Superintendent Reports
Compiled by various Freedmen's Bureau Superintendents of Education, these documents shed light on the condition of schools in the Bureau's District of Maryland and Delaware and the Bureau's District of Columbia (which absorbed the MD and DE district in 1868). Narrative reports detail superintendent visits to schools, while statistical reports capture enrollment and attendance numbers.
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School report for the fourth quarter of 1868 for D.C., Maryland, Delaware, and West VirginiaNarrative report about education under the District of Columbia. States that on the Western Shore of Maryland, the Baltimore Association sends teachers only where freedmen will pay the board for teachers, along with $10 per month of the salary for the teacher. The Baltimore Association now has 44 teachers in the field on these terms and the Pennsylvania Branch Freedmen Union Commission is employing 30 teachers in Maryland.
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Report from John Kimball for Month of September 1868, District of ColumbiaNarrative report about education under the District of Columbia. States that 5 large meetings were held in September, including one at Churchville, which had a very quiet and attentive audience. Kimball states that many of the colored people in that area have always been free and some own farms. They have built a schoolhouse with little assistance and organized temperance societies.
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Report from John Kimball for Month of August 1868, District of ColumbiaNarrative 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.
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Report of Schools for States of Maryland and Delaware for the Month of July 1868Report for day schools in Maryland and Delaware including Havre de Grace, which is listed as starting the school year on October 7 and scheduled to close on July 31. Lists 52 students enrolled for Havre de Grace.
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School report for the second quarter of 1868 for Maryland and DelawareNarrative report regarding the general status of schools in Maryland and Delaware, including information on colored conferences, the Baltimore Association, and public sentiment. Day states that on June 1, he, General Brooks, Mr. McComas, and William M. Marine attended a school celebration at McComas Institute near Clayton Post Office and to dedicate the school building. The building is 25 feet wide by 50 feet long. Event attendance was very large with speeches by Brooks, McComas, and Marine. $169 was collected that day toward the schoolhouse debt, nearly enough to eliminate the debt.
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Report of Schools for States of Maryland for the Month of June 1868Report for 74 day and 1 night school in Maryland including Churchville, Clayton/McComas, Havre de Grace, and Hopewell Crossroads.
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Report of Schools for States of Maryland and Delaware for the Month of May 1868Report for day and night schools in Maryland and Delaware including Churchville, Clayton/McComas, Darlington, Havre de Grace, and Hopewell Crossroads.
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Report of Schools for Maryland for the Month of April 1868Report for 84 day schools and 4 night schools in Maryland including Churchville, Darlington, Hopewell Crossroads.
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Report of Schools for Maryland for the Month of March 1868Report for day and night schools in Maryland including Churchville, Darlington, and Hopewell Crossroads. Havre de Grace is also listed, but crossed out.
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Report of Schools for Maryland for the Month of February 1868Report for day and night schools in Maryland including Churchville, Hopewell Crossroads, and Perrymansville.