HAWFIELD ACADEMY UNDEB J. H. PICKARD.
The Subscriber intends opening a School in the neighborhood of the Rev'd Paisley and James Mebane, Esq. on the first Monday in January next; where will be taught, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, English Grammar, the Latin and Greek Languages, Philosophy, etc. * * *
Orange, Nov. 26. John H. Pickard.
—Raleigh Register, December 11, 1812.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)