Ann Wager
Ann Wager (1716 – August 20, 1774) was a teacher and schoolmistress in colonial Williamsburg, Virginia.[1][2]
She married William Wager, but was widowed in 1748.Carter's Grove Plantation.[1] At the Bray school she was paid a £20 annual salary, with the rent on her housing also being paid.[5] In a 1765 letter to the school's British funders, Robert Carter Nicholas wrote that "the Mistress [Mrs. Anne Wager] is pretty much advanced in Years & I fear Labours of the School will shortly be too much for her."[6] Nevertheless, Wager continued to teach at the Bray School until her death in 1774.[7][8]
References
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- ^ Heim, Joe. "At William & Mary, a school for free and enslaved Black children is rediscovered". Washington Post.
- ^ "Ann Wager". slaveryandremembrance.org.
- ^ "Notes on the Negro School in Williamsburg, 1760-1774 | Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library". research.colonialwilliamsburg.org.
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