Excerpt from Brief Sketch of the History of Leicester Academy, Vol. 1

This institution had its origin in that dark period of the history of the Commonwealth which immediately succeeded the war of the Revolution.

Her resources had been exhausted in that struggle, and, amidst its absorbing interests, the education of the young had been neglected. In some towns, the schools had been suspended, and in few of them had the system of popular education maintained any thing more than a feeble existence.

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