Seal)
Charles Reyes (Seal)
Thomas Acuff (Seal)
John D. Acuff (Seal)

State of Tennessee
Grainger County

We the above subscribers as trustees of School District No. 14 have been duly elected and sworn and have organized our selves into a board which is as follows (to wit)

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David Watson Chairman
Thomas Acuff Treasurer
John D. Acuff Clerk

This the 3rd August 1833.

District No. 14
Justices Certificate

State of Tennessee
Grainger County

I certify that at an election held by me in the 14 school District that Thomas Acuff, John Acuff, David Watson, Charles Reyes and John Robertson was elected and qualified before me.
Given under my hand this 8th day of August 1833.

Joseph Clark
Justice of the Peace

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District No. 14
Number of Children 57
19th August 1833

The heads of families and number of Scholars in the 14th School District of Grainger County, Tennessee ages from six to eighteen.

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I certify the above to be the no. of children of the above ages in Said District for the present half year 8th August 1833,   Thomas Acuff

Annotations re: Listed Heads of Families