Rosine Association casebook

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Eliza Williams or Elizabeth Thomas came to Rosine
9/22 1851 - Her parents died when she was
about 9 years old - She was bound by the Guardians
to John Roberts Germantown and staid with
them till she was 15 years old when she left and
hired herself out in the City and soon got into
company and a girl took her to Susan Davis's
in [Plum Street] - She has been boarding from one
house to another there for two years - She is
now 17 years old -

Amelia Foster came 10/17 1851 - Her husband was
a Coler Maker in a factory in England and
earned a good living - They had four children
and lived comfortably - A Manufacturer went
from Francford there to get hands and induced
him to come for higher wages - They lived
a while there but after a while the works
stopped and the hands were discharged -
He was there a year without work, and
being in poverty, enlisted and went to Mexico -
The family was broken up two children died,
and they struggled along at various kinds
of work, and some times almost starving -
After 17 months her husband returned but
he was then a Drunkard and after a while
died in the Almshouse - Her Daughter
now 18 works at McBrides factory Fairmount
She drinks now sometimes herself - Has a
sore foot, but wants a place as soon as
she is well enough to work

Clara Gormand came 11/15 [1851] - She is the wife of
Anthony Gormand Tailor - She has been married 17
years and has 4 children - one lives with her Sister Mrs
Boyle - Her Husband lives at Pittsburg - they had
considerable difficulty in getting along, owing to his
wishing to live in the country, and she in the city
which finally ended in his leaving and going off, she
knew not where - She then broke up house keeping
and went to live with her Sister - While there a
Tailor named Fallen, missed, or said he missed
$50.00, and as she cleared up the room he charged
her with it, and had her arrested on the 27th of
August and put in Moyamensing - by Mayor
Gilpin - She was sentenced by Judge Campbell to 2
months imprisonment about the 6th of September
and left the 6 of November 1851 or rather was released
as she continue there until the 15th

Harriet Williams, or Anna Christy was readmitted
11/12 to stay six months - William Steek married her
the night before she came in, on condition of her staying
in the Rosine six months - He is a Morocca
dresser corner of old York road & willow - His Father
is a Baker corner of [Schuylkill] 6th & Coates

Margaret Hawkins came 11/1 [1851] - Her Mother
Fanny Hawkins is in the Almshouse - Margaret has
hired out, but for the last two years, has, when
out of service gone into company that tempted
her to drink - Her heath [health] is poor

Anna Latch or [Anna Jackson] came to Rosine 11/6 - Her step father Jacob Latch
is a Carpenter in West [Philadelphia] - She is the only Daughter
but they have 12 sons - She has lived with Mrs
Colliday in [West Philadelphia], and some other places,
but not being bound has not been under proper
control - 8 months since a first cousin, a rowdy
young Man named Robert Stuart finding her at
home one evening when her Mother was at church
and nobody at home but the two little children forced
her to submit to him - He then cleared off to [New York]
and she has not seen him since - About nine weeks
since she came to the city, and engaged in a Store at
cap Making, and there became acquainted with
Emma Wood, who coaxed her to go home with her, &
stay at night - Her Mother came the next day
and took her home - A few days after, in ironing
her Fathers shirt she scorched the bosom, and for
this he whipped her with a horse whip - He had
whipped her before so that she had to lay [struck through: a] in bed
for three weeks - She then returned to the City &
and for three weeks was wandering about with [Emma Wood]
and other girls - Sometimes they were out
all night - If the watch stopped them they said

they were going for the [Doctor], and thus escaped being
taken up - Twice they gave her Liquor and
made her drunk - Some nights she staid in
her Fathers Stable, and laid on the Straw, as she
was afraid to go in, as both Father and Mother
whipped her - Her Father drinks, and often
beat her Mother too - After spending the
three weeks in this manner she went to a neighbor
who took her in and kept her a few days
and then brought her to the Rosine - Almost
miraculously she has kept herself clear of prostitution,
and constantly refused to enter the houses
with the bad girls with whom she associated -
Money was offered and entreaties used but
she had the virtue to refuse though not strength
of moral character to avoid evil company -

Emma Lebotha or [Emma Shultz] came 11/10 - Her Mother
and Step Father [William Shultz] live at the corner of Nectarine
and 11th [Streets], next to a Carpenter Shop - He is a
Boot fitter - Her Mother is a Tailoress, and worked
for the Stores, & when at home she helped her, but she would
get restless sometimes, and go out to service for a while -
When only 15 she was seduced by a Young Man, and
since then, though she never went to bad houses, yet
she had connection with several different young
Men - She was living at 2nd & Spruce [Streets] at a boarding
house, and feeling dissatisfied she told her Mother
who persuaded her to come to the Rosine -

Sarah Gillet came 11/1 Born in England but came
over when about 4 years old - Her Father is a Carter
and lives in Parker [Street] near Passayunk Road &
Fitswater - She has been hiring out from a child -
A year a half since she associated with a Woman
who enticed her to drink, and after that she became
connected with a Man, and lived with him two months -
He then deserted her, and she again lived at service -
Her Father being sick she left to nurse him, and
then went to live at another place, but they disagreed
and she left, and took to drink, and got into
prison, and from prison came to Rosine -
She is Sister to Kate Allison

Bridget McCulloch came 10/20 She came from Ireland
when about 14 years old - She was sent for by a sister who
had come over before - She lived at service in different
families until 3 years since when she married a Sailor
but he soon went to sea but never returned - She
went to the Almshouse to be confined, and left the child
When out of service she staid with a Mrs Murphy
and they drank together - She was taken up for
drinking and put in prison where she heard of
Rosine and came here from there -

Malinda Adelaide Wall came to Rosine 12/1
1851 - She is the daughter of William Wall a
Brush Maker. He lives in Poplar below 4th -
She had been going to the Chester A school about
a year Not having learned her lesson she was
whipped by her Father and she then ran away

Emmeline Lewis came 1851 to Rosine. Her Fathers name
is Moses Myers is a Sea Captain living in Lancaster [Street]
one door below Wharton. He has 8 children & E is the oldest
He is a harsh cross Man and beast his children
without Mercy - When E was about 16, she was
visited by a Widower with four children, who
wished to marry her - When her Father found
it out, he threatened to whip her till the blood
ran down to her heels, and as he had done it before
she knew it was in earnest and concluded to escape
from him she would run away, but knew not
where to go Her Mother had given her 50 cents
for some extra Services, so putting on her best clothes
she started off, and went down to Red bank, &
went to a house and asked a woman to let her
stay there saying she lived in Gloster and had got
into the Red bank boat in mistake - The Woman
let her stay until next day when she returned
to the City, and wandered about - During the
afternoon as she was standing on a pavement
a young Man came up to her and asked
her if she had run away from her friends. She
said Yes - He then invited her into an Ice cream

Saloon and about dark took her to a house
in Greens Court where he prevailed on her to stay
with him all night - The next day he took her
to a house in Wood Street and kept her Company
about three months. After he left her she was
common in the house for a while, and then went
home to stay. Her Mother pitied her and recieved
her and her Father regretted that his brutality
had driven her to such extremety - At the house
of a neighbor she became acquainted with
a respectable young Man to whom she was
married - But he soon went to California
and after he was gone some of the Girls she had
become acquainted with came round her &
persuaded her to go out with them and have
some fun and not shut her self up because she
was married - She yielded and went with
them and got again into a bad life and
when her husband returned she was in the
Almshouse, diseased - They have not lived
together since, and she hears he is on the point
of marrying another girl - There seems little to
build a hope of reformation on -

Mary Snyder came 12/17 [1851] She is the Daughter
of James Forest who lives in Center [Street] [below] Walnut
[above] 12th - She was married at 16 to John
Snyder Carpenter - When she had been married
9 months her husband failed and for 13 years
they had a struggling time owing to his having no
management in his business - Sometimes she had
to go home to her Father, & Sometimes she had a well
furnished house, & then again the furniture was seized
and there was little more than the bare walls -
Within 2 years she commenced drinking, and when
in liquor would walk off for days - Her husband
had been unfaithful, and three times became
diseased, and this with her other trouble induced
her to drink - He put her in prison, and sent
her to the Lunatic Asylum of the Almshouse -
When she came from there she went to her Mothers
and staid awhile - Her husband then
sent her word he was going to be divorced,
this put her all wrong, and she went off
again on a drinking spree and went down
to Mullens house of Industry from which place
they sent her up to Rosine

Ann Maria Jones, or Eleoria J Steward 12/17 -
Her Father is William Steward - Carpenter in
Pearl [Street], 4 doors from Mulberry, Baltimore -
She was bound to Edward Ballard Sail Maker
and when in her 13th year she went on a picnic in
company with a young Man named Robinson, whom
she had gone to school with - During the day they
drank cordial, wine, etc. & after they returned he persuaded
her to go with him to an assignation house -
She returned that night to her place and soon
found out she was enciente - She continued at
Ballards until within 4 days of her confinement
when she went home - Her own Mother was dead
but her Step Mother recieved her kindly, and
attended to her - Her Father happened to be from
home at the time and her Mother pretended the Babe
had been left at the door and Still keeps the child.
She then went to live with a Mrs Galligan, and
after being there a few weeks a girl with whom
she became acquainted induced her to come to
[Philadelphia] - She had heard of the Magdalen, and thought
she would like to go there to learn to work &
make shirts accordingly the two girls came

to [Philadelphia] and on the Wharf met Thomas Bassford
the Son of a Minister in Baltimore who had
been a Sunday School scholar with her - Supposing
from her company that she was going to do wrong
he gave them one of Emma Whites cards in Elizabeth
[Street] - She was then only turned of 14 years
of age, and thus her life of sin commenced -
She lived at Emma's 2 years, when going to the
Theatre one night, she saw Robinson the young
Man who first seduced her - He went home with
her, and the next day returned and they went to
an Aldermans and were married - A drunken
women was brought into his office and she stood
for Bridesmaid and the Constable for grooms
man - Robinson then took a house in Poplar
Street and they went to housekeeping and lived
together two years - She lived comfortably during
that time, but never loved him, and at the end of
the time he died, and she went to live with [Mary Baker]
- Since then she has lived at different
places, has had 2 children & brought on a miscarriage -
Has generally been kept by one
man, but sometimes lived common -

She has been on to Baltimore many times and
has generally seen her Step Mother but her
Father who drinks treated her cruelly there
followed her here had her arrested and put
into the house of Refuge under the name of
Mary Anderson - She was there nearly two
years, and Emma White who knew when she
was free, took her out a Bonnet, & Shawl, and
was at the door waiting in a carriage for her
when she came out, and took her home with her -
She was then in Elizabeth [Street] till the houses were
broken up, and then went down to Plum [Street], &
has been about in that neighborhood since -
John Woods, Son of a Tavern Keeper, 5th & Lombard
[Street] has kept her for the past two years, and he persuaded
her to come to the Rosine - She has lately staid
at Eliza Courteny's next door to Mary Rankins
She has lived thus over 11 years
She thinks she has been in Prison 10 times

Mary Ann Whitney came 12/12 She is from
Pittsburg, has been married twice, & has two
children living - Her Daughter is married &
lives in Ohio - Her last husband drinks, & she
parted from him 7 years since - His name is [Mirvin Whitney]
a Boat Builder - He has married
somebody else, and gone to Canada - While together
he went in bad company, became diseased, & gave it to
her - She then lived among her friends & sometimes
with her Mother Ann Boler Alleghany town -
corner of Laycock & Sandusky [Street] - Her son in Law
tried to get her property from her & she concluded to
come on to see her Brother William Williams a Tailor
in this city but when she arrived she heard her Brother
had gone to New York to live she wrote twice to
him but [received] no answer - She then tried
to get a place of Service and was in on 5 weeks
when the people went to the country - She was then
taken sick, and staid with a family named
Brown - She then started to hunt a place as soon
as she got better but having drunk some she was
taken sick & turned into a yard which she
saw open and was hailed by two woman who

accused her of coming in to steal some clothes
in the yard and had her arrested & sent to
Prison where after staying six weeks she was sent
by Mrs McDonald to the Rosine

Mary Husten or Eliza Castlore came [December] 31, 1851
Her parents died when she was about 5 years old
and she was bound to Cornits Lademus at Hard
Scrabble [Hardscrabble] Delaware where she staid she was 12
when she came to [Philadelphia] and went to service
She continued at service until she was 17
when a Man who pretended to court her
took her to a house of ill fame and left her
She has been living in bad habits ever since,
about 8 years -

Harriet Brown Adams came 1/5/1852
Her Father is a Wire Manufacturer in Lowell
Her Mother died when she was 13, and her Father
married again - They did not agree and she &
another girl who had lived in [Philadelphia] concluded
to come here - To enable them to travel she took
$65.00 from her Brothers pocket and they started in
the cars and came on here - She boarded in a
respectable house, and put herself apprentice to
a Tailoress with whom she worked 18 months -
She then lived with an acquaintance who married
but some difficult occurring between them she was
persuaded by a Girl who had done wrong to go to a
House of ill Fame. It appears various motives operated
upon her to go but the description of this girl of
how much money could be made was one of the
principle reasons - She continued to lead that life
untill she met with the Man she afterwards married
Francis Effinger Adams. He paid her board for
18 months, and then married her. They boarded
with Mrs Moon - His work was stopped
and they were in debt for their board - In the morning
of [January] 5th he took his clothes and said he was

going to pawn them - Not returning to dinner she went
out of an errand and met a young man in the street
who told her had left the city - Without returning
to her home she immediately came to Rosine -


Susan Gorgas came 2/20 [1851] She was born at
Reading - Her Father is Joseph Gorgas Grocer - Her
Mother died when she was six years old & her Father
married in 3 months - At 7 years old she was put
out to live with a Mrs Marsh and then lived
at several other places some good and some bad
and at last got to the City where she became acquainted
with an Actress who wished to teach her to perform
but a cousin of hers finding it out he took her &
put her in the House of Refuge where she remained
until she was 16 being there 5 years - From there she was
bound to Samuel Roberts Birmingham Chester [County] but
upsetting a keg of tar which some young chickens got
into and afterward died they accused her of doing it
willfully and sent her back to the Refuge - She was
bound again to Richard Bernard Doe Run - in
6 months - After she had been there about 6 months
more during the absence of his wife he attempted
to seduce her but failing to succeed he took her
back to the Refuge for fear of exposure - She then
staid in the Refuge 14 months and then returned
to Reading to her Fathers but staid only one week
as her Step Mother and her did not agree and she

went to Pottsville to her Aunt where she staid two
months, and then returned, and from there to [Philadelphia]
where she hired out about a year, when she was
seduced by a young Man who promised to marry her
and married another the same night that was fixed
for their marriage - She then went to the Almshouse
where she had twins who both died in a few weeks.
She then got a place, but not being well had to leave
it and meeting Margaret Burns whom she had known
in the Refuge and Margaret took her to Mrs
Laminter where she entered upon a course of
evil - She then miscarried and was soon in
trouble again - At time of her confinement this
time she had a couple of rooms, and had no one
with her but a little child - About 12 at night
she was taken in labor, and getting out of bed
the babe was born suddenly on the floor, and she
was so bad she has not strength to get back to
bed, or make any one hear till morning, when
everything around her was frozen, and the child
was frozen to death - It was 4 days afterwards
before she could raise money enough to pay for having
it buried - For seven weeks then she

laid with no attention except as a neighbor
came in, and done something for her - Again
she returned to the same course of life - was kept
by two men and became enciente [enceinte] again - She
then took medicine and produced abortion -
She became acquainted with a young Man while
she was living with one who abused her and
this young Man appeared to become attached
to her, and urged her to abandon a bad life
and he would marry her - He wrote to her Father
to ask permission, and they looked forward to
marrying in the Spring, when he was taken sick
at Margaret Thompsons, where she
nursed him ten weeks - Margaret and she
falling out, he advised her to come to the Rosine
and stay until he could marry her -
She says no part of her life gives her any pleasure
to look back to - She has several times attempted to sketch
a history of it, but there was so little good to record
that she soon gave it up

Margaret Scott entered into the
Rosine 3rd [Month] 18th. 1852. Born in County
Lought, Ireland, came to this country
nine years since: Married William Scott
in Wilmington Delaware 2 years since
after she was married heard William
had another wife in consequence
of which she had recourse to the bottle
became intemperate, and was taken up
drunk by the watchmen and placed
in Moyamensing prison, as soon as
she was released, she applied for admission
to the Rosine and was received.

Mary Morris, or Henelery was born in [Philadelphia]
& is the Daughter of John Henelery a Teacher of Navigation -
He taught in Baltimore and then on the Eastern
Shore - They lived in Jackson [Street] opposite to the Askworth
Convent, where she has often been with the nuns
with whom she was acquainted - Her Mother was
when eleven years of age a passenger in a vessel
from Ireland which was wrecked - He saved
her, took her home with him, educated, and in time
married her - But she turned out badly, took to
drink and gave way to such ill temper that she
made the whole family unhappy, and finally
her husband deserted her, and the family of 4 children,
two girls and two boys - Her Mother then
broke up housekeeping and went into a family
to live, and Mary and her brother went to live
with a Mrs Henrietta Crocker, who kept her
three years - Her Mother then married a
Machinist named Gannon, and went to
housekeeping again, and took Mary home,
but her Mother & Step Father both drank &
quarrelled, so that in a month she would
not stay any long but went and engaged

with a Mrs Rogers in High [Street] near Baltimore [Street],
with whom she worked at Dress Making - She staid
there a year - During the month she was at home
she was invited into a neighbors house, who she thought
was a respectable Woman - The Woman took her
up Stairs, and there was a Man who she then
did not know, but who she found out afterwards
was named [William B Burke], an Oyster importer
in Exeter [Street] near Baltimore - This Man forced
her to have connection with him - He then let her
go, and the poor child went home to her Mother
and told her tale of sorrow - The Mother arrested
the woman, and threw her into Prison, and
took Mary to Burkes' house - He was out, but
they saw his wife who told them it was nothing
new for him to do so - She threatened to prosecute
him, but was advised for her daughters
sake to give it up, and thus the wretch escaped.
She then went to Mrs Rogers - She did very well,
and was contented, but one day her Mother came
there, and had been drinking - In her folly she
told of her daughters misfortune - This hurt Marys
feelings, and when Mrs Rogers spoke to her afterward

she thought it was in consequence of her Mother betraying
her secret, and this made her so unhappy that she left
Mrs Rogers, and went to a Mrs Longcope as seamstress -
One Sabbath afternoon two young Men came
there, and Mrs Longcopes Daughter, and Mary, and
the two young Men went to church - Her Mother
had been there the day before, and again betrayed
her - This worried her so much that she thought
it was not worth while to try to do right - After
church, She and one of the young Men went to take
a walk, and did not return till after dark
when he persuaded her to go into a house telling
her it was his Aunts - She was there taken upstairs,
and induced to stay - When she awoke
in the Morning he had slipped off, and left her
there - She was ashamed to return to Longcope's -
and her clothes are still there - There were two
girls in the house, and they persuaded her to stay.
The Mistress wrote a note that day to Professor Smith
of the Medical college, a man of 60 years of age,
with Grand children, who came and staid with
her till 3 o'clock, when he went away - He laid
$8.00 in her bosom - The next night but one he

came again and was there 4 times altogether -
The Woman was named Dorcas Smith, Gough [Street] -
When she had been two weeks in the house she went out
one evening to get a Bonnet, and met a young Man
in the street who joined her, and went home with her.
The next eve he brought one of his friends, the next another
and the next another - The four Young Men were attracted
by her artlessness, and [Crossed out: young] youth, and formed
the idea of saving her from a life Shame & misery -
They engaged board for her with a kept Woman,
because they did not know where else to place her,
and for two months were devising means to
put her into a respectable situation, and have
her educated, but they could not hear of any
situation that would answer. Finally, one
of then thought, perhaps if he talked with a Quaker,
it might lead to a knowledge of some suitable
place. Accordingly the laid the circumstance open
to E K, who told him of the existance of the Rosine -
A correspondence ensued, and Mary was
brought to the Rosine 3/12 1852. She remained
6 months in the house and was then placed in a boarding
School to be educated -

Esther Anderson was born in Chester
county Pennsylvania, daughter of
[Augustus Anderson] & Elizabeth Anderson, lost
her mother when three days old, in
three months a step mother took
the charge of her, and nine other children,
being the sister of their mother
She was kind to them, at the age
of eight years, her father, died, and
in about eighteen months, her step
mother married Isaac Mathers, who
also proved a kind father, and took quite
an interest in the children, whom he
had voluntarily taken the care of.
When about fourteen years of age
Esther visited the city and was introduced
to Joseph Milligan, a shoe binder
who visited her of saturdays for some
weeks and induced her to come to
the city and get married to him,
which she did in the month of August,
being 13 the May previously.

After marriage he never contributed
to her support, and in about two months
he left pregnant, she then went to
live with a cousin of his at Frankford
where she was delivered of a 7
months child, which was stillborn.
about three months after the birth
of her child she left Mrs Jones, &
came to the city and went to
Mrs Newton's, a house of ill fame
in Elizabeth street, where she became
acquainted with Sam Miller
a bricklayer, who part of the time
kept her, and vice a versa: in
about 12 months she left and went
to the house of Mary Yeages where
she remained about five months
she then came to the Rosine House
where she was delivered of a another
child, fortunately still born.

