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There are already, in Accomac Co., three schools, one at New Boston, taught by James Martin; attendance Seventy-Five (75); one at Hornetown taught by Mrs Sarbring; attendance Seventy-Four (74); one at Modesttown taught by Eliza Finney; attendance Forty-Three (43). Mrs Virginia Jacobs has the only colored school in Northampton. She teaches in a small board extension to her father's house in the little village of Saulsbury near Eastville. All these teachers are colored and the schools self-supporting; the charge for tuition is 50cts per month. I have only visited the last named, but understand that all are doing well. One William Shatton (colored) is now raising Three Hundred Dollars ($300) to purchase a tract of nine acres near Belle Haven, whereon to erect a school-house; he has applied to me for help from the Government in the erection of the building, which, I think, ought to be granted. There should be a school at Bridgeton about 8 miles from Eastville; the freedmen there are trying to procure a piece of land for that purpose.

There ought to be one at Drummondtown, and at Orancock; also at Pongoteague, where three acres of land have been secured on which a church is now being erected:- will be finished probably by the fall,

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