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Fr. Miguel leaves an unnamed "Negro Woman" at the College in July 1814.

Rev. John McElroy, S.J. records the total number of people at Georgetown at the end of 1814, including "servants."

Rev. John McElroy records the death of "Billy the Blacksmith" and his interment in the graveyard at Georgetown.

Davy, a slave at White Marsh, was put in jail for "bad conduct" and sent to Baltimore to be sold, but then was returned to White Marsh after promising to behave himself.

Note that this file compiles together three non-contiguous pages of McElroy's…

Rev. John McElroy, S.J. observes mass at Trinity Church with an interracial congregation

On a visit to Talbot City, Rev. John McElroy S.J. alludes to "some negroes" who "pretended to claim their freedom."

Rev. John McElroy comments on the instruction of black students at Trinity Church in Georgetown in 1819.

Letter from William Gaston to Joseph Carberry, S.J., giving him a slave named Augustus to be educated and then freed, September 1, 1824.

Fr. Carberry was stationed at St. Inigoes at this time.

(Thanks to Georgetown University Archivist Lynn…

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.

Edward Queen sues Rev. John Ashton for his freedom in the Maryland General Court in 1791. Additional documents in the case of Edward Queen v. John Ashton may be found at the O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C., Law & Family website.Click…