Freedmen's Bureau Records: Thomas P. Jackson to John
A. McDonnell, February 14, 1868
Summary:
Jackson asks for an appropriation from the District office to help complete a
school house being built on land donated by a black man, John Reed, whose
daughter is a teacher.
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Office 4th Division, 9th
Sub-District, Virginia.
Captain John A.
McDonnell
Sub Assistant
Commissioner
Winchester
February 14 1868
Staunton, Virginia,
Captain
I respectfully ask that Fifty ($50) dollars be appropriated by Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands to aid in building a School House at Churchville, 9th District of Augusta County under following circumstances. John Reed a colored man has had a school taught in his house by his daughter Sophia J. Reed The house is small and owing to family matters the school had to be discontinued. Reed has now given a piece of ground for a site for a new school house, and some Lumber has been purchased and part delivered for the building, but for want of means, the work is stopped. Reed is an earnest industrious man and his daughter competent to teach such scholars as live near the school house and the appropriation of $50 will insure completion of the house by Spring.
Very respectfully
Your obedient servant
Thomas
P Jackson
Assistant Sub Assistant Commissioner
