Orphan House
Records
Register of
Children 1790-1795
“Register of all
the Children received at the Orphan house from its first
Institution, from whence
they came and their ages when admitted.”
Sources: Commissioners for Settling
Public Accounts, South Carolina Archives, Columbia SC.
Contributed by_Shirley Lackey,
August 01, 1999
All rights reserved
Orphan house
29 October 1795
The
above list is examined by the Commissioners and found to agree exactly
with the
Register
book,out of the number of the Children, being 183,
the number
born in Charleston are 72
other parts of the State 12
The other States and Europe 99
Those who are blank are not known where born 13
They make
the following report of the Children who have been received in the Orphan
house from
its first Institution to the 18th Instant being a term of five years.
117 Boys
66 girls
183 Total,
of which number 33 Boys have been bound out 15 girls also
6 have
died, viz 4 boys and 2 girls
12 Inveigled
away 11 Boys & 1 girl
15 redelivered to their parents and friends at their instance 81
183 ——
102 remain in the house
the following
deseases are noted Of those who died
1 of the
smallpox 1 of an apoplectic fit 1 of a Bilious fever
1 of Measles
1 of Scrophula 1 of an Importhum
occasioned
by a broken back in which crippled state the child had been received.
Chs
Lining
Chairman
1999,
Jerri Lynne Smith, Charleston County Webmaster