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large to meet the wants of his neighborhood. Judge Jones, deeded to the Freedmen last spring on his place, five acres, & gave them all the timber necessary to build I learned recently that the colored people, at Content, had rented a house, & engaged a Citizen named Payne, as teacher. I omitted to state that a Freedman at Alleyton had given a lot for a school house there & efforts are being made to commence building.

To establish permanent schools in all the aforenamed places where none exist would require little money, comparitivelly, in addition to which the people, would supply, providing good teachers - imbued with a missionary spirit, could be induced to take charge, direct, & urge the Freed people on.

To nothing, not excepting the Church, will the Freedpeople contribute more freely than to advance the cause of education. They have been so deceived however, by teachers, who have come among them, & gotten a month or two's pay in advance & left, that they have become cautious & suspicious - and justly so.

I am convinced that a school at any of the places I have mentioned, were a teacher to locate, & gain the confidence of the people, would pay better than the average of New England schools.