A SCHOOL EXHIBITION.
A Public Exhibition and Examination of the Students of the Raleigh Academy will take place on Monday and Tuesday the 23d and 24th June. Besides the usual Exercises there will be performed on the Evening of one of the above days by the Members of the Thespian Society and the Students of the Academy, for the Benefit of the Institution, the celebrated Comedy of The Way to Get Married, and the admired Farce of Raising the Wind, together with some humorous Songs and Recitations.
—Raleigh Register, June 2, 1806
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