Ann Fisher came June 15th - She was born in
Ireland & is 32 years old. Her mother died when
she was 3 months old. In her 9th year she came
over with her Father who settled in Cincinatti [Cincinnati].
Her Sister is married to Charles Jasper Milwaukie
Grocer - Her Father Edward Corfield
formerly kept the Columbia House in Cincinatti
and her Brother Edward Corfield trades up &
down the Mississippi - She was married at 17
to [William Irwin] a clerk in a Store who died
in 18 months - She staid with her Father until
4 years after she married George Fisher a clerk
in the Treasury department, Washington. After
two years he died, and she went back to Cincinatti -
Her Husbands brother Charles Fisher Grocer
lives there now - She lived in his family awhile &
then was employed in Judge Burnet's family - She
then formed an acquaintance with a Woman
of the name of Kay of doubtful character which
led her into the habit of drinking and finally she
formed a connection with Orwell Becker a
Pork Merchant of Cincinatti with whom she
lived improperly 6 months when she left him

resolving to live rightly and returned to Washington
to seek employment - Not succeeding there she
came to [Philadelphia] and from this time she appears to
have given herself up to bad company, and [underlined] drink [/underlined] -
A Woman borrowed her Mantilla and being a
drinking Woman lost it and not being able to
replace it gave her a bonnet in place of it & soon
after getting to drinking, arrested her on a charge
of stealing the Bonnett and after laying in Prison
7 weeks she was taken to court, but as there
was no evidence against her she was discharged -
going to the Womans house to reproach her with
putting her in Prison. She got to drinking there,
and demanded her Mantilla - They got into a
regular Spree, and Ann broke some of the Womans
Tumblers when she was rearrested and sent
back to Prison the same day - She was there altogether
about 4 months - While there she saw M
Townsend, & afterwards came and got an
order to go to the Rosine but meeting a Woman
she knew of the name of Fitsgerald, she introduced
her to a Man named Brown, who took her into
keeping and engaged Board for her with a

Man named Goldin D Pratt who pretended to be
Pedlar, connected with a Man named John White, but
it appears they were Thieves & stole the goods. They were
arrested & Pratt taken to [New York] and White is now
in Moyamensing - She then went over to the Alms
House with chills & from there came to the Rosine

Elizabeth Waters came June 7th 1852 She was born in
Scotland, and is now 45 - Her Father was a Soldier
and then came to America, and sent for her Mother -
Her grandmother who took care of her brought her to
this country at 9 years of age, to her Parents - They
lived in Cyprus Alley - She thinks her Mother
did not love her, or treat her kindly - Both parents died
within 3 months of each other - Her 4 sisters, all
younger than herself, were put in the orphans Asylum
and from there bound out - They have all done well
and are now living in Baltimore - After her Parents
death she was sent to Baltimore to her Uncle John Stuard
who keeps a Livery Stable in Calvert [Street], near the City Spring.
She lived there until she was about 18 - A colored
Man, (who had lived a long time with her Uncle) &
she, formed an improper intimacy, and when she found
she was enceinte, she left, and came on to [Philadelphia]
where she suffered greatly - Before her confinement
He came on, and they lived together and in process
of time had 4 children - His name is Jesse Waters.
He became Coachman for John Large, and was
a Steady Man - After some years he accumulated
enough to buy a farm near Wrightsville & they

lived there comfortably 5 years, and then to secure
the property to the children, he married her - But
he had had not been brought up to work of that
kind, and soon left, and went back to town - She
struggled along with the children at the place, but
finally it had to be sold, and she came back to the
city - By this time he had got into idle habits
and and the result was, he put the children to
board, & she went out to service - But the children
were neglected so much that she had to take them
again under her care, and paid all her wages
for their board - They are all living out now -
After a while she took a room in Elizabeth [Street]
and took a child of Captain Pages (by a colored
girl), to board - The Captain paid 2.00 [per] week regularly -
Soon after she [received] another child of the
same sort from Dr Chase, and with the board she
lived & kept her own Children - This continued
for two years when both the children died and their
Fathers bore the expense of their funerals - She then
went to live at the [Reverend] Mr Dales, and then took a
house in the court running from Bedford [Street] above 7th
and went out to work and took it in [illegible]

She lived thus two years, and then a Colored man
named Elias Crippen lived with her nine years - He
was a Sober Man, but often abused her, and then
finding the path of evil only brought sorrow she concluded
to leave and came to the Rosine -

Malvina Penotti came June 7th - She is 17 -
Her Father died before she can remember & her Mother
Mary Kennedy worked at Shoe binding by which
she supported herself & two Daughters - They lived
at [number] 273 South [Street] near 10th - Malvinas Eyes
had cataracts upon them, and she was sometime
in Wills's Hospital, and her health otherwise was
poor - She did the cooking and work, & her Mother
& Sister bound the Shoes - One Evening as she was
returning from taking home her Mothers work, a
young Man came up to her, and told her he wanted
to make her acquaintance and would escort
her home - The next Evening he came to the house
introduced himself to her Mother said he was a
paper hanger by trade His name was Eli Fizell &
he had very few acquaintances, and wished to
know some young Ladies as he was looking forward
to matrimony - The Mother who has
married again, had her husband to discourse
with the young Man, and as his appearance
was respectable & he appeared intelligent and
agreeable, he was admitted as a visitor in the
family - All went on nicely for 5 months.

He had asked and obtained consent to marry Malvina
in December when going there one evening when
all but her were out he commenced by making great
professions and ended by requiring her to give him the
last gift of affection. She refused, but he insisted and
she says, he forced her. She feared to make a noise
as there was another family in the house, and she
feared they would think there was strange cutting
up - Immediately afterward he went away
and when her Mother came in & found her crying
she could not bear to tell her but in the morning
she revealed the Whole to her sister but did
not dare to tell her Mother - During the morning
a nice looking Woman came to the house and enquired
for Malvina saying her husband was diseased
and that he had laid it on Malvina telling his
wife that he had got it from her - The wife supposing
Malvina was a public girl had come to sife
the matter and then the poor child confessed what
had happened - The wife who had been indignant
before now felt nothing but pity and the whole
party were overwhelmed with grief - A Physician
was sent for who examined Malvina in the

presence of the wife who cried over her in heartfelt
grief - She said it was not the first time that
he had acted thus and that he did not confine
himself to white girls - She said Malvina
would not be safe for he would way lay her
in the street and get her again in his power if
possible - In this condition they did not
know what to do and the Mother feared to
keep her at home but knew not where to send
her - But they had heard of the Rosines & the
Mother came in her grief to ask a shelter
for her child - For safety she was admitted
and expects to stay six months -

Jane D Smith was born in Scotland - She was
so young when her parents died that she cannot
remember them - When about 14 her Aunt
brought her to America and hired her out -
She also went to service herself - She has not
seen her for 3 years - She was thus cast friendless
in the great city and like many another
has fallen the victim of circumstances - After
living in a variety of families she fell in
with a girl who took her to Mrs Kellys in
Plum [Street] She says she not know the character of
the house when she went and had been a
good girl - Her fate has been the usual one
She has been in Prison several times and
has passed though the variations of drunkenness
and debauchery - She came to Rosine 7/20

Susanna Hudson 6/20 [1852] Her Father Robert
Hudson died when she was [underlined] 5 months [/underlined] old
and her Mother took to drink - She has had
a changeful life in consequence of not being
indentured she has only been a short time in
a place and has had no bringing up - Her
Father was a Farmer, and as the Mother drank,
a Brother in Law took possession of the property
but the children have [received] nothing - She has a
Brother named George W Bortle. He keeps a Segar
store in 2nd [Street], above Franklin and is married.
Her Grandfather John Sprout, she says, has been in
the Alms House for 30 years - Her Brother paid
her board where he worked when she was between
11 & 12 years old - Some affront took place
between them, and she ran away from the place,
but as she had no where to go she wandered
about in the day and slept wherever she
could get any body to let her for awhile.
Going through Washington Square with a girl
older than herself they met a young Man who
the other girl knew and said wont you bring

this little blackeyed girl to the Square this evening -
Child like they went she unsuspecting -
He was an Officer at the Navy yard named
Abram Levy - He invited them to an ice
cream establishment she knows not where
and took her into a private room - She had
not eaten anything for three days as she did
not dare to tell she had run away and was
cold hungry and felt badly enough - At
first she resisted him but he offered a hand
full of money and the cold and hunger prevailed
and for the money she submitted - The
money kept her some days, but when that
was gone she again knew not what to do -
She had heard there was a bad house in
Willow Street, and as Levy seemed to have
plenty of money, she believed if she adopted
that life, money, and all she wanted would
be at her command - Accordingly she went
to Willow [Street], and was looking along the Street
when a Woman standing in the door, said Sis
what are you looking for? She told her, a place
of service - She was invited in, and

told, if she would board there the great advantages
she would recieve - This was Elizabeth
Garrisons house - Thus before she was
12 years old, she had entered the road to ruin
both of Soul and body - She staid in that
house over 2 years paying ten dollars a week board.
She then went down to Plum [Street], and
has been living in the houses round there
since - Over 7 years since that night of
desolation - Her Mother, [Mary Ann Hudson],
or [Mary Ann Gamester], has been leading
a miserable life - Susan did a great
deal for her Mother, but she was in &
out of Prison continually, and in all
the rum sinks in the neighborhood of
Bedford & Baker [Streets] - She is now in the Prison -
When they began to indite the houses in Plum
[Street] Susan returned to Willow [Street], to [William Crossins],
(and Rebecca Smith - (R is dead) She had
only been there a few days when she was arrested
on a charge of taking $22.00 from a young
Man and sent to Prison, where she staid 5
months, without a trial or having anything

proved against her - She was then discharged
and went up to her Brothers who told
her to come to the Rosine and as M Townsend
had told her in Prison she might come
She entered 6/20 - Will you not go to
the Prison and see my Mother & let her
come here said the poor child with her eyes
filled with tears - I will try to see her -

Justina White came June 28th - She is one of six
children all by different Fathers - The Mothers
name is Margaret Old, Gibralter, Berks [County] [Pennsylvania].
She kept house for John Old 7 years, and had one
child by him, and then he married her - All the
children are doing well but Justina They we’re [were]
all placed in families to be brought up - Justina
was not healthy - She was placed in a Tavern
but they returned her to to her Mother on account
of her health - She was then hired in another
Tavern, and from there got into bad company,
going out in the evenings for fun, but after a
few Months she left her place and went into
a house of bad character to board & from
there came down with a Woman, who is
now married to Man named Johnson, &
keeps the Ocean House in Richmond. It is a
Tavern, & bad house in the bargain - She lived
there some time, and then went down to Plum
[Street] - In the Spring of 1852 she came to the Rosine,
but left in a week, and went back to the old
course, but soon was taken with Smallpox,
and while on her sick bed she vowed

if she recovered she would go to the Rosine - As
soon as she was well she resumed her old habits
to try to get herself out of debt - She paid the
nurse, and the [Doctor], and then she thought she
would try the Magdalen - She went - was there
one week - but she says she kept remembering
her vow to come to the Rosine, and could
not be happy there - She then asked to go out -
the Matron refused, and she threatened to
jump the wall - The Matron then let her
out, and she came to the Rosine - She has
been diseased twice - While she was sick
Isabella Flam, her Landlady lent her two
old night gowns - When she got well Isabella
asked for the gowns - She told her they
were torn, and not fit to return, and that
she would buy her others as soon as she was
able. But Isabella was angry, and would
not wait, so she sued her for the gowns, and
she was taken to Prison from which she was
released by Charlotte Huet who keeps another
house paying 75 cents for the gowns and two
dollars costs -

[underlined] Charlotte White [/underlined] came [November] 12th - Her Father is dead
but her Mother lives in Lancaster [County] - Her Father
owned 300 acres of land and they lived on it - When she
was about 15 her Mother went out West for her health and on her
return travelled with a young Man named Tobias Caufman and
invited him to their house which kindness he returned by
seducing her child - When her family found she was in a
condition to bring shame upon them they wanted to put her
in a convent but she ran away from home with the villain
and he took her to Indiana where her Babe was born -
Before she left he persuaded her to take about a hundred
Dollars out of her Fathers desk and also wished her to
take a horse After her Babe was born about 8 weeks
as she was ill used by him she left him and came back
with another young Man with whom she staid 11 months
When he returned West and left her - She then entered
a house of ill fame where in 4 months she married
an old schoolmate and lived with him two years
when he was accidentally killed - She soon began to
do badly again and has lived that kind of life ever
since - She married again a Gambler married
her merely to be supported by the wages of her prostitution.
He is still living and claims her but she [text added later: is resolved to lead a sinless]

Elizabeth Shaffer came 7/25th - Her Father
William Engard lives at the Falls of Shuylkill -
He attends the Toll gate and is married the
2nd time - Elizabeth lived at home till she
was married to George Shaffer, a Fisherman.
He followed his business, & she sat in the Market
and sold the fish - They lived together 13 years
and had 5 children - She had a sister that
turned out badly, and on one occasion when
the husband was from home, Elizabeth took the
unfortunate girl in, and when the Man returned
and found the Sister there he became angry
and an altercation took place in which
he accused her of being no better than her
Sister and then left the house - They have
never lived together since - for a while
she struggled along to support her family
but as she was in the family way she had
great difficulty - Her babe was born, & at that
time she sent for her husband, and gave him the
children, & she has never had them since -
The Baby died, & the troubles she passed through
and her sense of the injustice of her husband

rankled in her heart and created a spirit of revenge
which with her poverty and difficulties induced
her after a while to become what her
husband had wrongly accused her of being -
To use her own language she thought she would do
as bad as she could to spite him and poor spite it
was - Leaving her brothers house where she had
been staying, she went to Elizabeth Garrisons Willow
Street and entered on the downward course.
Since then she has continued doing wrongly
gradually acquired a habit of drinking, and
has been from Plum & Willow Streets to the Prison
continually in 7 years of dissipation. She has no
idea of how often she has been in Prison, but says
probably 50 times - Her husband has married
and lives in Peach [Street] above Green - M Townsend
has frequently seen her & tried to persuade her
to come to the Rosine and aim for a better life.

Eliza Payne or Artimissa Wandell came to
Rosine 8/22 Her Father John G Wandall Makoopeny
Town Luzern County [Pennsylvania]. He is a farmer in
comfortable circumstances - She is the youngest of
18 children When she was 13 as she could not get
clothing to suit her she went to live with her
married Sister, and from there becoming dissatisfied
she went to other places & lived - She was
pretty and considered a very fine dancer and attracted
the young Men to her by her life & Spirits -
After some time with a Mrs Hilyard who had a
Brother named James P Dennis who kept a Store
in Reading - This man took great pains to gain
her affections and finally persuaded her to live
with him as a wife - She was only 14 when he
seduced her, and they had intercourse as opportunity
offered until she was past 15 when she
went with him to Reading under the impression
that he would marry her - But this he delayed
They boarded and she passed as his wife - When
they had lived together about a year she became
diseased and found he had been with other women -
This she resented and after some [discussion]

[discussion] she left him, and came to the city to George Richmonds,
who had married a girl that formerly lived at
Artimisias Fathers - She then found out a [Doctor] in
the neighborhood to whom she went - She gave him
5 dollars to cure her which was all the money she
had - The [Doctor] then went to Richmonds and told
him her condition and consequence of it she was
discharged - Being a stranger and knowing
no other person, she did not know where to go, but
started out to hunt another place of service - She
met another girl in the street and asked her
if she knew of any one who wanted a girl -
The girl said yes and took her to a House
which she soon found to be a house of ill fame -
This was in Elizabeth Street next door to
Mary Clines The house was kept by a Miss
Knight at that time - There she staid, & has
been moving about from that time from place
to place - She is now 18 years old, & wishes to
learn a trade in hopes to be able to support
herself decently, and get back to her relatives.

Mary Ann Hudson or [Mary Ann Gamester] the Mother of Susan Hudson
came 8/19 - She lost her first husband, and married
Noah Gamester 10 years since - During her first husbands
time she lived comfortably and respectably, and continued
to do so well for three years after her second marriage, when
her husband seduced a young girl soon after she heard
of it she went to bed one night, while her husband
was out, and awakened in the night and hearing
a noise down stairs got up and went down and
found him and the young girl lying in each
others arms on the floor. She picked up a stick
of wood, and struck the damsel on the head -
She screamed murder and the watch came to
the rescue - All these were arrested but the wife
was released, and the gentleman and his lady
Sent to Prison - Soon after she found he was diseased
and the she separated from him and they have
never lived together since - She says in her trouble
then a friend of hers offered her drink to settle her
trouble, and from this time she became a drunkard -
She thinks she has certainly been in Prison 12 times
but hardly so many as 20 - Thus Mother & Daughter
have both gone to ruin through drink & dissipation -

Mary Steel came 4/27 1852 Her Mother died when she
was 8 years old, and her Father married again, and she
has never lived with him since - She was placed with a
family named Passmore & from there lived with a Mrs
Leutz, and when she was about 16, she lived with a Mrs
Douce who left her to take charge of the house while she
went to pay a visit in Delaware - During her absence
Douce invited her to go out to Fairmount, and on their
return he took her to a house of ill fame, & ruined her.
Soon after the Wife's return, he took her to a bad house
paid her board - she had one child, and when it
was 9 years old, Douce's wife took it, and she has
never had it since - After a while he separated
from his wife, but told Mary he would still
keep the child. For six years she has not seen him
nor heard from it - Its name is Edwin Douce.
Douce kept her three years, and from that time she
has lived common sometimes keeping house by
herself and sometimes being in other houses -
She has now been 17 years in that life and
thinks it is long enough - Lately she has lived
at Martha McClains Currant Alley -

Clara Rennerts Hays came 8/21 1852 Her Mother
died when she was 4 months old and her Father
died when she was eleven years - His name
was Isaac Hays and lived at Norfolk Virginia -
After his death her uncle James Reed, coal merchant,
in Bank [Street], between Lombard & South, below
Front, went for her and brought her here. She
lived with them till she was 14 when she went to
work in a cotton factory near the Schuylkill -
Devoignes factory. After working there awhile
she went to another factory 12th & Willow & then
to a place or Service in the country & afterwards
to another towards Kensington - A young man
named Robert Vanskiver paid attention to her
and she supposed he wished marriage. He
is the Captain of one of the Salem Steam Boats
One evening she was standing at the door and
he stopped, and asked her to take a walk.
She went with him and he managed to prolong
the walk and took her down to [Mammy Smiths]
in Blackberry Alley - She had no
suspicion of the house and thought she was

going to get ice cream - He called for cream
and it was brought and for wine and insisted
on her drinking - She became very sick, and
the woman told her she had better lie down
till she got better, and took her upstairs -
She did as she was throwing up continually -
A few minutes after Vanskiver came up, and
amid all her sickness, and tears, and entreaties
perpetrated his brutal desire - She continued
very sick all night, and in the morning he tried
to persuade her to stay at the house, and he would
pay her board - About ten in the morn she
felt better and left the house and she has never
seen him since - Mammy Smith told her he
had told them before he went up stairs, not to mind
it if she did scream, and make a noise, so the
brutal wretch had probably ruined others, and knew
how it could probably be - At ten o'clock she left,
but could not bear to go back to her place as she
had been out all night - She therefore wandered
about not knowing where to go but going out
towards Fairmount met one of the Factory girls she
knew and staid with her till next day - She

then concluded to go out to the place where she had
lived in the country but having no change of clothing
she had to return, and went to the Magdalen - But
she was not satisfied there, and while there, heard of the
Rosine - After being there a month she left, and went
back to her place but they had another girl and did
not need her - So she concluded to come to the
Rosine

Margaret Kerrigan came 9/1 1852 - Her Father
Charles Kerrigan is a day laborer, living 109 Anthony
[Street], New York She is the middle child of 5 -
She has always lived with her family, except six months -
She went with a Lady to Havanna. Another family
of the name of Roney lived in the House with them, &
they had a son a young Painter - He seduced
Margaret, and soon after her Mother finding it
out she brought her to [Philadelphia], and placed
her in the House of the good Shepherd - She
was there 9 months - Her Mother then came on
to see her, and Margaret expected to go home with
her, but the Sisters persuaded the Mother to go home
after she had only seen her once, and leave M
still with them - At this she was so disappointed
that she resolved to run away, and she and one
of the other girls got through the new building and
escaped - But the girls Mother lived in Camden
and Margaret knew no one, so, as it was dark
when they left, they knew not where to go, and
wandered about, and finally after ten o'clock
they found their way to the Magdalen, where after
considerable hesitation they were admitted -

There Margaret remained 4 months, and then
requested leave and came from there - A woman
who left the Magdalen the day before Margaret gave her directions
where to find her, but not knowing the streets she
could not find the place and meeting a girl in
the street she told her situation and the girl
proving a bad one, took her to a house of bad
character, she does not know where, and as
she had no money pawned her clothes to pay
her board - In the evening the girl took her
up to Washington Square, and gave her directions
how to manage with any Man that might speak
to her - Several Men addressed her, but her conscience
would not let her go, so she continued
walking round to find the girl who took her
there, until she met another girl who stopped her,
and enquired where she was going - The girl spoke
loudly but made no disturbance - A Policeman
coming along seized them - The girl resisted, and
the man gave her a blow in the face which
made her nose bleed, and he then took them
to the watch house - In the morning they were
sent to Prison the poor girls face and eye being

both black from the Policemans brutality -
In the afternoon Mira Townsend visited them in
their cell and brought Margaret to the Rosine

