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.^[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]