JOHN HENRY GAULT’S SCHOOL, 1807.
Examination.
The Scholars Whom John H. Gault taught three months, were examined in the presence of Parents and others, on Saturday the 25th ult. at Capt. N. Jones's. * * * read and spoke Speeches and Dialogues. In Orthography they and the Young Ladies excelled. All discovered they had made an uncommon proficiency, and exceeded the most sanguine expectations of Parents and Teacher. * * * obtained the honor in the Young Ladies Class— * * * made a very great progress. * * *, a child of 7 years old read handsomely * * * did spell and read well. * * * received the honor in the Boys Class. * * * merited the highest eulogium. * * *
* * * evinced a good genius and great application. * * * deserved that praise justly due to merit.
Hail America, happy land of liberty! Hail Columbia's free born children! Not only Academies and Colleges are established in your eminent cities and populous towns, but Seminaries prosper in the Groves!
The school will be opened on Monday. The students attend at 7 o'clock in the morning, will get 30 minutes for recreation at 10, and half an hour at half past 2, and will be dismissed at 6 o'clock.
Messrs. * * * and other respectable families, in order to encourage the English Seminary, will receive Young Ladies and Gentlemen, and board for the low price of $48 per year. The subscriber has declined teaching the Latin or Greek Languages, will appropriate his whole time to English alone, and the Sciences.
Particular attention will be paid to reading and speaking—will teach English Grammar with accuracy—Rhetoric, Arithmetic and Geometry, Geography and the Use of the Globes. On Saturdays the Boys will attend and be examined on Grammar, and read and speak. The first Saturday in each month will be a public examination. They will also attend at 11 o'clock on Sundays to read the Scriptures and be taught the principles of the Christian Religion. A discourse will be delivered by their Teacher. That he has received a liberal education in the Latin, Greek and English Languages, is certified by characters of respectability and science. Rules will be established, and good Boys will be treated with Kindness and levity, but the incorrigible will experience the indelible stigma of expulsion. New British Globes are provided for the use of the students.
Aug. 4. John Henry Gault.
660 hours will be taught in this Seminary for the quarter. Payment to be made at the end of the quarter.
—Raleigh Register, August 6, 1807.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