[underlined] Sarah McHenry [/underlined] was brought by Dr Hartman
from Balitmore 9/9 1852 - She is the Daughter
of George McHenry who died in Ireland. Her
Mother, Mary McHenry, who came over with her
family of children three years since, lives in Diamond
Alley Baltimore - She washes and sews
and her children who live out help her to pay
her rent get fire wood etc - Sarah was 15 in
July - From her own account she has been of a roving
disposition and on three occasions has left home
gone off to seek places for herself but in a day
or two returned to her Mother - On one occasion
she carried home a string of beads which her
Mother returned - But her Mother was so
troubled that she did not know what to do
with her - Her sister being sick Dr Hoffman
visited her, and the Mother telling him her trouble
and her fears he consulted Julia Wilson
and after some communication on the subject
the [Doctor] brought her on and bound her to the
House for six months

[underlined] Elizabeth Winters [/underlined] or [Elizabeth Ackerman] came 9/4 [1852] She was
born and brought up near Patterson [New Jersey] and lived
at home till she was married to a neighboring farmer.
Her Father died soon after and her share of the estate was
$15.00 - They then bought a farm and might have done
well but her husband became dissipated, took to
gambling, and soon run through the property - They
then moved to Patterson and kept a Tavern, and
from there to [New York] kept a Tavern there - They
then opened a boarding house - Then kept a public
Garden - He left her when this was broken up, and
she knew nothing of him for a year - In the meantime
she supported herself by sewing - He then wrote
her word to come to him in Philadelphia - She
came, but not finding him in business went
back - In a few weeks he went on for her, & brought
her here - His business was gambling, and speculating
in goods - probably the goods came on the
underground track but in a couple of years
he deserted her again and after a while she
heard he was married and died in Ohio -
She then took to drink and formed an improper
intimacy with a Widower who supported her

a couple of years, and then he died - Soon
after she worked at Cloaks for a Mr Spering, and
his wife, Mary Spering became jealous of her, she
says without cause, and followed her in the street
and annoyed her considerably - One evening
she accosted her in the street when she was
moving, and among other things, was carrying some
knives - Mary saw them, and had her arrested
on a charge of Assault & Battery, and attempt
to kill - She was tried, convicted, and sentenced
to thirty days - she then went to the
Magdalen, and staid nine months, then went
out, and to drinking, and back to the Mag -
then out - Sometimes working, sometimes drinking -
then in the Almshouse a year, and now
to the Rosine - She is now 38 years old &
is a good Seamstress and capable woman -

Rosanna White came 9/22 - she is the daughter of
[William White] one mile above Downingtown who rents
a farm of James Forsythe - She has lived in [William]
Harlan family, and at Richard Downings -
Sometimes she was at home - When she was about
17 a young Man who her Father hired to work on the Farm
courted her - Her Father knew of the attachment and
threatened to send her to the Refuge if she did not
cease from associating with him - They then concluded
to run off, and he told her his relatives
lived in Baltimore, and they would be married
there - Upon their arrival he took her to see a dance
at which she was much delighted, and from there
to a house where he told her the Woman supposed
they were married and she must not let onto
the contrary - He had drank enough to put the
ruffian in him and he threatened to beat her if
she would not sleep with him - The next morn
he left her there, and she did not see him for several
days - In the mean time the Mistress of the house
explained to her how the Girls lived, and that
she would have to enter on that life and then
persuaded her to with Men - Collins

the Young Man who took from home she says
never gave her a cent, but whenever he came would
make her give him every cent she had, and the balance
the Landlady claimed for her board, so that
between the two she could get very little clothing.
Some of the Men she went with bought clothing
for her, or she would have gone without -
Six weeks after he took her to Baltimore he beat
her dreadfully, knocked her down, stamped
upon her, and threw a knife at her head, which
made a severe wound - the scar is still there -
The Police took both to the station house, & he
was bound over to keep the peace - She was
taken to the home of one of the officers, where
they nursed her, and she lived with them some
time - But Collins came after her and persuaded
her to go again with him - Woman like
she went, and again she prostituted herself
to give him the money, while he did nothing
but loaf about, and gamble, and get drunk,
and then beat and abuse her - After one of
his beatings, she had to go to the Almshouse.
Thus she has lived on untill she was taken

sick and went to the Almshouse, where Dr Hartman
found her, and proposed to her to come to
the Rosine - The [Doctor] brought her 9/22 1852

[Manicule]
10/25 When Rosanna had been about three weeks in
the Rosine she and Eliza Payne left together without
leave and we know not what has become of them.

Mary Christian or Fanny White returned to
Rosine 10/15 1852 after an absence of nearly 4
years. She was then engaged to Robert Christian an
actor in [New York] and left the Institution because
he seemed to neglect her and she was determined to
to go to [New York] to see him - On her way there a
New York Merchant named David Rust in John Street
who had seen her at Emma Whites was on board
and told her Christian was a low fellow, and offered
to keep her himself - She returned to [Philadelphia],
and Rust has paid her board since - Sometimes she
boarded with him at a Hotel, sometimes she staid
in a bad house, but she says during the 4 years she
never had any connection with any other person, but
she still loves Christian best - poor child, she says
she has had all that money could give, but it never
brought happiness - Finding her heart still cling to
her Mother whom she has not seen since she left the
Rosine, & her sister who lives at caldcleughs, she resolved
to leave him, and with his consent she has
boarded privately for the last 3 months - He paid her
board, and passed for her brother in Law, & she as
a Widow - He consented for her to come to the Rosine

has promised to stand as her friend whenever she needs
one

Sarah Youndt came from Baltimore 10/4 [1852]
Her Mother Sarah Ann Youndt lives in Preston [Street] near
Madison [Street] Baltimore - Her parents parted when she
was eleven years old. Her Father drank, and was
a bad Man in other respects - He was a Hatter
and could earn from 15 to 18 dollars a week but
neglected his business. Her Mother owned several
houses, and was well off when they married, but he
wasted every thing, and when his wife set up a cake
& Bread Store he would throw the cakes in the fire
to prevent her making a living - He thus endeavored
to destroy her happiness in every way [Inserted: until at last they separated] - Her Mother
since then has been in very poor health and has supported
herself and 4 children by going out nursing, &
taking in sewing - They make Monkey Jackets, &
other coats, for which they get by 20 or 25 [cents] -
They cannot make more than one a day, and out
of this food, raiment, and house rent is to come -
Sometimes they have been three days without food.
Her elder Sister turned out badly - Her health
was wretched, she raised blood and close work
and starvation were sad temptations to try another
course of life - She is now living in that manner -

Sarah worked in a factory at Ellicotts Mills, and came
into Baltimore occasionally - At one time she was on
her way to see her Father, when she stopped at a Confectioners,
in a cellar, or Basement - He very politely shewed
her his wares, and then drew her attention to something in a room
back of his Shop. When he closed the door, and grasping a large
knife told her would kill her if she resisted him. He
then threw her on a bed and grasping her round the throat
with one hand, accomplished his wicked purpose -
When he was ready he let her go, with the feeling of degradation
in her heart - She told her Father what had occurred, & he
prosecuted the Man, but as usual in such cases nothing
was done - But the story got out among her acquaintances
in the Factory, with additions and alterations,
and her feeling were so hurt and mortified that
she left there, and entered a factory in Baltimore.
But the Story followed her there, and she changed
again, but the factory girls followed her, and her imagination
probably distorted some of their actions, &
made things appear worse to her than they really
were - Changing so often, and being sometimes out
of employment, left her without funds to meet her
board & other expenses - Want, shame, and the

nervous excitement, [Crossed out: brought on] occasioned by these occurrences,
brought on a feeling of hopelessness of ever being able
to rise above her present troubles - In the meantime
her Sister appeared to be doing finely, and flaunted in
gay apparel, while she had not clothes to be decent -
Oh! the sore temptations to a young girl in this trying
situation - Her Fathers misconduct had perhaps predisposed
to weakness, and her Mothers troubles and her own
had not served to implant principle or give strengths
to her better feelings - Thus circumstanced she entered
a house of bad character, where she remained some time
when happening one night to go to Methodist Meeting
her feelings were excited, and she went up to be prayed
for. Some of the Ladies came round her, and to them she
revealed her situation, and where she lived - They went
to see her, and having heard of the Rosine through Francis
King, they persuaded her to come -
She was in the Rosine three or four Weeks, but
appeared to be in a state of great nervous excitement,
and in addition to this, thought she was diseased,
and in the family Way - She appeared so
unhappy and desirous of returning to her Mother
that M Hastings put her in the car and sent her home.

Mary Craft came 10/30 When she was only
one year and a half old both her parents died,
and she was brought up by an Aunt a Mrs
Robert Lettey - In the Fall of 1850 she came to this
country with her Aunt & her family, and they expected
to go to Ohio to settle, but Mary thought
she would not go with them but seek her own
fortune - One day she found her way to the
Rail cars, and went out to Germantown, and
went from house to house enquiring for a situation
and engaged with Jacob Wonders near the Car
office - She staid there a year and a half, when
Mr Wonders Daughter married a Mr Shuster
who keeps a Tavern at the corner of 9th & Spring
Garden - It appears she was seduced during
this time by a Lad named Sam Rittenhouse, son of
John Rittenhouse a Grocer in Germantown,
and at the time of her confinement Mrs
Shuster had gone to her Fathers on a visit
when she complained of feeling badly, they
supposed it was cramp, and gave her brandy
She says she knows nothing of what passed
but a Baby was found dead in the

room she was accused of Infanticide, and
taken to Prison, one week after, where she
remained Eleven weeks when the Grand
Jury ignored the Bill and she was released
Mira Townsend brought her from the Prison to
the Rosine

Grace Cummings came 10/25 She is the Daughter
of George Coffee who lived [number] 60 German [Street] but
who died 5 years since - Her Mother died with
in 3 months of the same time - Her parents were
members of Spruce [Street] Meeting, and her sister who
is the wife of Henry Johnson who keeps the United
States Hotel New York is still a member. When
she was 17 she married John Cummings a Tailor
who was connected in business with a Mr Read.
When she was married about 6 weeks her husband
took the goods in Reads store, and without
letter her bid adieu to her Friends, decamped
and went beyond [New York] - But he was
followed, arrested and put in Prison - She
wrote home and her Father sent her money to
defray her expenses back - She was enciente
and when she was confined she promised her
Father never to have anything to do with her
husband, and has never conversed with
him since - She has heard he went west &
died. She continued with her parents until
they died when she took a room and
tried to support herself by her needle but she

soon found that would not answer and she
then hired out with different person for 4 years -
9 months since she commenced drinking and
gave herself up to destruction - Mrs McKeever
called to get M Townsend to go to Baker [Street] to
hunt up a miserable Woman she had seen
there, and going on an exploring expedition
among the horrid dens there, found Grace, & a
niece of hers who had also given way to drink
in a room with no furniture but 2 [yards] of ragged
rag carpet, for bed and every thing else -
They had taken a irish Woman in, and
thus the three were living - We told them
of the Rosine, and Grace and her niece both
promised to come that night, but Mrs McKeever
went to the mother of the niece, Susan Throp,
who had left children and home for the sake
of liquor, and the Mother came and took her
away to her home - The Missionary Mr Moore
brought her up in a carriage as her clothes
were not decent to walk up

Eliza White came She came from Ireland
with her Parents 4 years since to Canada, and after living
there one year she came here to be with her Sister, who has been 5
years in the country, and who has lived 18 months with
Mrs James Henry Orne named Mary White - When Eliza first
came she lived with Susan O’neill Mrs Ornes Sister - As they
only gave her $100 she left and went to David Browns where
she lived 6 months, but she had all the work to do there, and the heavy
washings brought on an affection of the lungs, and she raised
blood, and finally had to leave and go to the country for a
month to recover - when she returned she went to live at
James Watmoughs, where her Sister then lived - When she was
there 3 months she wanted an evening in the week out, as the
other girls had it, but her Sister did not want her to have
it, and her sister and she quarrelled, and she left there
and took boarding with a Mrs Parkin in 13th Street, by
the Rail Road near Prince [Street], [number] 8 This Woman drank,
and induced Eliza to drink also - She staid there one
month, and during that time the Woman absorbed
all her money over $16.00 - One day she sent Eliza to
Shippen [Street] Market, and on the way she met her Sister
who had been seeking her, and she brought her directly up to
the Rosine -

[underlined] Ellen Ryan [/underlined] came September 28th. Her Mother died
in Ireland, when she was 8 years old, and her Father when
she was about 20. She always lived at home with her Brothers
in Killyloo Kilkenny county - It appears she was
addressed by a young Man a neighbor but family would
not let her marry him as he was a worthless fellow, but
he seduced her, and three months afterwards she started
with her Brother to go to Boston, but fearing to disgrace
her family as she knew she was in the family way, she
ran off from her Brother in Liverpool, and came in
a vessel to Philadelphia with a Girl she knew - When
they arrived here they boarded at [Number] 5 Norris's Alley - She
then went to a place at Mullica Hill, but thinking it too
lonesome staid only one week, and then returned to the
City - She was so unhappy about her condition that she
concluded to go to the Almshouse to hide herself, and getting
the directions started but when near the Bridge stopped
to enquire her road of a Woman she met - The Woman
enquired why she was going there and in reply was told
her story - The Woman pitied her, took her to her house,
and procured a Situation for her with a Mrs Pepper
where she staid two months and then went to the
Almshouse - She was there 3 months before she was

confined and half an hour after the babe was born the Woman
wheeled the bed back into the nursery, but in the passage the
bedstead broke and she was dropt onto the floor - The
fright was so great that it brought on an affection of the
heart from which she has been suffering ever since - A few
days after she was confined she broke out with something
they supposed of a venereal nature, and she was sent to Hardys
Ward where she staid six months - They sent her in ten
days after the child was born, and as she had no milk she
never saw [Crossed out: her child] it afterwards, but they told her it died
in three weeks - After the [Doctor] discharged her they gave her
some time to work about the house - In three weeks she got
leave to go to see Mrs Pepper - While in the Almshouse the
Rats got at her Bundle, and destroyed the clothes she
had there, and when she came to Mrs Peppers, she found
the Girl who had succeded her in the house had taken the
the principal part of her clothes - This made her very angry
and she went of to a Magistrates to try to receive her clothes
but finding she could do nothing without proof she gave
them up and came in search of Mrs Townsend who she
had seen in the Ward but had no idea where to find -
She wandered along the street asking for her - some told her
she lived in Arch [Street] but she did not know where

[Arch Street] was, and all day till near eve passed, before
she found the right place, as M T had moved, & those
she met did not know where - But a last a young
Lady gave her a written direction, and with this
she arrived, faint and weary - Oh said she, But I was
thankful to that Lady that gave me the direction

Bridget Macklin came to Rosine 11/1 She is from
Ireland - Her sister came some years since, and lived
in [New York], and as she was often writing home for them
to come, and sent 2500 to pay her passage she came
4 years since - She then lived 4 months with a family
and they only paid her 25 [cents] during the time &
she never [received] any thing more from them. She then
hired out a few months and becoming acquainted
with a Scotch man she married him and they lived
about six months together - He turned out badly
and then went to California and she knew nothing
more of him - She then hired out but was taken
sick and was sent to the Almshouse. From
there she went home with Jo Davis who sent to
Salem where she lived some months, & then
came to the city and went to a Tavern in
Water [Street] There they gave her Liquor and she
became crazed and they sent her to the Almshouse -
When she came out they denyed knowing
any thing about her clothes - She got a
place but was led to drinking again,
was put in Prison & then came to the Rosine

Mary Wallace was brought from Baltimore 12/8/1852
She is 15 years old and says she is innocent of
improper conduct with Men, but had become acquainted
with some had girls who wished her to do wrong, and
that her Mother at [Doctor] Hartmans instigation sent
her here - Her Father Samuel Wallace lives in Pearl
Street, 4 doors from Saratoga [Street] at Mrs Thomas's -
She served 6 months at a Milliners but had gone
to school the most of her life

Ellen Williams sister to Emma Williams was born in
England - When she was about 16 she came to America -
She started to wait on a Miss Conton who died on the
passage - She was taken with Ship fever, and went
to the Alms house - after her recovery she hired out
for awhile, but became acquainted with a Butcher
in Spring Garden Market, who seduced her. His
name is Edward Stafford & he has since been in prison
on a charge of rioting - He took her to a house
of ill fame kept by a Mrs. Onap in 8th near popular
where she staid a year He paid her board till
after her child was born, and as she had taken
to drink he took it from her has paid its board
ever since - 15 months since went to the Magdalen,
and has been there since then till yesterday
12/21, when she left on account of a quarrel with
R. Cook - She promised Mrs McDonald to come here
but went down to Duffies court and there got
liquor and came here in that state 12/22 -


Eliza Dunaway came 12/18 1852 She is the sister of
Justina White - Her parents died when she was five
years old at Pittsburg - She was then put in the
Alms House and from there was bound to [William]
Talbot above Downingtown - He drank & beat
his wife and her too - From there she went
to a Mrs Gallagher an Aunt of Talbots -
between the two places she lived 8 years -
Her Brother, Alden Dunaway, who lives in
Farmer [Street], and boards with his Uncle Christopher
Shinkle, came after her and brought her
to the City where she staid six months and then
went to Mrs Whrys 5th & Apple Tree Alley -
from there she has lived at several other places, &
has been occasionally at her Uncles - Her Uncle &
Cousins beat and abused her, & she has now a lump
on her head from their abuse - A year ago she was
seduced by a Young Man named [William Hughes], who
is on board a Man of War, but she has not been
with any other person - He is now at Sea &
a Mrs Smith advised her to come to the Rosine -


Julia Turner came 12/18 Her Mother died when she was
an Infant, and her Father, a Dentist, came from England
when she was five years old - As she grew older
she could not agree with her Step Mother, and at 15
ran away and went over to the Gloster Factory to work
and continued there 3 years - She then left intending
to learn a trade, but not getting a situation
with a Tailoress she went to a place of service
at a Tavern, and there got acquainted with a
girl who took her to Betsy Hubbards - When
she went, she says she did not know what a bad
house meant, but she was out of a home and Betsy
persuaded her to stay - She remained there six
months, and becoming diseased the old Lady
nursed her until she was nearly well, when
she left and came to the Rosine

Mary Ann McKim Turner or Frampton came 1/13 [1853]
Her Father [William J Staples] lived in Baltimore but followed
the Sea. Her Mother was a McKim and married
against the will of her friends - They both died before
Mary Ann was 13, and she was left in the care of
Mary McKim a Dress maker. She went to learn the
Millinery business, but her home was at her Aunts -
When she was about 17 she became acquainted with
Snowden Hopkins of the firm of Hopkins & Hull.
He used to meet her out, and finally seduced her,
and she then left the house and went to room
keeping - She staid with him as a Mistress over
a year having plenty of every thing - She then found
he was unfaithful to her and as she was young and
handsome she was not disposed to put up with
neglect and she formed a connection with John
Pitman, a Gambler and Negro Trader with whom
she travelled the country and staid with him about
16 months when he went out west and left her.
She then went into a house of bad character, &
there married a Sailor named Mat Robinson,
who died in about six weeks - She then went
to the Almshouse and hired for a few months

there - Mrs Danforth a benevolent Lady she heard was
going to send some unfortunate girls to the Magdalen in
[Philadelphia], and she concluded to come on also and entered
there - She had become under strong conviction of mind
and felt she was utterly lost and continued so for
some time but gradually got over it and having
some dissatisfaction about her clothing resolved to
leave there and obtained permission of Mordecai
Dawson - She had some knowledge of a
Woman living in the city of respectable character
and she thought she would go to her &
try to get into a family to live but she did
not find her while she was enquiring about
she met a bad girl in the street whom she asked
but the girl did not know but she did know
where Mary Rankins lived and took her
there - At this house she met Ned Cole, a
scamp and some women she knew - She soon
married George Turner a Drunken Sailor and
went to Housekeeping with him at 4th & Pine Alley.
He died in nine months and she then kept the
corner of 4th & Plum [Streets] where she married William
Frampton a coast surveyor and with him she travelled

to different places - He left her in New York, and
she then tried to live by her needle - After a while she
came back to [Philadelphia], and went to Mary Rankins's
again - She then went to Housekeeping with [William]
Hobson, an Oysterman, and lived with him two [underlined] years [/underlined] -
He drinks and by this time she too had got to drinking
and they quarelled, and he beat her - She then
declared she would not stay with him and concluded
to come to the Rosine - [William Frampton] her
husband has married in Brooklyn and is living
with another woman - She had him arrested but not
seeing that she could do any thing let him go -

Catharine Carr came from Prison to Rosine March
25th 1853 Her Father [William Carr] is a Weaver in
the Winter, but in the Summer he follows hay gathering -
He drinks nearly all the time - when he was drunk
they had to get their living of a grocer in the neighborhood,
and when he was sober, and at work, he
would pay up - The Mother did what sewing
she could of the Soldier Work from the Arsenal -
She died six months since - She has a Sister married
to Thomas Irvin, a confectioner in [Market Street], near
7th, on the lower side - They live in [Brown Street] between
[Margaret Street], and Lafayette. Her name is Jane -
Her Father lives in Carpenter Street one door below
9th - The Mother formerly sat in the Market
as a Huckster - After her Mothers death
she was three months with her Sister, and then
hired out at different places - But she only
staid two or three weeks at a place, for she
did not know how to work rightly -
she then went back to her Father, but he
brought a Woman there, and she thought then
she would not stay - So she hired with a
Mrs Carrigan, in Shippen Street, above 9th

