In a letter to Robert Carter Nicholas, dated April 20, 1768, the Reverend John Waring responds to an invoice for 30£ for a year of operating a school in Williamsburg for the children of enslaved African Americans. Waring was the secretary of the Associates of Dr. Bray, the English philanthropic group that funded the school. Nicholas and the Reverend William Yates were the school’s administrators.
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