A NEW PRINCIPAL CHOSEN.
We have pleasure in announcing to the public, that Rev. W. L. Turner, late Professor of Languages in the Washington Academy at Lexington in Virginia, a gentleman of high character and attainments, is engaged as Superintendent of our Academy, and Pastor of the City. He is expected to enter on his duties about the 1st of November. In the meantime, Mr Atlas Jones, late the Professor of Languages at our University, has very obligingly taken charge of the Academy, so that the business of the Institution will suffer no derangement from the death of Mr. McGready, its late teacher.
—Raleigh Register, October 6, 1806.
NEW PRINCIPAL ARRIVES.
We have the pleasure to state, that the Rev. Wm. L. Turner, from Lexington, (Virginia) who, since the death of the late Mr. McGready, has been engaged as Principal of our Academy, and Pastor of the City, is arrived, and will forth with undertake these important charges.
—Raleigh Register, November 10, 1806.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
