TROY'S SCHOOL, 1837.
NOTICE.
THE Subscriber has employed a Gentleman of complete qualifications, to teach an English School in the neighborhood, twelve months from the first Monday in August next—a few boys or young men of good character, would be received as Scholars from a distance, and board can be had in the neighborhood upon reasonable terms.
July 8th, 1837. John B. Troy.
—Southern Citizen, August 8, 1837.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)