The President of Georgetown, Robert Molyneux, asks Fr. C. Neale to secure payment for Suckey, October, 1806

The President of Georgetown, Robert Molyneux, asks Fr. C. Neale to secure payment for Suckey, October, 1806

Slave women; Slave labor; Master and Servant ;Catholic Church-Clergy-Correspondence

In a letter dated during the first year of his second tenure as President of Georgetown, Robert Molyneux, S.J., names Fr. C. Neale Vice Superior and asks him to secure payment for an enslaved woman named Suckey.

Maryland Province Archives

Georgetown Slavery Archive

1806-10

Adam Rothman, Elsa Barraza Mendoza

Georgetown University Library

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English

Manuscript

GSA112

Dear Rev. Father

            I think it expedient in my present situation to appoint you Vice Superior over all our Brethren in Charles and St. Marys C^ys. With all the powers spiritual and temporal granted to me by the Gen^l. of the Society of Jesus, and do hereby appoint you as such-

            If you have any instructions for the Master of Novices, send them forward. Take care to secure paym^t for my house and Suckey, also the debt due to the College from Mrs. Hagan to whom I write by this opportunity. My respects to Rev. Mother Superior 

Oct. 1^st 1806                            adieu in haste

                                                Rob^t  Molyneux, S.J.

P.S. The Noviciate begins 10^th day of this month F. of. F. Borgia. You may begin at the same, and pray for the happy issue of this first beginning. But you must come hither to make yr. profession.

                        R.M.  

                                                         This letter is addressed

 

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To the Rev. Fr. Charles Neale