ANDREW WILSON PRINCIPAL OF WILLIAMSBOROUGH ACADEMY.
WILLIAMSBOROUGH ACADEMY.
The Trustees of this Institution take pleasure in announcing to the Public, that they have engaged Mr. Alexander Wilson, late of the Raleigh Academy, as Principal; a gentleman whose qualifications have been tested by a very successful course of teaching in that Institution for the two last years.
The different branches of Education as established by the Faculty at the University of this State will be adopted in this Institution.
The price of Tuition for the Languages and Sciences is $12.50— Reading, Writing and Arithmetic $8 a Session.
Board can be had in the most respectable families at $35 per Session.
The Exercises to commence on the 2d Monday of January.
The Trustees refer to the annexed Certificate as the best recommendation of this Institution to the public patronage.
Leonard Henderson,
Joseph H. Bryan,
William Robards,
Thomas Turner,
Richard Sneed,
Trustees.
January 1, 1821.
Mr. ALEXANDER WILSON, late of Belfast, Ireland, has been a resident of this city for several years, and during the term of five Sessions has acted as first Assistant in the Male Department of the Raleigh Academy.
The undersigned, regarding Mr. Wilson as a Scholar and a Gentleman, do cheerfully certify, that his correct moral deportment—his talent for school discipline & government—his literary attainments, & particular taste for the Latin and Greek Classics, entitles him, in their opinion, to rank among the first Academic instructors of the State.
W. M’Pheeters, Princ'l of R. Academy,
J. Gales, Pres't Board of Trustees,
Jas. M. Henderson,
John Louis Taylor,
James F. Taylor,
A. S. H. Burges
Raleigh, Jan. 1, 1822.
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—Raleigh Register, January 11, 1822.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)