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She has the promise of more pupils - there might be fifty scholars at her school. Many are unable to pay the little tuition she asks.
Instruction is given in "reading spelling counting and ciphering", for three hours a day and five days of the week.

2nd.  Miss Virginia Jacobs (cold) a young lady of about 17 years, teaches a school of fifteen young children in a lend board extension of her father's house at Saulsbury: a small hamlet in the woods not far from Eastville Northampton Co Va. She attended School in Norfolk and Campston three years, and is competent to instruct in the Elementary branches: tuition is .57 cts pr month for each child - very little of which has been collected.  Her father, James Jacobs, is an intelligent and enterprising freedman and proposes to establish a permanent school.

3rd.  James Martin a young colored man has a freedman's school at New Boston near Pongoteague [[Pungoteague]] Accomac [[Accomack]] Co Va. The land and school building are the property of his uncle James Martin Senior, a very wide [[?]] and intelligent old

Transcription Notes:
Saulsbury is the correct spelling. It was an unincorporated place in Northampton Co., VA. Not "Salisbury". That is farther north.