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Caswell Academy: 1802

Caswell Academy: 1802

There will be opened in the County of Caswell, near the Courthouse, on the first day of January next [1803], an Academy, known by the Name of the Caswell Academy, for the Reception of Students, to be taught the different Branches of Literature; to wit, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, the Latin and Greek languages, Geography, Natural and Moral Philosophy, Astronomy, &c. &c. under the direction of the Rev. Hugh Shaw. The Terms for teaching the Latin and Greek Languages, together with the Sciences, will be 14 Dollars per Annum; Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, 7 Dollars per Annum. Board my be procured convenient to the said academy in good Houses, at the low Price of 33 1/2 Dollars, and from that to 40 dollars per annum. Nov. 22, 1802.

Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, North Carolina), 7 December 1802.

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