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DigitalGeorgetown
Georgetown University Manuscripts, Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Washington, D.C.
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Procurator
Jesuits. Maryland Province
Description
Letterbooks: Copy book of letters sent. 1833-1836, 1839-1843: letters concern the sale of land, standards set for hired help, relations with tenants, interest payments; and attempts to secure payments from Jesse Batey and Henry Johnson, who purchased enslaved people from the Province in 1838. Includes a transcript of a letter written by John McElroy on Eliza who was withheld from the sale and others who ran away before it was completed. A letter dated October 16, 1834 written to John McElroy addressed the expectations that should be placed on a black washerwoman.
 
**Former finding aid location: 119.1_77**
 
This folder contains materials related to Jesuit slaveholding and to the 1838 sale of 272 enslaved individuals.
 
I overvalue her. Fr. McElroy disputes the price of slaves sold to Louisiana, February 18, 1840 [GSA348]
 
You may sell Isaac: The Jesuits arrange the sale of Isaac Hawkins, an enslaved man jailed in Baltimore, 1843, p. 405-6 [GSA349]
 
The Procurator requests Fr. Carbery inform him on the servants lately disposed of. January 3, 1836, p. 77 [GSA350]
 
The Procurator berates Fr. Carbery for not recording the sale of 17 enslaved persons at St. Inigoes, January 27, 1836, p. 78 [GSA351]
 
The Procurator to Fr. Sanders on the enslaved persons remaining at the White Marsh, April 30, 1840, p. 173 [GSA353]
 
There remain belonging to us only four old slave servants. Fr. Procurator to Robert C. Brooke and Joseph J. Jones, October 23, 1840. p. 281 [GSA354]
 
Fr. Vespire instructs Fr. Carbery to pay for the hire of a servant owned by Ms. Jane Smith, Feburary 19, 1943, p. 369 [GSA355]
 
Carring off the servants to Washington, Joshua F. Clarke to Thomas Mulledy, May 14, 1839 [GSA357]
 
Apprehending Ann: Thompson and Spalding charges to William McSherry, September 28, 1838 [GSA358]
 
Fr. Vespre to Fr. McElroy on the indemnifications claimed by Dr. Jesse Batey, July 3, 1840, p. 194 [GSA363]
 
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Date
1833
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Time Period
1833-1843
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Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus (GTM.000119); Box 68; Folder 1;
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