She says when her Father was drunk while
her Mother was sick he would pull her out of
bed by the hair of her head and she and the
children would have to go in next door
to escape from his brutality -
Mrs Carrigan it appears is a divorced Woman
Her husband keeps a book store in 6th above
Market and she lives with a [Doctor] as his wife.
They appear to be bad people and it is likely
as Catharine is young and fresh looking that
Mrs Carrigen her her views upon her - One evening
she and the [Doctor] went to the Theatre, so Catharine
put on one of Mrs Carrigens dresses and walked
out, but she returned the next morn and took
back the dress - She then left there. A few evenings
afterward she was going to see a Mrs Bankford in
6th near Cherry who keeps an umbrella store when
near the Theatre she met a girl who she had seen
at Mrs Carrigen and this girl stopped Alder
Man Elkington in the Street and wished him
to have her arrested on a charge of Larceny -
Accordingly she was sent to the Station House
and during the night one of the Men came into

the room where she was confined and wanted to be
with her - She screamed so he ran off and
locked her in - The next morn she was sent
to Prison and [Doctor] Elkington wrote a note to
M Townsend who after going twice to the Prison
up to [William] 12 Manns Office and several times
to the Aldermans procured her release and
brought her from the Prison to the Rosine -

Lucretia Strockline came 6/1 1853 She cannot remember
seeing her Father and her Mother died several years
since They lived in Camden He was a Boatman -
She was placed in a family where she lived 4 years,
and then they moved west, and she was thrown out
of a place Since then she has lived in families
until within a year, but she has never gone to
school and does not know her letters. About a
year since a young girl took her to a bad house
near the rail road in Front Street and she
has lived there since and now comes poorly clothed.
The Womans name is Mary Sweeny - She has been
in Prison once Some girl - she says told her of the Rosine

Emma White or Mary Banning came 5/25 She is from
Delaware. When she was about 14, a Woman from the city
came into her neighborhood, saying she was engaged
in the Silk business, and wished her to come and work
with her. Without asking her Parents permission she
came, and found the Woman really was only a
White Washer - But as she had come, she staid some
months with her, and then went to live in a French
family. There she was seduced by an acquaintance
of the family and lived with him 2 years - He
then left her and went to New York - She followed
but they did not become reconciled and she went
into a house of ill fame where she remained a
while and then returned and boarded in
Elizabeth Street. Then after a few months she
took charge of the House and kept it for five
years - She and the other Houses there were indicted -
Bob Lee and others drew all the money
from her, and she then returned to New York
and from there went to Havanna - There her
neice Elizabeth Banning joined her, and she
soon died. Emma lived there three years, and
then concluded to return to [Philadelphia] with the

[Note laid in]

Catharine Lafferty
Mary Jane Mack named
Charlotte White


intention of returning to a virtuous life and
coming into the Rosine

Catharine Mulhern came the latter part of April
1853. Her mother died when she was only one year
old. Her Father put her to board with an Irish
woman where she staid till she was nine years old.
Since then she has staid in Service at different
places. 18 months since she married a Man named
Barney Ferry, but they only lived together three
weeks and she has lived at Service since -
Finding herself in trouble Mrs Forsythe with
whom she had lived, came to see if she could
be received into the Rosine till towards the time
of her confinement - She was taken in and
before the specified time a babe was born in the
House. She has behaved well, and has recieved
the proper attention, and it is now proposed
that she should go to the Temporary Home to
have a better opportunity to get a situation.
Her child is now five weeks old July 7th [1853]

Jane Barry came July 7th. Her Mother died when
she was eight years old. Her Father, [William Barry]
is a Dyer, but she does not know who he works
with. She was placed with a Mrs Miller who
keeps a Boarding House at Mount Airy.
Considering herself ill treated she ran away & came
to the City, and asked permission of a poor Woman
to stay with her till she got a place. Seeing an
advertisement in the paper she went to a Mrs
Gregor, 216 Market Street, where she has been for the
past two weeks. She says something is the
matter with her, but she is a virtuous girl -

Melinda Handly came from Ireland in her 16th
year - Her Father died when she was about 12 years
old but her Mother is still living in Roscommon
County, near Athlene. Her name is Mary Handly.
She has now been 6 years in the country. She lived
three years with Peter Walker, South river, [New Jersey].
Since then she has lived with Mr Freeland, Rahway,
[New Jersey]- She has lived in [Philadelphia] with a
Mr Jones, [Dock Street Hotel], and at other places. A Mr
Sullivan owes owes her 12 dollars wages - She went
from his house to a Mrs Richardson, 216 Market
[Street], and lived with her, and her Daughter Mrs
Gregor about 8 months, when she says she
picked up a piece of chain up Stairs, and
not supposing it to be of value, she laid it on
the window ledge in a cellar room, where she
and the Cook had to Sleep - Being suspected by
Mrs Gregor, she was arrested for stealing the chain,
thrown into Prison, tried, and sentenced to one
years imprisonment, which she served out, and
then was sent by Mrs McDonald to the Rosine.
She says Mrs Gregor, Mrs Richardson, Mr Sullivan
& Alderman Welsh all owe her money, and

While she lived with Mrs Gregor she lost
24 dollars that were taken out of her Band
box - If her story is true she has been a
victim to injustice and misfortune -

Sarah Clark came March 26th - Her Father died
when she was 2 1/2 years old and her Mother married
again. She lived with her Mother who took in washing
and sometimes went out to service. At 19 she married
but her husband died in one year. Her child was
taken by her husbands sister to New Orleans, and she
has never seen it since, and knows nothing of
her history - The Sister in Law was named Amanda
Brunner. The child Mary Ann Clark -
She was 18 last Christmas - After her husbands
death sometimes she staid with her Mother, &
Sometimes boarded in houses of bad character,
with Jane Sheldon, Mrs Bachelor & Sarah Smith, who lives
in Small Street, above 5th Street, and keeps two houses -
one a bed house, the other she lives in herself -
It is a Temperance concern she says, but the folks
go on [Spruce Street] but they must not come there drunk.
She is now 38 years old.

Mary McVey came June 10th. She was born
in Ireland and lived there till she was the Mother of
4 children - Her husband, a Baker, preceeded her
two years in coming and sent money for her
to come - She has had ten children but has only
two living. Her son is a Baker with Peter Maison
in Front [Street] David McVey, a Sober, Steady,
married Man - Her husband was dissipated,
and gave her a great deal of trouble, and her
other Son is like his Father - Mary has
been in the habit of drinking the last ten
years, and has hired in Families. She has
been in the Almshouse about ten times -
She was in the country living, and came to
town, and met a Woman she knew in the street.
Of course they must treat each other, and when
Mary came to her senses, her friend and her
clothes were gone - She then came and applied
for admission -

Ellen Fitzgerald. June 4th - Ellen lost her Mother
at 2 years old - She supposes her Father to be living
but does not know where he is - She was placed in
the Orphan Asylum at Emmettsburg and remained
there till she was 16 when she was placed with
a Mrs Harrison where she staid two months
12th below Poplar - From there she went to Mrs
Crook 10th & Poplar, and remained there all
winter - A Felon coming on her finger she was
sent to the Almshouse. The end of her finger
was taken off, and in two weeks she was discharged,
and returned to Mrs Crook. She had
taken another Girl, so Ellen started to hunt
another place but her finger was not well enough
for her to work so a Lady sent her to the Rosine.

Mary Johnson came June 6th. She had been
in the Rosine and was registered in 1851

Rose Murphy came May 5th. She was born
in Ireland. Her Father kept a store which
she attended - She has been married
twice but had no Children - Has
been 2 1/2 years in the country - During that
time she has been 20 months in the Hospital
in New York and Philadelphia The balance
of the time she lived in Jersey. 5 months at
Joe Daviss She commenced drinking in
New York, and appears to have grow fond
of it - She came here from the Almshouse

April 4th [underlined] 1853 [/underlined]

Jane Crump is the Daughter of Peter Gallen
who kept a Hotel in 7th below Market. She was
married when a little past 14, to David Cowen, a Jew.
He was a travelling Jeweler, and with him she led a wandering
life from City to City for seven years. When he died
he left her $30.000 and two children - One evening as
she was walking alone a Man accosted her and
she replied supposing him to be an acquaintance
Finding he was a stranger, she hesitated, and refused
to let him go home with her, but he followed, and
the next evening called to see her - His visits were
continued, and after a while an improper connection
commenced, which has continued for two years.
During his absence she went to Ann Garretts assignation
House, and there met another Man, with
whom she was on the same terms, and was connected
with him three years - She then married
[William Henry Crump], and lived with him 6 years.
She was correct in her conduct while she
lived with both husbands, but was extravagant
and careless of money - During the two years she
lived with one of these Men, she says she [received] between
4 & 5 thousand dollars from him, and

spent it all rapidly and heedlessly - During the
time she became in the family way, and at his
instigation took drugs to remove the incumbrance
They produced great suffering but [Crossed out: did] not [Crossed out: produce]
the effect. She then went to New York, and
was operated upon by a Doctor there, who charged
her $150.000 and staid with a Woman who
charged $20.00 [per] week - She paid the Nurse 6 1/2
week, and her board beside, and the Gentleman
paid the whole, which amounted to a considerable
Bill - But her health was ruined, &
she suffered greatly for a long time - The
Gentleman about this time became converted &
sent her $500.00 to get rid of her - Soon after
she married Crump - He was a Master Builder
in Camden and she soon discovered he was idle
and dissipated and after they lived six years together
he went to New orleans taking nearly the last
of her money with him - She has heard he went to
California but she knows nothing of him - She
buried two of her children soon after, and had
to struggle for the support of two more - Her poverty
forced her among such people as she had never

known before and surrounded by troubles and temptations
she began to drink and sank down among
the lowest and most degraded - One of her children
was adopted by a Mrs Watson. (a Girl) -
The Boy is in the Union School. Her beauty
has passed away Her constitution ruined. Her
character destroyed, and the Rosine presents
the only hope to one, who, had her prudence, &
virtue been stedfast, might have been an ornament
to Society, and beloved, respected
and independant in her position through life.
She has had nine children.

Ann Baker came 9/10 but professing to be
a virtuous woman she is requested to leave &
go to the Almshouse

Elizabeth Stager came 6/29. She has been married
and had lived out at service, but was persuaded
to go to [Crossed out: service] a bad house in Juniper Street where
she staid two weeks - Becoming diseased, she went
to the Almshouse and came from there here

Mary Ann Thomas is an English woman. She
came 9/20 She has been 2 years a widow, &
has been drinking 9 years, and has lived at
times with Jane Sheldon - She has 2 fine
daughters living in the country - Her Mother
Ann Loward, lives at Tredegar, in [Monmouth County]
South Wales - She owns a handsome Farm -
and is well off. At 13 years old she ran off
with a young Man against her Mothers consent.
Her Husband was a Master Miner but being
taken in poor health she opened a Tavern and
to relieve her trouble took to drink - Her children
were adopted. Mr Wintersteem Iron Founder
at Pottsville has one of them, and a cousin of
his Captain [Crossed out: Holan has] Homan has the other
Northumberland [County] 5 miles from Sunbury -
Judge Leib was the first Man that she did wrong
with and since then she has gone down, down

Elizabeth Evans 9/28 1853 She is from [Chester County]
Her Mother died when she was 3 years old & her Father
when she was six - She lived with her Aunt till
she was 18, and then hired out. Her Aunt is named
Maria Jones Her Uncl James Jones in East Whiteland
She is enciente, and therefore can not be permitted to
remain in the Rosine - As she is not willing to tell
her story there is none to report -

Henrietta Taylor came 9/20 - Her Father died when
she was 2 years old, and her Mother when she was 5 years.
There were three children, Two Girls live in Kentucky, and she
was brought on by an Uncle who placed her with a Jacob
Slack who lived in [Buck County] but is now Watchman at
the [Pennsylvania] Insane Asylum - she lived with them 18 years, and
staid with them 4 years after she was married. Her Husband
is named James Henry Taylor and has been going as Mate
in different vessels. A year ago he left her in a boarding
House and went to California, since when she has
not heard of him - She worked a while in a cotton mill
and became acquainted with 2 girls, Mary Ann Thomas,
Sarah Ann Davis, who led her to drinking, and into
bad houses, and she went rapidly down to destruction.
During the Summer they worked in the neck at Trucking,
and when that failed they gave themselves up
to the debauchery of 7th & Bedford Streets - She & 3
other miserable creatures came up together from there.

October 4th 1853

Mary Ann Spencer is the sister of Jane Crump & the
Daughter of Peter Gallin - She lived with her Mother
till she was 17 when she married Patrick Smith a Hartter
They kept House, and she lived comfortably with him for
9 years. After his death she lived with his Mother, and
then boarded, and followed Dress Making for a year
when she married George Meany a young Man only 21
years old who follows huckstering. He hired a Man named
John Meany to sell potatoes for him, and they had a quarrell
about the payment, during which Meany pulled out
his knife in a threatening manner - She seized the knife
and stabbed hi in the abdomen - He recovered, but
she was tried, and sentenced to three months imprisonment -
Her husband probably married her for
the money she had. She gave him three hundred dollars,
which he spent in five weeks. He is leagued with
the Killers, etc - Since she was in Prison, he has beat &
abused her, and they have both been drinking & degrading
themselves - Jane has been anxious to save her
sister & Mrs Andrews and she have been down but they
could get her to come till this day

Mary Miller came 10/1/1853 -
Her Father named Joe Miller a Painter moved from
the city to Bucks County - He died when she was 16
Her Mother Margaret Miller lives with her Brother Philip
Miller eleven miles from Norristown - She came down to go
to service during last winter and lived with a Mr Hoovins
She is know to a Mrs Susan Davis wife of Henry Davis a Tailor
up [Second Street] above the Toll gate a good piece -
She then lived with a Mrs Miller whose husband keeps
coffe cakes etc in the Market at 4th & Callowhill -
She then worked in Horstmans factory uptown at
Spooling silk - Becoming acquainted with some
Girls, she wandered with them about, a few days, and thus
lost her employment - She then ranged with them
through Kensington, & Richmond, and round the Schuylkill -
John Parker a young Shomaker living in Vine
above 12th paid 125 for her Board, and gave her money
for clothes - She has been with about a dozen Men
and has been running about for 4 months -
The Police found they were out, round the Columbia
Bridge, for three or 4 days, so they brought them
to the city and took them before an Alderman who
sent them here. They came on Friday and on

the Sabbath night following they stole a number of
the Matrons things and climbed over the Butchers
shed The dogs jumped at them and part of the
the things were dropped - In two days Mary Miller
was retaken by the Police and on word being brought
to the House Mrs Andrews went to the station and
talked with her and brought her back - We
thought if we recieved girls who had stolen from
others we ought to take more who had taken from
ourselves

Catharine Miller came 8/1 1853 She was born in Ohio
Her Mother died when she was 13. She has been Married
and has lived a bad life about a year at Robinson
in Shippen Street

Mary Ann McMahan came 10/17 - Her Father lives
in Newark [New Jersey] and is a Hatter Thomas McMahan -
Her Mother died when she was 13 & her
Father Married again - She and her step Mother
did not agree, as she wanted to run out into
company but she says she never did anything
wrong but her Father thought she had and brought
her to the Magdalen where she staid six months
and then ran away with Jane Berry - They were
taken back together, and Mary Ann staid two
months longer, when she ran off with another
Girl, who told her she would take her home with her,
but it resulted in her taking her to Pete Fosters who
keeps a Tavern, and Girls, in Richmond. There
she staid 2 weeks, and was with 6 or 8 Men.
On First day morn the 16 she heard there was a
rowdy set coming for a frolic to the House and she
felt so unhappy, she concluded to take a walk
to get out of their way and wandered out towards
Fairmount. On her way she saw some people in
a Meeting so she went in, and sat with them
They were singing a Hymn her Mother had

taught her in childhood It fell upon her ear as
a magic spell, & she called up the memories
of innocence and love, till her heart overflowed.
After the Meeting she wandered alone till the afternoon
Meeting, and then she went there again. It
was in a shed, but it was a Bethel to her.
She resolved she would never return to the
House, she had left, and as she had heard
of the Rosine, while in the Magdalen, she enquired
of some Men in the street where the Rosine
was, and one of them brought her to the House.

Sarah Miller or Sarah Saunders came to the
House 8/4 1853 Her Father Nolle Saunders died
when she was 9 years old & her Mother when she
was 17 - The Mother went out to days works &
Sarah was three years in a perfumery establishment
After her Mothers death, she & her Sister lived together
and took in Sewing, and did very well but their
Aunt who sold fruit, wished to move to [Philadelphia]
and persuaded them to come with her - She took a
house down town, and had both the girls to live with her
for a Month, but she soon got tired, and put the youngest
Jane Ann Saunders, in the House of Refuge. Sarah
had become acquainted with a bad Girl in the neighborhood,
who tempted her to drink, and the Aunt
(who is named Catharine Weller), feared the young
one would follow her example so she put Jane where
she thought she would be away from her influence
for a year or two - Two weeks afterwards, Sarah left
her Aunt, and took a room, and set up housekeeping
by herself - She then began to run about at
nights and go with Men to assignation Houses -
The Aunt kept a fruit at the corner of 3rd & Pine [Streets]

Sarah found room keeping did not answer, so she sold off
her Mothers furniture which she had brought from Albany
with her, and went to boarding with a poor but reputable
woman [Crossed out: to] whom she told that she had money in
the bank to support her and then regularly went
into the business of a Street Walker - She usually
went about Washington Square, and from there to
Roberts's, corner of 6th & [Powell Street] to get something to
eat, or drink, or to Blackberry Alley, to [Martha Shaw’s?],
or Mrs Harris's, or to Lucretia Browns, Acorn
Alley - She made her bargain with the Men generally
in the Street, and [received] her money always beforehand
Sometimes she would get them in the chamber, pocket
her Money and then make an excuse that she wanted
a drink and must go down for it - The Simpletons
would let her go, and then she would take to the street
and be off - She would make 5, or 6 dollars of a
night, but she says it never did her any good, and thus
she lived a whole miserable year wishing herself
dead many a time - At last she was taken with
chills, and went to the Almshouse - While there she
met with a Rosine Book and she resolved when she read it
go there which she did one week after she left there -

Bridget Brannon came 10/25 She was born in Ireland
but had a Sister who lived in Manchester 51 Thompson
married to John Foran a Tailor - She was bound to them
at 12 years of age and staid two years with them to learn
the trade - She afterward worked at Journey work until she
was married when she was about 20 - Two years after
they came to [Crossed out: New York, Philadelphia]. He was not successful in getting
work, so he said he would come here - She
has never seen him since, but has heard that he
wrote to her, but she did not recieve it - In the
meantime she boarded with a drinking family, & they
all drank together & sometimes when sober she worked at
Tailor work - As she heard her husband worked in a nail
factory, in Broad Street, she came on, but not finding him
she did not know how to get a living and was advised
to come to the Rosine by Anne Fisher who she met when
she boarded

Mary Ann Wilson came 11/10 [1853] - She came to this country
when she was 17, and was married to James Wilson, at 25.
She lived at Service while single and went out as Cook.
Her Husband was a Carpenter & they lived comfortably
but after six years he died and two weeks afterwards
she was confined, and suffered for some time with
poor health, and then took to drink - Being taken with
chills she went to the Almshouse, and has been there the
principal part of the time since, either as nurse or cook
but when she came out had a spree - Last May she
left there, and went to live with a Mr Simonds, and
staid there till she earned 18 dollars, and left there
because she thought during the winter she could not
do the work - She went up to one of her old cronies
in Baker Street and from there to Pat Duffies - The first
night she lost her money, and shoes, and then her
clothes were stolen, or pawned, and she had to stay
for the want of clothes - There she was for two weeks &
was found there "by a Heavenly young Man" she says
who bought clothes for her and brought her and
another woman in a carriage up to the Rosine.
Somehow she got a bottle of Liquor about the time of
starting and when she arrived she was so drunk she

could not get out but they lifted her and placed
her on the Step - The Matron & Mrs Lewis refused to
recieve her in that condition so they consigned her
to the Station House for the night and the next morn
she came to the Rosine

Hetty Eastburn - aged about 35 years
a native of this City - whose parents died
when she was quite young - has been out
at service sometimes - and at others in
very improper places - and associated with
low and degraded characters - she came
to the Rosine on 3rd day the 13th of 12th [month] 1853
she appears to be a sober woman

Jane Berry - aged 16 years - Her
mother died when she was 4 years old
and she dont know any thing about
her father - was [Crossed out: less] living at the
house of a person named Miller at
Germantown - came to the city last
5th [month] and has been living at houses
of [the same?] ever since - came to the

