HAWFIELD ACADEMY.
The subscribed being about to leave the Hillsborough Academy, will again open a Grammar School, at the Hawfield Academy, on the first Monday in January next. The Latin and Greek Languages, English Grammar, and the usual branches of Academical Study, will be taught. Boarding can be had in good houses, it is presumed, for $50 a year. Great attention will be given as well to the morals as to the literary Education of youth.
Poplar Spring, Orange, Nov. 17. John H. Pickard.
—Raleigh Register, November 25, 1814
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)