200 pupils, was finished on this lot, and
the school was resumed with fresh vigor and increasing interest. In a
few months the room became so crowded that it was found necessary to
engage a separate room, next to the school, to accommodate such of the
pupils as were to be taught sewing. This branch had been for many
years discontinued, but was now resumed under the direction of Miss
Lucy Turpen, a young lady whose amiable disposition and faithful
discharge of her duties rendered her greatly esteemed both by her
pupils and the trustees. This young lady, after serving the board for
several years, removed with her parents to Ohio, and her place was
supplied by Miss Mary Lincrum, who was succeeded by Miss Eliza J. Cox,
and the latter by Miss Mary Ann Cox, and she by Miss Carolina Roe,
under each of whom the school continued to sustain a high character
for order and usefulness.

The school in William Street increasing in numbers, another building
was found necessary, and was built on a lot of ground 50 by 100 feet
square, on Mulberry Street, between Grand and Hester streets, to
accommodate five hundred pupils, and was completed and occupied, with
C. C. Andrews for teacher, in May, 1820.

General Lafayette visited this school September 10, 1824, an abridged
account of which is copied from the "Commercial Advertiser" of that
date:

VISIT OF LAFAYETTE TO THE AFRICAN SCHOOL IN 1824.

"At 1 o'clock the general, with the company invited for the
occasion, visited the African free school, on Mulberry Street.
This school embraces about 500 scholars; about 450 were present
on this occasion, and they are certainly the best disciplined and
most interesting school of children we have ever witnessed. As
the general was conducted to a seat, Mr. Ketchum adverted to the
fact that as long ago as 1788 the general had been elected a
member of the institution (Manumission Society) at the same time
with Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson, of England. The general
perfectly remembered the circumstances, and mentioned
particularly the letter he had received on that occasion from the
Hon. John Jay, then president of the society. One of the pupils,
Master James M. Smith, aged eleven years, then stepped forward
and gracefully delivered the following address:

"'GENERAL LAFAYETTE: In behalf of myself and fellow-schoolmates
may I be permitted to express our sincer