Rosine on 3rd day the 13th of 12 [month] 1853

Virginia Stephens came January 23 1854
She was placed an Orphan in the Baltimore
Orphan Asylum, so young that she knows nothing
of her parentage, and was taken from there by
Thomas Gibson, who lives not far from Ellicotts
Mills and lived with them till she was 17.
When she was only about 14, Gibson seduced her
and for three years they had illicit intercourse
In her 17th year she was likely to have a Babe -
Gibson tried to make her charge it to a young
Man in the neighborhood, but she refused -
His wife suspected her condition and upon
her refusing to tell who was the Father she discharged
her, and she went to Baltimore, & to
the Almshouse, where she saw Charlotte Squires
She suffered very much in her confinement
and when she left the Almshouse she went to
a Woman named Johnson, and from there
to the Western Hotel - She left her child at
Johnsons, and was to pay her 200 [per] week
when she was there about two months Mr
Norris who keeps the Congress Hall [Philadelphia]
was at the Hotel, and she was chambermaid

in his room - He made acquaintance with her, and
and brought her on to [Philadelphia] under pretence of
getting her a situation in Congress Hall, but he procured
one for her in the Franklin House, where she staid about
two months, when she became acquainted with
some other girls about the House, who took her
to Jane Bellingsworths, Plum [Street] above 4th, where
she staid several weeks, and became diseased,
and from there went to the Almshouse, October 8th
and from there she came to Rosine -

Martha Fry came from Baltimore 1/28/[1854]
Her Parents have both died within a year
Her Father was a Thompsonian Physician
but became intemperate, and left nothing
for his children - There were 4 of them and they
were taken care of by Amelia Graham
who keeps a Boarding House at the corner
of Saratogo and Liberty Streets - Martha
was placed in two families but having
some faults, she was returned to Miss
Graham who did not know what to
do with her and knowing about [Sally McHenry]
being in the Rosine she brought
her on here and bound her to stay [underlined] till 18 [/underlined]

Isabella Aikens came December 28th 1853 - Her Father
Ben Aikens lives in Derry, Ireland. Her Mother died
when she was 3 days old, and she was taken by another
who brought her up till she was 11, when she returned
to her Father, and staid a while - Soon however she resolved
to come to [Philadelphia] as she had a Sister living here. Her
Father paid her passage - Her Sister met her at the
ship & procured a situation for her in a Factory
where she worked a year - Her Sister marrying
James Perrine, a Sail Maker, she left the Factory
and went to live with her, and staid there about
3 months, when meeting a Girl who had worked
in the Factory with her she invited her to go with
her to visit some of her friends - There they gave her
liquor and made her drunk - This was repeated
several times - Her Sister was much displeased,
and in consequence they quarreled, &
the girl then took her to a Bad House in
Shippen Street, where she boarded about a
year - She was in Prison twice during the time
From there she went up to Letitia Davis's Acorn
Alley - One evening she was out & met her
Brother in Law, who stopped and talked with

her and persuaded her to come to the Rosine. She
came at once with him

Charlotte Wilson Daughter of John Nugent a pensioner
of the War of 1812 came to Rosine [February] 22, 1854
She has been married & has two children who live
with her Father and the family - They have lived
very comfortably in Damehowers Court, and
Charlotte took in Sewing. One of the Sons had a
house in Baltimore, in Fayette Street, near Cove [Street],
where they moved to, but Charlotte preferred staying
here, and after the family moved she lived
out as Cook, but being over the fire inflamed her
eyes, and she had to give it up - She then went
down 7th near Shippen, to stay till she got another
place - There she became acquainted with a set
of Dram Drinkers and though always sober
and virtuous before, she fell into the habits of
the place and became a Drunkard. Six months
since, Jemmy Quin, in Small Street engaged
her to keep house for him, & she staid there
till Mr Bringhurst one of the missionaries
persuaded her to come to the Rosine -

Mary Little Daughter of Rebecca Little who lives
at Little Britain [half] a mile from Frankford came
to Rosine 3/1/1854 Her Father died when she was
three years old, and she was bound to a family
in Jersey, but when she was about 14, her Mother
thinking she was treated hardly, brought her away,
and as she went out Nursing, Mary hired out
in different families till she was past 18, when a
young Man took her to a house in Shippen
Street and she has lived a bad life ever since
a period of 7 years - The last place she was
at was at Maria Mansfields, [Number] 5 Peach [Street]

Catharine Reed came 2/1 1854 Her Father was a
Shoemaker and she lived at home till she was 16 when
she married Thomas Harris an Engineer on a Steam
Boat - After living together 3 years they parted on
account of his drinking - She supported herself
by Tailoring about 9 months, when she got in
with some Girls who professed to be decent, but in
reality visited bad houses to eke out their wages.
This ended in her getting into a house of bad
character, and drinking herself - She was in
the Tombs and [run?] the usual round of infamy
about 3 years - she then came to [Philadelphia], hoping to be able
to abandon that life, but again resumed it, and lived
in the same manner. Twice had to go to the Almshouse
and spent about 10 months there - She boarded with
Sarah Green, in Shippen Street in the new house next
door above Hoffmans - Sarah used to keep girls but now
she lives with Josiah Shull a Shomaker and they keep
the dance House back - It is nearly 3 years since
Catharine came from New York Her Brother
Henry Austin is a Shomaker living in Barrow
near Greenwich [Street]

Margaret McNutt came 12/12 She is the Daughter
of Mary Connolly, who lives in New Bedford
with another Daughter, who is married to [Matthew Cavenough]
who works a cotton Mill - Margaret
came over with her Mother from England ten years
since, and worked in a factory 6 years. During that
period she married Samuel McNutt, a Trunk
Maker, who worked for Hickey & Tull - They lived
down in the neighborhood of Lombard & 7th & she
visited among her neighbors, and sometimes they would
send for liquor and treat her, and then she would
treat them After a while she wanted to treat herself
all the time, and gave up to habits of intemperance
so much that she was rarely sober She had two
children, one 9 months, & the other 4 years old -
Her Husband talked and plead with her, but it was
to no avail She loved liquor better than Husband or
Children. At last he could bear it no longer, so while
she was in bed, drunk, he took the children to
his Mother, Mary McNutt who lives up town,
and Margaret has never seen them since -
When she found Husband & children were gone
she then sold their goods thing after thing till all

were drank up, then she went down to the Market,
and enquired for a Situation - John Courtnay a
Butcher, who stands in Market near Juniper engaged
her, and she lived in his family 2 months. She then became
restless, and would stay no longer, and coming into
the city, went down to her old haunts, and commenced
the old practices - Clothes, and money were soon
gone, and she was in the Prison 3 times within a
little time. There she saw Mira Townsend, and heard
of the Rosine, and when she left there she came
up to the House.

Martha Eiker came [February] 4th 1854. She was born
in England & her Mother died when she was nine
years old - She lived at home till she was 12 years
old and then Meeting with some Girls who were
coming to America she resolved to accompany
them, and to get the means took the money
from her Fathers desk - He was a Sadler in good
business, and stored his guineas in the desk.
The money she took amounted to 15 [pounds] 5 shillings
and with this she paid her fare and had some
over when she arrive in New York - She then
apprenticed herself to a Cap Maker and worked
at that business some time but 6 weeks before
she was 13 she married Ernest Eiker a German
Shomaker of 29 - He was in good business, and
owned the House he lived in - They lived happily
together, and had 5 children - But unfortunately
they rented some rooms in the House to
persons, who were in the habit of treating & being
treated and as she was social with them,
the Landlady had to have her health drank so
often that she began to crave the Stimulant and
and privately took her own Juleps

Her Husband was a proud Man and was not
willing for her to associate with the Tenants but they
were there, and the temptation was growing upon
her - At last he found her drunk in one of their
rooms and became so initated that he struck
her for the first time and kicked and abused
her - But the die was cast - She was a Drunkard
and blows and kicks could not reform her -
He tried it often, but things grew worse, & worse.
The Care of the family, and children devolved upon
the hired girl, as sometimes, she would not be
sober for a week together - At last he resolved
to come to [Philadelphia], to try if a new place would
induce her to do better, but after staying 15
months here, his Sister came from Germany, & he
concluded to take her for Housekeeper, and moved
back with all the Children to his own House [number]
52 Leonard Street New York - The day Her
Husband left, he had her taken up in the morning,
and put in Prison, and when she returned
the Shop was empty but he left her all the household
furniture. She was now in utter despair
her Babe was only nine months old and she

felt her [Crossed out: utter] entire desolation. She had nothing now
but Rum, Rum, Rum! The Glass was again to her lips
they had kept 1/2 dozen Journey Shomakers, as
Boarders, and her husband probably thought she
would continue to keep them, and thus support
herself, but she was furious between grief, & liquor,
and drove the Boarders from her house - The
next day the Auctioneer was called, and all the
goods sold, and then it was drink, drink,
till all was gone, and Baker Street became
her refuge, and the Prison her only resting place.
Prostitution became her only means of procuring
the liquid poison that maddened her, and rendered
her desperate - At this period she recieved
a letter from a Cousin of her in New York, saying,
a Woman had come from Germany with three
children, who was the real wife of her Husband.
He had deserted them 12, or 13, years before &
Martha had lived with him as a wife 10
years - She could sink no lower than she
had, but this was another stroke upon her heart
when she was sober enough to realize her
condition - but she was never sober if she

could help it - M Townsend saw her three
times in the Prison and though she knew not the
particulars of her fate she was attracted by the lovliness
of her countenance for she was still beautiful and
the softness and gentleness of her manners -
At last hope sprung up in her heart and
resolution came to make an effort to be once
more a Woman - The missionary Gentlemen
encouraged her to come and she has now
been a month in the Rosine - May she
have strength to persevere

Francis Ford cam 5/25 1854 She is the Daughter
of Mary Ann Ford who lives on the Hookstown
road about 15 miles from Baltimore
Her first Husband left her a Farm of 120
acres and three children - She married
afterwards Henry Ford who died leaving
Francis but no other child - He had no
property but they lived on the first Husbands
Farm - A young Man who lived in Baltimore
of the name of [William Price] was in the habit of
visiting there as a friend of Henry Ford, and he
continued his visits after Henrys death and
seemed to be desirous to be considered a friend
of the family - On the Sabbath day July 4th 1853
the family were all at church, but Francis, who
was not yet 16 years old, and a colored Girl
a Slave - [William Price] who was in the neighborhood
on a gunning expedition came in, & she
says took the opportunity of her being alone &
forced her unwillingly to submit to him -
He soon afterwards went away - The Mother
came home in the eve, but knew nothing of
the occurrence, until the next morn, when

the Slave Woman, who Francis had offended by
refusing to give her some preserves told the Mother
and Sister - They became very angry, said she
had disgraced them and must leave the House
Their reproaches irritated her in turn, and
she told them if they said she had disgraced
them when she could not help it she would
really do it in the future - Her Mother, who it
appears is a Woman of ungoverned temper, and
who in her fits of anger had thrown hot flat
irons, and sticks of wood at her and had
beaten her now drove her from the house - She
walked the 15 miles to Baltimore, and not knowing
where to go, sought a house of ill fame, and staid [underlined] there [/underlined] -
A few days afterward, Samuel Parker found her at the
house, enquired her history, & took her from there - She became
his Mistress, and lived privately with him for a year,
when he brought her to [Philadelphia], and put her in the
Rosine - It was soon discovered that she was likely
to become a Mother - M Townsend wrote to let him
know the state of affairs, and he came in & took
her back - He supported her for awhile, and then
died - it is not known what became of her -

Josephine Wister, or Jane Orr, came 5/22 1857.
Her Parents live in Ireland. She & her sister
came over together when she was about 15
Her Sister is married, and lives in Lehigh
County New York. Her Husband is William
Davison - Jane lived at Service in several
places but after a while was taken by a Man
to a House, and ruined, and afterwards
went to Mary Cline's - From there to Lizzie Tobins,
and gradually went to Pine alley & Bedford
Streets and then to the Street - She
says she was met by a lady and sent here

Ida or Jennete Savage came June 16th 1857
Her Mother died when she was an infant and her
Father Joseph Savage is the proprietor of the Saline Saltworks
Syracuse New York - When she was 2 1/2 years
old she was placed at Osborns school at Jamestown
near Lake Erie where she staid till she was nine
years old when she returned home and found
her Father married again - She and her Step
Mother not getting along comfortably, her Father placed
her with her Aunt Elizabeth Forbes who brought
her to Philadelphia and opened a store. She continued
with her Aunt till she was about 16 when
she became engaged to be married to a young Man
but the match was broken off by the discovery of his having
had a child by another Girl - This circumstance distressed
her so much that she resolved to leave the City, &
to to her Grand Father, who lived not far from Syracuse
and with this intention she left her Aunts and went
out to Pittsburgh and from there to Cleveland where
she became acquainted at the Hotel with a Gentleman
who passed there for a widower with two
children - She played with the children and
owing to it storming was detained several days

During this time the Father proposed marriage &
as she was in great trouble from her former disappointment,
he prevailed on her to marry him & return
to [Philadelphia] - His name was William Wallace - He
took a house, furnished it, and they lived comfortably
3 months when she heard he had a another wife at
Wilks Barre - She said nothing to him but wrote
to the Lady to come down to the City - She came
and they were confronted, and she then refused to live
with him, and giving all up to the lawful wife
left the house that night and went to a Hotel where
she staid about a month - Here she became
acquainted with a another Man who after taking
her to various places of amusement took her to [Lizzie Tobins],
who she had known when she was a virtuous
Woman, and the prevailed on her to stay
there - His name was James Duncan a Hardware
Merchant in Market [Street] - He gave her plenty of
money and kept her about 6 months when finding
she took a walk with another young Man
he got angry and left her - The other one named
Phillips was conductor on a car - by him she
had a child, but he had done nothing for it -

Afterward she put her child out to board, but finding
the woman did not take good care of it, she
kept it a few days and then placed it with another
When it was about 6 months old a girl who had
married and went to live in Jersey took it and
she expects has it still - One day she was walking
in the Street after having been drinking some and
a young Man passing her her using some improper
expressions and handed her a tract - She took it
but did not read it for about a month when one
day she found it in her drawer and concluded
to read it - It was headed The last home for ruined
Women - It brought conviction to her mind &
a few days afterward she went to the Howard Home
where she staid 4 months but left upon a quarrel
with another girl - She then took Board at a respectable
but poor Womans house, and wrote to a young
Man named Edward Bailey who she had met
before she went to the Home, and he paid her
board, but recommended her to reform - Several
men she met advised her to come to the Rosine
so she concluded to come

[underlined] Catharine Gibbs [/underlined] April 1854. Daughter of John
Gibbs who died when she was so young she cannot
remember him. Her Mother died when she was only
three Months old and her Fathers sister, Susan
Herbert, wife of John D. Herbert who drives a cart
took her to bring up - She thinks a Man named
Dobson was her Guardian, but she knows nothing of
him. A Man named Clayton knew about her Grand Father's
property and he told her there was property that ought
to come to her - Her Aunt was very abusive to her
[Inserted: She once knocked her down, and broke her arm,]
and she has scars upon her now, where she was beaten -
When she was 15, some things were missed, and her
Aunt accused her of taking them, and then put her
in the house of Refuge where she staid two years -
Mrs Morgan, the Matron, there took her back to her
Aunts, who gave her a beating in two days afterwards -
Before she was 18 her Aunt turned her out of doors
and she then hired with a Mrs Justus & from there
went to Claytons - While there she married a
young Shomaker who deserted her in 3 weeks -
She then went back to her Aunts, and staid
awhile, and then worked out - She is 22 and
has worked out ever since - She is a Virtuous Girl

[underlined] Louisa Murry [/underlined] came 5/12 Her Father Henry Murry
lives in [New Brunswick]. Her Mother died when she was
14 & she went out to service - When she was about 18
she came to [Philadelphia] with a family named Willard,
& lived with them here about 18 months - One day when
she was washing the door step a Man stopped to talk with
her & from that time he often came and after a while
invited her to walk with him, and after they had taken
several walks he proposed paying her board and taking
her from her situation and got her to consent - He took
her to a Mrs Burtons, who keeps an Assignation House
[Number] 10 [Wood Street] [above] 13th - His name is Henry Hartman
He was agent of the Harrisburg Cars, and she has since
discovered that he has a wife at Reading - He paid her
board 4 months, and then he came & told her, his wife
had found it out and he had to leave the City -
She then recieved visits from other Men to pay her
board, though she says it was so disgusting to her, that
she pawned her clothes rather than do it - Several
persons both Men & Women advised her to come to the Rosine
even the Man who seduced her recommended her to come -
She has wanted to come for some time but did know where
to get admission -

Catharine Durham came to Rosine 4/49
She was then in her 24th year - Her father was
a cupper & Bleeder but was in the habit of
drinking - When she was about 14 her parents separated -
She had been in the habit of racing the streets
and having her own way, and at this time she married
a Boy of 18, named Frederick Godshell, a Jeweller,
an apprentice of Dubosqs - He took her to
a bad house, and she remained there till her
Mother found her out and took her home but would
not let her husband come to the House - Soon
after, her Daughter, Sarah Godshell was born at home -
Her Mother died when she was about 17 and
left her about 700 dollars and her furniture -
Her Husband then came to live with her, and
her little Boy was born while they together
which was about 4 years from the time they
were married - She knew nothing about housekeeping
and he was a rowdy Fireman so they quarrelled
and battled until they parted He [text crossed out]
often wanted her to
live again with him she refused - She paid
her childrens Board and earned the money

by prostistution - Mary Ranken who had kept
a bad House in New York came to [Philadelphia], &
meeting Catharine invited her to come live
with her, and after a while she took both the
children, and kept them at her house -
Then Catharine gave herself up to drink, and says
she was in, and out of Prison continually -
Sometimes twice in one day - On on occasion
she told M Townsend she had been in 9 times
in 6 weeks - The clerk of the Prison said &
Catharine confirms it that she had been there over
an hundred times - When M T first saw
her she was a most pitiable, bloated, wretched
looking creature, so much so , that she did not
say a word about coming to the Rosine, as she
thought she was so low there was no prospect of
saving her - But after a while she came & staid
three days and then ran away - After some months
she came again and after staying about 3 weeks
she ran away again and took a young girl
out with her - Months passed, and again
she came - she said she had married again
to Andrew McKean - He follows Oystering but

She says is a sober Man - they went to house
keeping but the liquor ruled her so much that
it made a Demon of her and she disgraced
herself and him constantly by her drunken
broils and spent every cent she could get from
him - He forgave her and they went to live
together 3 times, but all was in vain, she would
get drunk and be abusive and go to Prison.
The third time she came Providence touched
her heart and she seemed to have resolved
to do better but though the Spirit was willing
the flesh was weak

Eliza Foote came 6/18 1854 She was born in [Liverpool Street]
[Andrews Street]. Her Father died when she was two
years old on his passage to America - Her Brother came
over & settled in New York and when she was about 16 her
Mother and she came over to see them - In two weeks
afterwards the Mother returned, but Eliza remained.
She and her Brother soon quarreled and she went
with J Davis to the neighborhood of Mount Holly where
she lived about 4 years - During the time she lived
with a family of the name of Lucas, and a Brother
of the man, John Lucas, seduced her, and after she
she swore the child to him he paid her $150.00 -
It died in 6 months and she lived a year after
with a family named Gaskill - While there she
became acquainted with a woman who kept a
little shop, and who afterwards moved to the City.
This Woman frequently wrote to her urging her to come
and live with her, and offered her 175 [per] week - She
liked Mrs Gaskill very much, but the money tempted
her, and she came to the City - For about 4 weeks she
recieved the wages and by this time the Woman had
corrupted her principles entirely, and then took her
to one of the public squares where they picked up a

couple of Men and went to a House in Osborns Court
From that time instead of getting wages she entered
regularly into the life of a prostitute - Her name
was Elizabeth Parker In about two months they
quarreled and she left, and went to board with
a Mrs Sherry in Princes court Irving [Street] near 13th &
Spring Garden - Here several Girls boarded, but were
not allowed to bring Men home but they met them
out and went to Assignation Houses - For the
past 6 months she has boarded with Letitia Davis
Acorn Alley - From her first coming to [Philadelphia] she has
been in the habit of drinking and has been taken
up and put in Prison about 20 times, within
the two years she has been in the city - There
is a young Man named Thomas James, a Harness
Maker, who she says is attached to her, and she
thinks will marry her if she behaves herself
Mira Townsend found her in the Prison &
brought her to the Rosine

Anne Lind came 7/12 1854. Her Father died
when she was eight months old and her Mother
married again She has one Sister & 2 Brothers
Mira Townsend knows her family, but thinks
it best under the circumstances not to insert
her history in this Book.

