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In 1792, Fr. Francis Beeston recorded the distribution of one pair of shoes each to thirty-two enslaved persons at Bohemia Plantation, in Cecil County. According to Fr. Beeston's rules, every adult was to receive one pair of shoes per year. The…

In 1790, Fr. Francis Beeston from Bohemia plantation in Cecil County, Maryland, recorded the allowance of clothes for enslaved persons at the plantation. This allowance included a winter suit and two shirts for the men, a woolen gown and a linen…

Rev. Ambrose Maréchal listed the names of the enslaved and free people of color at Bohemia Plantation in 1798. This list of individuals includes 13 men and 24 women. Maréchal identified the owner of 11 of these individuals, one woman is marked as "a…

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…

This 1905 map was prepared by Joseph Zwinge, SJ with information from old patents, deeds, and surveys of the Jesuit plantation of St. Thomas Manor. It includes old structures such as Fr. Hunter's House and "tenant houses or negro huts."

Fr. Ambrose Maréchal, a Sulpician priest at Bohemia plantation reported on his day book that Mr. T. O'Donald, a tenant, "violently assaulted ," Old Davy, an enslaved man.

On July 1st, 1796, Fr. Ambrose Maréchal, a Sulpician priest at Bohemia plantation, registered the arrival of a letter from Fr. Sewall, who advised him "not to give to Ralph his freedom."

In 1792, Fr. Francis Beeston recorded the dimensions of the garden plots of the enslaved community at Bohemia Plantation. Among the regulations. both men and women were allowed a patch of at least 100 yards long and 40 yards wide. Married men had…

On February 22, 1791, Fr. Francis Beeston recorded on the daybook of Bohemia Planation that 20 enslaved people were inoculated by Dr. William Matthews.

This item aggregates 25 years of tax assessments over a 46-year period into a single document. It shows how the slave population at St. Inigoes evolved over time.

The transcription provided faithfully reproduces relevant entries from ledger pages…