Virginia
Societies (45 societies)
Alexandria
Alexandria
Female Orphan Asylum
Runs a school that merges with that of the Washington
Free School
Alexandria Free School for Girls
Founded in 1812 aka Female Lancastrian School.
Alexandria Orphan Society and Female Free School
Society
Orphanage and school founded in 1832
Female Charitable Society
Founded in January 1822.
See: Washington Theological Repertory 6 (1824-6)
374
Ladies Benevolent Society
Founded in 1855, assists the Orphan Asylum
Washington Free School
Founded in 1786, housed in the Alexandria Academy. Had
a mixed intake until 1812, after which it only taught
boys. Established by a donation and bequest by George
Washington.
Washington Society of Alexandria
Founded before 1814
See: Francis Scott Key, An oration delivered by Francis
S. Key before the Washington Society of Alexandria
(Alexandria, 1814)
Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg Boarding School for Poor Girls
Founded in 1803
Fredericksburg Female Orphan Asylum
Orphanage founded in 1833, part funded from taxation
from 1840 for out of county inmates
Male Charity School
Founded in 1795.
See: Carrol H. Quenzel, The history and background
of St. George's Episcopal Church, Fredericksburg, Virginia
(Richmond, 1951), 23.
Lynchburg
Lynchburg Dorcas Society
Voluntary society founded c. 1845
Lynchburg Orphan Asylum Society
Orphanage founded in 1846
Norfolk
Dorcas Society
Founded before 1822
See: 'The state of religion and means of religious improvement
in the borough of Norfolk, Va., and its vicinity' Family
Visitor 1 (1822-3) 5.
Jackson Orphan Asylum
See: Records, 1859-1922 in Library of Virginia
Infant School Society
Founded in 1829 to provide free education to pre-school
children
Norfolk Bethel Union
Founded in 1823
See: Sailor's Magazine 1 (1828-9) 26.
Norfolk Female Orphan Society
Founded in 1804, incorporated Jan 16th, 1816 also known
as the Female Charitable Society
See: Minute Book, 1816-1853, Account Book 1844-1862,
and other papers in the library of the University of
Virginia, Charlottesville.
Norfolk Mechanics Benevolent Society
Mutual aid society, founded in 1811
Norfolk Marine Society
Voluntary society founded February 7th, 1817 to assist
visiting sailors
Norfolk Provident Society
Founded in 1819
Petersburg
The Association for Improvement of the Condition
of the Poor
Founded in 1858 by christian ministers and laymen
Hebrew Benevolent Society
Mutual aid society founded in 1859
Petersburg Poorhouse
Offers indoor relief and before 1823 outdoor relief
Petersburg Dorcas Society
Founded in 1821 by Presbyterian women
Petersburg Female Orphan Asylum
Orphanage founded in 1811, second asylum founded in
1847
See: 'Female Orphan Asylum of Petersberg' Family
Visitor 2 (1823-4) 1.
Petersburg House of Industry
Voluntary society founded to provide employment
for poorhouse inmates
Petersburg Ladies Benevolent Society
Voluntary society founded by Presbyterian women
Petersburg Benevolent Mechanics Association
Mutual aid society, founded in 1825
See: Microfilm copies of minutes (1825-1941) at UVA
library Charlottesville, originals at Petersburg Public
Library; also some records (1825-36) held at Virginia
Historical Society; Constitution and Bye-Laws of the
Petersburg Benevolent Mechanics Association (Petersberg,
Va., 1825)
Richmond
Female Humane Association of the City of Richmond
Founded 1805, incorporated 1810
See: Female Humane Association Papers, VHS, Richmond;
Constitution and By-Laws of the Female
Humane Association of the City of Richmond (Richmond:
Shephard & Colin 1843)
Gentlemen's Benevolent Society
Founded in 1844 auxiliary to Union Benevolent Society
Howard Association
Voluntary society founded in 1855 to provide healthcare
to yellow fever sufferers
Male Orphan Society
Founded in 1847
See: Records 1845-1896 in Library of Virginia; Constitution
and By-laws of the Richmond Men's Orphan Society incorporated
in 1847 (np, nd)
Mutual Assurance Society of Virginia
Founded in 1794
Richmond Amicable Society
Founded in 1788
See: Minute Book 1788-1816 in Virginia Historical Society;
Samuel Mordecai, Richmond in By-Gone days (Richmond,
Dietz Press, 1860)
Richmond Dorcas Society
Founded in 1827
See: 'Richmond Dorcas Society' Religious Herald
(Richmond, Va) 1 (1828) 51
Richmond Bethel Union Society
Founded in 1821
See: 'Richmond Bethel Union Society' Family Visitor
1 (1822-3) no. 8; Virginia Evangelical and Literary
Magazine 5 (1822) 277-80; Sailor's Magazine (NY)1
(1828-29), 123
Richmond Charitable Association of Young Men
Formed in 1817 to provide general assistance for the
poor
See: 'Constitution of the Richmond Charitable Association
of Young Men' Christian Monitor (Richmond Va) 2
(1816-17) 222-4.
Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Association
Founded in 1849
Richmond Lancastrian Society
Founded in November 1816 to provide free education
See: The fundamental rule and regulation of the Lancastrian
institutiton within this city (Richmond, 1817)
St Joseph's Orphan Asylum and Free School
Catholic orphanage founded in 1834
Union Benevolent Society
Voluntary society founded in 1836 to provide women with
employment
Miscellaneous
Benevolent Society of the Parish of St Andrew's
Founded in 1816 to provide free education
See: 1st Annual Report of the Benevolent Society
of the Parish of St Andrew's (Sheperd's-Town, Va.,
1817)
Female Benevolent Society
Founded in Winchester before 1824
Society for the relief of the distressed widows and
orphans of the clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church
in the State of Virginia
Founded in 1792
Working Society
Founded in Bruton Parish before 1828
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