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themselves of the opportunity of registering.

The desire of the grown people for education has been greatly stimulated by reason of the rights given them and I have the pleasure of saying that in Fauquier County I have 4 school houses building and will undoubtedly have many more These building are built of logs and answer for church services as well as for school purposes. My purpose is to procure colored teachers for them and they can pay their own way without calling upon our northern friends for help.

On the last of June Mr Morse formaly teacher in this town went to a Sunday School at Waterloo and talked to the people about their elevation and the necessity of education the White people hearing of it shut the doors of the church against them because they "allowed that Yankee to talk politic in their school" which I find upon investigation was not the case. Enclosed please find a letter written to one of the colored men by the Minister. The consequence is that by the last of August the colored people will have a church & school house of their own.

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