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Article in the Baton Rouge Advocate on descendants' research into their family histories. The article focuses on Jessica Tilson.

A transcription of a register of baptisms at the Jesuit plantation White Marsh from 1818 to 1822. This register includes many names of children born into slavery and free people of color.

Transcription of record of baptisms from 1760-1799 performed by Rev. Joseph Mosley SJ in St. Joseph's and St, Mary's County, Maryland. This record includes numerous baptisms of children born into slavery and free people of color.

Patricia Bayonne-Johnson's account of her discovery that the Jesuits of the Maryland Province owned her great-great grandparents Nace and Biby Butler and sold them to Louisiana. You can learn more about Patricia Bayonne-Johnson, her work as a…