HILLSBOROUGH ACADEMY UNDER THOMAS BARON.
The Trustees of this Academy having formed an Engagement with Mr. George Johnston, of Petersburg, relied on his taking Charge of it on the first day of January last, and under the Expectation that he would honorably fulfil an Engagement solemnly and deliberately entered into, the Trustees informed the Public, that the Academy would be opened on that Day for the Tuition of Youth. In this Expectation, however, they were much disappointed. * * *
It is with pleasure that they now inform Parents and Guardians of Youth that they have engaged Mr. Thomas Baron, A. M. from the University of Cambridge in Massachusetts, to teach and superintend the teaching of the Languages, Arithmetic, Geography, and the Mathematics; and under his Direction the Business of the Academy is now progressing much to their satisfaction. * * *
Walter Alves,
Wm. Kirkland,
Wm. Whitted,
Wm. Cain,
Dun. Cameron,
Trustees.
Hillsborough, March 18, 1803.
—Raleigh Register, April 4, 1803.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)
