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Elizabeth City Jan 1st /66 To the Citizens of Lake Roade haveing heard that some one or some party has burned the Building that has been used for a Church for a number of years past and was to be used as a "School House" I am sorry that any body should pay so much attention to the Colored Peoples Schooling outside of their own color as to commit such a depredation upon them. Hoping that when they (the colored people) get their Building done and comence their School that no White Man will intifear with them I sign myself A friend to all Wm H Willey Asst Supt Freedmens Bureau