BIBB COUNTY, GA - History  Academies

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ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE State of Georgia,
PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN
NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1832. [missing title]
ACADEMIES. 

1832 Vol. 1 -- Page: 3

BIBB That Joseph Washburn, Isaac Harvey, Edward W.
Wright, Christopher B. Strong and Charles J. McDonald,
and their successors, be appointed trustees for the
Bibb county academy.

BIBB And that Ralph Howard, Demsey Justice, Nathan
Raines, James W. Alston, Jesse Moran, and [Illegible
Text] successors in office, be and they are hereby
declared to be trustees of the Union academy, in the
county of Bibb.

1837

BIBB Sec. 33. And be it further enacted, That Thomas
Gates, Henry Newsome, Joshua Jordan, Simon Parker, and
Lewis Laushe (Lawshe?) be, and they are hereby appointed
Trustees for Warrior Academy, in the county of Bibb.
NOTE: See below on Henry Newsome and Lewis Lawshe

BIBB Sec. 34. And be it further enacted, That Aaron
Lessel, James R. Buzbee, James McElmurry, Zachariah
Cowart, and Green McDonald be, and they are hereby
appointed Trustees for Rutland Academy, in Rutland's
district, in the county of Bibb.

NOTES: Henry Newsome and Lewis Lawshe

Henry Newsom was my GGGGF.  One of his daughters, Mary A. Newsom married William C. Lawshe, a brother to Lewis Lawshe.