2 entries detailing materials sent to Darlington including screws, nails, lumber, flooring and shingles. Total amount listed on account listed as 659.39. People named on account include Davis & Pugh.
21 entries detailing materials sent to Havre de Grace including lumber, windows, nails, and desks. Also includes charges for freight and carpenter services. Some flooring, siding, shingles, etc. came from hospital wards. Total amount on account listed as 1353.73. People named in account include: Peter Shrines, E. Pratt, Chappell & Leary, A & G.T. Lyon, Thomas Trotter, Arthur Vosburg, William Potts, John DuBois, Arthur Emory, and C. Sidney Morris.
2 entries detailing materials sent to Magnolia including weatherboarding, joists, beams, shingles, hinges, screws, nails, bolts, and locks. Also includes charges for 1 teachers desk, 24 school desks, and 3 seats. Total amount on account listed as 1259.92. People named in account include W.W. Maughlin and French Madden.
Records purchase of 1001 feet of siding and 805 feet of hemlock lumber from John C. Turner and Co. Lists trustees Thomas Collins, Dennis Hinds, Jacob Foreman, and Isaac Snowden, and chairman of the building committee Elijah Stewart.
Lists building supplies sent to Hendon Hill per three different bills. From John C. Turner & Co. on Sept. 2, 1867: siding, hemlock lumber, flooring, dressed pine lumber, and laths. From C. Sidney Morris & Co. on Sept. 2, 1867: various door hardware. Per report of Baltimore Association on Oct. 1, 1867: lumber, windows, a door, laths, and shingles.
Addie V. Green is assumed to have been the first teacher at the McComas Institute. Miss Green first appears in the Freedmen’s Bureau Records in the “Records of Complaints, 1865-1872.” A complaint was filed on June 30, 1868 by Addie V. Green, on behalf of a woman named Amy Preston. Preston was living as a servant to Jessie Thompson at Carroll Manor in Harford County. Thompson was refusing to pay Preston wages for her labor, had mistreated her, and refused to let her leave. She requested help from the Bureau in order to get away from Thompson. The record also states that the “complainant is 65 years old and mute.”[1]
Green appears in several more Superintendent of Education records and reports from October to December of 1868.[2] She then falls out of the Bureau’s records as a teacher for the McComas Institute. She appears again briefly in July of (year) in a complaint record from Fallston, where she is requesting the assistance from the Bureau to help with the release of four children to the custody of their uncle and aunts as they were being unlawfully kept by a man named Lee Magness.[3] This complaint helps to show how much Miss Green cared for her students and her willingness to advocate for both their education and wellbeing.
Teacher Addie V. Greene requests placement for the upcoming year. A notation at bottom of page indicates that the letter was forwarded to Supt. Kimball by Core, who noted: "The applicant has passed a fair examination and will do pretty well as a teacher."
Includes painter's and mason's estimates. Notation indicates that articles mentioned in estimates (except sand and lath) were shipped on August 21, 1867. Painter is W.W. Windham, mason is George L. Forester. Anderson states that she has copied the estimates per Wright's request.
The American Missionary Association (AMA) began as an abolitionist organization in 1846, with several black members on its executive board. While officially non-sectarian, Congregationalists dominated within its membership. In addition to advocating for the abolition of slavery in America and establishing anti-slavery churches in the western territories, they also sent missionaries to Africa, China, India, to educate and evangelize. The AMA published its own periodical, The American Missionary.