BURWELL'S FEMALE SCHOOL, 1837.
FEMALE SCHOOL IN HILLSBOROUGH.
Mrs. Burwell proposes to open on the 17th of July, a Female School, in which she will teach the usual branches of English education.
For young ladies wishing instruction in music, the services of an experienced and well qualified instructress can be procured. Board can be had in some of the most respectable families in this place.
The year will be divided into two sessions, vacations corresponding with those in the male academy.
Drawing and Painting, $10.00. Payment in advance.
—The Wilmington Advertiser, June 30, 1837.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)
