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Newtown tax assessments, 1795-1838
This item aggregates 24 years of tax assessments over a 43-year period into a single document. It shows how the slave population at Newtown evolved over time.
The transcription provided faithfully reproduces relevant entries from ledger pages and…
The transcription provided faithfully reproduces relevant entries from ledger pages and…
On the management of Newtown: Fr. Vespre to Fr. Woodley, April 16, 1844
The Procurator of the Province, Fr. Vespre, writes to Fr. Woodley, manager of Newtown, to express his dissatisfaction with the management of that plantation. In particular, he inquires about the enslaved person bought by Woodley from Mrs. Smith and…
Payments to the enslaved community at Bohemia Plantation, September 1795
In this account record from 1795, Rev. Jean Tessier, a French Sulpician priest residing at Bohemia Plantation, in Cecil County registered a series of payments he gave to six enslaved persons: David, Barney, Stephen, Dick, Betty, and Suky. The…
People bought and sold at Bohemia Plantation, 1794-1795
This account from the Bohemia plantation registers the sale of nine enslaved persons and the purchase of four. These transactions include infants as young as 3 weeks old, as well as an the sale of an infant to an enslaved woman who remained at…
Permissions to Marry, 1831-2
Four permissions for enslaved people to marry granted by their owners in 1831 and 1832. These permissions are part of the records of Holy Trinity Church in the Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus.
Civil marriages involving…
Civil marriages involving…
Peter Kenney, SJ's observations on the enslaved families at Bohemia, 1831
Fr. Peter Kenney SJ reports negatively on the condition of enslaved families at the Bohemia plantation in Cecil County, Md., in 1831.
Priscilla Queen's petition for freedom, 1810
Priscilla Queen sues Rev. Francis Neale, S.J., for her freedom in the D.C. Circuit Court 1810. This case is detailed by the O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C., Law and Family project.
Proceeding of the General Chapter Met at the White Marsh, May 1789
Rules for "disposing" of "supernumerary slaves" on the Jesuit plantations in Maryland.
Questions regarding slavery: Rev. Thomas Mulledy, SJ to the Jesuit Superior General, January 7, 1830
In a letter to the new Jesuit Superior General Jan Roothaan, Rev. Thomas Mulledy SJ assesses the state of Georgetown College and poses a set of challenging questions regarding the Jesuits' slaveholding in Maryland. He asks whether the Jesuits' slave…
Register of baptisms, White Marsh, 1818-1822 (transcription)
A transcription of a register of baptisms at the Jesuit plantation White Marsh from 1818 to 1822. This register includes many names of children born into slavery and free people of color.