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FIRST FREE SCHOOL IN QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY. EDWIN H. BROWN, JR.

On the south side of the public road leading from Centreville to Queenstown near where the road branches off, which leads into Tilghman's Neck, there stood in 1724 a building "35 feet long, 20 feet wide and 10 feet pitch, between the floor and roof proportionable, the walls of good well burnt bricks, well laid in mortar 18 inches to the water table, then 14 inches up to the top of a square and the gable end 9 inches, with a large fire place below and a small one above," with "a door proportionable in the side with good hinges and lock and key and a window in the top of it." There were "two sliding windows in each side and one at the gable end of good square glass with good frame shutters, hinges, weights and pulleys"; the "two windows in each gable end, one above the upper floor and the two domant windows on the south side" were "of good diamond glass"; all of the said windows were in proportion to the said building. The joists of the house were " 9 inches and 4, and the rafters 4 inches and 5, the floor laid with well seasoned plank, the upper floor planed on both sides and ribbitted." "The joists were planed and struck with a board on the lower edge." The house" was well shingled with good cypress shingles " and "the eves were cornished and

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