WILLIS' A CHEAP ENGLISH SCHOOL, 1802.
Has Commenced this Day by the Subscriber, at this place, for three months, for the small Sum of Twenty Shillings per Quarter, and will wait until the Fall with those that may send from the Country, and will take any kind of Produce in Payment of the same, and allow the Market Price, if delivered here. Those who will please send, may depend that the most particular Attention will be paid to all Scholars submitted to his Charge.
A. Wills.
Raleigh, April 1, 1802.
—Raleigh Register, April 6, 1802.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)