Trenton Academy

On Monday, December 14, 1784 the Trenton Academy celebrated its second anniversary and elected a new batch of trustees comprising local notables David Brearley, Moore Furman, Isaac Collins, Samuel Witham Stockton and Benjamin Pitfield. Also appointed as visitors (advisers to the school) were William Churchill Houston, Stacy Potts and James Ewing. The following Saturday the Academy, or grammar school, as it was sometimes known, held exams and students made presentations before the President of Congress, several representatives of Congress, Baron Von Steuben, members of the state legislature, the Attorney-General, the school's trustees and "a number of respectable Citizens of the town and vicinity." The Trenton Academy was located on Academy Street immediately west and partly on the site of the Trenton Public Library.

[credit: engraving by George A. Bradshaw for A History of Trenton, 1679-1929]