HILLSBOROUGH FEMALE ACADEMY, 1839.
The undersigned Trustees of the Hillsborough Female Academy, have the pleasure to announce to Parents and Guardians, that the Exercises of this Institution commenced on the 24th January, for the present session, under the charge of its efficient and accomplished Principal, Miss Maria L. Spear. The services of this lady, for several years past, have been such as to meet the highest expectations of the Trustees, and to deserve for this Academy as great a portion of public patronage as has been extended to any similar Institution in the State.
Miss Spear has associated with herself in the task of instruction, her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, whose talents and skill in the departments of Music, Drawing and Painting, have been fully tested and are of the highest order.
A gentleman, who is a native of France and in every way qualified, will give lessons in the French Language to such as may desire it.
The Trustees can with confidence recommend this Seminary to all who wish their daughters and wards to become scholars, and to have their morals anxiously guarded, and their manners properly formed; the personal accomplishments and moral culture of the students being no less objects of attention on the part of the Teachers, than their improvement in Literature.
The Studies of each class are as follows, viz: Spelling, Reading, Writing, Chemistry, Arithmetic, Grammar, Geography, History, Natural Philosophy, Mythology, Botany, Rhetoric, Astronomy, Dictation and Composition, constitute the studies of the first and second classes: the same branches of learning, with the exception of the five last named, form the studies of the third class, and the fourth class, which is the lowest in the School, study Spelling, Reading, Writing and the Tables in Arithmetic, as the progress of the scholar justifies.
TERMS OF TUITION'.
First Class..................................... $17.50
Second Class.................................. 15.00
Third Class.................................... 15.00
Fourth Class.................................. 12.50
Music on the Piano or Guitar...................... 25.00
Drawing and Painting............................ 12.00
French....................................... 15.00
Working on Canvass.............................. 5.00
Working on Muslin.............................. 3.00
Jambs S. Smith,
William Cain,
Cad Jones, Sen'r,
P. H. Mangum,
Hugh Waddell,
Nathan Hooker,
Stephen Moore,
Trustees,
February 13.
—Raleigh Register, February 26, 1839.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)
