REPORT.
In presenting the Fifth Annual Report of Friends’ Associa-
tion for the Aid and Elevation of the Freedmen, we wouid re-
mark that, owing to the want of funds, our field of labor has
been greatly limited; but our interest in the cause has not
abated.
In entering upon this year’s labor, it was concluded to devote
our efforts exclusively to the education of the people.
With an exhausted treasury, early in the fall, in answer to
the earnest appeals of the colored people, we opened the follow-
ing schools, in the faith that Friends would contribute to their
support:
Mary McBride, Fairfax C. H., Fairfax Co., Va.
Kate E. Hall, Vienna, 66 662 eG
Ida Brinkerhoff, Herndon, “ 6
Helen A. Hurly, Gum Spring, “ ae Cee
Sallie E. Loyd, Woodlawn, Cer CGT Oe
Harriet Jenkins, Falls Church, od 6 ae
B. F. Grant, Centreville, “ 665051, 48
Sarah A. Steer, Waterford, Louden Co., “
Jennie Speer Manassas, P. William “ =
Cornelia ack, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.
Fanny E. Gauze, “ “ “ ‘“
Lizzie E. Heacock, < “ 7
Isabella Lenair, se ‘6 ‘6 ‘6
In the autumn, when the labors of the Asscciation where re-
sumed for the winter, an appeal was prepared and sent to each
of the Monthly and Preparative Meetings, pressing upon Friends
the necessity of pecuniary aid, and asking if ‘ the six hundred
aspirants after knowledge, who earnestly entreat for an oppor-
