Smithfield Academy Under Robert Poor, 1820
The exercises of this institution will commence on the first Monday in March next, under the superintendence of Mr. Robert Brevard Poor, A.B. Mr. Poor graduated at Cambridge (Mass.) last August, with the distinguished honor of that University, and comes recommended to us in the most flatterin terms.
By order of the Trustees,
February 21, 1820
M. Lloyd Hill, Sec'y
---The Star, February 25, 1820
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915, pg. 192-195)
