Georgia
Societies (60 societies)
Augusta
Asbury Female Mite Society
Founded in Augusta in 1820 to raise money for Methodist
clergy.
Augusta Benevolent Committee for the Care of the Poor,
Sick and Homeless
In existence by 1841
See: Augusta City Directory, (Augusta, 1841)
Augusta Female Orphan Asylum
Incorporated in 1819 to care for female orphans
See: 'Report of the Augusta Female Orphan Asylum' The
Missionary 4 (1822-23) no. 50.
Augusta Orphan Asylum
Founded 1852, endowed by Isaac S. Tuttle in 1855
Augusta Free School Society
Founded by men in 1828, incorporated Decemeber 25, 1831.
Funded by a voluntary tax of $1, and by bequests
See: 'Augusta Ga., Free School Society' Charleston
Observer, 2 (1828), 66.
Augusta Poorhouse
In existance by 1850
Beneficial Society
Mutual
aid society incorporated in 1830 to provide outdoor relief to
sick members
Children's Hospital Association
Chinese Benevolent Association
Hibernian Benevolent Society
Columbus
Hibernian Benevolent Society
Incorporated
1837
Ladies'
Education and Benevolent Society
Incorporated
in 1845 to manage an orphanage and provide education
to orphans; poor. Based in Methodist Episcopal Church
Macon
Ladies Education Society
Incorporated
in 1841 to provide assistance to female orphans
Mechanics Society
Incorporated
in 1833
Macon Orphan Asylum
Founded
in 1857
Muscogee County Asylum
Provides
education to children, incorporated in 1847.
United
Hebrew Society
Incorporated
in 1857 to provide aid to Jewish families.
Savannah
Bethesda
College
Orphanage
and school founded by George Whitefield in 1740. Incorporated
in 1791, closed in 1808. Site taken over by Union Society
in 1855
See:Gamble,
1902
Catholic
Boys Orphanage
Founded
by the Sisters of Mercy in 1855.
Chatham
Academy
School
founded in 1788. Mainly has paying pupils, but provides
some free places.
See:
Minutes of the Chatham Academy Commencing the 23rd February
1813 [Edward Clifford Anderson Papers SHC No. 3602 Vol.1]
Colored
Maternal Society
In
existence in 1833
Dorcas
Society
Voluntary
society founded c.1816, to provide outdoor relief to the
sick and the poor.
See: Adverts in Columbian Museum and Savannah Advertiser,
January 3, 1818
Episcopal
Orphan's Home
Orphanage
founded 1844 and incorporated in 1854. Re-incorporated
as Orphan's Home of Savannah in 1859. Provides indoor
relief, employment, religious instruction and education.
Funded by sales of products, subscriptions and endowments
See: Journal of the Proceedings of the 22nd annual
convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese
of Georgia. (Athens, Clayton & Print, 1844),
18.
Female
Seamens' Friend Society
Founded
1844 and incorporated in 1857 to provide a Sailor's home
for visiting sailors. Closely linked to Savannah Port
Society. Also funds a library, anti-alcohol campaigns,
healthcare, and religious education. Income from boarding
charges, fairs, and subscriptions.
See:
Minutes, 1843-60 in Mrs Burroughs Papers, Duke University
Georgia
Infirmary
Hospital
founded in 1832 to provide healthcare for old and sick
blacks (male and female), first such in the USA. Income
from donations, fees for board and operations, road tolls,
bequests, subscriptions, and interest
See:
Minutes, 1833-1865 Georgia Historical Society
German
Friendly Society
Mutual
aid society founded and incorporated in 1837 to provide
relief to German members and their families as well as
to other German groups and institutions. Income from contributions
to appeals, interest, and dividends.
See:Rev
C A Linn, The History of the German Friendly Society
of Savannah, Georgia, 1837-1937 (Savannah, 1937)
German Hebrew Ladies Society
Founded in Savannah before 1854
See: Minutes of Mickve Israel, August 17, 1854, Georgia
Historical Society
Hebrew
Benevolent Society
Founded
by 1849 to provide assistance to jews.
See: Minutes of Mickve Israel, October, 10, 1849, Georgia
Historical Society
Hebrew Ladies Benevolent Society
Founded in Savannah in 1852, incorporated in 1854 as
Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Society
See: Minutes of Mickve Israel, August 17, 1854, Georgia
Historical Society
Hibernian
Society
Founded
in 1812 to assist poor Irish men, their dependents especially
widows and orphans.
See:
Arthur J O' Hara, Hibernian Society, Savannah, Georgia,
1812-1912: The story of a century (Savannah, Braid
& Hutton, 1912)
House Carpenters Association
Founded in Savannah and incorporated in 1802.
