HILLSBOROUGH ACADEMY.
THE undersigned, Trustees of the Hillsborough Academy, having engaged William J. Bingham as Principal of this institution, take great pleasure in recommending the school to the patronage of the public. This they do with the more confidence, as Mr. Bingham is personally known to each of them. He is already a teacher of some experience and note, and unites to sound learning and the most exemplary character, a happy talent for preserving strict and wholesome discipline.
The Trustees pledge themselves to the public, to be the active and regular guardians of the institution; they will see that a becoming conduct and deportment shall be observed on the part of the students at all times and places. And no boarding house, where proper authority is not maintained over the boys, will be tolerated.
Should any further recommendation of Mr. Bingham, as an instructor of youth he required, application may be made to the Rev. Dr. Caldwell, and to Professors Andrews, Hooper and Mitchell at the University.
Wm. Norwood,
F. Nash,
David Yarborouoh,
Wm. Kirkland,
Francis L. Hawks,
James Webb,
John Taylor,
A. B. Bruce,
James Phillips.
Dec. 5.
—Raleigh Register, December 12, 1826.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)
