1. Mitchell Elisha A Lecture on the Subject of Common Schools, Delivered Before the North Carolina Institute of Education, at Chapel Hill, June 26, 1834 (Chapel Hill, NC: Isaac C. Partridge, 1834), 10–11. http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/mitchelle/mitchelle/html. Retrieved 12 April 2003.
2. “Raleigh Academy,” Raleigh Register, December 22, 1820, NCC.
3. Ibid. Salaries for the male teachers of languages, sciences, and English increased by 25–33 percent (from $300 to $400 for the English teacher, and from $375 to $500 per year for the teacher of languages). Meanwhile, the salary for the female “preceptress” or head of the female department increased by 67 percent (from $200 to $334.50 per year). At the same time, the institution also hired an additional female to teach drawing at a salary of $300 a year, a figure 75 percent of that for male teacher of the English department.
4. Data compiled from Record Book, Lima School District # 4, 1814–1854, LHS. The index used to convert wages to constant value terms is the Composite Consumer Price Index from John J. McCusker, How Much is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1992).
5. Beadie “Market-Based Policies,“ 296–317.