Jerome B. Armstrong to Major D. G. Swaim, Dec. 15, 1869
- Title
- Jerome B. Armstrong to Major D. G. Swaim, Dec. 15, 1869
- Date
- 12-15-1869
- Creator
- Jerome B. Armstrong
- Recipient
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Bvt. Maj. D. G. Swaim
- Description
- Informs Swaim that, four miles from Darlington, the freedpeople want a school and want Armstrong to organize a school and teach at the school for the first three months since they are too far from the Darlington School. They wish for Armstrong to lead the efforts because of their acquaintance with him and his position as the Secretary of the School Committee and Chairman of Building Committee at the Darlington School for four years. Mentions the presence of a private school taught by a woman in the area, but it closed because she moved. Armstrong says that he will not teach for the usual 60 cents per month and says if he received $50 then he would teach them for three months/one quarter if they have less than 25-30 students. States that he wants to get a list of names/number of students that would attend the school before it opens, with the community wanting to open the school January 1870.
- References
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Darlington aka Hosanna or Berkley
- School
- Bel Air aka Hendon Hill
- Source
- Smithsonian, National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Courtesy of the U. S. National Archives and Records Administration, FamilySearch International, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
- Transcript
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12.18.69. | 256 * Armstrong, J.B. | Dublin, Harford Co. Md. Dec. 15th 1869. States that the people of Dublin have applied to him to teach their school, but are not able to pay his salary: that twenty-five or thirty pupils can be gathered. Inquires if the Bureau will be responsible for his salary: that a school is much needed, &c.
Registered Letters Received 5.1.1/A-B (2of5) Jan. 26, 1868- Dec. 22, 1869
Image 300-303: Dec. 15th .69 Dublin Harford Co. Md. Bvrt Maj. Gen D S Swain Spt of Ed } Washington D.C. Sir you being Spt. of Education in place on room of Rev J Kimball the former Spt. I haveing some inquiries to make I thought you the most proper person to make to. About four miles from Darlington the colored people desire a school this winter & wish me to organize one and teach it for them. Well they cannot support a school without aid. They usually had a female that resided in the place that taught a private one for them but now she has moved out of this County and now they are without a school. And they are [too] far from this school that is established in the Darlington to reap it[s] benefits. They being acquainted with me, and knowing me to be the Sect. of the School Committee and Chairman of Building Comtt at Darlington Freedmens School this four years, they applied to me desiring me to teach for them for three months on this winter Well I told or informed them I could not do it for them as how as they usually been taught for sixty cents per month. But if I get get $50- fifty dollars aid I would teach them [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] three months or one quarter they sending not less then 25 or 30 scholars which they say they can do. I think it would as well or better for me to examine or go through the district [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[ /strikethrough]] and get the names and number of the pupils before a school is opened, I would be pleased to here from you in reference to it. They have a room prepared for school and wish it to commence the first of Jan 1870, and in fact they need a school much. hope to hear from you soon Yours [[signature]] J. B. Armstrong [[/signature]] address Darlington Md to me
Part of Jerome B. Armstrong to Major D. G. Swaim, Dec. 15, 1869