Box 2

Scope and Contents An account book predominantly recording debts/credits of parents or guardians for tuition and expense payments. Book also includes accounts of vendors and laborers, including free Black laborers as well as enslaved laborers and their enslavers: Jane Moody (1848-1849, p. 59); Sophy (from Emma Berry, 1849-1850, p. 58 and 223); Ned (from Stanislaus Murray, 1848-1849, p. 151); Mary (from Gregory Ennis, 1850-1852, p. 307); Mary Combs (1852-1853, p. 425); "Old Mary" (1853-1854, p. 425); and John...

Scope and Contents A chronological record of transactions made to maintain the Seminary, including tuition payments for enrolled students; wages to washerwomen, cooks, and other laborers, such as enslaved laborers hired out to Washington Seminary and free Black laborers; and clothing provisions for enslaved and free Black laborers. Transactions indicate the hiring of Jane Moody (1848, p. 7); Ned (from Stanislaus Murray, 1848-1849, p. 7 and 11); Sophy (from Emma Berry, 1849, p. 19, 24, and 27); and Mary (from...

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A manuscript record of speeches written by unnamed students and faculty, as well as some selected from books, and which were performed at Washington Seminary's annual exhibitions. The volume also includes event programs.

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A diary including notes on school and religious holidays, student activities such as processions and debates, illnesses of students and faculty, and burials of students and faculty. There is a list of regulations for the students (p. 3-9), accounts of student discipline and notes on visits of faculty to other Jesuit missions, and Provincial leaders' visits. There is description of the surrounding neighborhood and disorderly conduct of Washington, DC, residents, including nativists.