GRASSY CREEK PRIVATE ACADEMY.
The Exercises of this Institution will commence on the 13th of January, under the direction of Thos. H. Willie. The prices for tuition will be, for Beading, Writing, Arithmetic and English Grammar $7.50 per Session; Geography $10; Latin, Greek and the Sciences $12.50 per Session. * * *
This Institution is situate four miles north of Oxford.
Benj. Hillyard,
Joseph Tayloe, Sen.
Thomas B. Lewis
Granville, 12th Jan. 1823
—Raleigh Register, January 24, 1823
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)