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Pembroke Mass - July 28 69
John W Pratt

Pembroke, Mass
July 28th 1869

R. M. Manly, Esq.

Dear Sir:
Yours just rec'd in reply:
When I first went to Orange, no white person would let us have a piece of land on which to put a school house. Walter G. Jones told me that if we could do no better we might put it on his lot, one half of it if I could get permission of Jane Bundy, a col'd woman, a neighbor, to set the other half on her land. Her permission was obtained, they promising to let it remain there until we could do better, nothing being 

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