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be able we can have the Chapel & a School house too on the same let & have them separate. 
I measured it off as I wanted it, got the gentleman to make the Church [[strikethrough]] me [[/strikethrough]] the deed for it, & had it Registered yesterday. My parishioners all bid me Godspeed in this work but say they cannot now help me pecuniarily. But now is the very time it is needed. I think the colored people have done nobly & deserve to have their expectations realized. I am but a poor man with a large family and a small salary or I would finish the work myself. I am bound for it as it is. I would blush now to tell the freedmen I am unable to finish what I have undertaken. Six months ago or more when I originated this thing I applied to the Prot. Ep. F. Comn. but received nothing but some Prayer books