GREENSBORO ACADEMY UNDER WILLIAM PAISLEY.
The exercises of this Institution will commence on the first Monday January next, under the care of the Rev. William Paisley, late of Orange County, N. C. * * * The Trustees have also the pleasure of announcing to the public that a Female Academy will be opened in Greensboro on the 1st of Jan'y next by Miss Polly Paisley, daughter of the Rev. Wm. Paisley. Miss Paisley is well qualified to teach all the useful and ornamental branches of Science usually taught in Female Academies in this State, Music excepted. * * *
By order of the Board,
Greensboro, Guilford County, Dec. 5. A. Geren, Sec'y.
—Raleigh Register, December 17, 1819.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914) |