Viewing page 4 of 304

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

Jamestown Somerset County Md.
October 7th 1868
Rev. John Kimball

Dear sir

I write to inform you that I met the colored people of this place last night and the meeting was largely attended  And after setting forth the advantages of Education, explaining the plans, and the tearms of building, the people of this place decided to go to work as soon as they could know for certan that the Bureau would help them to the amount of $300 dollars worth of lumber as can be bought here  they think that they will have their house done as soon as any of the others.  I go to potatoe-Neck to day a place thickly settled with colored people  Some of the people of Accomack Co Va. have been to see me about schools  I told them I could do nothing for them but I would state their case  In the neighbourhood of Horntown they there are about three hundred children and no school there and never had any there  this place is about 12 miles from Newton.  And also another application from another place