Mordecai, Jacob, 1762-1838

found: Notice of Jacob Mordecai, founder, and proprietor from 1809 to 1818, of the Warrenton (N.C.) Female Seminary, 1897.

found: Dictionary of North Carolina biography, c1979-c1996(Mordecai, Jacob; b. Apr. 11, 1762, Philadelphia, d. Sept. 4, 1838; merchant and educator)

found: Finding aid for Mordecai family papers, via UNC University Libraries WWW site, June 25, 2020(Mordecai family of Warrenton and Raleigh, N.C., and Richmond, Va. Prominent family members included Jacob Mordecai (1762-1838); his sons Samuel (1786-1865), Solomon (1792-1869), and George W. (1801-1871); and his daughters Ellen (1790-1884), Emma (1812-1906), and Rachel Mordecai Lazarus (1788-1838). Jacob Mordecai (1762-1838) of Philadelphia settled at Warrenton, N.C., in 1794 where he was a merchant and later conducted, with his family, a non-sectarian female seminary from 1809 to 1818) - https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00847/

found: Falk, Stanley L. The Warrenton Female Academy of Jacob Mordecai, 1809-1818:page 281 (the Warrenton Female Academy (or Seminary, as it sometimes appears), a private school founded by Jacob Mordecai; opened in 1809) page 297 (Jacob Mordecai left Warrenton Female Academy in 1819) page 298 (closed in 1822)