WILLIAMSBOROUGH ACADEMY UNDER BURCH AND RICE.
EDUCATION.
On Monday the 16th of October next, I shall open a School at my place near Williamshorough, Granville county, in which will be taught the English, Latin and Greek Languages, together with such of the Sciences as are commonly studied in American Schools.
I have engaged as an Assistant Teacher Mr. Benjamin Rice, of Virginia, a young gentleman of unquestionable morality and of liberal education.
Those who may send their children or wards to this School may rely on the greatest exertion of the Teachers to amend the heart as well as enlighten the understanding. James K. Burch.
August 28, 1809.
—Raleigh Star, August 31, 1809.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)