FAIRFIELD SCHOOL, 1839.
The Subscriber respectfully informs the Public, that he has taken charge of a School at Fairfield, six miles North West of Hillsboro’.
The first Session will commence on Monday, the sixth of January next.
No pains will be spared to give satisfaction to Parents and Guardians who may commit children to his charge.
TERMS.
Spelling, Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, $5 per Session. English Grammar and Geography, $7.50 per Session; Ancient Languages, $12.50 per Session. James P. Clarke.
WE, the undersigned, as Trustees of the School at Fairfield, deem it a duty we owe to the School and the Public, to say that the f avorableness of the situation, as regards health and morals, is surpassed by few, if any, in the State. From our personal acquaintance with Mr. Clark, and the certificates in his possession, obtained from literary men by whom, for several years, he was employed as tutor of their children, we consider him worthy of the confidence and patronage of the public. Board can be had in the neighborhood in respectable families from $6 to $7.50 per month.
Ira Ellis,
David Tinnin,
C. C. Tinnin,
John Bane,
John Wilkerson,
Allen Brown,
A. Armstrong.
Nov. 26.
—Raleigh Register, November 30, 1839.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)
