EARLY EDUCATION IN WARREN COUNTY

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WARRENTON UNDER HILL AND KERR, 1820.
WARRENTON MALE ACADEMY.

* * * The Exercises of the School will be resumed on Monday the 19th instant, under the superintendence of the Rev. C. A. Hill, A. M. the present Principal, assisted by Mr. James Kerr.

C. A. HILL TO LEAVE WARRENTON ACADEMY, 1820.

EDUCATION

He has been induced to this change from a public to a private Seminary, because he believes, it will be more beneficial to his pupils and more agreeable to hum, If. Gratified that this change meets with the almost unanimous approbation, sanction, and support of his present patrons in, and near Warrenton, lie can but hope for the same from those more remote.

WARRENTON ACADEMY UNDER G. W. FREEMAN.

HAVING engaged Mr. George W. Freeman to take charge of this institution the ensuing year, the Trustees feel it incumbent on them to state that they have taken great pains to acquaint themselves with his character and qualifications; in each of which he sustains the highest reputation.

He has been engaged for the last six years in different seminaries in this state, and they understand, has always given satisfaction to those who have entrusted their children to his care.—His character as those who have entrusted their children to his care.—His character as a good disciplinarian is exceeded by none, which is deemed a great recommendation.

His emoluments depending chiefly on the success of the academy, the arrangements will be given up to him as far as will comport with the duty of the Trustees.—They can with confidence recommend this Institution to the attention of parents and guardians generally.

The exercises will be commenced under his care on the 1st of January next.

Prices of tuition will remain as hitherto.

* * * The exercises will be resumed on the 1st of January. Students will continue to be received, as boarders in the family of the subscriber.

WARRENTON ACADEMY UNDER J. H. OTEY.

The Trustees of this Academy have the pleasure to inform such parents and guardians as may wish to have their children or wards educated here, that they have engaged Mr. James II. Otey as principal—strong and satisfactory testimonials of the character and qualifications of Mr. Otey (who was educated at the University of North Carolina and is well known to some of us) are in our possession. * * *

THIS institution will be open for the reception of students the first Monday in January next. The studies are preparatory to admission into the University of North Carolina. A strict compliance with the rules and regulations of the Academy will in every instance be rigorously exacted. Great attention will be paid in imparting an accurate and critical knowledge of the subjects embraced in the Academic course. Students entering at any time previous to the expiration of the first quarter, will be charged for the whole session. Tuition $121, and board $50 per session, to be paid in advance.

WARRENTON ACADEMY UNDER G. P. WILLIAMS.

WARRENTON ACADEMY UNDER M. D. DONNELLAN.

WARRENTON MALE ACADEMY.

WARRENTON ACADEMY UNDER THOMAS J. VAIDEN.

The Warrenton Academy is open for the reception of youth, unexceptional in character. The Collegiate preparations, the Principal hopes, will be adequate, as in the Classics, any of the Latin and Greek books, read by senior students of the Universities of this State and Virginia, may be read here and with the requisite illustrative studies. In the departments of Mathematics, Modern Languages, English Chemistry, &c. an elevated and advantageous result may be secured to the diligent and aspiring scholar. Terms of tuition are from $10 to $15 per session of five months; those of board are even as low as $60 for the same time.

N. B. Confidential assistance may be secured when the number requires it.

WARRENTON ACADEMY UNDER SOLOMON LEA.

FALKENER'S YOUNG LADIES' SCHOOL, 1802.

YOUNG LADIES' BOARDING SCHOOL.

MRS. FALKENER

Acknowledges with lively Gratitude the Pleasure she received in the expressed Approbation of her Pupils Improvements at their last public Recitations. She proposes to devote her attentions the ensuing Year to such Young Ladies as may be confided to her Care; and assures the Parents and Guardians who may intrust their Children or Wards to her Management, that every exertion shall be used towards accomplishing them in Literature, and moral and domestic Economy. The first Day of January next is fixed on for the Reception of Boarders and Pupils; and as Mrs. F. has great Reason to expect a full School, she takes the Liberty of intimating that the earliest Applications will command Preference.

