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St. Peters Church Dorchester Co. Maryland
Oct 14th 1868
Rev. John Kimball

Dear sir

I write to inform you that the school House at this place is built but is every thing except being right  The people built the house on ground with a verbal promise and since that time the man have sold the land and did not deed one foot and the man who bought it will not let them have the ground it sits on at no Price  we had a meeting and raised $38,,50 to buy an acre of land about 4 hundred yards from the House we have not secured the land as yet but escpect to in a few days.  And then the House is too large for the people in the neighbourhood  it is about 24 feet wide 30 to 35 feet long and about 18 feet high in the clear built very substantial but too large every way for the people of that place and about 2 to 3 miles from the place it ought to be for the convenience of the people.  They are not ready for a teacher yet