MISS PARTRIDGE TAKES CHARGE OF FEMALE ACADEMY.
LEWISBURG FEMALE ACADEMY.
The exercises of this seminary will commence on the first day of January next, under the care of Miss Harriet Partridge, a lady from Massachusetts, eminently qualified for the important trust. * * * For Spelling, Reading, Writing and plain Needle Work, $4 per quarter —English Grammar, Arithmetic and Geography, $5 per do—Drawing, Painting and Embroidery, $6 per qr. payable in each case in advance. * * *
Rob't A. Taylor, Sec'ry.
December 18, 1815.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
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