Sarah Elizabeth Smith came June 28th [1854]
She cannot remember her Father James Smith,
who fell & was killed when building the wall
of a church. Her Mother Married [Hugh Were]
an intemperate Man, who does not
do much to support his family - They
live in [Washington Street], above 13th - a Frame
House - She says, her Mother put her to live
in the country, but she was not satisfied to
stay there and came home again - after a
time they saw an advertisement of a young
Girl being wanted at the Ocean House, Richmond,
and without a suspicion of the character
she engaged there as chambermaid at 75 [per] week.
When she was there a few days her ruin was
completed and she soon found she was enciente
A quarrel taking place among them she left the
House, and asked a Shelter of an old Woman
who kept a Candy Shop - She took her in &
kept her until after she miscarried &
recovered when the old Lady died & she lost
her home - She might have gone home to her
Mother, but her Step Father drank so much

and was so abusive that she was not willing
to be there, So, as she did not know where to go she
went to Plum Street, to Eliza Nelsons, where, after
a months dissipation she went diseased to the
Almshouse, and staid six months. When she came
out she went home, and staid a few days when her
Father beat, and kicked both her and her Mother
and she left again, and went to Mary Rankins,
where she staid a Month, and then left, and
met a Woman in the street, who she asked about
getting a place for her - The Woman made enquiries,
and she told her candidly the truth, and
she then advised her to go the Rosine - She
then remembered she had seen M Townsend at
the Almshouse who had told her to come so
she made up her mind at once, and was
recieved by Mrs Andrews -
Her Mother is a Sister of Eli Dillen. [Hannah Dillen]
is her Mothers Aunt -

[Laid in note - pencil on blue paper]

Shoes

X Mary Ann McCormic
X Caroline Davis
Mary Kelly
Caroline Kelly
Brigett Edwards
Emily Wilson
Jenny Fox
X Flora
Lizzie Johnson
Ann Balow
X Amelia Ribalt
Louisa Lloyd
Lizzie Fisher

Anna Marie Adams came from Baltimore
to Rosine 8/20 1854. She is the Daughter of Josiah
Adams, & Louise his Wife. Anne has lived
with her Aunt except for a while when she
lived with a Mrs Johnson in the country -
She knows very little of her parents except that
when her Father lived in Baltimore he kept
a Slop cart and she supposes her parents are
not the right kind of people as her Aunt,
Mary Ann Bees, who lives 21 Mulligan
Street, has not been willing for her to see them.
She has two Brothers who have been apprentices
to shomaking, and one with her parents
She says, she will be 12 years of age the first
day of next month [underlined] 9/1/1854 [/underlined] - It does not appear
that she is in need of reformation except childish
faults, and I see no occasion to place her
in such an Institution - She was sent here
by a Miss Howard of Baltimore

Esther Ann Savage is the Daughter of Captain
James R Coates - Her Mother died when she was
8 years old in Woodbury and her Father took
her to New York and married again, a Mary
Sharpless from Virginia - Esther boarded with
a Mrs Willett 203 Madison Street [New York] about
6 years until she was married which took
place three weeks before she was 15 - Her Father &
Step Mother both died previous to her marriage.
Her Husband was [William G Savage], also a Sea Captain -
a Man of 30 years old - After their marriage
her health was poor, and her Husband took her
to Virginia to his Fathers where she staid
several months but the old gentleman drank
and made the home so unpleasant that her
Husband took a Farm near Modest town
Accomac county Virginia - A Babe was
born three weeks after they went to Housekeeping
which lived 7 months - Up to this period
the Captain had been very kind to her but he grieved
a great deal about the loss of the child and from
that time he became indifferent to her, & his home - A
woman came into the neighborhood who she then

learned he had seduced in New York, and who
had been the Mother of two children by him -
From that time he deserted his home in a great
degree, and staid with his mistress - His
Father who drank badly, and who was determined
to force his own daughter to have
criminal intercourse with him, often came
there to seek his daughter, who they had to
hide in the fields and elsewhere from him,
and in his drunken mania was very
abusive to Esther also - She became again
enciente, and in this condition resolved to
leave her home, and came to Philadelphia
to her relatives - Her Uncle, [William C Ardis], [received]
her, and there she was confined - Afterwards
both her breasts gathered, and they had to keep
a Woman to wait on her - The Babe died at
5 months - She then got better and went to
Hiram Wards to trim Bonnets where she staid
some weeks and when they discharged her
she went out sewing a couple of weeks,
and then came to M Townsend, in and went to
an advertisement for a Store Keeper -

Soon after coming into the Store she was tempted
to take some articles belonging to the store,
and the Managers thought best under the
circumstances to place her as an Inmate until
futurity should open something else that might
be the right thing for her

Rebecca Lewis came about the 20th of October
Her step-Father John Holten keeps the Omnibus Hotel
near Girard College - Her own Father was
Edwin Lewis a picture Engraver in Baltimore
formerly of Philadelphia. He died when she
was ten years old, and she and another sister
went to live with an Aunt in Virginia
where she staid thee years - Her Mother
then married again and took her children
home - The two elder Sisters are married
One of them to [William Darragh] who works
at Norris's Engine factory - About 18 [months]
since she went to learn the Dress making
with Jane Henzey who introduced her
to some young Men who invited her to go
a concert - Her Mother had not allowed
her to go to such places so Jane Henzey told
her to say she was very busy with work &
wished her to stay all night which she
did and in the evening they went to the concert -
The next morning a Man who had
seen her at the Concert told her Father that
he had seen her - Her Father it must be a

mistake but the Man said it was not for he
had shaken hands with her there - When she
returned, they reproached her with having
told a falsehood, and this was the first
time she had broken her bond - They then took
her from Jane Henzey, who they found was not
a suitable woman, and kept her at home.
Soon after she formed an attachment with a
a Young Man named George Sloan, a Carpenter
who her parents disapproved of, and her
Father at last said if she kept his company she
should leave his house - This she said she
would do, and accordingly packed up her
clothes, and went to Jane Henzeys, where she
staid, and Sloan paid her Board - She
was not seduced till five weeks after
she left home, and she then expected he
would marry her - He then took
a house, and they lived together, and passed
as married, but she was very unhappy
as she knew it was wrong and wicked to
live in that way, and as time passed over
he got to drinking and often treated her brutally

She also found she was in the family way
and her troubles, mentally and bodily increasing
she resolved to go to the Almshouse, and
thus get away from him - She then went
there, and soon after being taken with chills,
she miscarried, and when she got
better, and came out of the Almshous
she came to the Rosine - She appears
truly penitent and desires to do right in
the future -

Rosanna Calloway came June 2nd 1854 -
She lost her Mother when she was ten years
old, and lived with an Uncle and came
with his family to this country - They lived
in Albany, and were people who indulged
in drink but did not get drunk - But
as the temptation was frequently before her
she became fond of it and if she could
not get it in the house she would send
out for it - This her friends disapproved
and difficulties ensued which ended in
her leaving them

Susanna Densmore came 12/20 1854. Her
parents lived at Minersville and the Father
was a Coal Miner. When she was about
two years old her Father was in a mine,
when it caved in, & he was enclosed there
a week before they got him out. During that
period his wife was confined & died, and
the Father went deranged about the loss of
his Wife, and is still in a Lunatic Asylum -
She lived about in different families till
a Mr Mitchel had her bound to him, and
she lived there till he died and the family
was broken up - Since then she has lived
in several families - She was in a family
there, when a Mrs Vesey came up to pay
a visit in the neighborhood and met with
her - She invited her to come to the city &
live with her and they made the arrangement -
She came but soon discovered
it was a house of ill fame, and made
up her mind to leave, though she did not
know where to go - She did and went about
the streets enquiring for a young Girl she had met

once, but no one could tell and thus
she wandered on till she met a girl to
whom she told her story - The girl took
her with her to her home, which proved
also to be a bad house - The girl took
her into a room where they slept together
but in the morning from the cards
which were thrown about, and other
symptoms she found out the character
of the place, and felt her safety consisted
in leaving at once - Again she
started & took to the street and was
crying as she walked along discouraged
and disheartened - Mr Spain
the Guardian of the Poor saw her thus
and stopped her in the street and
after hearing her story took her to his
his house where he gave her a home
till she got a situation a Frederick
Luckinbaugh a Cabinet Maker in
Coates near 10th where she staid about
two months, but the times getting bad with them
he could not keep her and sent her to the Rosine -

Hannah Roach came to the Rosine in
January 1855. Her Father Patrick Roach lives
[Number] 14 Jones Alley. He buys oranges Fruit etc and carries
a basket to the cars the wharf etc. She has
lived a while in several places. One was with
a Mrs Page Arch below 2nd - Last summer
she was at home and became acquainted with
several bad Girls two of whom took her down to
the Wharf, and onto a vessel where it appears
they had engaged to bring a fresh victim to the
captain, and there deliberately bargained with
him for each of them to have 5.00. and she says
he gave them the money, and gave her $45.00.
He was alone on board. His name was
Rosemond - The vessel the Elizabeth Georgia -
After her ruin was consummated they all
left the vessel together - She told her Mother
she had found the money - They afterwards
took her to the Theatre, to learn to dance
and act, and went for a week but she staid
one evening and saw the Actresses painting
and dressing up for the Stage, which disgusted
her so much that she did not go any more.

As she came from there the last evening a Police
officer stopped her in the street, and she says made
infamous proposals to her, and on her refusing,
he threatened to arrest her, and at last did
arrest her, and took her before [Alderman Mitchel]
who committed her to the Station in
Cherry Street. She staid there till morn
when the Alderman let her go. Afterwards,
some of the persons who she had told what he
had said, told him, and he arrested her
again as she was going along quietly, and
told her if she exposed him thus, and
would not comply with his wishes he would
arrest her again - She again refused
him, & he then arrested her, and she was
committed to the Station House once more.
In the morning as they were taking her to the
Aldermans, Richard Price saw her, and
pitied her, as she was crying as they took
her to the Office and through his efforts &
interest she was placed in the Rosine -
Hannah was 15 years old, August 1854 and
will be 1857 when she will be free -

Susan Evans came to Rosine 8/12 1854 Her Mother
died when she was 7 years old, and she was placed
with an Uncle in the country. She says she formed
an attachment to a young Man but her Father
did not approve of it and broke off the match
When she was about 19 she was paying a visit
at Harrisburg and was invited to a House
which she supposed to be a respectable one
but it did not turn out so There she was
seduced by Isaac R Diller who one edited
a paper in Downingtown & Harrisburg - She had no connection
with him afterwards though she occasionally
met him in houses of ill fame - After this
circumstance Dillin told it to a Lawyer Fox
who spread the report, and as she found it
was circulated she and a young Girl a
Milliner, went to york, and entered a House
of ill Fame. From that time she has led a bad
life and has boarded at Emma Weldons &
other places. Like many others she became
a Drunkard and sank down to the lowest ebb.
The woman who brought her here said she had
been living with a colored Man. She denies it

but is most probably true. She says her
Sister is married to a Man named [Hentride?]
a Gambler -

- Catherine Foster came to to the Rosine
4th month 7th 1855, a resident of [Philadelphia], has 2 children,
one married in New York John Foster plasterer.
David - in Washington City, Boot Maker.
Her husband John Foster has not lived with
her for 12 years. Intemperance the cause.
Has been intemperate for eight years is willing
to take the pledge, and endeavour to do
all that is required of her.

- Emily Griffin, came to the Rosine 16th of 4th month
is a native of Baltimore. Was taken when an
infant by her aunt - and cannot tell whether
her parents are living or not. Was decoy'd
during a protraelect Meeting, by a stranger,
taken to a house of ill fame, spent one night
and never saw him again, did not visit
the house again, but went to a boarding house,
where she remained for some month, then
came to [Philadelphia], where she has resided in


in various parts of the southern section living an
immoral life. Without friends or hope for the
last eight years, living for the past 2 years,
with one man. For the past year, she
has felt the slings of remorse, and resolved
to do better. Selling out her furniture, and
coming to the Rosine. Her aunts name is
Louisa Smith. Lives in Jefferson, between
Ansquith and Canal below [Short Street] Baltimore.

- Ellen Owens - was received at the Rosine
[February] 28th 1855 - from Mrs James Wilson who
brought her from Baltimore. She was
bound to James Kershaw on the Western
Shore of Maryland, at 8 years of age. She
remained till nearly Sixteen, when she ran
away, his cruelty was more than she could bear.
After leaving Baltimore to her Sisters
where she met a young Man
who seemed much pleased with her, One
evening, he invited her to visit the
Museum, with her sisters permission

she accompanied him, when to her
surprise she found he had taken,
her to a house of ill fame, where he accomplished
her ruin, after doing all she
could to resist, With this young Man
[William] Webster, she quarrelled, and refused
to see him, soon after she was taken with
pain in her knee, & the woman with
whom she boarded sent her to the
Infirmary, not improving, she returned
to this home, where she was
kindly treated. Not feeling satisfied,
she went to the Almshouse, where
Mrs Wilson found her, and took her
to the Home Mission, where she remained
for six weeks, when Mrs Wilson
brought her to this association.

Ann Bradley from Ireland 13 years in this
Country her Husband left her she took to drinking
came in the Rosine the third of May with the
desire of reforming willing to conform to all
the rules of the house

Catharin Jonsthen from Scotland came in
the Rosine the 6th day of May she has no parents
she says she was married in this country
lost her Husband. then being thrown upon
the world the consequence was she gave
up to the temptation came in of her own accord

Anne Larkens was recieved in the
Rosine the 5th May she is a native of
Philadelphia her parents are deceased
she has Sisters & Brothers She left home
quite young She has been living with
a Michael Larkens and says she
ought to be Mrs Larkens she has no
children they are all his he has a
pottery at fifth & Christian her Children
have all been placed at boarding school
for the last year she has been doing
worse than ever if that could be but
has made up her mind to try to do
better

Margaret Robinson was received in the
Rosine the 21st May has been in before
the [Longs?] gave her liberty to go out

was out one week gave up to temptation
was glad to get back again thinks she
will now reform

Catharine Hanks was received in the
Rosine May 5th born in this City has
a Mother Sisters & Brothers She says they
are very respectable some of them have not
spoken to her for several years on account
of her leading a bad life she has been
living out at Service lost her place
the people going to the Country She was
then thrown upon the world without
a home she was tempted could not
resist was recomended to come here
she seems to be in great distress of mind
but a strong desire to lead a different
life

Henerietta Williams was received in the
Rosine 28th May she is in her 20th year has been
married twice one child she has never had
any communication with any other man
her object in coming here is to learn to earn
her own living in a respectable manner

Elizabeth Harris she was received in the
Rosine the 21st of May she was born in germany
in the town of Athen - came to this country
when she was 4 months old was adopted by
a man by the name of Charles Vausman
of Lancaster and there lived untill
she was sixteen she then left and went
to work in a mill was there 9 months
she then returned to her adopted Mother and
remained one month then went from
there to her Brothers and from there
to her step Mothers she was there 6
months then she was married To a
man by the name by the name - of
Andrew Folger she lived with him
4 years then he died she then returned
to her Step Mother and there resided
2 months then came to the City and hardly
the proposal making was out that 2
months then she was taken sick
she went to the Alms house from there to
a family by the name of Murry stayed
there untill she came here

Ann Monks came in the Rosine
the 28th of May she was born in Ireland
in the City of Cork arrived in America
last October she has been living with
her Sister in New York left there 3
weeks ago came to Philadelphia
got lodgings in the Station house
for 3 nights and from there was taken
to the Prison and there remained untill
Mira Townsend saw her there and tried
to get her to come in the Rosine but
did not succeed that time but when
she saw her again she consented to
come here

Emma Boyd came 2/12/1856 She was born
at Newhaven Connecticut - Her Parents died
when she was 8 years old and she then
lived with her Grandmother Mary Sutfan
who still lives at New Haven and is comfortably
situated - She worked with her
Grand Mother at her sewing and when
she was about 18, was seduced by a young
Man to whom she was engaged to be
married - Finding he would not marry
her afterward she left [New Haven] &
went to an uncles in Neward whe
worked at sewing - From there she
went up to Easton and worked
until the week before Christmas when
she came to the city to seek employment
accompanied by another girl - When
they arrived at the wharf she lost the
girl in the crowd and asked the
Hackman take her to the White Swan
Hotel which she had heard of among
the Easton people - The Hackman said
a Tavern was not a pleasant place for

a young Lady, and he could take her to a
good boarding House - She consented & he
took her to a House of ill Fame. the next day
finding the character of the House, she refused
to stay, and a girl took her to another, which
proved to be an assignation House. After being
there a few days another girl took her up
to Kate Hawkins, who is married to a youth
named John Sinclair - Here she was so
unhappy that Kate recommended her to
come to the Rosine - The Lord knows she
said if I had known where to go I would not
have staid at those houses one single day.

Flora Foster came 12/15 1855. Her Father lives
in Boston and is named Francis Lopez. He is
a native of Cuba and has followed the Sea sometimes
and for awhile kept a clothing store in Boston.
He was once captain of the Saranac sailing
from Philadelphia. Her Mother died when she
was 14 years old, and when she was 15 & three
months she married David Henry Foster. He
had asked her Fathers consent but he objected
on account of her youth so he persuaded her &
an older Sister to come to Philadelphia with him
and they were married here and then returned
to Boston - The Father was angry, but soon
forgave them, and took them to live with him.
They remained there a year, when the
Husband and Father quarrelled and they
came on to Philadelphia and he resumed
his occupation of a Scene Painter - They
lived happily a while, but her husband
took to drink, and was sometimes abusive -
In early life she had sometimes gone
on the stage to perform and now she recieved
a letter offering her an engagement with a Company

of Itinerant performers - She went with them
and formed while with them a connection
with an Actor named James Webb and soon
became enciente - She continued with him
within three weeks of her confinement
when she returned home. Her husband
did not appear to think any thing was
wrong until Webb came to the house after
she was confined and claimed the child -
She fainted and was sick two weeks
afterward - When the Babe was 5 months
old the girl who nursed it had it at the
door when Webb came and carried it
away - When she found it was gone
she was almost frantic, and without
a Bonnet, followed him to the Wharf
and saw him in the New York Boat which
had just pushed off - He held up the Babe
to shew it to her - She fainted on the
wharf and almost crazed followed the
next day after him but after he left
the Boat she could hear no more of him
and has since neither heard of him

not her child - She then returned and having
a quarrel with her husband he struck her in
the Street - She resolved to leave him & meeting
a girl belonging to the Theatre of the name of [Clara Norris]
she took her to a house in little Oak
Street where she staid but not having the
means to pay her board she went to the
Street and accompanied a Man to an
Assignation House and continued this
practice for about 8 months when she met
her husband in the Street, and they became
reconciled, and went to live together again.
But in a month he abused her again & she
came to the Rosine for a refuge

Anne Walker came soon after her Mother
in March & remained in the House 4 months
when she went out, staid 3 weeks & returned
8/8 1856 - Her Father left her Mother & enlisted
when she was only a month old & died away.
Her Mother then married a Lawyer who also
died in Manchester England - Her Mother
had taken to drink and probably on that
account came over to [Philadelphia] where she
had a Sister living a Mrs Jamison a confectioner
in Lombard [Street] above 13th - The
Mother went out nursing and Anne
was hired out at two or three places -
Two years since her Mother took a room
pretending to go out sewing but after a while
Anne found that her Mother went with
Men to Assignation Houses - after a while
she began to bring them home telling them
she had a young Daughter of 16 - For a while
she tried in vain to corrupt Anne, but she
refused to have any thing to do with the Men
her Mother brought - For this she beat &
abused her, telling her if she would only

do as she wished her to, she might be a Lady
and make her Mother one - Poor Anne at
last, weary of the persecution she endured and
enticed by the Men yielded reluctantly - Afterward
her Mother took her to various assignation
houses, and at last broke up room
keeping and took her to board with [Mary Cline]
- From there they went to other houses,
as her Mothers habits of intemperance were
so bad, that the Women were afraid to
keep her fearing their houses would be indited -
Anne says she never wished to lead
a bad life, and hearing of the Rosine she
came hoping to keep clear of her Mother
for whom she feels almost a hatred knowing
her to be the sole cause of her ruin.
The Mother was here a short time before
Anne came, but is now generally in the
Prison - The poor child says she knows
that she would not be out many hours before
her Mother would find her and drag her again
to perdition.

