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Rockville Mongomery Co Md
July 9th 1868
Rev. John Kimball

Dear sir

I write to inform you that I have been to Sandy Springs and they are mooving on with that School House weatherboarding the gable ends with two carpenters working on it and seems disposed to finish their House. I had also a meeting here in Rockville last night harvest time make it verry hard to get that part of the colored people in our meetings we want and I think it would be better to come about the 22nd or about that time these people are verry slow to move and will require strong exertions to arouse them and get them to see their best intreast  There seems to be some dificulty in getting land and I am told that a gentleman who lives in Washington keeping a store by the name of Mr. Shotts says that he