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Bureau R.F & A. Lands
Office Asst Sub Asst Com. 
Rockbridge Bath & Alleghany Cos Va
Lexington Va May 31st 1867

Brvt Brig Genl Brown
Asst. Commissioner State of Va.
General

I have the honor to report the following Freedmans schools in Rockbridge County in addition to the graded school in Lexington under charge of the Free Baptist Church.
They are -
1st - a week-day school kept in Brownsburg by Jacob Haliburton - an old and respectable colored man formerly slave of Mr Trotter of Brownsburg. This school was organized during the present month and has twelve pupils, five of them girls and seven boys, six of whom can read and six spell. All of them are children. This school is partly sustained by myself and my mother and sister in Pennsylvania. The American Tract Society of Boston have furnished some books to it. 
2nd A Sunday school taught by Edward A Marshall, a young christian colored man who lives near the Natural Bridge. It now has forty five pupils, twenty girls and twenty five boys. Eight girls and two boys can read, four pupils are learning the alphabet, and all others can spell in two or more syllables. The American Tract Society of Boston and the branch society in Richmond have furnished books to the destitute children of this school. The superintendent, Marshall talks of becoming a Methodist minister and, if this is the case, I cannot tell whether any other person will take charge of it. 
Very Resp
Your Obt. Servt. 
J.W. Sharpe
Capt & Asst. Sub. Asst. Com. F.B.