Catherine Stratton Ladd
Rolesville Academy
North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840: A Documentary History by Charles Lee Coon,
Raleigh, N.C.,Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, State Printers and Binders, 1915 (pages 568-569)
ROLESVILLE ACADEMY, 1832.
ROLESVILLE ACADEMY.Mrs. Ladd will open a School on the first Monday in January, 14 miles from Raleigh, on the Northern Stage Road. The situation is healthy and pleasant with good society.
Mrs. L. will use every exertion on her part to forward her pupils in the branches she intends to teach, and hopes, by the advantages held out, to merit a share of public patronage. The following branches will be taught:
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Grammar, Geography and Marking, $6 per session. Natural and Moral Philosophy, Elements of Chemistry, Ancient & Modern History, Rhetoric, including the above, $8. per session Drawing and Painting--on paper, silk, satin and velvet--India Painting, Embroidery, Lace work, Bead work, Wax work, Ebony work, Fillagree work, Bronzing and Gilding, including the above, 12 per session Music (a separate charge,) 15 Board can be had in respectable families, at the moderate price of $4 per month. For further information, apply to
WM. ROLES,
WM. JEFFREYS.
Wake county, Nov. 29, 1832.
--The Star, December 23, 1832.
ROLESVILLE ACADEMY, 1832.
PRAISE MRS. LADD.
ROLESVILLE ACADEMY, Wake County, N. C.
The undersigned, Trustees of this institution, convened at the Academy on Monday the 17th day of June, 1833,
and, after patient and diligent attention to the examination of the pupils attached to the institution, think it no exaggeration to say, that, considering the youth of some, and the imperfection of nearly all in the rudiments of education at their commencement in this Academy, coupled with their present attainments in geography, grammar, arithmetic, spelling, reading, writing, painting, fancy work, and such other scholastic exercises as are generally comprehended in an English education, that Mistress LADD,
the preceptress of the above institution, may, with impunity, compare the progress of her scholars with that of the pupils
of any other English institution in this section of the State, and as the second session will commence on Monday, the 24th day of June, 1833, the Trustees feel no hesitation in recommending the institution to the public.
WILLIAM JEFFREYS,
BRYAN GREEN,
WILLIAM ALSTON,
WILLIAM HARTSFIELD,
JOHN L. TERRELL,
JOHN LIGON,
MATTHEW STRICKLAND,
BENJAMIN MEXNOLL,
WILLIAM ROLES,
Trustees.
June 18, 1833.
--The Star, June 21, 1833.
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