OXFORD ACADEMIES—EXAMINATION, 1829.
The Examination of the Male Students will begin on Monday, June 1st, and close with the semi-annual Report Wednesday morning—immediately after which the Examination of the Female Academy takes place, and will conclude with an Exhibition of Music on Thursday even-in. All interested are respectfully solicited to attend.
The Summer Session of these Academies opens as follows: The Female under the care of Rev. Joseph Larabee, will open on Monday, June 15th—The Male on Monday, June 22d, James D. Johnson, Principal. Tho's B. Littlejohn, Prest.
Oxford, May 8th, 1829.
P. S. The Tarboro' Press, the Edenton Gazette & Norfolk Herald, will publish the above two weeks, and then, after an interval of two weeks, continue for three weeks that part relating to the opening of the session, and forward their accounts as heretofore.
—Raleigh Register, May 12, 1829
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)