See: The Republican and Savannah Evening Ledger December
10, 1811
Infant School Society
Founded in 1829 in Savannah
Irish
Union Society (Savannah)
Voluntary
society founded in 1847 to assist Irish famine victims
Ladies
German Benevolent Society
Founded
1853 as female equivalent of the German Friendly Society,
incorporated in 1856
See:Rev
C A Linn, The History of the German Friendly Society of Savannah,
Georgia, 1837-1937 (Savannah, 1937)
Massie
School
School
founded in 1855 to provide free education. Income from
Massie Fund originally, later from the city council and
dividends.
Mechanics'
Benevolent Society
Founded
in 1844 and incorporated in 1845 to provide mutual aid
to members and their families.
Needle
Woman's Friend Society
Voluntary
society founded in 1849 and incorporated in 1856 to provide
employment to poor white seamstresses. Income from subscriptions,
sale of product and interest.
See: Daily Georgian, March 7, 1849 1st Annual
Report, Daily Georgian March 8-9, 1850
St
Andrew's Society
Founded
1750 to assist Scottish residents.
See: History of the St Andrew's Society of the city
of Savannah (Savannah, Morning News Print, 1901)
St
Vincent's Academy (Savannah)
Orphanage
of the Sisters of our Lady of Mercy founded 1844 to assist
Catholic boys and girls, incorporated in 1849
Savannah
Benevolent Association
Voluntary
society formed in 1854 as the Young Men's Benevolent Association
to assist the sick, their dependents and the poor during
epidemics. Income from subscriptions and dividends.
See:
Minutes 1854-1928 in the Georgia Historical Society;
The Savannah Benevolent Association (Savannah : The Morning
News Print, 1896); Daily Morning News, September
12, 1854.
Savannah Benevolent Society
Founded
in 1829 to provide financial aid to the Savannah Female
Asylum and provide work for destitute women
Savannah
Clothing and Fuel Society
Voluntary
society formed in 1838 to assist the local poor in Savannah
and in the North with clothing and fuel. Income from subscriptions
and donation.
See: 16th Annual Report The Georgian January
19, 1854
Savannah
Female Asylum
Orphanage
for young girls, founded 1801. Provides education, training,
and healthcare. Binds out older girls to domestic service
or to learn a trade. Income from dividends, interest,
subscriptions, rents, church collections, charges for
work, donations, and fund raising fairs.
Savannah
Free School Society
School
founded in 1816 to provide education to poor girls and
boys. Income from subscription, collections, donations,
charity sermons, taxation, rents, dividends and interest.
Savannah
Methodist Episcopal Ladies Working Society
Savannah
Poorhouse and Hospital
Founded
1809 mainly to provide for the sick, especially visiting
seamen. Funded by taxation, subscriptions, donations,
customs, bonds, sales, fines, patients' fees, and bequests
See:
Minutes 1836-76 in GDAH; some info in McKay-Stiles Papers
Southern Historical Collection
Savannah
Port Society
Voluntary
society founded in 1843 to fund a Bethel church for visiting
sailors.
See:
Minutes, 1843-60, GHS. Click
here for extracts. Sixth Annual Report of the Board
of Managers of the Savannah Port Society. (Savannah,
Edward J Purse, 1849)
Union
Society
Voluntary
society formed 1750. Bound out mainly boys to learn a
trade once old enough; provided residential care to young
orphans. Income from subscriptions, charity sermons, bequests,
rents, gifts, guardians payments, interest, and farm
produce sold.
See:
Minutes of the Union Society (Savannah, 1860)
Widow's
Society
Voluntary
society founded 1822 to assist widows and destitute single
females, incorporated in 1837. Provided indoor relief,
healthcare and employment. Income from donations and subscriptions.
See: 38 vols of records in the Georgia Historical Society
including Minutes from 1849, Treasurer's Records from 1830 and Visiting committee
Records from 1859; The Georgian January 28, 1823.
Working
Mens' Benevolent Association
Founded
1859
Miscellaneous
Benevolent Society Hospital
Founded in Albany
Hebrew Benevolent Society
Founded in 1860 in Atlanta to serve the German Jewish
community.
Hebrew Ladies Benevolent Society
Founded in Albany
Hibernian Benevolent Society of Atlanta
In existence in 1858
Juvenile Society of Medway
Founded before 1820 to assist other children, for example
those in the Cherokee Nation.
See: Southern Evangelical Intelligencer 2 (1820-1821),
207. [September 23, 1820]
Ladies Union Benevolent Society
Founded
in Atlanta in 1858
Milledgeville Mechanics Society
Mutual
aid society founded in 1816 to provide members and their
families with assistance
Mechanics Mutual Aid Association (Athens)
Incorporated
in 1837
Sunbury Academy
School
founded 1822.
Sunbury
Female Asylum
Orphanage
for Girls incorporated 1819
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