Skip to main content Skip to search results
Please contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections for assistance with accessing these materials.

Showing Results: 1 - 20 of 63

7.5 J. William Michelman, S.J., 1965 - 2003

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents This subseries contains newspaper articles, press releases, and other papers related to the decision by J. William Michelman, S.J., to allow peace protestors and supporters of the Catonsville Nine to stay at St. Ignatius Church in Baltimore, where he was Superior between 1966 and 1969. The papers include William Kunstler's statement during the trial of the Berrigan Brothers and Father Michelman's appearance in front of a grand jury in 1971; photographs kept by Michelman, including those of...
Dates: 1965 - 2003

7.6 Thomas O'Donnell, S.J., 1955 - 1995

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents This subseries consists of selected personal papers of Thomas J. O’Donnell, S.J. Materials consist primarily of diaries, publications and publication drafts, and sermons. Because of the date of these materials, the subseries is restricted.Born in 1918, Thomas J. O’Donnell entered the Society of Jesus in 1938 and was ordained a priest in 1950. He became a professor of medical ethics at Georgetown University, and served as regent and dean of students at the medical and nursing...
Dates: 1955 - 1995

7.7 Scholastics in Rome, 1819 - 1836

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents This subseries consists of the correspondence and travel journals of a group of Jesuit scholastics from the Maryland Province who studied in Rome between 1820 and 1829, where they were preparing for leadership positions within the Province. Included in this subseries are the journals of P.D. Leavey, S.J., Thomas Mulledy, S.J., and James Ryder, S.J., and correspondence with prominent Jesuit leaders.**Please note: the finding aid contains Scope and Contents notes for each folder....
Dates: 1819 - 1836

8.3 Browne Family, 1800 - 1846

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents This subseries contains financial records related to the Browne family.**Please note: the finding aid contains Scope and Contents notes for each folder. This folder-level description has been imported from an older finding aid. Researchers may encounter outdated or potentially offensive terminology and occasional inaccuracies. If you would like to notify Special Collections of any issues that need correcting, please ...
Dates: 1800 - 1846

8.6 Griffin Family, 1701 - 1790

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents This subseries contains property records related to the Griffin family. Materials include deeds, indentures, and land patents.**Please note: the finding aid contains Scope and Contents notes for each folder. This folder-level description has been imported from an older finding aid. Researchers may encounter outdated or potentially offensive terminology and occasional inaccuracies. If you would like to notify Special Collections of any issues that need correcting, please ...
Dates: 1701 - 1790

3.3 Jesuit Wills, 1722 - 1947

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents This subseries contains wills and related documents of members of the Maryland Province who conveyed property to the Province upon their deaths. Although members of the Society of Jesus take vows of poverty, they can retain financial assets if these assets are not used independently; such ownership is reflected in these wills. The Corporation of Roman Catholic Clergymen claimed ownership of all properties bequeathed to the Maryland Province. **Please note: the finding aid contains...
Dates: 1722 - 1947

9. Province Documentation and Printed Works, 1773 - 1995

 Series
Scope and Contents Series 9, Province Documentation and Printed Works, contains biographies and obituaries of deceased Jesuits (mostly members of the Province); catalogs and directories listing houses and members at various stages of formation, books and authors, and mission activity; a microfilm copy of a msnuscript not found in the Maryland Province Archives; photographs; and publications and newsclippings (such as Jesuit newsletters, anniversary publications, and some materials related to the Jesuits at...
Dates: 1773 - 1995

2.4 General and Special Accounts, 1793 - 1963

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents This subseries consists of account books, expense journals, donation records, seminary fund records, and receipts related to both general and specialized accounts maintained by the Provincial Procurator. Account records are especially robust for the duration of the Maryland-New York Province (1879-1943), but also reflect financial matters during the period of Jesuit slaveholding, with some documentation of the 1838 sale of 272 enslaved individuals (Box 78, Folder 2) . The...
Dates: 1793 - 1963

4.3 Frederick (Frederick County, Md.), 1806 - 1964

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents This subseries contains the records of the Jesuit House and Novitiate in Frederick, Maryland. Among the Records of the Houses, the Frederick subseries is distinctive, documenting both parish life and the considerable activities of the Novitiate. House materials include Litterae Annuae, Historia Domus, diaries, financial records, and correspondence. Novitiate records include announcement books, rule books, financial records,...
Dates: 1806 - 1964

4.5 LaPlata (Charles County, Md.), 1874 - 1966

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents In 1926, the Maryland Province established its House at LaPlata, the capital of Charles County, Maryland, with the Church of the Sacred Heart as its seat. In 1966, the Jesuits transferred the parishes served by the LaPlata House to the Archdiocese of Washington. This subseries consists of Historia Domus, diaries, financial records, memorials of visitation, and historical notes and ephemera.The following churches were served by the House at LaPlata:- Sacred Heart Church...
Dates: 1874 - 1966

