Ann Wager

Teacher and schoolmistress in Colonial Williamsburg

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.[2] Wager was hired in 1760 to teach in the Williamsburg Bray School.[3][4] Prior to this, Wager had been a tutor to white children in Williamsburg, and to the children of Carter Burwell at the 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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1. ^ a b Katz-Hyman, Martha B.; Rice, Kym S. (2011). World of a Slave: Encyclopedia of the Material Life of Slaves in the United States. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-34942-3.
2. ^ a b "Ann Wager". www.colonialwilliamsburg.org.
3. ^ Strawn, Susan (13 May 2011). Knitting America: A Glorious Heritage from Warm Socks to High Art. Voyageur Press. ISBN 978-1-61060-249-5.
4. ^ Heim, Joe. "At William & Mary, a school for free and enslaved Black children is rediscovered". Washington Post.
5. ^ "Ann Wager". slaveryandremembrance.org.
6. ^ "Notes on the Negro School in Williamsburg, 1760-1774 | Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library". research.colonialwilliamsburg.org.
7. ^ Henry, Mike (27 December 2012). Black History: More than Just a Month. R&L Education. ISBN 978-1-4758-0262-7.
8. ^ Chorley, Edward Clowes; Stowe, Walter Herbert; Brown, Lawrence L. (1982). Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Church Historical Society.

## External links

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* Meet Ann Wager; video by Colonial Williamsburg