HONOR ROLL, JANUARY, 1812.
RALEIGH ACADEMY.
Our usual testimony in favor of those students who enter this Seminary early in the session has this year been delayed, but not because our sense of their merits is any wise lessened. Those students only, who improve every moment of the precious and fleeting period of youth, can hope to derive essential benefits from education; but the delicate master Jackies and spoilt Misses, who make their education a mere holiday amusement for the summer, never have and never can be materially benefited by their interrupted immethodical studies. Besides that the mind in the winter being more active and more capable of exertion, receives new impressions and new ideas with much greater facility than in summer, (one day in the former season being worth two in the latter) the portion of life alloted to education is too short to justify the loss of a single day. The following are the students now in the Academy, with the names of the places from which they are sent. That they have been punctual in their attendance is but half of their praise; they are prosecuting their studies with the most commendable ardor
and perseverance.
Male Department.
John H. Atkinson, from Pitt; Jesse Averitt, George Outlaw, Joseph Outlaw, Matthias Palmer and Jonathan Taylor, Bertie; William Campbell, Orange; Edward Davis, Person; John M. Dick and John W. Dick, Guilford; Weston Gales, Joseph D. Gorman, William Haywood, John Haywood, William Hunter, Joseph Lane, Alex. M'Kethen, Thomas Ragsdale and John Wilson, Wake; Dempsey Goodman, Gates; Thomas Hill, Duplin; Robert A. Jones, Halifax; Blake Little, Joseph Lloyd, and Laurence O'Bryan, Edgecombe; James Nuttall, and William Nuttall, Granville; Peter Picot, Martin; Joseph Roulhac, Washington; Ransom Saunders. Johnston; Eli Ward, Onslow—32.
Female Department.
Eliza Carson, Cabarrus; Hannah Garretson, Philadelphia; Mary Davidson and Mary Simonton, Iredell; Elizabeth Connor, Mecklenberg; Ann Gales, Maria Ragsdale. Sally Haywood, Eliza Haywood, Mary Hunter, Charity Haywood, Mary M*Kethen, Caroline Gales, Mary Ragsdale, Julia Langley, Eliza Casso, Sally Hunter, Louisa Hill, Maria Coman, Susan Ragsdale, and Jane Sambourne, Wake; Emily Sneed, Granville; Eliza Walker, Orange; Frances Roulhac, Martin; Lucy Granberry, Northampton; Mary Williamson, Person; Harriet Boazman, Washington; Mary Edwards, Greene; Mary Veal and Harriet Collins, Bertie; Caroline Snead, Newbern; Louisa M'Call, Wilmington—33
Preparatory School.
John H. Boylan, Alexander Boylan, Matthew Coman, John Christophers, Christopher Christophers, Francisco J. Casso, Peter Derrieux, Robert T. Goodwin, William Goodwin, Benjamin H. Haywood, Leigh Haywood, William R. Haywood, George W. Haywood, Fabius J. Haywood, Alfred M. Haywood, Thomas B. Haywood, William Hill, Frederich S. Marshall, John M. M'Kethen, Lucius J. Polk, Leonidas Polk, Daniel Peck, Willis Peck, William Peck, Thomas Shaw, William Shaw, James Shaw, Edward Sambourne, and James Sambourne, Raleigh—29. Total 93.
—The Star, January 31, 1812.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
