SALISBURY ACADEMY UNDER B. L. EDMONDS.
The Exercises of the male Department of this Institution will commence on the 6th of July next, under the superintendance of Robt. L. Edmonds, A. M. Mr. E. was educated in the University of Glasgow, Scotland—he will teach all the branches of English, Classical, Mathematical and Philosophical Literature which are taught in Universities, together with the French language, if required. He has for several years past had charge of the Academy at Norfolk. * * *
Salisbury, June 16. Thos. L. Cowan, Sec'ry.
—Raleigh Register, June 26, 1818.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)