- Title
- North Carolina schools and academies, 1790-1840, a documentary history
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- Date
- 1915
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- Creator
- ["Coon, Charles L. (Charles Lee), 1868-1927."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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North Carolina schools and academies, 1790-1840, a documentary history
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Introduction
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academy. The silk flag was decorated with the American coat of arms
The inscription on the flag was “Virtue, liberty, and Science.”517
In 1810, the Iialeigh Star said that Archibald Murphy had recently
conducted schools for the training of militia officers iu Stokes and ad¬
joining counties and had made $1,500 a year for his services. _ The Star
also said that a man named Wren who had conducted such schools in
Northampton had also been liberally compensated for such services.518
In 1812, Murphy advertised schools to teach the military discipline of
the U. S. Army at Hillsboro, Chapel Hill, Raleigh, Louisburg, and
Warren ton ; and in Granville, Chatham, and Rockingham counties.519
In 1813, Simon Bruton, of Lenoir County, was president of a society
to promote military knowledge. It was intended by this society to
establish a school near Kinston to teach literature and military tac¬
tics.520 The school was never established.
The next serious attempt to establish a military school was made by
I). H. Bingham, a graduate of the Partridge Military School iu Con¬
necticut. On August 25, 182 G, Bingham announced that he would
establish his Southern Military School at Williamsboro, in Granville
County.521 For a short time the school was conducted at Williamsboro.
In October, 1820, Bingham announced that, the Roanoke Literary and
Scientific Institution had been moved to Oxford.522 For a short time
previous to his removal to Oxford Bingham had located his school at
Littleton and advertised an imposing course of study.323 In Decem¬
ber, 1830, 20 cadets of Bingham’s School and 40 belonging to a similar
school at Fayetteville visited Raleigh.524 The next year, June, 1831,
Bingham moved his school from Oxford to Raleigh, 525 where it finally
died in less than two years.
The extravagant advertisements of the Fayetteville and the Oxford
military schools soon attracted severe criticism. A writer who signed
himself Gasca said that these schools had no endowment, no adequate
buildings, no libraries, and few or no experienced teachers.526
From 1833 to 1836, Carter Jones conducted schools at Raleigh, Wil¬
mington and other places similar to those formerly conducted by Mur¬
phy,527 but apparently with much less financial success.
Lotteries for the Benefit of Schools. — An act of the Assembly of 1797
provided that the Pittsboro Academy might raise $700 by means of
lottery.528 In 1810, the lottery which was begun in the interest of
Newton Academy in Buncombe was advertised to have failed for lack of
patronage. It had been intended to raise $7,000 to complete the build¬
ing of this school and to establish a female academy.520 In 1S10, Hyco
Academy resorted to a lottery to raise funds for building. The trustees
said in defense of the lottery that they were “conscious of the ill success
in a direct application to the generosity of the public.”530 Other schools
which resorted to lotteries were the Germantou Academy iu 1811, 531
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