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Nanticoke Wicomico Co. Maryland
Oct 23rd 1868
Rev. John Kimball

Dear sir

I write to inform you that I am here at this place  held a meeting with the people here last night.  This is a large settlement of colored people and they are disposed to do all they can if they had some assistance  no one have been among them on the subject of Education and they will from 60 to 75 colored families within three miles around which makes a larger settlement with about 150 to 200 children and no school  They want the Bureau to send them a teacher to give them a start and they will pay the board and washing  they say that a colored male teacher will suit them best.  They have a small place to commence school in  And they are ready to build if the Bureau will help them to the amount of three hundred dollars worth of material as can be bought down here