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their education might be so conducted, as to promote their moral and religious improvement I will do all in my power to promote it [[strikethrough]] them [[/strikethrough]].

There are three points, within my parish where the planters desire to establish schools  They will give an acre of land on which to [[strikethrough]] place [[/strikethrough]] erect the school house, and the timber to build it, and haul [[?]] place. They would [[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] have [[strikethrough]] the house [[/strikethrough]] built the house but owing the failure of the crop last year, they are all in debt and cannot give money. The [[strikethrough]] more [[/strikethrough]] lumber for the floors doors &c must be bought, & the carpenters paid. This will cost from one to two hundred dollars. I wish to know from you if you will grant an appropriation to build a school house, where ever a school can be established of from fifty, to one hundred pupils, with the approbation of major Pierce, or Mr Drake the Superintendent

I also wish to know whether you will