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4.1 Alexandria, Georgetown, Washington, 1806 - 1960

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Scope and Contents This subseries contains the records of Jesuit Houses located in Alexandria, Georgetown, and Washington, D.C. Materials include official House records such as the Litterae Annuae (annual letters), Historia Domus (House histories), and diaries, financial records, publications, newsclippings, and correspondence. The Jesuits residing in these Houses ministered to several disparate groups comprised of both the...
Dates: 1806 - 1960
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / GTM-000119, Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus / 4. Records of the Houses

4.2 Bohemia and St. Joseph's Church (Eastern Shore, Md.), 1840 - 1973

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents This subseries contains records pertaining to the Jesuit Houses on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Bohemia and St. Joseph's Church. Materials include an announcement book (Bohemia), financial records and pew rent books, a sacramental register with notes on church attendance (St. Joseph’s Church), newsclippings, photographs, histories, and publications. In the eighteenth century, Jesuits established two Houses on the Eastern Shore of the Delmarva Peninsula: Bohemia in 1704 and St....
Dates: 1840 - 1973
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / GTM-000119, Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus / 4. Records of the Houses

4.4 White Marsh and Bowie (Prince George's County, Md.), 1818 - 1969

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents This subseries contains records pertaining to the Jesuit Houses at White Marsh and Bowie in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Materials include diaries, announcement books, financial records, visitation memorials, correspondence, parishioner papers, photographs, manuscripts, and newsclippings. Of particular interest are White Marsh sacramental registers covering the years 1818 to 1897, which included bapitsmal, marriage, and burial records. Researchers should also note that 89 of the 272...
Dates: 1818 - 1969
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / GTM-000119, Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus / 4. Records of the Houses

4.6 St. Thomas Manor (Charles County, Md.), 1788 - 1970

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents This subseries contains records related to St. Thomas Manor, the Jesuit House in Charles County, Maryland. Materials include Litterae Annuae, Historia Domus, a sacramental register (recording baptisms, marriages, and burials), correspondence, House library lists, financial records, publications, histories, newsclippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and ephemera.Established in 1642, St. Thomas Manor is the only House in Southern Maryland still maintained by the Jesuits. It is also the...
Dates: 1788 - 1970
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / GTM-000119, Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus / 4. Records of the Houses

4.9 Newtown and Leonardtown (St. Mary's County, Md.), 1794 - 1982

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents The records in this subseries pertain to the Jesuit House in St. Mary’s County, Maryland that was first known as Newtown (founded in 1662) and then as Leonardtown (when it was relocated to the town of the same name in 1868). This subseries includes Litterae Annuae and Historia Domus; Newtown House financial records, Newtown House sacramental records, Newtown House correspondence; Saint Joseph’s Church minute book, pew rent book, and treasurer’s accounts; Sacred Heart Church Board of Trustees...
Dates: 1794 - 1982
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / GTM-000119, Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus / 4. Records of the Houses

4.10 St. Inigoes and Ridge (St. Mary's County, Md.), 1767 - 1985

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents The records in this subseries include announcement books; Annuae Litterae and Historia Domus; diaries; a book of memorials, a census of families, and a scrapbook; correspondence; manuscript histories (including archeological surveys); legal documents; newsclippings; photographs (including glass-plate negatives compiled by Horace McKenna, S.J. around 1933; published materials; financial records; sacramental records; and spiritual writings. Please note that a fire at the St. Inigoes Manor...
Dates: 1767 - 1985
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / GTM-000119, Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus / 4. Records of the Houses

7.2 George Fenwick, S.J., 1818 - 1856

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents This subseries contains selected, fragmentary papers of George Fenwick, S.J. The materials consist of correspondence and one folder of poetical writing. Of particular note is Fenwick’s correspondence with his former student Patrick Healy, S.J., before Healy’s time as President of Georgetown College. This correspondence includes an 1853 letter from Healy to Fenwick in which Healy alludes to his attempts to pass as white at Holy Cross College; Healy was in fact mixed race, the son of a...
Dates: 1818 - 1856
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / GTM-000119, Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus / 7. Papers of Individual Priests of the Maryland Province

2.1 Subject Files, 1633 - 1968

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents Subseries 2.1 is comprised of Subject Files related to the Province’s finances, dating from the seventeenth through twentieth centuries. These records were organized by the Provincial Procurator (treasurer) out of loose collections of financial correspondence, deeds and land surveys, invoices, receipts, statements, and contracts. The Subject Files subseries also contains many of the key legal and financial documents related to the Maryland Province’s sale of 272 enslaved individuals in...
Dates: 1633 - 1968
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / GTM-000119, Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus / 2. Records of the Procurator

7.4 John McElroy, S.J., 1813 - 1877

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents This subseries contains selected personal papers of John McElroy, S.J., primarily correspondence, diaries, journals, and notes. In his journals, among many other topics, he makes note of Black congregants (both free and enslaved), discusses his work related to Boston College, and records observations of his time as a chaplain in Mexico during the Mexican-American War. In his correspondence, there are letters from several prominent individuals, including Zachary Taylor, Dolley Madison, and...
Dates: 1813 - 1877
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / GTM-000119, Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus / 7. Papers of Individual Priests of the Maryland Province

8.4 Carroll Family, 1714 - 1721

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents This subseries consists of a financial records book of James Carroll, a wealthy Catholic planter, merchant, and slave owner in Maryland. Known as the “James Carroll Daybook” - though not technically a daybook, as it is not arranged strictly chronologically - this folio-sized volume of nearly 300 pages is a record of the commercial accounts maintained by the innovative planter-merchant James Carroll, including financial transactions related to enslaved individuals. James Carroll...
Dates: 1714 - 1721
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / GTM-000119, Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus / 8. Papers of Catholic Families

8.5 Fenwick Family, 1714 - 1865

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents This subseries contains papers related to the Fenwick family, prominent Catholic landholders and slave holders in St. Mary’s County, Charles County, and Georgetown. The Fenwicks were among the first Catholic settlers in Maryland. The materials reflect the Fenwick family’s financial activity from the early eighteenth century through the mid-1800s; there are also financial records pertaining to Georgetown College. Several Fenwicks entered the Society of Jesus; Benedict Joseph Fenwick, S.J....
Dates: 1714 - 1865
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / GTM-000119, Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus / 8. Papers of Catholic Families

8.7 Neale Family, 1762 - 1800

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents This subseries contains an account book of the Neale family, one of the earliest Catholic families to settle in Maryland. In addition to their land ownership, they also owned enslaved people. Several Neales joined the Society of Jesus, with Francis Neale, S.J. and Leonard Neale, S.J. serving as acting president or president of Georgetown College.**Please note: the finding aid contains Scope and Contents notes for each folder. This folder-level description has been imported from...
Dates: 1762 - 1800
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / GTM-000119, Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus / 8. Papers of Catholic Families

8.8 Sewall Family, 1762 - 1800

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents This subseries contains papers related to the estate of Nicholas Lewis Sewall, including account books, deeds to the family estate Mattapony, and the deed of sale for enslaved individuals. Nicholas Sewall was the father of two Jesuits (Charles, 1744-1806, who returned to Maryland after his education in Europe, and Nicholas, 1745-1834, who remained in England during and after the Suppression.**Please note: the finding aid contains Scope and Contents notes for each folder. This...
Dates: 1762 - 1800
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / GTM-000119, Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus / 8. Papers of Catholic Families

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