State School Home for Colored Soldiers' Orphans

Orphans Enrolled in Bridgewater School as of October 20, 1869

CATALOGUE OF ORPHANS ADMITTED TO THE SCHOOL-HOME.

BLAIR COUNTY, (2).
Cooper, John Norman
Cooper, Mary Elizabeth

CHESTER COUNTY, (49).
Brown, Jacob
Brown, John D.
Brown, Rebecca
Cooper, Horace Greeley
Connor, Frank
Connor, William Jaymark
Denny, Alice Ann
Denny, Joseph Collins
Denny, Sarah Jane
Denny, Wm. Robert
Dorsey, Francis Asbury
Gover, Charles Henry
Gover, Ellwood
Gover, Wilmer
Hall, Amy Elmira
Hall, William George
Hall, Rachel Elizabeth
Johnson, James Franklin
Jones, Sarah Rebecca Adora
Miller, Albert Hall
Miller, Catherine Ann
Miller, Chamberlain Derricks
Miller, Ida Frances
Miller, Mary Jane
Miller, Mary Martina
Miller, Pierce Burns
Miller, William Cuff
Parker, Joshua
Parker, Phebe Emma
Peterson, Chas. Edward
Peterson, Wm. Wells
Raymond, John
Raymond, Charles
Richmond, Ella Evans
Richmond, Louisa Jane
Richmond, William David
Skeere, John Andrew
Smith, Hiram David Dewees
Smith, Nancy Jane
Smith, Mary Emma
Smith, Hannah Frances
Smith, Sarah Louisa
Wallace, Alice Jenkins
Wallace, Anthony Blake
Watkins, William
Watkins, Virginia*
Williams, Ellen Jane
Williams, James
Wilson, Sarah

DAUPHIN COUNTY, (13).
Aanderson, Harvey
Anderson, Richard Edward
Bowser, George Eli
Bowser, Grace Annie Maria
Bowser, Joseph Nelson
Bowser, Mary Ellen
Lum, David Humphrey
Lum, Jacob Roderic
Lum, Matha Cornelia
Saunders, Margaret Ellen
Thompson, Arabella
Thompson, Emma
Thompson, Hannah Jane

DELAWARE COUNTY, (5).
Rothwell, Isaac
Rothwell, James Chambers
Watson, Joseph Brinckley
Watson, Rhoda Virginia
Watson, Sarah Parthenia

INDIANA COUNTY, (2).
Dietrich, John
Glasgow, Margaret Ann

LANCASTER COUNTY, (22).
Bacon, Ann Eliza
Bacon, Jerome
Bacon, Nathaniel
Combs, David
Combs, Hannah Elizabeth
Combs, Simon Edward
Ford, Anna Jacobs Louisa
Ford, Martha Elizabeth Jane**
Harris, John Henry*
Harris, William
Jones, Joseph
Williams, Adam
Williams, Jacob
Williams, Joseph
Williams, Lucy Ellen
Williams, Sarah Eliza
Williams, Sarah Elizabeth
Williams, Samuel
Wilson, David Calvin
Wilson, Louis
Wilson, Squire Allen
Wilson, William Henry

LYCOMING COUNTY, (7)
Brown, Alice
Brown, Laura Virginia
Brown, Matilda Jane
Burroughs, Amanda Miller
Crabb, Charles Wm.
Crabb, Edward Burton
Crabb, Sarah Troup

NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, (3).
Good, Aaron
Good, John Mike
Good, Stephen

NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, (5).
Davis, Anna Francis
Davis, Joseph Jeremiah
Davis, Lewis
Davis, Mary Dixon
Davis, Samuel Oakes

PHILADELPHIA, (24).
Alexander, William Irvine
Anderson, Anna Rebecca
Anderson, Wm. Franklin
Bullett, Martha Serina Virginia
Harris, James Porter
Harris, John Lewis
Green, Martha Lilias
Henry, Daniel
Henry, Sarah Jane
Henry, William
Jackson, Redman Faucett
Johnson, Charles Ellwood**
Johnson, George Solomon**
Johnson, Julianna
Lee, George Alexander
Nocho, Hiram Purvis*
Nocho, Mellazine
Nocho, Sarah Ann
Nocho, Victory
Reasoner, Howard Raddle
Reasoner, James Brown
Shorts, Albert
Shorts, Eliza
Thorn, Charles

*Discharged on age.
** Deceased

Source

• "Announcement From The Office Of The Colored Soldiers' And Sailors' Orphans Committee". Correspondence And Finances Of The School Of Colored Soldiers' And Sailors' Orphans, Germantown Historical Society/ Historic Germantown -- Pamphlet Boxes African-American History Collection, October 20, 1869.
  https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3A162576.