SCHOOL FREE TO INDIGENTS, 1814,
Notice.
On Monday, the 25th of this month, will be opened in Wake county, a School upon the Lancastrian Plan, about one mile from the Mills of the subscriber on Neuse River. The School will be conducted by Mr. James Boyle, who has been qualified for the purpose at Georgetown in the District of Columbia, and comes very well recommended. It is hoped the advantages held out by this system, in the low terms of tuition, of affording to persons in moderate circumstances an opportunity to educate their children, will give encouragement and permanence to the Establishment. The object of the meritorious inventor of the System, Mr. Lancaster of England, was to extend to all, to the poor as well as to the rich, the means of acquiring such an education as to enable them reputably and usefully to perform all the ordinary duties of society. The present establishment shall not depart from that object. Mr. Boyle will qualify upon easy terms, those disposed to become teachers. And those who are unable to pay for their tuition and are desirous of attending the school shall be taught without reward. Board upon reasonable terms can be had in decent and respectable families in the neighborhood.
David Stone.
Raleigh, 14th July.
—Raleigh Register, July 22, 1814
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
