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This page from the Newtown daybook records the birth of 28 slaves at Newtown from 1782 to 1796. Eight children died during the first years of their life. The daybook also mentions the sale of two slaves to Edmund Plowden in 1784.

In this meeting from 1797, the Corporation agreed to provide the Manager of St Thomas' Manor with 15 pounds for Alexius, a slave in the service of the Bishop.

In this meeting from 1801, the Corporation concluded that manumitting Peter, a slave from their Conewago plantation in Pennsylvania, would prove injurious to their power over other slaves. They decided instead to allow Peter to purchase his…

In this meeting held at Georgetown College in 1808, the Corporation of Roman Catholic Clergymen, with Bishop John Carroll in attendance, instructed plantation managers to identify "supernumerary" slaves "they may have and dispose of them to good and…

After deciding to dispose of supernumerary slaves in 1808, the agent of the Corporation of Roman Catholic Clergymen reported the sale of a boy named George from St. Thomas's Manor and two families from St. Inigo's. In total 11 people were sold for…

In an 1809 meeting held at Georgetown University, the Corporation of Roman Catholic Clergymen decided to dispose of Sarah's orphaned children. Sarah was presumably a slave at the Jesuit estate of Arabia Petrea.

In 1809, the Corporation of Roman Catholic Clergymen resolved to apprehend Tom, a runaway slave from the White Marsh plantation.

In a meeting from 1830, the board of the Corporation of Roman Catholic Clergymen approved the sale of Maria's three children from St. Joseph's on the Eastern Shore.

In 1818 the Corporation of Roman Catholic Clergymen declared null and void the sale of Catherine Venus. She had been previously sold by Fr. John McElroy

In 1816 the Corporation of Roman Catholic Clergymen sold Regis for 323 dollars. After 12 years of service Regis would be "free, manumitted and discharged." Sales for a term of years were anearly nineteenth-century practice of the Jesuits.