FAYETTEVILLE ACADEMY EXAMINATION, 1803
Fayetteville, July 13, 1803.
The examination of the Young Ladies and Gentlemen belonging to the Academy at this place, commenced on the 10th inst. and concluded Yesterday. The several classes were so generally perfect in those branches of Literature which had been the objects of their attention, as almost to preclude the possibility of discrimination. The following statement, however, will contain a list of those who, in the opinion of the Trustees, were most particularly entitled to distinction: [Here follow names of young ladies and subjects. The subjects were spelling (four classes), reading (five classes), grammar (two classes), Geography, letter writing (two classes), copy-writing (three classes), cyphering (two classes), marking (two classes), Dresden work (one class), Tambour work (two classes), embroidery (two classes). The Young men's names and classes follow. They studied spelling (two classes), reading (three classes), cyphering, English grammar, Geography, Latin Grammar, Nepos and Eutropius, Eutropious and Corderii, Casar and Nepos, Csesar and Sallust, Virgil, Euclid, one class each.]
The exercises of the Academy were then adjourned to Monday the 25 inst. at which time the vacation will expire.

The following are the names of the Trustees who attended the examination:                                           
David  Anderson,
Robert  Donaldson,
John  Winslow,
W. B. Grove,
Robert Cochran,
S. D. Purviance.

—Raleigh Register, August 1, 1803.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)