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Farnham's cross Roads July 10th 1869.
Richmond Co. Va.

Capt. R. Manly Supt. of the Education of the Freedmen of the State of Virginia.

Dear Sir,

I was appointed by the Am. Bap. H. Mission Society to establish, and teach a day school at Farnham's Cross Roads Richmond Co. Va. and were instructed by Rev. John Kimball, of Washington D C. to send my reports to you. I received my Commission and appointment on the 1 of June, and reached my field on the 12th inst, and commenced work on the 14th I am glad to inform you that I have succeeded in the establishment of a school which now numbers sixty scholars. I have reliable indications of a continual increase, this part of Virginia is quit fertile, is penetrated by creeks in which fish and oysters abound, and is therefore very thickly settled. The freedmen here have purchased an acre of land on which they have built a spacious house of worship, which they hope to finish by the close of the present year. I am teaching in this building without desks, charts, or blackboards. The freedmen's Bureau, which has done so much for us, will greatly perpetuate her lasting kindness, should she deem it expedient to erect a school house at Farnham's cross Roads.

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