WOOD'S FEMALE ACADEMY, 1838.
SCHOOL.
A Female School will be opened at my house in Northampton county, twelve miles west of Murfreesboro, N. C. the 2d Monday in January next, under the control of Miss Louisa Mooar a Lady from the North, who comes well recommended, having been educated for the purpose of teaching. She will teach all the English branches usually taught in Academies, together with French, if required.

Terms of Tuition.
Reading and Spelling, $8.00 per session of 5 months. Other branches $10.00.
Board can be had in my family at thirty dollars per Session of five months.   Strict attention will be paid to the comfort of the Boarders.
Northampton Co. N. C. Oct. 25, 1837.                    Jas. H. Wood.
—The Raleigh Star, November 8, 1837.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)