SCOTLAND NECK FEMALE SEMINARY.
The examination of the pupils of this Institution will take place on Friday the 16th instant. Parents and Guardians of young Ladies are particularly and most respectfully invited to attend.
The Scotland Neck Female Seminary will re-open on the second Monday in July next, under the care and instruction of Miss Eugenia Hanks, of Troy, N. Y. Miss Hanks, has heretofore had charge of the Music Department. The entire control of this Seminary will hereafter be entrusted to her care, and the subscriber takes much pleasure in assuring the public and his friends that her qualifications are believed to be of the first order, having finished her education at Mrs. Willard's celebrated school.
Every attention to the morals, health and comfort of young ladies will be paid by Mrs. P. and himself. The following will be the course of studies: Spelling, Reading, Writing, Grammar, Composition, Geography, Parley's History, Arithmetic, Ancient and Modern History, United States History, Rhetoric, Logic, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Astronomy, Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Natural Theology, and Kames Elements of Criticism. For the above branches per session of five months, $10.
Botany........................................... $3.00
Drawing.......................................... 5.00
Music............................................ 15.00
It is believed there is not a healthier situation in the county of Halifax, and certainly very few in the Eastern part of the State. Board $7 per month.
June 6th, 1837. Lem. L. Parker.
—The Star, June 21, 1837.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
