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On May 21st, 1827 a payment was made to an unnamed free African American man to help him buy his wife who was going to be sold to Georgia. The entry above records a payment to "Charly's wife, a black woman, for clothes."

Report of an archaeological study of Newtowne Neck State Park, the site of Newtown Manor, which was one of the Jesuit plantations in St. Mary's County, Maryland. The archaeological investigation identified locations and artifacts associated with the…

The following statement from January 1, 1838 records debts of Georgetown College as well as those due to the college.

This statement from January 1820 describes monies received from students and other costs and debts of the college. To meet expenses $1233.00 was received from St. Inigoes. A debt of $1,100 is also recorded as being owed from White Marsh to the…

The college received $625 on March 7, 1844 from a J.P. Gannon for an enslaved person named Aloysius.

James Greenwell was hired by the college from Colonel Joseph Harris of "Near Leonard town Maryland" from May to December 1845. Harris was Clerk of the Court for Mary's County from 1794-1843.

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.