Fr. Carbery requests a tax deduction for the value of seventeen slaves sold by the Maryland Jesuits, 1836

Fr. Carbery requests a tax deduction for the value of seventeen slaves sold by the Maryland Jesuits, 1836

Slavery--Maryland; Slaves--St. Inigoes; Slaves--Taxes; Slave records; Slave trade--United States--History

On May 18, 1836, Rev. Joseph Carbery SJ, the manager of the Jesuits' St. Inigoes plantation, wrote to the clerk of the levy court of St. Mary's County to request that he remove seventeen slaves from his tax burden. Many of the slaves mentioned appear in the 1831 tax assessment for St. Inigoes (see GSA70).

Carbery appears to have sold the surviving slaves to Stephen H. Gough, who had completed an MA at Georgetown in 1831. 

Maryland State Archives

Georgetown Slavery Archive

1836-05-18

Cory Young

Maryland State Archives

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Affidavit

GSA290

Rev^d Jos. Carbery claims and allowance for the negroes as dead and out of the State

To S. Henry Gough

1 under 8 - Gilbert ² - 10

                { Emily ¹ - 5     }

                { Henry ² - 10    }

5 under 8 { Ann ³ - 15       }     out of the state

                { Martha ⁷ - 35  }

                { Sally ⁶ - 30  dead

 

                         { Charles ²¹ -125 }

4 from 14 to 45 { Sam ²⁰ - 125    }

                         { Hilly ¹⁷ -125      }  out of the state

                         { Isaac ¹⁷ -125     }

 

1 from 14 to 45 - Leonard ³¹    125 }

 

2 above 45 { Nace ⁴⁷   110                    } out of the state

       { Phill ⁵⁰   50                    }

 

                        Peter ¹⁷ } 125

                        Basil ²⁵ } 125   out of the state

 

                        Maria ²⁵           80} out of the state

                        Eliza ³²             80}

 

Saint Mary County to wit

On this 18^th day of May 1831 ther came Rev^d Jo^s Carbery & made Oath to the truth of the above statement

                                    Saw before [signature]

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