In addition to the flourishing state of the Sunday School, the Ladies of the Sewing Society have organized a School of Industry, which, during the last four months has been in successful operation. Its object is the relief and education of distressed and indigent children. The School at present consists of nine children – three of whom are supported by the managers; these are taken from their parents and are to be bound to the Society until they attain the age of eighteen. Miss Braddy, a qualified communicant of the Church, superintends this laudable and benevolent institution. The improvement which the children have already made, sufficiently manifests its utility, and leaves no room to doubt the most favorable ultimate result.

(Source: The Rev. William G. H. Jones, Parochial Report, St. John’s, Fayetteville, 1830 Journal of Convention, 11-12)