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Dames Quarter Somerset Co. Md.
Oct 12th 1868
Rev. John Kimball

Dear sir

I am here at this place and had a meeting with these people  They are much in want of a school House and teacher here a large settlement of colored people and no school of any kind here, the people are very poor but they say if you will buy them three hundred dollars worth of lumber at Saulsburry where they can scow it down near where the House is to be built they will put the House up in a few weeks after they get the lumber they have bought one acre of land and paid $148,,00 dollars for it and will deed a quarter of an acre off at once for the school House  please write to me at Saulsburry  this is the 4th letter I have written and have not herd from you as yet  I said 4 but seven in four different Envalopes

Yours Respectfully
[[signature]]John H, Butler[[/signature]]