  The extraordinary Prices of Provisions compel a small Advance on what was formerly paid for Board, etc. The Terms will therefore be, for Board and Tuition one hundred and five Dollars:—For Day-Scholars twenty Dollars per Annum, one half of which must be paid at Entrance and the Remainder at the Expiration of six Months.

FRENCH AND MUSIC ADDED TO COURSE OF STUDY, 1805.

DANCING ADDED TO THE COURSE, 1805.

Mrs. Falkener has the satisfaction of announcing to her Patrons and the Public, that a Gentleman (who has taught with much Approbation in several of the most respectable Seminaries on the Continent) has engaged to attend her Academy, for the purpose of giving Instructions in the various Branches of Music, Dancing and the French Language. Such as chuse their Children or Wards to become Pupils therein will be pleased to make Application, when they can be acquainted with the Terms.
Warrenton, March 24th, 1805.

ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR 1806.

MRS. FALKENER,

Gratefully thanking her numerous Patrons and Friends who were pleased to express their Approbation on hearing the Recitations of her Pupils, respectfully informs them and the Public, she intends continuing to devote her time to the Cultivation of the young Mind, in all the useful Branches of Female Education; and engages, for the Encouragement of those who may think proper to patronize her intentions, that she will most assiduously endeavor to instil into the minds of the Scholars, such principles of Morality, domestic Economy and polite Behaviour, as may render them Ornaments to their Country, Consolations to their Parents and Friends, and happy in themselves. The terms for Board and Tuition are One Hundred and Five Dollars a Year, one half of which must positively be paid in advance, and the remainder at the expiration of six Months.

The School will be opened on the first Monday in January next. To save Trouble, it is requested that each Young Lady will bring with her a pair of Sheets, a blanket, Counterpane and Hand Towels.

FRANCIS MAURICE MUSIC TEACHER.

MUSIC, SINGING AND DRAWING, 1807.

MR. MILLER

Has engaged to teach the above Branches of the Polite Arts, at Mrs. Falkener's Young Ladies Boarding School in Warrenton. Being engaged by the patronage of many respectable Citizens, be means to devote his time entirely to that Seminary; and anticipates, that his exertions in the discharge of his duty, will so attach his Employers as to insure a continuance of their favours.

ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR 1808.

Having received the approbation of an enlightened Auditory, who most respectfully testified their satisfaction after the recitations, etc., of the Pupils of this Institution were concluded, I hope not to be deemed vain in renewing my offers to those Patrons of Literature who may think proper to intrust their Children or Wards to my care for the ensuing year. * * *

MUSIC, ETC.

The Vacation at Mrs. Falkener's Boarding School having taken place, the Subscriber returns his thanks to those Ladies and Gentlemen who have thought proper to encourage his attempts toward the improvement of the Scholars in the various Branches of Vocal & Instrumental Music, together with Drawing and Painting. It is his intention to exert his best endeavours the ensuing year. * * *

FIVE TEACHERS IN MRS. FALKENER'S SCHOOL, 1808.

The Summer Vacation commences on the 13th of June next. 'Tis the request of the Subscriber that. the Pupils may not be kept at home longer than the time prescribed, which is a fortnight. She takes this opportunity of obviating a report, which must have been circulated for some sinister purpose, "that it is impossible for one person to superintend so many scholars," by assuring her Patrons of the Public, that there are five persons (besides the Gentleman who teaches musick)
daily employed in the tuition of the Pupils confided to her care. * * *

ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR 1809.
YOUNG LADIES BOARDING SCHOOL, WARRENTON.

Emboldened by the general approbation which was expressed by those patrons of Literature and Arts who honored this institution by their attendance at the late public recitations, and grateful for the encomiums they bestowed whilst viewing the exhibition of penmanship, needlework, embroidery, etc. etc. I venture again to offer my services in the discharge of those duties which have occupied a material part of my latter years. * * * I intend dedicating my whole time to the improvement and edification of such Young Ladies as may be entrusted to my care: Assuring their parents, guardians, etc. that it shall be my constant study to discover the truth or bent of their minds; that where it is necessary T may be able by gentle and persuasive means so to meliorate their dispositions as to induce them to wish to learn;  and where the propensity is already discernable, to heighten it by just commendation, that it may become more sedulously emulous. * * *

SARAH FALKENER.

