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Sarah Kollock (1826–1907) grew up in her uncle Frederick Nash's house on Margaret Lane in Hillsborough, studied at the Burwell School and in 1848 became its teacher of French and drawing. She was the Kollock of the Nash and Kollock School, run with her cousins Maria and Sarah Nash. An 1841 letter shows she owned enslaved people who were hired out.
Source: Elizabeth Keckly Center research database: Sarah Jane Kollock
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Reward of Merit given to Mary Rebecca Jones about 1839 for reciting the multiplication table without error. Sarah Jane Kollock's name is attached to it, and it is thought to have come from the Burwell School in Hillsborough.
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