Margaret Wilson came [January] 5th 1856. M T
had recieved a note from a Missionary to
call on Margaret in St. Marys Street. She
was out, but M left a message, and a Rosine
Book for her - This she read and resolved
to come and now at this period 8/15 has been
8 months in the house - She has been three
years from Ireland, near Newtown, Lymvaddy [Limavady]
County Derry - Her Mother Hannah Wilson
lives on a Farm there - She left home, having
heard so much of America that she resolved to
come and seek her fortune. On arriving
she got a situation with J C Mitchel a Lawyer
on 6th [above] Walnut where she lived a long
time - Taking offence at a trifle she left
there, and lived with a Mrs Barclay, but
not being settled there, she left, and stopped
at a house to enquire for a place to board till
she got another place - The woman took her
in, and at the time she had no suspicion
of any wrong, but in the evening two Men
came there and they had wine and made
merry but alas a sad morning followed

as poor Margaret found she was a ruined Girl.
Ashamed to show her face in the Street she remained
there as she had not courage to go to a decent
house to look for a place and the Man continued
to come to see here - But he soon got board for
her at St. Mary's [Street] - Several Girls boarded there
who were kept by Men, but they had to go
to assignation houses as they were not allowed
to frequent the house - After a while she became
diseased, and Dr. Rizer cured her, but she
felt so unhappy that when she saw the
Missionary she promised him she would
leave as soon he would get a home for her.
She seems to be a religious, good girl, &
desires to do what is right

Anne Patterson came 8/10 1856 Her Mother
is deceased. Her Father Robert Patterson
is a hod carrier Margaret and Mary Patterson
are his Aunts. They live in [23d Street] near
[Lynn Street], towards Fair Mount. She went
to the Public school until the death of her
Mother, when she was 12 years old -
then she went out to live and has been
in various places. She was in an Ice
Cream House near Fair Mount, but left
there in consequence of a quarreling with
another girl. She had been returned so
often upon her Aunts hands that she felt
afraid to go there, and meeting a Girl
in the Street she struck up acquaintance
with her, and there went to Logan Square.
When evening came they went to a house
with a couple of Men, and thus she passed
a week, loitering round the Square in the
day, and going with Men at night. But
it appears she made little money by her
operations as she had nothing to pay for a

lodging for herself, and went to the Station house
to ask them to take her in - The Police Men
advised her to come to the Rosine and she
came 8/10 - She has a Sister who lives at a
Mr Fislers in 5th [Street] below [Green]
Her Grand Father is Robert Patterson a carpet
weaver in 23d below Vine

Angeline Rissinger came 8/15 She
says she is a widow. That her husband
was drowned in the Delaware the 20th of
April. Her Maiden names was McClain
Her Father John McClain is deceased, and her
Mother Catharine, lives on a Farm 1 1/2 miles
from New Brighton. She lived at home
until she married William Rissinger.
He was a Clerk in a Store, but his lungs
becoming affected they went to Buffalo to
his Friends. From there to New York where
she looked at Dress Making, and she
had to support him - From there to [Philadelphia],
where he was drowned in the Delaware.
She has lived at service, sewing in different
families, but getting sick she went to the
Almshouse, where she was sick 5 months,
in the Medical Ward - On coming
out she went to Camden, where she had
been living with [William Henderson], in [Market Street],
but Mrs Henderson refused to let her
have her clothes, so she concluded to come to
the Rosine - She says she is a virtuous

respectable Woman but has been unfortunate
in having a sick Husband away from her
friends, and has had a great deal of trouble -
She saw a Rosine Report at the Almshouse &
thus knew of the Institution

Sarah Dilhorn [February] 23d 1856. Her Father
[William Dilhorn] and her Mother Hannah formerly
Kernck are both Mutes and were both
in the Asylum together - [William] is a Shomaker,
and married Hannah in the Asylum,
17 years since - She has a Mute Brother
who lives with them, & is a Brickmaker.
[William] & Hannah have only 2 children and
the youngest Mary Ellen Dilhorn is now in
the Asylum and is a Mute - [William's] Father
& Mother & 2 Brothers are Mutes who both
married Mutes at the Asylum. One
of these Brothers has a mute child - What
an afflicted family - Sarah our Inmate
is a pretty little Black Eyed Girl - It appears
that her Mother was anxious for her to live
among Strangers as she was the only one of
her family that could speak & hear and she
has lived out twice in families a few weeks -
Her Father works for a Shop and sent Sarah
to carry home shoes - In one of these errands
she met a young Girl, who spoke to her, named
Lizzie Campbell, and invited her to walk with

her - She took her to a Mrs Robinson’s in Acorn
Alley, and from that time they went there
almost every night. She made her Mother
believe she went to one of the houses where
she had lived, and thus carried on the
deception - After frequenting Acorn Alley
about three months, Lizzie took her down
to a house in Shippen Street, kept by a Colored
Man named James Donley, who keeps 4
white Girls, for the accommodation of himself
and friends, both white, and colored -
There she staid 3 weeks, submitting to these
degraded Men - Her Mother then
was told where she was, and went to
an Aldermans Office, and had her
arrested, taken to Alderman Ogle Office,
and committed to Prison - [William J Mullen]
came up to M Townsend who went down
and brought her up to the Rosine - She
has now 8/15 been here nearly six months
and is a very good little Girl -
She was 17 last March

Mary Jane Tounley came [February] 19, 1856.
Her Father died by an accident before she was
born, and her Mother when she was six weeks
old - She was then adopted by John Tucker
& his wife who lived next door and they
brought her up till she was about 16 -
John Tucker lives in Pottsville & keeps a
Tavern there - A young Man named Joseph
Moyer, a Painter, wanted to marry her, but
Tucker was a Catholic, & the lover was a protestant,
so he would not consent to the match.
After a while they concluded to run off
but the promise of marriage was never
fulfilled - They came to the city, and boarded
together nearly a year, but he proved
intemperate, and often abused her, He
then disappeared entirely, and she was
advised to go to the House of the Good
Shepherd - She went, staid three months, &
then became dissatisfied and went to the
Magdalen where she remained a year
then wanting another change she left
there and came to the Rosine

She staid here six months and then
was influenced by another Girl to go out,
and enter a life of dissipation - They
went to Blackberry Alley where after a
week she returned to the Rosine [underlined] 8/17/[1856] [/underlined]
Staid a week & then with Sally Black went out
again to sin 8/20 1856

Sarah Smith, or Catharine Bradley, or Felicite, came
to the Rosine 8/4 1856 - Her Father Daniel
Bradley lived in New York and died one
year after her birth. Her Mother then married
Patrick Toland, and died when she was 13.
She has a Brother in New York 85 [Columbia Street]
When she was about 16 she was seduced by a young
Man, a Police man, who was married, and whose
wife employed her as child nurse - When her
Sister discovered what had happened, she put
her in the Tombs for safe keeping, and Mrs
Kitty brought her to the good Shepherd where she
staid 4 years. She then came out, and went
to sewing, but soon fell in bad company, and
went to Mary Yeagers, who lives [number] 6 Watsons
Alley - She staid a month there, and then
went to the Magdalen, but not liking it
came to the Rosine - She has now Scrofula
in the back of the neck and has to go to the
Almshouse -

Mary Jane Myers came November 1855.
Her Father is William Everly, corner of [Jefferson Avenue],
& [Prime Street], a Painter - Her Mother died
when she was so young she cannot remember
her - Is now married - She worked awhile
in the button factory of her Uncle Miller
Everly in Harmony Court 4th near German.
Here she got into bad company, was seduced,
had a child in the Almshouse, and got to drinking -
She went to learn the pantaloon making,
but the Woman drank and they
both drank together but after a while she
resolved to come to the Rosine & has been here
22 months

Rosanna Swan or McCluskey came April 14 1856 Her Father
died in Scotland when she was 6 years. Her Mother
lives in Glasgow named Mary Swan. She married
young, had two children that died & her
husband turned out so badly that she came
over her to get away from him. Since she
came to America she has lived at service, but
got to drinking lost her clothing and was
sent by Mr Bringhurst to the Rosine -

Anne Bradley, or Oneal came 12/26/1856 -
Her Father died when she was 7 years old. She
expects her Mother is still living. She has been
married, but her husband has left her, and
she knows nothing of him, which is not to be
wondered at, as Anne's tongue and temper are
terrible - She has lived at service but
came here through intemperance -

Margaret McCarty came 8/25 1856
She does not remember her Father, & her Mother
died when she was ten years old. She
was brought up by Matthew Randalls wife,
She afterwards lived at various places as
a domestic. She was then kept by a Captain
Taylor 6 years but when she took
to drink he deserted her - Since then
she married, but both she and her husband
drank. They quarreled and he put her
in prison then took their goods and moved
them out of town - She has spent 6 years
in the Almshouse, and has been in the
Media Almshouse - Came from Prison
a week since and has had no place but
the station house to be in since

Henry Vandyke Rowan is the Father of Henrietta
Rowan. They have lived in Tinicum
and he is a Common laborer. She had a
Sister married to a Man named Daniel Reeves,
(but her Sister is dead) in Christian Street back
of [number] 66. Her Father, & Brother both used the
two Children for the indulgence of their passions,
and she had a child when she was only
13 years - She says she never had connection
with any body but them until the last week.
Her Father in a drunken spree turned both of
them out and they came to the city - The
Sister got a place at a Mrs Browns Mead
Alley - She went to her Brother in law D. Reeves
where she staid a week. They got her a place
but she did not understand the work &
was discharged. She then concluded
to go in the Baltimore car, to her Sister,
who is married to a Man named
Johnson, in Brandywine hundred, but
she found she had not money enough to pay
her passage so she fell into discourse with
a Man named Jem Donnelly a Driver

of one of the Omnibuss. He told her if she
would stay with him that night the next
day he would get her a boarding house.
He then took her to a Barn where he staid
with her - There were two other Men
there, and all of them used her - The
next night she spent in the Barn
also, and the next day a police man
seeing her hanging round, got to questioning
her, and hearing her story took her
to the Mayors Office, and [William Mullen] seeing
her, they concluded to bring her to the Rosine.
But she seems to have little or no sense of
the wickedness of such a life, and says
she wants to go back to Jem, for he promised
to pay her Board - The poor foolish child
gave him her clothes to take care of for her

Laurie Anne McPhillips came 8/25. She is
the Daughter of Peter McPhillips in the Town
of Monahon, Monahon County, Ireland -
Her Mother died when she was but 8 years
old. Her Father keeps a Hotel called the
Western Arms. She lived at home
till she was married, when her Father
put them into the Dry good business, at
which her Husband had been brought up
and they kept the Store about 4 years -
But they both drank and quarelled &
neglected their business until they had to
give it up and the husband went to
America and she to her Fathers, but
she could not be contented without
coming here too so she left her child
with her Father, and came over - She
has an Uncle, & Cousin of the name of [Owen Mac Phillips],
an Iron founder, New York
[number] 30 [Lewis Street]

Ellen Sutfield Herbert came 8/6 1857
Her Mother died when she was 3 years old
and her Father when she was about 10.
Her Brother James Sutfield is Engineer on
one of the Baltimore Cars. When she
was about 15 she was married to
Samuel Herbert a Cooper by trade
She says he is a clever Man but
passionate and a few days since
they had a quarrel and he struck her
In revenge she stored all their goods
away, and left him & came to the
Rosine - She was recieved on the
6th - On the 8th M Townsend conversed
with her, and finding the circumstances
of the case gave her the advice
she deemed suitable, and told her she
had better return to her husband immediately
and dismissed her at once
Her husbands Father is John Herbert [5th Street]
2nd down [below] [Catharine Street]

Catharine Mulgrew spent a year in the
Rosine and then was taken out by a Woman
who keeps a liquor Shop under the
pretence of sending her to her Father in the
Country but kept her really at her own
house - She soon took to drink and in
2 months 9/8 returned to the Rosine.
Her Father Thomas Dunahoe lives in
[Shippen Street] above Broad next door to a
Baker - He hauls dirt - She has a Brother
James a Policeman - Her Mother died
when she was but 6 years old - Her
Father hired her out in different families
till at 17 she married Michael Mulgrew
a Shomaker, who like most Shomakers
drinks part, and works part of the week.
She soon learned to drink too and they
quarrelled and drank and then drank
and quarreled until they had 3 children
two of whom died and when the [third] was
a Babe he invited her to take a ride
and took her out in a carriage to the
Almshouse where he had an order for her

to be recieved as an insane patient.
In a few days the [Doctors] discharged her,
and when she returned her home was
broken p, the furniture sold, & the
husband gone to New York with another
woman - She followed but could
not find him - The last child died
and she came to the Rosine -

Sarah Black or Collins came September 1855
She cannot remember her Mother - She lived
at home till she was ten years old when she
came to America to her Brother & 2 Sisters
Her Brother Charles McCullock has the
charge of the Pennsylvania Rail Road office
in [Walnut Street] [below] 4th - Sally hired out
till she was about 20, when she married
Tim Collins, who lived only a year -
She says she had lived a virtuous
life but living about had learned to
drink, and had to go to the Almshouse
where she remained several months.
She afterwards went to drinking again, then
went to the Good Shepherd, where she staid
six months - Then left & came to the Rosine.
Here she staid and conducted well
ten months when she went out with
Virginia Hughes and got liquor and
for the first time went to a bad House.
She returned to the Rosine but the taste of the
liquor was revived and in a day or two
she would go again and was in Blackberry

Alley and sunk herself lower than ever -
Twice she returned, but not settled enough
to be contented, and now, though here, is
still longing for the curse that makes her
need the restraints of this house. She returned
to the house to start over again for a year 8/15
1856. She is not yet 21

Eugenia Wilcox came 12/24 1856 She is the Daughter
of John Myers Linen Manufacturer Knaisbrought
England He employs 800 hands - She lived
at home till she was 16 when she married
William Long a confectioner - Her parents
were not pleased with the match as they thought
him beneath her, but they furnished the house for her
and they kept a Huckster shop, and [Crossed out: they]
lived comfortably 13 years when they resolved
to come to America. Her husband followed
carting in New York and they lived comfortably
5 years when he died - She then followed upholstering
for some time, but getting into low
company, she took to drink, went to the
Magdalen, & the Home, and finally came
to [Philadelphia] with a couple of vagrants, who
came on here to get the benefit of our [underlined] Almshouse [/underlined].
There they took her also, and she has been
there she thinks 4 years out of the 5 since
she came - Mira Townsend found her
in the Moyamensing Prison 12/20 and
procured her release and 4 days after she
came to the Rosine

Emma Evans came 12/13 she is the Daughter
of Mary Ann Evans who lives with
Esra Evans Marleton. Her Father was a
Farmer and died two years since and
she has two sisters comfortably married one
of whom Meribah Rubert lives in Haddonfield
Wishing to live in the City, she came and worked
at the Bonnet frame making, but soon made
acquaintance, and in a month became
a ruined girl - The downward path is a
short one she was soon in a house of ill
fame. Upon the advice of a Methodist
Policeman she went to the Magdalen, and
staid eleven months but getting tired of the
monotony there she came out and went to
Mary Jane Taylors [number] 3 Pine Alley where she
remained three months - One evening being
at Buck Hall Hoffmans ball room a young
Man who was intoxicated kicked her
on the arm and hurt her very much
Two weeks afterward she came to the Rosine
She is, now only a little past 17

Anne McClosky had been in the Rosine
and returned 12/15 1856. She lost her Parents
when she was only five years old and married
when she was 16 a Dry goods Store keeper. Her
Husband died 3 years afterwards leaving her
two Children - Her Brother Patrick Toland
has got up in the world since he came to
America and now lives at Milwawkie
and has been a Member of the Legislature -
He wrote to Anne after her husbands death
to come over, so leaving both the Children
there, she came and lived with her Brother
six months but being troubled about her Children
she left came to [Philadelphia] went to service &
earned money and sent for her Children -
She then kept a room and went out to work
Her Boy learnt to be a Painter, & is now married
Her daughter at 16 left the place where she was
living went to Plum Street to Mary McGinnis!
Her Mother got her from there but she soon left
and went to Jane Tullys but for the past six
years she has had no information of her
except a letter saying she was married &

lived at Savannah - Anne says she was
a sober woman till her Daughter went off
and then she took to drink - She profess
to be virtuous but will occasionally drink

Isabella Taylor came 12/29 1858 Her Father
Thomas Taylor is a Pipe Maker in Williamsburg
New York. Her Mother died when she was seven
years old, & her Father married again. She
continued at home till she was 14 when she
ran away with a Man named John Moore who
now lives in Bedford [Street] above 6th & follows huckstering -
She lived with him 3 years, but he was
unfaithful to her, & jealous of her if she noticed
any other person and often beat & abused
her - She then left him & went home to her
Fathers but she did not agree with her Step Mother
and came back - Sometimes she got
Tailor work but for a year has led a bad
live altogether - She has lived mostly in
Bedford, & Spafford [Streets].

Emma Kithcard came 12/29 1856 with Isabella
Taylor - She was born in Elfreths Alley - Her Mother
died when she was about 5 years old & she
was placed with a Mrs Laurence who brought
her up - She afterwards hired out till she
was married to [William Curtis Powell], a Gas fitter -
He was intemperate, and died with mania
potu two years after - Soon after she got to
drinking & went downtown to live. Her Father
Jacob Kithcard lives in [Christian Street] above 10th.

Mary Jane Allman came January 2nd,
1857 - She was born in London. Her Father
William Allman now lives in Londonderry -
was a Miller - She had a Sister lived at James
Galbraiths Wood Wharf who sent for her when
she was only 9 years old - She staid at Galbraiths
2 years and then went to the Red Lion
Hotel where she staid 9 years - From there
she went to the Guard House - where she staid
2 years - One evening a French Gentleman named
Frank Constant who boarded there invited
her to take a walk with him - He had previously
given her various presents and she
pleased to be noticed by a Gentleman went
with him - He took her to [Curly Bouvices?]
corner of 4th & Shippen and there ruined
her and left her promising to pay her board
which he did 4 weeks - Then becoming tired
or Jealous he cast her on to the Town -
She then went to Mary Rankin and
lived with her till she came to the
Rosine -

Amelia Ribell came September 29th 1846

Mary Haines was brought from the Prison by
M Townsend 5/22/1857. Her Mother is a Widow &
lives with a Mrs Hager 3 miles from Chestnut Hill
at a place called Barn Hill - Her Mother goes out
to do days works. Her name is Elizabeth Haines -
Since her Fathers death 18 months, since, she has lived
at her Aunts Rachel Haines, at Chestnut Hill -
A young Man named Jake Myers persuaded her
to come to the city, promising he would get her a
situation - she had been in the city before, and
knew Mary Shaffer in Elder Street and went there.
This young fellow ruined her, and she has been with
one other Man, who she says diseased her -
She says she went to doors asking for a place, but
did not succeed, so far want of employment
she went to the public squares, where she formed
acquaintance with the other girls, and she with
4 others were all taken up by the Police, in Independence
Square, taken before Alderman Eneu,
and by him committed to Prison - [William Mullen] came
up to M Townsend, who went down and bought
up the five Girls -

Grace Amler came with the others from the Prison
5/22 - She is from Bremen Germany - is 18 years old
Her Parents have died since they came to this Country
She has lived with two persons with whom she
has learned the Tailoring and worked at it
until 2 months since when she went with
[blank] to Cash's office who seduced
her, and she says gave her ten dollars. She
afterwards went to Selfwrights office in Front
above Chestnut, and to some other Offices -
She thus entered into a life of crime, and
gave up work -

Emma Davis came with the others from the Prison 5/22.
She says her first memory is, that she was living with
a Squaw in Indiana, named Tucksiopus, or Lizzie
Tokus - She knows nothing of her Parents - When she
was about 14 she became dissatisfied, and wished
to leave the Indians and the squaw gave her
money to pay her passage to Boston and put her
under the care of a conductor on a train - She
staid one week in Boston, and then got her passage
free to New York where she staid about 6 months,
and worked at the artificial flower making - There
she formed an acquaintance with a young Man
who took her to a house of bad character and seduced
her. She remained there two months and then
came with him to [Philadelphia] He took her to [Kate Hawkins]
where she remained three months but
getting into a quarrel with Kate she left and
went to a house up [4th Street], and staid two months
there, and from there to Addison Street, to [Lily Moore's],
and after remaining there a month a
watch was taken from a Man, and as there was
a difficulty about it, she left, and went to Louisa
Florences [number] 8 Quince Street - She had

been only a week there when she went to take
a walk in Independance Square, and met
the other Girls who she says were strangers to her
and was apprehended with them and taken
to the Mayors Office and from there to the Prison -
She says her birth day is the 11th of April -
The account is strange and I doubt the truth
of a good deal of it - She says she never was
at a church but two or 3 times in her life -

Ellen Haley another of the same party from the
Prison says her Parent live in [Vine Street] between
Nixon & William above [23’d Street] - Her father is a
Laborer, John Haley - She is about 19 - She lived at home
with her family - One evening she was going to church
when a young Man joined her, and made an
appointment to meet her the next night - They
met & he took her to a house in Greens court - He
is a Policeman named Farrand, stationed at
Washington Square - She says she afterwards
went to Bookfolding for a few weeks and a Girl
in the Shop took her to an Office kept by a Man
named Egan in Walnut above 3’d. He paid
her five dollars and made an appointment
with her to come every Friday at 6 OClock, and
if any body was there she was to ask for some
body else, and then go away, and stay till
they were gone, and then return - This continued
several weeks, and she travelled round with
girls till her Mother found it out and put her
into a factory at Fairmount where she worked
three moths when she was discharged and
recommenced going about with girls - She says

there were about a dozen of them in the same
habit - A girl took her to a Mrs Symonds in
[Shippen Street], no 81 above [2nd Street], where she staid
4 weeks - Her Mother met her one night, &
took her home, when she continued, but went
to houses with Men, when the Squares were
open the frequented there, and went to Blackberry
Alley and other houses - They were in
the Independance Square and were singing
when they were arrested and sent to Prison -

Mary Ann Reed came from the Prison with
the other Girls 5/22 1857 - Her Mother died
when she was only one year old and her
Father when she was ten - He was a Brick
Maker named Jacob Reed and died at
Muncey - Her Grand Mother is named
Reed and lived near the Brick yard at
Pottsville - Mary Ann lived with this Grand
Mother till she was 13 years old when she went
to live at Mr Cooleys, the Minister, who sent her
down to Charles Egners, at Wilmington where
she lived two years, during which period she went
with his Daughter, married to Captain Merdern
on a visit to Charleston [South Carolina] - She then returned
to Mr Cooleys, and from there went to her
Uncles Jacob Hinkle in Pottsville a Coal Man -
She then went to Trenton and lived at a Mr
Joseph Stockeys From there she went to a Mr
Brooks near Radnor from there to a Mr
Youngs at Coatesville - She then returned to the
city and lived at two places up town - At one
of these the Lady sent her over to Camden of
an afternoon with her children - She soon

formed an acquaintance with a Girl who
went with her there at other times - On one
occasion the girl refused to return before
night and they spent the eve with some
young Men - One of these seduced her there -
After this she left her place, and this girl who
had been a bad girl before, took her to a House of
bad character in the Court by St. Stephens
church, Kept by a Woman named [Fanny Lyons]
- Here she staid about 2 months -
She then went to a House in 6th below Spruce
kept by 2 Woman named Mooney - This professed
to be an eating House but was not any better than the
the other - From there she went to board at
Mary Millers, Wood, above eleventh - When
she had been there about 6 weeks she was
taken up in Independance Square with
Ellen Haley and the others - They were committed
to Prison by the Mayor, who sent for
M Townsend, who brought them to the Rosine

Mary Donohue came July 13th 1857
She has been 15 years in the Country Has had
6 children. Her Husband John Dunahow
is a mason - 3 years since he left her & went
off with another Woman - Since then she has
been in intemperate habits, & has sometimes
lived at Service - She had her only living
child with her & having been drinking she
went to the Kensington Station House in
Master [Street], and from there was sent to the Prison
and has never been able to find out
where the Child is but supposes it is
at the Almshouse

Francis Beck came 8/5 1857 Her Mother
Henrietta Beck lives with her Daughter married
to John Davis Tinman Ridge Road above
vine - Francis has lived at service several
years but during last winter she became acquainted
with [William] P Baker a Police Officer
who seduced her, and afterwards she went
to board at Sarah Brittons, in New Market [Street],
above Willow where she staid one week when
her Mother took her from there & brought her
to the Rosine - She appears to be diseased
and says she can go to her Sisters for medical
treatment -

Margaret Davis came July 28th 1857
Her Father Joseph Davis was Captain of the
revenue Cutter but is now a Pilot - She lived
with her Parents in Wilmington until 2 [and a half] years
since when her Mother died - She then lived
with a married Sister the wife of Isaac Rosevelt a
coach Smith in Wilmington until she came
to [Philadelphia] - Her Father paid for her board
in Market [Street] awhile, but she went with a
young Man to a house of bad character, &
staid one week - During the week she [received]
21 [dollars] - paid ten for her board, went on an
excursion to Gloster, bought a dress with low
neck, & short sleeves, then without a cent went
home, and would not wear her Dress afterward
thus prostituting her self for a week running
the risk of the loss of health reputation &
all that is worth living for, for nothing
Her Sister brought her to M Townsend &
she is indentured till she is 18. The indenture
is in the possession of M Townsend.

