EXAMINATION, JUNE, 1834
LOUISBURG FEMALE ACADEMY.

The examination of the students of this Academy closed on the 3rd instant. It was attended by the trustees and a large assemblage of ladies and gentlemen as visitors. The proficiency evinced on this occasion by the young ladies, the trustees take great pleasure in stating, evidenced in a high degree the assiduity and superior skill for which the preceptress has been so long distinguished. Mrs. Bobbitt has had, with some intermission, the charge of the Female Institution at this place for many years; and with her return to the management of the School, the trustees have, with the highest gratification, witnessed the success, and they may say, the expected success, of her eminently useful efforts; and this pleasure is enhanced by the prospect of durability to the institution, which is now entertained from the circumstance that Mrs. B. is permanently located in Louisburg.
The advantages now presented by this institution are such as to induce the trustees to recommend it in a high degree to public patronage. All the useful and ornamental branches of female education are taught in this Academy, and Mrs. B. is prepared to take under her immediate charge, as boarders, many of the young ladies. In genteel families, convenient to the Academy, board also may be obtained on moderate term 8.

The exercises of the School will be resumed on the 7th of July next, under the management of the same instructress, with competent assistants.

By order of the Board,
Jno. D. Hawkins, Pres't.
Robert J. Shaw, Sec.
June 11th, 1834.

After the examinations had closed, the students of each School were assembled in the Female Academy building, where an able address was made to them by Col. Henry J. G. Ruffin, who portrayed to their view, in very interesting colors, the advantages of education, of good deportment, and of those useful qualities, which it was expected of them to acquire, and to practice in after life.

June 11, 1834.                                   Jno. D. Hawkins, Chairman.

—The Star, Raleigh, June 26, 1834.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)