{"id":2950,"date":"2013-02-22T16:25:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T16:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2013-02-22T16:25:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T16:25:01","slug":"genealogy-find-deaths-reported-in-philadelphia-alms-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/genealogy-find-deaths-reported-in-philadelphia-alms-house.html","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy Find: Deaths Reported in Philadelphia Alms House"},"content":{"rendered":"

Americans have taken care of their vulnerable neighbors in different ways over the centuries.<\/p>\n

For example, in Colonial Philadelphia there was established an \u201cAlms House & House of Employment,\u201d often called the Alms House for short. It was located on Spruce Street.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Independence Hall Association, Philadelphia: Birch\u2019s View of Philadelphia in 1800<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Back in Colonial and Early America, when families, the elderly, or those with needs couldn\u2019t make it on their own, they turned to their neighbors for help. Communities responded by erecting alms houses like this one in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Also called \u201cwork houses,\u201d these public shelters\u2014often run by local churches or groups\u2014provided housing and food in exchange for work on various projects. People relied on these institutions for support until they were able to reestablish themselves.<\/p>\n

Some residents could not manage to reestablish their independence, and ended up dying in the work houses\u2014as in this list of 22 men, women and children that died at the Philadelphia Alms House in 1803.<\/p>\n

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Poulson\u2019s American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 9 September 1803, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

GenealogyBank is your core source for Colonial and early American newspapers. Search for your early ancestors in exclusive digital print newspapers dating back to the 1600s.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a great day for genealogy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Americans have taken care of their vulnerable neighbors in different ways over the centuries. For example, in Colonial Philadelphia there was established an \u201cAlms House & House of Employment,\u201d often called the Alms House for short. It was located on Spruce Street. Back in Colonial and Early America, when families, the elderly, or those with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[3305,3304,1658,2233,4873,465,2020,27,509,1106,5370,1163,3306],"class_list":["post-2950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-alms-house","tag-alms-house-house-of-employment","tag-family-history-2","tag-family-research","tag-hall","tag-historical-newspapers","tag-newspaper-archives","tag-newspapers","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-people","tag-philadelphia","tag-work-houses"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}