Chatham County, North Carolina
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Pittsborough Academy
 
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WILLIAM BINGHAM BETURNS TO PITTSBOBOUGH ACADEMY.
EDUCATION.
Pittsborough Academy.
The Trustees now have the pleasure of informing the Public that the Rev. Wm. Bingham, one of the Professors in the University, has been engaged with them as President of this Academy, which will be opened for the reception of students, under his Management, the first of April next. Pittsborough is thirty-five Miles west of Raleigh, in as pleasant and healthy a situation as any other in the State of North Carolina; and from the moderate Price of Boarding (which may be procured in reputable Families, at from Fifty to Sixty Dollars; with that of Tuition, the Prices of which are as follows, viz. Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, eight Dollars; the Latin and Greek Languages, Geography, History, Mathematics, Astronomy, Moral Philosophy, etc. thirteen dollars; one fourth paid at Entrance, another fourth at the End of six Months, and the Remainder at the End of the Year) the Trustees flatter themselves with a very considerable increase of Students.
By order,                                                             B. Lightfoot, Sec.
Pittsborough, January 21st, 1805.

—Raleigh Register, February 25, 1805.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
 
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