Trenton Academy

[1] In 1781 prominent members of the Trenton community created a company promoting the cause of education in the city.

After 1789 the school issued a certificate under the seal of the corporation to scholars which studied the English language grammatically and gained competent knowledge of at least 2 branches of Extraction of the Roots, Algebra, Mathematics, Geography, Chronology, History Logic Rhetoric, Moral and Natural Philosophy, Spirit of Laws and Criticism, the students also read, what is usually read in schools: Caesars Commentaries or Ovid's Metamorphoses, Justin or Sallust in Latin and any two of the four following books, The New Testament, Lucian's Dialogue, Xenophon or Homer in Greek.

In 1800, they leased part of the Presbyterian church ground on State street for a girls' school.

The Trustees of the Academy passed a resolution prohibiting the students from shooting guns within the limits of the school in the year 1807.

The Trustees were Thomas J Stryker, Gregory Anthony Perdicaris, Barker Gummere, Philemon Dickinson, and John S.