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Taylor Farm
Norfolk County
Virginia
Feb 21st 1869

Revend [[Reverend]] R Manly Esq
Reverd Sir
Yours dated the 5th came safe to hand on the 13th thanking you kindly for your kind favor, also I am sorry to see by it that you intend deducting my salery form 10 dollars to the small sum of five or eight, the kind hearted gentleman who promised he would apply to you for my salery said he could get me 12 dollars but no more on that condition I made up my mind to remain here with the [[strike out]]pople[[/strike out] people, also I am a poor Orphan and afflicted walk on a Crutch since I was eight years old no visible means of surport but teaching have been in the field three years have a very fine school out here 59 scholars enrolled daily avarge attendendance