STONE'S LANCASTER SCHOOL, 1813
The Lancastrian plan of Education is growing in the public favour, and the Schools are increasing in number. Governor Stone, we understand, is about establishing one in the vicinity of his Mills, on Neuse River, eight miles from this city. Men of wealth and public spirit, who feel for the situation of the poor, and know the bad effects which a want of education among them has upon the public morals, could not better exercise the virtues of charity and patriotism than by establishing schools of this kind in the different towns. A Lancastrian school in New York, of which Gen. Moreau is the patron, educates 800 children at an annual expence of half the number of dollars.
—Editorial, Raleigh Star, September 13, 1813.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
