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. 15

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District No. 16

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Trustees Bond
Of the 1st School District in Capt. Jno Dennis

Know all men by these presents that we Joseph Hill, William Martin, Silas McBee, Thos. McMillen and William Sharp, all of the County of Grainger and State of Tennessee, trustees of the first School District in Captain John Dennis(‘s) Company are help and firmly bound unto John T. Curl, Chairman of Common School Commitioners (sic.) for the County of Grainger and State aforesaid, in the Penal Sum of thirty dollars to be levied on over respectable goods and chattles (sic). The condition of the above obligations is such that if we the above bounden Joseph Hill, William Martin, Silas McBee, Thos. McMillan, and William Sharp, trustees of the above-mentioned district do well and truly apply all the money that we receive from the Clerk of the Common School Comitioners for the County of Grainger to the use of schooling of the children from the age of six and under the age of eighteen and all moneys rec’d by us by donation or otherwise to the use of schooling children that is entitled it

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by law then the bond is to be void, if not it is to remain in full force and virtue of the laws where of we have here unto set our hands and Seals this 17th day of August 1833.

Thomas McMillin (his mark) (Seal)
William Martin (his mark) (Seal)
Silas McBee (Seal)
Joseph Hill (Seal)
William Sharp (Seal)

No. Children District 16 is 88
Augt 19^th 1833.
The no of children between 6 & 18 in the Common School District No. 16 for the present half year is 88.
Given under my hand Augt 19th 1833.
By order of the Board – William Sharp CLARK (Clerk)

District No. 17

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District No. 20

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