FRANKLIN ACADEMY ANNOUNCEMENT FOR 1806.
* * * The Trustees would inform the Public, that the Academy is still to continue under the direction of Mr. Dickinson, as Principal. The price of Tuition for the ensuing year will be Ten Dollars for Reading, Writing, Arithmetic and English Grammar; and Sixteen for the other branches of Education. In consequence of remissness in payments the present year, it is determined that future payments for Tuition shall be made to the Principal semi-annually in advance.
—From the Raleigh Register, December 30, 1805
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914) |