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Box 4b

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Register of Children at the Shelter for Colored Orphans, Volume 1, 1822 - 1859

 Item — Box: 4b
Identifier: A00180384
Scope and Contents 114 pages. The first fifteen pages list the names, ages, and dates of admission of children at the shelter run by the Association for the Care of Colored Orphans, as well as other information about them. Pages 16 through 81 give a longer narrative history of each child, often explaining their family situation. An index of the children is found on pages 82-87. Also included are lists of children who did and did not receive a portion of the Thomas P. Cope Legacy. The register proper runs from...
Dates: 1822 - 1859