D. H. MAYHEW PRINCIPAL FOR 1809.
FRANKLIN ACADEMY.

On Monday and Tuesday last the semi-annual examination of the students of this seminary took place, they were publicly examined before the Trustees and other Gentlemen, in Geography and in the English, Latin, Greek, and French Languages. The Trustees with much satisfaction announce to the public that the examination as usual proved highly satisfactory, manifesting the constant application and great improvement of the students, and the abilities and attention of the instructors.

This Academy will again be opened on the first Monday in January next, for the reception of students, and will the ensuing year be under the direction of Mr. Davis H. Mayhew, as principal. From the approved abilities, acquirements and moral character of this gentleman we think we may confidently pronounce him well qualified for the arduous employment of instructing youth. The ensuing year, the students will be instructed in the same branches of education, which have formerly been taught in this institution; the price of tuition as heretofore will be ten dollars per ann. for Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and English Grammar, and sixteen dollars for the other branches of education, payable semi-annually in advance, board in genteel private houses can be procured for about seventy dollars per annum to be paid as for  tuition.


From the low price of board and tuition, the healthiness of the county and the character of the principal, the Trustees flatter themselves that this institution will continue to meet with liberal encouragement.
Louisburg, Dec. 10, 1808.                                        G. Hill, Sec'ry.

—The Minerva, Raleigh, December 29, 1808.
[Matthew Dickinson severed his connection with the Franklin Academy at the end of the Year 1808, and entered upon the study of law.—C. L. C]
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)