FRANKLIN ACADEMY COMMENCEMENT FOR 1807.

The Franklin Academy will be opened on the first Monday in January next for the reception of Students. The Trustees are happy in being able to inform the public that they have prevailed with Mr. Dickinson to continue as principal of this Institution for the two ensuing years. The terms of Tuition will be ten dollars per annum for Beading, Writing, Arithmetic, and English Grammar, and sixteen dollars for the other branches of Education, the money paid semi-annually in advance. The price of board, lodging, washing, etc. will be about seventy dollars per annum.   *   *   *

Dec. 27.                                                    G. Hill, jun'r, Secretary.

—Raleigh Minerva, January 5, 1807.
[Also in Raleigh Register, December 22, 1806.]
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)