Undated inventory of enslaved people and livestock at White Marsh and Fingal, ca. late 18th century
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Title
Undated inventory of enslaved people and livestock at White Marsh and Fingal, ca. late 18th century
Subject
Slave labor; Slave Women; Children; Jesuits-History-18th century
Description
This undated census from the late eighteenth century records the names of enslaved children "unable to work," as well as the names of superannuated slaves. The document divides the names by family groups. These are recorded along with an inventory of cows, sheeps, hogs, and horses.
Creator
Maryland Province Archives
Source
This material has been re-digitized by Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Georgetown University Library, accessible at: White Marsh (4 of 26), 1682 - 1765, Box 63, Folder 4, Identifier 119_29_2, Georgetown University Manuscripts, Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus, 2. Records of the Procurator, 1633-1968, 2.1 Subject Files, 1633 - 1968, Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Georgetown University
Publisher
Georgetown Slavery Archive
Date
undated, circa late 18th C.
Contributor
Tom Foley, Elsa Barraza Mendoza
Rights
Maryland Province Archives, Society of Jesus
Format
PDF
Language
English
Type
Mansucript
Identifier
GSA261
Text Item Type Metadata
Text
At te lower Quarters
[Page 2]
[Page 3]
Names of ye Children at ye Marsh
Not capable of work
Nanny | Sampson--- |
Kate. Her Child | Jenny---- |
Fanny born 1762x | [Under brackets, sideways right side] |
Samuel 1764 | {Crop of Corn at y |
Ruth | Marsh in 1763. 319.BB |
Terry | Oats 25 Bushels |
Regis----------------------- | Rye 13 do |
Wheat--- | |
Frank x Child | Tobacco} |
Lucy- | |
Davi | |
Nancy [name written in pencil] | |
Paul [name written in pencil] | |
Henrietta born May 1763 | |
Acct of Stock ------ | |
Two Riding horses | One sow & 7 piggs at B |
One Colt | Two breeding sows |
Six Plow Horses | At Duckers with |
Three yoak Oxen | Twelve Piggs |
23 Sheep | Three do. at Home |
20 Horn Cattle | With nine Piggs |
Five Calves | Running Hogs. 30 |
One Boar | Besides six horses belonging |
At Buckor’s two cows, to heifers tow Ca.. | To ye negroes. |
[Page 2]
Names of the Children not capable Of work at Fingal ------------------- |
|
{Nina | |
{Simon | Nanny Cooper’s |
{Henry | |
---------------------- | |
{Doll | |
{Dick | Sarah’s |
{Peter | |
{James | |
---------------------- | |
{Mary | |
{Peggy | Phyllis’s |
{Sall | |
{Winifred | |
----------------------- | |
{Nancy | |
{Cates | |
{Rachel | Mary’s |
{Priscilla | |
------------------------ | |
Past Service | Lame |
Tom & Susanna | Sarah |
Betty--------- | Doll |
Far advanced in Age & mothers of many children |
|
Phillis | |
& Nanny Cooper |
[Page 3]
Names of ye Children at ye Marsh
Not capable of work
{Monica | Past Service -------- | ||
{Ambrose | (John | ||
{Ned | [Sideways text] | (Nell | [sideways text] |
{William | Charity’s | (Samson | Aged each |
{Nancy | (Jenny | Near 70 -------- | |
{Basil- | (Nanny | ||
---------- | ------------------ | ||
{Jack | |||
{Charles | [Sideways text] | ||
{James | Nelly’s | ||
{Patric | Isaac & Son | ||
{Anastasia | Isaac Carpenter’s | ||
----------- | Robert & Son’s | ||
{Lucy | Robert & Tom shoemaker’s | ||
{Davi | [Sideways text] | Nelly Cook | |
{Nancy | Franc’s | Priscila Spinster because a cripple ------------ |
|
{Paul | |||
{Henny | |||
---------- | |||
{Harry | [sideways text] | ||
{Mary | Henny’s | ||
{Lucy | |||
----------- | |||
{Mary Susan’s child | |||
{Ned Phillis’s | |||
{Fanny Cate’s |
Original Format
Manuscript
Files
Collection
Citation
Maryland Province Archives, “Undated inventory of enslaved people and livestock at White Marsh and Fingal, ca. late 18th century,” Georgetown Slavery Archive, accessed September 20, 2024, https://slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu/items/show/286.