Box 1

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Correspondence, invoices, newsclippings, a record of inscriptions on tombstones, a list of people buried in College Burial Ground, and notes related to the transfer of graves from the College Burial Ground to Mount Olivet Cemetery. File includes historical documents, including records of payments made to the free Black gravedigger 'Siah by Stephen Dubuisson, S.J., in December 1832 (includes graves for an enslaved person and a free Black person).

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Correspondence regarding the removal of the graves from the College Burial Ground, including letters about the construction of a memorial to Mount Olivet and letters from people inquiring about the removal of their white ancestors.

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Handwritten rules for the Holy Rood Cemetery that addresses when a grave could be opened, restrictions upon the use of liquor on cemetery grounds, the sections for Black people, the poor, and unbaptized children, the costs for digging graves; the application process; the use of vehicles; and payments due.

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Correspondence regarding a contract for funerals for deceased indigent residents.

Scope and Contents Land deeds filed with the District of Columbia documenting the transfer of part of the Beatty and Hawkins addition to Georgetown College to establish Holy Rood Cemetery with notes on the oldest section of Holy Rood Cemetery. File also includes receipts from 1832-1837 for payments for parts of Beatty and Hawkins addition; deed conveying ownership to Thomas Mulledy, S.J., and William McSherry, S.J., September 1, 1838; deed conveying land from Thomas Mulledy to President and Directors of...

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Land deeds filed with the District of Columbia government that transferred Beatty and Hawkins addition to Georgetown College to establish Holy Rood Cemetery. File includes transcripts of the deeds and and survey of lot 273 (1865).

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Deeds conveying lot 277: William Wilson Corcoran to the Georgetown College, August 1, 1849; and John and Harriett Marbury to Georgetown College, October 31, 1853; historical notes on lot 277.

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Correspondence regarding the maintenance of the cemetery; receipts for the care of the cemetery; municipal codes.

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Receipts and expenses for the care of the cemeteries, including a record of the funeral homes that worked with Holy Rood and a list of donors.

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Map showing the location of lots in cemetery

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Maps and charts of Holy Rood Cemetery (most undated).

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Correspondence mostly from William Repetti, S.J., regarding inquiries about the cemeteries.

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Survey reports and correspondence related to the repair of the retaining wall.

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Correspondence regarding taxes on Holy Rood Cemetery, 1894; notes on lot 276, approximately 1914.

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List of Undertakers and apprentice undertakers licensed by the District of Columbia with definition of activities licensed by D.C., 1957-1961; contract for funerals for deceased indigent residents, June 7, 1963.

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List of Undertakers and apprentice undertakers licensed by the District of Columbia with definition of activities licensed by D.C., 1963-1964.

Scope and Contents Includes the regulations of the College Burial Ground that sets fees for lots, defining fees for paid and poor lots. Also includes regulations for Holy Rood Cemetery "upper graveyard," setting fees for paid and poor lots and further specifying where the "colored lots" within the paid and poor lots were. Lot owners of College Burial Ground recorded in chronological order of payment, often with information on whose grave is being purchased (1817-1840); Lot owners for Holy Rood listed in order...

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A record of payments made to Holy Trinity for the graves at Holy Rood. The opening pages include a statement of expenses fo the Holy Rood Cemetery between 1853 and 1858. There is a name register in the beginning of the book

Scope and Contents A list of the lot owners in Holy Rood.It includes a description of the site. The first entries in the book (approximately 70) were lots purchased before 1858. After 1858, they are listed in chronological order, that is, the order in which they were purchased. The lots for the "Old Ground section," that is, the oldest sections of Holy Rood which were re-sold as single grave sites, appear on pp. 70-83. In addition to name of the lot owner, entries include location of the site and the street...

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Volume showing the receipts received for the payments of lots and graves. Register (incomplete) in the front. Records kept chronologically. The last few pages provide the names of people buried in selected lots.