SALEM SCHOOL STILL CROWDED.
CIRCULAR
The Female Academy in Salem, Stokes county, N. C. being overcrowded to the great detriment of the Institution, as justice cannot possibly be done by the Tutoresses to such a number of pupils, not to mention the risk of endangering the health of the same, etc. The Trustees of the Academy deem it their duty, hereby to give notice to all, whom it may concern, that under twelve months at least no attention can be paid to any application for entering the names on the book as Candidates for the schooL Moreover the said Trustees find themselves under the imperious necessity to request those parents, relatives, guardians, etc. of young ladies, who upon former application have received the promise of their admission in the course of this year, to defer bringing or sending them till further notice from the Inspector of Salem Academy, there being no prospect of the possibility of their admittance in the present year.
Jacob Van Vleck,
Salem, July 7th. In the name and in behalf of the Trustees.
—Raleigh Register, July 24,1818.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)