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In his last will and testament from October 13, 1812, Rev. John Rosseter, of the Order of St. Augustine, left a "great coat to Old Billy" of St. Thomas's Manor. Rosseter died at the Manor in 1815.

Rev. Francis Neale, SJ, manager of St. Thomas' Manor, contracted to hire John Butler, a free man, to repair and take care of the wind mill of the plantation in 1826.

Fr. Woodley SJ discusses a plan to deliver an enslaved woman named Nelly from Newtown to a new master. It appears from the postscript that another priest tried to prevent Nelly from being sold by writing a pass or permit to allow her to escape. …

In this meeting from 1799, the Corporation approved two measures concerning their slaves in the Bohemia plantation: the loan of Jack and Peg to the Seminary at Baltimore and the sale of Kate and her two children.

This inventory from 1803 identifies 11 slaves in St. Joseph's farm. These include Lilly, who was carried over to Baltimore, and Thom, who ran away on April 8th, 1803.

In this meeting from 1795, the Corporation found it necessary to inform to the President of Baltimore Seminary that the profits they would receive from the Bohemia Plantation did not include "money arriving from the sale of negroes."

This page from the Newtown plantation daybook lists 26 slaves c. 1791. In the early twentieth century, Rev. Joseph Zwinge, SJ annotated the list to identify the marriages of 4 female slaves.

This page from the Newtown daybook records the birth of 32 slaves at Newtown from 1752 to 1770. The 11 names marked with an X identify people who were presumably sold to "Widow [?]."

In this meeting from 1804, the Corporation agreed to sell the "supernumerary" slaves of Deer Creek to settle the claims of William Pasquet, a secular clergyman who managed the plantation. The board also informs that the managers of White Marsh and…