Mary Ann Gundecker 10/13 1857 John Gundecker
a her Father lives in Lancaster - Her Mother died
when she was but 3 years old - Her Father lives with
her Sister who is married to Henry Rock Farmer
at Lancaster - Her Brother Jacob Gundecker lives
at Parksburg - She remained at her Fathers till
she was about 15, when being at a party she staid out
late against the commands of her Father who gave
her a whipping when she returned - This offended
her so much that she left home the next day,
and came down to the city with a Girl named
Laura Corie who had been living in Town and
said she could get her a place - This place
was a House of bad character - Mary Young's
in Pearl [Street] above 13th - Here she staid 3 months
and then went to a place of service where she
staid 4 months but they concluded to do without
a girl and not knowing of any other place
she went to Harriet Smiths in Acorn Alley,
After being there awhile she got another place
of Service but they did not pay her wages, so she went
back to Smiths, and between there and Mary Youngs
she remained 3 years and then came to the Rosine -

Elizabeth Hineline but passing by the name of Davis
came to the Rosine 12/29/1857 - Her Father Charles D
Hineline, Published the Camden Democrat some time
since - they lived in Cooper street near [3rd] - He was
Mayor of the City, and is a great Politician Speaking
at Meetings etc - They formerly lived near Easton
[Pennsylvania] - When she was about 16, one evening she went
down to the Barn to milk the cows, where a Man
who was hired to her Father coaxed her into the
Barn and there seduced her - This soon came
to the knowledge of the family, and they treated
her with great harshness, and soon after came
to Camden to live - Her Mother she says, had also
an improper connection with the same Man.
The Mother it appears is a Dressy Woman with
little Moral feeling or affection - She opposed her
Daughter in her wish to attend Sabbath School
and in various ways was unfeeling, and unkind -
on one occasion they had a difficulty, the Daughter
wishing to go to the Picnic of the Sabbath School,
when the Mother threatened to turn her out of
doors and sent her up to bed - Her Father
that night was at a political Meeting and she

dressed herself and went down there to see
him, but she did not, but met with a young
Man she knew Nathan Davis who keeps Store
in Federal Street who took her to his Store and
gave her something to drink which she says
destoyed her reason and that he staid with
her - The next morn she was afraid to go
home and did not know what to do so she
went out in the woods where she staid
all day and two nights without eating -
Then she went to Zimmermans Public Garden
and them there her condition - A Man
who was there in his Waggon with Porter, told
her to get in, and he would bring her to the
City to her Grandmother, who lives in Hydes
Court, running from Filbert [Street], above 8th and is
named Catharine Meredith - She got in
but as they were riding along they met her
Father and a Police Officer who immediately
took possession of her and the Officer brought
her over to her Grandmothers - She remained
there 3 days, when her Grandmother had her committed
to the House of Refuge - She staid

there 3 months, but as she came from Jersey
the Managers refused to keep her, and Mrs
FitzSimmons, one of the assistants there, took
her over to her Fathers - He was out, and
her Mother would not recieve her - Then
the Lady brought her to her Grand Mothers, who
also refused her admission, so the Lady left
her in the Street - Not knowing where to
go she went, and sold her Ear rings,
and then took passage to Easton, and
tried to get a place there - But no one
seemed to want her, so she returned to
the City, and having no home the Conductor of
the Cars told her she might stay at his
house, and pretended he was going to take
here there, but he took her to Mary Rankins -
After being there a few days she saw
an advertisement to learn the Tailoring
she applied, and staid two months
when the work failing the Woman did not
want her any longer, and she was
again without a home, but a Girl who had
also learned the Tailoring took a room with

her, and they had some work - But soon
she was back at Mary Rankins, and
from there to a Mrs Burtons who lives in Pine
Alley, where she staid till she became diseased,
and had to go to the Almshouse - There
she met M Townsend who told her of the Rosine
talked with her, and invited her to come -
But Mrs Burton went out and brought
her back to her house - about 2 months after
the House was indited, and they were all taken
down to Prison - She soon attracted [William Mullers]
attention - She told him her story, and he
brought her up to the Rosine -

Margaret Thornton came from the Good Shepherd
11/4/1857 - She was born in Clonmel Ireland. Her
Father David Hearne lives there and keeps the
Commercial House - a Hotel - She was married
when she was 20, to David Thornton a Hardware
Merchant who died when they had been married
about 6 years leaving her with two children -
Her Husband died without a will, (and her Father
administered to the Estate) leaving 3, or 4 thousand
pounds worth of property. She had a Sister who
was attached to a young Man that her Father disapproved
of, and this Sister persuaded her to
come with her to America - They came, leaving
her children with her Parents - When they arrived
in New York She went to learn the vest making
and then they took in work for a few
months and did very well but becoming
anxious to see her children she went back.
It appears that her Father was very angry
with her for coming to this Country and
when she went back treated her so unkindly
that she staid at the house of a Sister who
was married to a Lawyer - In about

two months she returned to New York and found
her Sister had given up the work, and sold all
their things which put her out so much that
she told her Sister she wanted to have nothing
more to do with her and knowing A Mrs
Hearne a relative who lived in Philadelphia
she came on here and went to her house -
But it did not suit for her to be there so
she boarded at 2 or 3 places - At one
of them Mrs Murphys next door to Townsend
Sharpless Store in 2nd [Street], her Landlady got
her the Situation of Matron over the Children
in the Saint Vincents Home - She remained
there about 3 months but, not liking it left -
At different times she [received] money from her
Father, which supported her, but for the last
two years she has neither written to them
nor heard from them - At one time
she was so reduced that she went to the House
of Industry, in Catharine [Street] - From there she
went to Gilpins at West Chester, and staid
there 4 months, taking care of the Children -
She then went down to Front Street and

Staid there - She had lived well in her
Fathers House - In her Married life she kept
4 Servants, 3 Women, and a Man, and they
drove a Carriage and pair, and now by the
changes of fortune she was without a home
or the means to live - It appears she had
always taken her glass of wine as a Lady,
but now in her poverty she resorted to drink
because she was with those who were in
the habit, and the temptation was constantly
before her - Feeling she was sinking
herself down to misery she went to a
Priest, and told him her story, and he
sent her to the House of the Good Shepherd
She continued there 4 months, and then
left there, and came to the Rosine -

Francis Vanhorn came 2/15 1858 Her Father
Lewis Vanhorn lives in South [Street] below 7th - Her
Mother died when she was only 9 years old
and she has not lived at home since her
Father married again - They keep a Trimming
Store. For some time she was with her Aunt at
New Hope & upon her death came to Kensington
and lived with her Uncle - From there she
went to hire with a woman who sits in the
Market and was seduced when she was
about Sixteen by a Fish Seller in the Market
named Fisher - Since then she has lived
in two houses of bad character - one was
Mrs McKinley at Franckford Road & Cherry [Street]
and the other a Mrs Beam at 9th & Poplar
Leaving there she went to her Fathers, & told
them she would reform if they would
get her a Situation - They proposed the
Rosine & she came - She says a Young
Printer named Rudolph will marry her
when he gets into business -

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Ellen owens
Basting 5 Shirts and 5 pillow
cases, 6 Button holes 58 cents
for all

Eliza Hudson came 2/10 1858 Her Father
Robert Hudson is a Weaver, and lives in
Vine Street beyond [23rd] [Street] She lived at different
places, hired out, until she was about
18, when she married Reuben Maxfield, and
afterwards discovered he was a married Man.
He was a Member of the same Lodge as her Father,
and some offense had taken place between
them, so that her Father forbade her to keep company
with him, but she fancied the Man and married
him - They kept it secret for some time, but
murder will out, and after a while they had
to know it Her Father was very angry and
turned her out of doors - She broke open
the door and went in - Then her Father
sued her before a magistrate and she was
put in Prison from whence [William] Meeller
brought her to the Rosine After being
here about a week it was necessary
to send her to the Almshouse

Ellen Myers came 2/15 1858 - She is from
Toms River Ocean [County] New Jersey - She cannot
remember her Father - She was brought up
at her Uncles Ebenezer Applegate - At 17 she
came to the City - She had two sisters living
here - One is married to Charles Taylor a
Carpenter living in Melon Street above 10th -
She lived a while at Service, and then
learned the vest making - Soon after this
she was seduced by a young Man keeping
a Music Store named Joseph Rogers - She
became enceinte and went to a Dr Shapley
in 8th near Green who gave her something
to produce Abortion - She then entered a
House of ill fame in Locust below 11th, Kept by
Anne Jackson, and afterwards lived at Sarah
Turners in Wood [Street] - She then went to New
York where she lived in different bad
houses for 3 years - Was twice on Blackwells
Island - once for 6 months the other time for two -
A Mrs. McClain who had been a nurse on
the Island took her to live with her in Brooklyn
and some months afterward as she was going

to break up housekeeping she had to
leave and having made up her mind
to reform she came back to [Philadelphia]
& went to see her Sisters - they urged
her to come to the Rosine, and one of
them came to see if she could be recieved -
At the time she was sent to the Island for
Six Months, She, and a young Man
exchanged clothes, and went out to
take a promenade - They were both in Liquor
and were taken up and put in the Tombs
and from there she was sent to the Island

Mary Jane Kirk came 8/15 1856. Her Father
lives in Omagh, Tyrone County, Ireland - He is
a Carpenter - She is an only Daughter, but has
three Brothers - one of them when out of his
apprenticeship, concluded to come to America
and Mary Jane, then in her 17th year, concluded
to come with him, though very much against
her Parents will - After her arrival here she
lived out at Service in different families
but like many other Irish people took
her Glass occasionally - But liquor is not
to be tampered with - The habit grew on her
untill at last she became so intemperate
that her Brother at whose house she was
then staying turned her out of doors - She
had pawned her clothes and not knowing
where to go she came to the Rosine - She
has gone out occasionally to sew for persons
but her home has since been here to this
period 2/22 1858

Sarah Ann Walton came 1/22 1858. Her
Mother who is married the 2nd time is named
Tamzin Cummings - She is from Jersey but lives
now in Franckford with a woman named
Sarah Scoops - She was bound when a child
to a family at Lewistown but when she was
about 15 took her from her place & put her
with a family named Burroughs near Trenton
From there she went to her Brothers Charles Walton
a wood Chopper living in Camden - She staid
there two months when her Brother brought her
to the City to her Sisters who is married to
John Hart an Oysterman - They live at the
Corner of 5th & Catharine - Here she met with
a temptation in the Shape of another Oysterman
and the Sister discovering the intimacy brought
her to the Rosine

Mary Ann Walker came 10/28 1858
She was born & married twice in England.
When a widow the 2nd time, her Sister who
had been some years in America sent
for her to come over but when she
arrived with her child she found her Sister
married and the husband soon shewed
they were not welcome - She had then
to look for a place of service, and some
times she kept a room and took in sewing.
She had drank ale in her own Country, but
when trouble came on her here she resorted
to Stronger liquors - When room keeping at a
confectioners, she could not pay her rent, and her
Landlady suggested to her to take a friend to help
her - In her extremity she consented & from that
time became both a Drunkard, and a prostitute -
when her Daughter Anne was about 16, she
says, her Mother brought Men home, and
forced her to prostitute herself - They afterward
went to board in a House of ill fame, and
she sunk herself to the Prison, and every other degredation -
She cannot tell how often she has been in

Prison, but a great many times - Her
Daughter Anne was out one day, after she
had been in the Rosine 18 months, and met
her Mother in the street and brought her
to the Rosine

Mary Ann White was the Daughter of George Feeble
who lived at the corner of 4th & Brown - She was respectably
married twice, but was left poor, & had to hire out -
She was taken by a Girl who lived in the same
house to a house of bad character and by degrees
got to drinking and finally lived with Jane Sheldon
She has had places, has been in the Rosine three times,
but the cursed liquor has obtained such a mastery
over that she has not yet been able to persist in
doing well more than a few months - She has
come here for the 4th time 3/9/1858

Emma Davis, or Deborah Bowen came 6/15/1858 Her
Father lives in Richmond - is a Hatter - A young
Man named Tom Brooks, with whom she got acquainted
at church took her to a House of bad Character
and seduced her - She afterwards went to others
with other Men - Until within a few weeks
she lived with her Brother, but he broke up
House keeping, and then she went to a House
kept by Joe Kelly, at the South East corner of 2nd
& vine - She left there because he kept them in
the House and a Man named Jack Jones
an Omnibus Driver paid her board a while
but they quarelled, and then she had no
place but the public Squares - In Franklin
Square she met a young Man named
Dan Lewis who appeared to be interested
for her and brought her to the Rosine -
She is diseased and will have to go to
the Almshouse

Teressa Deno came 1/16 1859 Her Parents dying
when she was young, she has lived at different
places for her food & clothing but appears to have
had little more than her food - Being downtown
she has been running with some young people
who were loose characters, without much restraint,
but her Sister who had been seduced,
and was in the Rosine, wished her to come
for preservation from harm so she will only
stay until a suitable place is procured for her

Lizzie Davis or Deno came 8/1858 She has lived
out at service - She has been a good deal
at Mrs Aladies whose Husband works at
Spragues in 4th [Street] - While there she became acquainted
with some young people by shom she was
induced to go to board in a public House -
When she was only ten years old [William] Saunders
who is Engineer at Lippincott & Co Book store
seduced her and paid her booard for about five
months - He was a widower and was boarding
himself - His Mother in Law coming to the

City he went to house keeping again, and a
place in the Country was procured for Lizzie
She remained there four years and says she
led a virtuous life during that time - She
then returned to the City and lived with Mrs
Aladie - She then boarded in 3 or 4 houses,
but hearing of the Rosine she came and was
admitted - She has been here now about five
months and has conducted herself well -

Ellen Brown came 1/19 1859 She was born in
Ireland - Her Mother died when she was a Babe
and her Father came to America when she was
about 12 years old but she had never lived with
him and has not seen him since - His name
is John Brown, and he is at Pottsville at the
Mines - Her Sister came to America, and
when she was 14, her Aunt paid her fare to come
to New York to her Sister - There she hired out, in
families, but forming acquaintances with Irish
people she commenced drinking, was in the
Tombs twice, and several times in the Home -
In 1857 she concluded to go to Pottsville to hunt
her Father and Abby Gibbons gave her a letter
to Mira Townsend who got her a place
at Edwin Fussells where she lived 6 months -
She then came to town, and lived several months
with M Townsend but commencing to drink
she left, and went again into the Country,
where she staid till she earned 25 [dollars] and
left - On coming to the City she went again
to visit some Irish Cronies & setting into a drinking
frolic in 3 days she lost her money her Bonnett &

made a complete Rowdy of herself -
A Policeman brought her to M Townsend from
the Station House and from there she came
to the Rosine -

Anne Morris came 12/10 1858. Her Parents
live in Boston, and she came on with a married
Sister, and lived a while with her. She then
learned the Millinery business, and after wards
worked in a Cotton factory - While working
there she was seduced by Edward Warner, a
Machinist in Norris Factory - She still associated
with him, and worked in a Cotton Mill,
until they quarreled because he would not
marry her - Work becoming slack in the
Mill, She had nothing to do, and not being
able to pay her board she went to a poor Woman,
near Fair Mount, who took her in - after a few
days she walked out to look for work, &
when she returned the Woman had moved, & taken
all her clothes with her and as the woman owed
rent, & had moved to escape paying it, the other
tenants would not let her remain in the

house, and she had no place to go to, as her Sister,
Catharine Thompson had moved to Norristown -
Therefore her only resort was to creep up
an alley, and sleep in a Privy - This she
did two nights when some one directed
her to the Rosine - She came almost frozen
and smelling dreadfully

Record of Rosines 1852

Charlotte Squires came to the Institution 9/22
She is 18 years of age. Her Father [William] Henry Squires
was a Printer in Annapolis. He died when she
was a Babe & her Mother also died when she was
only 4 years of age - She was adopted by a Mrs
Monroe, a Dress maker, with whom she lived till
she was 17, when She died, and again she was left
friendless - She then boarded with a Mrs King and
took in Sewing or went out by the Week. Mrs King
moved to Baltimore & she went there also and was addressed
there by a Young Man named John Burns
a Gun Smith who professed to court her - One
night under a false pretence he took her to a
house and there perpretrated a rape upon her -
She afterwards refused to see him when he called
and has been always a virtuous Girl - In May
1852 she was sewing at Mr Clarks when his
Son a Wild young Man broke open a Trunk
of his Fathers, and took some money and then
came on to [Philadelphia] - The Father not suspecting
his Son accused Charlotte and had her arrested

Ann Elizabeth Benderman came to the Rosine [September] 28th,1850 -
Her Mother is a Widow, and keeps house for Washington Baldwin,
London Grove. Her sister Rebecca Jane lives at George Rembaughs, in
Downington - At five years old she was bound to Henry Hipple,
East Goshen, when she staid till she was 12, when she was taken from
there by her Mother, and bound to [William] S. Harlan, East Marlborough, where
she staid 7 months - Supposing herself badly treated, she ran off to her Mother,
& from there went to [William] Wells, where she staid 2 months, from there
to another place, then back to Wells, where she was 3 months, then
to James Forsythes for 3 months - From there she went to the poor house
where she staid 7 months - Her Sister had a child by her Master
where she was bound, at 14 years of age. His name was Marshal
Hawey, near Marshalton or Hamilton - The Sister was working
out, but the baby was left in the poor house, and Ann Elizabeth
was put to take care of it - Not liking this employment she
ran away on the 26th of April 1850, and went to Abner Baldwins
where she staid - From Baldwins she went to George Gleddels, Wool
Manufactory, where she staid a few weeks - While at Forsythes
she went to Jacob Edges Store, and there met a young Man who
asked her if she knew a Girl who would go to Francfort to keep
house for him - She told him no - She afterwards saw him in the wood
where they had more conversation, and told each other their names -
After she went up to Downingtown she met him in the road, and
they conversed again. He had previously written her a letter
offering to marry her - He then came to Baldwins, and they
conversed again, and they agreed to be married This was out
of doors - He came again, and the family were out. He came
again several times, and finally persuaded her to have connection
with him. She Saw him afterwards, and had
intercourse 5 or 6 times with him - She then concluded
to come to the City - Before she went to the poor house
she went one day at her Mothers request, to get some cakes
from a cake Shop, and there met a man, and some Women
with whom she conversed - The Man left, and when
she came away one of the Women told her if she saw him on the
road to tell him to go home - When she had gone about
a quarter of a mile from the house, the Man was sitting by

the road Side, and she stopped, delivered her message & passed
on - After she had gone a little ways he came up to her - they
walked on conversing, and he told her he was tired and wanted
her to sit down with him and rest - She refused, and he then
tripped her down, and violated her - She screamed, but no one
came to her rescue - He afterwards persuaded her not to tell but
when she got home, but she told her Mother - she was not
regular in her courses after this, and her Mother had a
[Doctor] to examine her - The [Doctor] supposed her enciente and then
her Mother sent her to the poor House, where she continued
for some time - She then had a discharge which possibly
might have been a miscarriage - and two months after
left there - The man who violated her was named Wallace
Miles - he was brought up to the Gauardians at the poor
house and she swore that if she was in that way it
was by him, as she had never been with any other Man -
When she came to the city she met Charles Willet
who had seduced her under promise of marriage in
the Street - He took her to a tavern, introduced her
as his wife, staid with her that night - and the next
day disappeared - She staid a week waiting for
him but he returned no more - The Landlord
finding out how matters were going advised her
to go to an Alderman and make her Complaint
which she did and was went from there to the
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