4.7 Chaptico (St. Mary's County, Md.), 1897 - 1970

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents Subseries 4.7 contains records pertaining to the Jesuit House at Chaptico in St. Mary’s County, Maryland. Materials include Litterae Annuae, Historia Domus, diaries, announcement books, financial records, correspondence, census, newsclippings, photographs, and histories.The Chaptico House was established in St. Mary’s County, Maryland in 1914 at the head of the Wicomico River, bordering the area served by the Newtown House. Its initial seat was the chapel of Our Lady of Loretto;...
Dates: 1897 - 1970

4.8 Great Mills (St. Mary's County, Md.), 1927 - 1967

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents Subseries 4.8 contains records pertaining to the Jesuit House at Great Mills in St. Mary’s County, Maryland. Materials include announcement books, Historia Domus, diaries, publications, scrapbooks, and photographs.In 1927, the Maryland Province established the Great Mills House at the Rectory of St. Regis, near the Church of the Holy Face in St. Mary’s County, Maryland. Like the priests stationed at other Jesuit Houses in St. Mary’s County, the priests of the Chaptico House...
Dates: 1927 - 1967

4.11 Conewago (Adams County, Penn.), 1815 - 1974

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents Subseries 4.11 contains the records of the Conewago House in Adams County, Pennsylvania. Materials include House diaries, announcement books, sacramental registers, and financial records. Church records include materials from St. Joseph’s Church and Sacred Heart Church in Hanover and Holy Trinity Church in McSherrystown. The subseries also contains rules for burials, spiritual writings, ephemera, histories, newsclippings, publications, and House diary from the short-lived Paradise House...
Dates: 1815 - 1974

4.12 Goshenhoppen (Berks County, Penn.), 1825 - 1953

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents This subseries consists of the records of the House at Goshenhoppen in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Materials include a diary, financial journal, correspondence, photographs, ephemera, newsclippings, histories, and publications. Between 1741 and 1889, Jesuits served the Catholics of northeastern Pennsylvania from the Goshenhoppen House, with its seat at the Most Blessed Sacrament Church in Churchville, Pennsylvania (which has since been renamed Bally). From that location, its...
Dates: 1825 - 1953

4.13 Other Houses, 1774 - 2004

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents This subseries contains published and unpublished materials from Houses whose extant records are primarily held by other repositories. Some of the papers in this subseries were selected for inclusion in the Maryland Province Archives by Jesuit archivists and scholars to support research for specific activities, articles, and projects undertaken by members. This subseries also contains correspondence between the Rectors of Jesuit colleges (including Loyola College of Baltimore and Woodstock...
Dates: 1774 - 2004

4.14 International Houses, 1816 - 1970

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents This subseries contains materials pertaining to international missions that either fell under the jurisdiction of the Maryland Province, or in which members of the Maryland Province were active participants. Materials consist primarily of published items (including pamphlets, newsclippings, and booklets) and photographs. International locations include Burma, Iraq, Jamaica, various European countries, and the Philippines. Please note that there is some discussion of international missions...
Dates: 1816 - 1970

4.15 Histories of the Houses, 1830 - 1967

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents This subseries includes materials documenting House histories, much of which was created for the Province’s fiftieth anniversary (Jubilee) celebration in 1883. Some of these documents contain pointed judgments of the ethnic and racial communities that were under the pastoral care of the various Houses of the Province. Materials include Province-wide Historia Domus, Litterae Annuae, and manuscript histories, and items such as newsclippings pertaining directly to the Jubilee. Because the...
Dates: 1830 - 1967

7.1 Individual Priests, 1790 - 1979

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents This subseries contains selected, fragmentary papers of individual priests of the Maryland Province. Materials include journals, correspondence, homilies, spiritual exercises, retreat notes, examen, poetical writings, and spiritual writings that were used by members when they were students, or in preparation for teaching. Materials of particular interest include journals kept by Stephen Dubuisson, S.J., while stationed at Holy Trinity Church, Georgetown (1830-1833); a diary of Thomas Lilly,...
Dates: 1790 - 1979

7.3 Jose Lopez, S.J., 1816 - 1944

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents This subseries contains selected papers of Jose Lopez, S.J. (also known, after moving to the United States, as the anglicanized Joseph Lopez). The materials primarily concern Don Agustin de Iturbide, the Emperor of Mexico from 1822 to 1823, for whom Lopez served as attorney and political advisor.Jose Lopez was born in Mexico in 1779. After studying canon law, he moved to Europe, where he represented Agustin de Iturbide; he then returned to Mexico during Iturbide’s fight for...
Dates: 1816 - 1944

8.1 Brent Family, 1630 - 1842

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents This subseries contains ancestry and property records related to the Brent family, who were Catholic landowners in Stafford County, Virginia. Materials reflect their financial activity in both England and Virginia.**Please note: the finding aid contains Scope and Contents notes for each folder. This folder-level description has been imported from an older finding aid. Researchers may encounter outdated or potentially offensive terminology and occasional inaccuracies. If you would...
Dates: 1630 - 1842