HILLSBOROUGH ACADEMY UNDER WILLIAM BINGHAM.
The Reverend William Bingham having undertaken the charge of the Hillsborough Academy, the public are informed that the exercises of the institution will commence on the 3d day of February ensuing. Miss Elizabeth Russell, is engaged to superintend the female department. The branches of learning which will be taught are Reading and Writing, English Grammar, Arithmetic, Geography, the Latin and Greek Languages, and the Mathematics, at the rates following: $12 for reading and writing, and $16 dollars for Geography, Latin and Greek, etc. In the Town board may be procured upon cheap and reasonable terms. The abilities of the Rev. Mr. Bingham, as a teacher, are too well known to require an ulogium, and it is believed there are few places possessed of the advantages, salubriety of climate and cheapness of living in a degree superior to Hillsborough. The Trustees flatter themselves that in these circumstances parents will find inducements sufficiently strong to place their children in the Hillsborough Academy, and that their Seminary will receive a patronage proportionate to the advantages it will possess and the benefits it will be calculated to confer.
D. Yarbrough, Sec.
N. B.—Miss Russell engages to teach Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Geography, Needle Work, Painting and Drawing in the Female Department.
January 1, 1812.
—The Star, March 6, 1812.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)
