Chenango

A March 1866 letter from W. H. Sharp to the Freedmen’s Bureau requesting a “male teacher for my hands and their children. … My hands are anxious to improve their minds.” He proposes that the teacher stay in the sugar house, which can also be used as the school house. (M822, Roll 10.)

There is a follow-up letter on April 6, and a variety of letters around it under “S” documenting hostility towards FB teachers in Brazoria County: see particularly letters written by Franklin Shelden.

See also Ellen Watson’s report about the school on Sharpe plantation from May 1866 and for June 1866, which reports her abandonment of the venture.