FEMALE BOARDING SCHOOL, 1836.
The duties of the School at Lochiel near Hillsborough, will be resumed on the 23d January. The Subscriber intends affording to his Pupils every facility of acquiring an Education of the highest character, both solid and useful, as well as ornamental. The better to accomplish this object, his number will be strictly limited; and he also designs procuring the services of an able female Assistant from the North.
The Pupils of the School are treated in every respect as members of a private family, and while their intellectual improvement is sedulously attended to, a high regard is paid to the cultivation of their morals and their manners. Having now had some years experience in Teaching, the Subscriber feels confident of being able to place his School on a footing with the best Institutions for Female Education in the country. The situation of the School, a mile from Hillsborough, is one combining every advantage of retirement and health.
TERMS are $85 per Session; which includes Board, Tuition and Books. Music and Painting are separate charges.
Hillsboro', Dec. 1, 1836.
The Star and Standard will publish the foregoing, until countermanded ; and the following papers will insert it for 6 weeks each; viz: Newbern Spectator, Fayetteville Observer, Tarboro' Press, Edenton Gazette, Warrenton Reporter, and Carolina Watchman. Bills to be sent to this Office. William E. Anderson.
—Raleigh Register, December 27, 1836.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)
