Other individuals associated with the school (possibly trustees): Charles W. Simms, Aquilla Boardly, Abraham Courtney. According to an annual report by the Baltimore Association, the school opened on December 14, 1865. According to the 1880 annual report of the State Board of Education for Maryland, Samantha Green returned to Perrymansville for at least the 1879-1880 and 1880-1881 school years.
Phenia C. Crisfield was a teacher supported by the Pennsylvania Freedmen’s Relief Association, an aid society based in Philadelphia. In October, 1869, Crisfield was sent by the Association to Darlington, Maryland, to replace beloved teacher Mary Watson, whose supporting organization, the American Missionary Association, could no longer afford to fund her there.
Crisfield taught at the school until April, 1870. At that time, the Pennsylvania Freedmen’s Relief Association ceased supporting teachers and schools in the South. She was then sent to teach a school at New Market, in Frederick County, Maryland.
Phenia C. Crisfield has not been identified in the U.S. census. Her home state is unknown.
Darlington teacher Phenia C. Crisfield tells Supt. Swaim that she sent her report for October and does not know why it failed to reach. She sends another report.
Darlington teacher Phenia C. Crisfield writes to Supt. Van Derlip requesting that the balance of her salary be sent to her. She reports that her school is getting along well.
Rachel L. Alexander was an African American woman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who taught at the Bel Air/Hendon Hill school. On September 29, 1869, Superintendent John Kimball wrote to Alexander at her home in Philadelphia, directing her to go to Hendon Hill to teach. She arrived there on October 5, 1869, and wrote to Supt. Kimball the next day to inform him that she did not plan to begin teaching until the following Monday, owing to the schoolhouse not being quite finished.
Alexander taught at Hendon Hill for less than three months, leaving the school on Christmas Eve, 1869, after the end of the fall term. In January, 1870, she wrote to her sponsor, the Pennsylvania Branch of the Freedmen’s Union Committee, asking if she was to be posted to a new school. It is unclear why she did not return to Hendon Hill for the spring term.
Rachel L. Alexander writes to J. R. Crosby, informing him that despite submitting her monthly report for November before leaving Bel Air for home, she has not yet received her pay for November or December. She was told verbally by Mr. Carson that her pay had been sent to Washington. She asks that her pay be forwarded to her as soon as possible as she is very much in need of it.
Rachel L. Alexander writes from Philadelphia to Education Supt. W. L. Van Derlip asking if Col. Robert R. Corson of the Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association will pay her last months salary from her teaching position at Hendon Hill, which she has not received. She requests an immediate answer, as she wishes to make arrangements to teach at another school.
Rachel L. Alexander writes from Philadelphia to Education Supt. W. L. Van Derlip, asking if Mr. Carson will pay her salary for December, 1869, which she has not received. Alexander states that she is eager to receive the money, as she wants to acquire a posting at another school. She has no intention of returning to Bel Air. (She had written to Van Derlip on the same subject three days earlier, on Jan. 18.)
Teacher Rachel L. Alexander reports that she has arrived at Hendon Hill but will not start teaching until Monday because the schoolhouse is not finished yet. She asks how to order books and whether she needs to procure her own postage stamps.
Bel Air teacher Rachel L. Alexander asks Education Superintendent John Kimball to send her 4 Primary Arithmetics, 4 Geographies of the State of Maryland, 3 Comly's Spelling Books, and a box of slate pencils. She asks that they be sent as soon as possible, adding that she has no way to send for them.
A receipt for $45.00 for carpentry work on the schoolhouse at Bel Air (Hendon Hill), paid to William Paca by George Dougherty and the other school trustees.
A receipt for $63.90 for plastering and materials for the schoolhouse at Bel Air (Hendon Hill), paid to Samuel Tempel by George Dougherty and the other school trustees.
"Asks in the name of the people in his dist. if lumber will be furnished by the Bureau to build a schoolhouse when a proper deed to the ground is presented. States that they have 35 children to commence school with."
Register of letters received entry for a letter of Jan. 3, 1870, from teacher Mary J. C. Anderson. She asks the Bureau to cover the costs of her travel to a new teaching job at Palatka, Florida. A response was sent to Anderson stating that the Bureau is unable to furnish transportation, the funds for that purpose having run out.
Register entry for a letter of May 21, 1868, from building committee chairman Thomas Taylor at Elkton, Cecil County. Taylor explains that he did not answer Disbursing Officer Monteith's previous letter promptly because he ended up hiring a carpenter on his own to work on the school building. One carpenter, he says, will do all the work on a building 26 x 50 feet, and two stories high, for $375. The number of students will be 116. Taylor informs Monteith that he will let him know when they are ready to receive lumber.
Register of letters received entry about how John Scott in Bel Air issued a complaint about a group of people disturbing a Sunday church service and the Justice of the Peace failing to protect them
An account for October and November totaling $620 and an account for November totaling $130. The $620 account includes McComas, Havre de Grace, Perrymansville, Churchville, and Fallston. Teachers named on the $620 account include Addie V. Green, Elizabeth V. Dixon, J. F. Pierpont Dickson, Ida S. Marshall, and Maggie J. Sorrell. The $130 account includes Hopewell Crossroads, with Maggie Jaques as teacher.
Includes McComas, Havre de Grace, Perrymansville, Churchville, Fallston, and Hopewell Crossroads. Named teachers include Addie Green, Elizabeth V. Dixon, J. F. Pierpont Dickson, Ida S. Marshall, Maggie J. Sorrell, and Maggie Jaques.
Lists rent paid for schools in Maryland, including Clayton, Havre de Grace, Perrymansville, Churchville, Hopewell Crossroads, and Forest Hill. Each month's rent is $10, but some schools were not open for all three months: Clayton was open for 1 month and Forest Hill was open for 2 months.
Narrative report on education in the District of Columbia for the month of August 1868. The whole of Maryland and the state of Delaware were added to the department. Kimball paid a visit to the headquarters in Baltimore to learn about the work. Kimball visited Perrymansville, Harford County on August 22 for a public meeting.