Every possible exertion is employed to procure a Discreet and properly qualified person to teach Musick. The School will be opened on the first day of January next. *

YOUNG LADIES BOARDING SCH00L, WARRENTON

The Summer Recess having taken place, Mrs. Falkner Informs her friends and the public, that her School will be opened on the 5th of June next, * * *

She has engaged a Gentleman to teach vocal and instrumental Music, whose abilities and conduct, she is happy to say, appear corresponsive with the high recommendations that induced her to employ him and she has additional pleasure in communicating that he has a daughter of fourteen Years of age, that is fully adequate to the teaching of the Piano Forte, who will be in Warrenton previous to the commencement, to attend him as an assistant, in order that the scholars may have the benefit of being taught the theoretic and practical parts of those accomplishments to the greatest advantage. He desires it may be known that the rule (which has always been observed in this seminary) forbidding the exhibition of any but sacred music on the Sabbath Day, will he religiously adhered to. * *

PRAISE FOR MRS. FALKENER'S SCHOOL.

Warrenton, De. 12, 1809.

Yesterday the Young Ladies at Mrs. Falkener's Boarding School, closed their exercises for the present Year. As, in such institutions, it is not practicable to examine the Pupils, in the moment of Vacation, on all the course of their studies, it has been usual in this Seminary to make an Exhibition of the proficiency of the Young Ladies, by the delivery of select pieces of sentimental prose and blank verse, rather than to examine them on particular and prominent parts of their ordinary lessons, as better calculated to discover the knowledge and taste they have acquired for elegant language. In the exhibition which took place on this occasion, the Young Ladies discovered an improvement beyond their Years, and did honor to their instructors. Several pieces were delivered in a style of eloquence which is rarely heard. * * *

We noticed with pleasure, in the Musical Exhibition, which took place in the afternoon, under the direction of Mr. Krauth, a proficiency on the part of his Pupils, most of which had commenced with him within the last nine months, such as might have been expected from the instruction of a Pike or a Sambourne. * * *

ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR 1810.

YOUNG LADIES' BOARDING SCHOOL, WARRENTON.

THE SCHOOL TO BE CONTINUED, 1811.

YOUNG LADIES' BOARDING SCHOOL AT WARRENTON, N. C.

The Old Institution Revived. Excited by the solicitations of some respectable friends, Mr. and Mrs. Falkener, make known to the Public, that they purpose to resume their former vocation, and intend opening their School on the first day of next January. * * *

THE IDEA ABANDONED, 1811.

Warrenton, De'cr 24, 1811.

Mr. Falkener having recently made an engagement which obliges him to relinquish his plan of reviving his former institution, takes the earliest opportunity of presenting his thanks to those friends and patrons who intended to favour him with their countenance and support. * * *

THE FALKENER SCHOOL REVIVED, 1818.
EDUCATION.

At the solicitude of some Friends who are desirous of seeing us engaged in our former vocation we propose taking under our care a number of Young Ladies and Gentlemen of tender age with a view of grounding them in such Principles as may conduce to enhance the pleasure of the Parents and promote their own happiness, by rendering them useful and ornamental Members of Society. Conscious how much depends upon a vigilant attention to the early bent of inclination, we assure those Parents and Guardians that may be disposed to confide their Children or Wards to our instruction and management, that every preceptive duty shall be diligently exercised—that Persuasion and Excitement will be preferred to Coercion—and that their literary pursuits will be so varied as to suit the genius, induce emulation, and render them eager of improvement. The School will be opened on the second Monday of next month, which will be the 11th of January, 1813.

Warrenton, Dec. 19, 1812.
Terms for Boarding and Tuition will be 105 dollars per annum. For Day Scholars 20 dollars per ditto. * * *