VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC,
DRAWING AND PAINTING.
The Subscriber most respectfully presents his acknowledgments to those Ladies and Gentlemen who have encouraged his endeavours to promote the improvement of the Pupils committed to his care in the various branches of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Drawing and Painting. * * * Few attainments afford more rational amusement, and tend more to excite Genius and amuse the Fancy, than the pleasing science of Drawing and Painting. This art has, from the improved state of manners, become a necessary part of Female Education. He will attend during the ensuing year at Mr. Mordecai's Boarding School. His Terms of Tuition will be reduced to meet the exigency of the times, and made known on application to him.    *    *    *
Warrenton, Dec. 8.                                                     A. C. Miller.
—Raleigh Register, December 22, 1808.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)