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Meridin May 31st 1866

E M Wheelock
Supt of Schools

The freedmen are anxious to have schools and will pay the tuition of their children. As far as they are able one settlement in the county of seventy children who all live near enough to attend one school their parents have proposed to build a school house.

A school could be started with some 30 scholars & one at Kimble about the same & one at Hillsborough & Dyers Mills.

Philip Howard
Sub Asst Com