Elizabeth Ann Seton letters, 1800-1818.

Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. Emmitsburg Province

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Sisters of Saint Joseph

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Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph

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In 1809 American Elizabeth Ann Seton, founded the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph's, adapting the rule of the French Daughters of Charity for her Emmitsburg, Maryland, community. In 1817, Mother Seton sent three Sisters to New York City to establish an orphanage. In 1829, four Sisters of Charity from Emmitsburg, Maryland, traveled to Cincinnati, to open St. Peter’s Girl’s Orphan Asylum and School. In 1850, the Sulpician priests of Baltimore successfully negotiated that the Emmitsburg communi...

Seton, William Magee, 1768-1803.

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Graham, Isabella, 1742-1814

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Raborg, William, Mrs.

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Dupleix, Catherine.

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Seton, Elizabeth Ann, Saint, 1774-1821

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Elizabeth Ann Bayley was born in New York City in 1774. She married William Magee Seton, a New York merchant, in 1794. In 1797, with Isabella Graham and others, she founded a society for the relief of widows, the first charitable organization in New York City. Her husband died in 1803. In 1805 she converted to Catholicism, and in 1808 she began a girls' school in Baltimore, Maryland. In the spring of 1809 she and four others formed a community called Sisters of St. Joseph. That summer they moved...