TARBOROUGH ACADEMY UNDER ROBERT HALL.
The exercises of this institution will commence on the second Monday in January next, under the superintendence of Mr. Robert Hall, a gentleman from the University of this state, who has taught school in the Raleigh Academy and comes well recommended by the principal of each of these institutions.
The rates of tuition will be, for reading, writing, arithmetic, English grammar, Geography and the use of the globes, sixteen dollars per annum. For the Latin and Greek languages, and the different branches of the mathematics, etc. twenty-two dollars, payable half yearly in advance; in which charges the price of fire wood is included. Genteel boarding can be procured upon reasonable terms.
Tarborough, 24th Dec. 1814. Rob't Joyner, Sec.
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Raleigh Star, January 6, 1815.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914) 