Box 48

Scope and Contents Financial records and other papers:Short copy [debt judgment (1804)] involving Peter Gough and John Clements; Benedict and Francis Fenwick Accounts (1797) with Georgetown College; Original contract (1788) with Henry Carlile and John McHenry by Charles Sewall for the building of Georgetown College; Estimate for building of college by Henry Carlile; Estimate (1790) for constructing lower story of the Academy by James Flaherty; An estimate of carpenters work for early building by...

Scope and Contents Includes financial statements showing transfer of $25,000 by Thomas Mulledy, S.J., to Georgetown College and list of college residents, including 11 Black washerwomen and 2 enslaved people.Papers related to Georgetown College: History of James Ord [as related by himself with other facts collected by his descendants]. Included also are two letters: 1) Letter (Mar. 17, 1875) from James Curley, S.J., to W. Ord and 2) Letter [Mar. 18, 1875] of P. Ord to C.C. Lancaster. There is also...

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Bills paid for the Scholasticate of Georgetown, charged to the Province of Maryland

**Former finding aid locations: 119_55_5; 198B**

Scope and Contents Correspondence and other papers:Letter (Feb. 11, 1866) from Joseph Bixio, S.J., to C.C. Lancaster, S.J.; Letter (Oct. 1, 1860) from Leonard Nota, S.J.; Letter (Mar. 4, 1867) from Rev. Carroll; Letter (Nov. 26, 1867) from James Clark, S.J., to C.C. Lancaster, S.J.; Letter (Sept. 23, 1867) from Joseph Duverney, S.J., to C.C. Lancaster; Letter (Jan. 2, 1867) from Albert Peters, S.J.; Notice of death of Rev. Thomas Stan King; Letter (Apr. 20, 1865) of John Crommeller to C.C....

Scope and Contents Financial records: Note from John C. Geale, S.J., to Joseph Zwinge, S.J., concerns financial condition of house (1919); Letter (Mar. 26, 1919) from J.C. Geale, Rector, to Joseph Zwinge explaining financial conditions of the house and church; Letter (Apr. 12, 1919) from Fr. Geale to Fr. Zwinge concerns current debt and quest for a loan; List (1831) of standard Catholic books for sale by F. Lucas, a bookseller in Baltimore; List of contributors as extra help for church repairs;...

Scope and Contents Correspondence: Letters (Dec. 1909) between J. Havens Richards, S.J., and Joseph Zwinge, S.J., concern Holy Trinity Church and Georgetown College property deeds; Plat of property surrounding Trinity Church; Letters (1909-11) Joseph Himmel, S.J., and Joseph Zwinge, S.J., concern Trinity, college and hospital property deeds; Letter (Mar. 19, 1910) pertains to Trinity Church and college property deeds as well as to the Will of Patrick Healy, S.J.**Former finding aid...

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Land and legal records:

Two indentures (1729) between Caspar Wistar and Ulrich Peidelar; Draught (1729) of land sold by Ulrich Peidelar to Henry Neale; Indenture (1747) between Ulrich Peidelar and Henry Neale; Draughts (1752) of land belonging to Joseph Greaton, S.J., located near Cowissioppen and in Colebrookdale; Grant (1752) from Thomas and Richard Penn to Joseph Greaton.

**Former finding aid locations: 119_33_9; 105Z1-105Z7**

Scope and Contents Land and legal records: Memorandum-Theodore Schneider, S.J., received patent for Fr. Greaton and Henry Neale; Cloth-bound Map and survey (1773) of four tracts of land in Hereford township [Penn.]; Memorandum concerns lands surveyed by David Shultze; Goshenhoppen survey by David Shultze (1773); Cloth-bound map and survey (1818) of Colebrookdale, Pennsylvania [original and copies]; Copy of deeds to Jesuit land in Goshenhoppen and vicinity; Cloth-bound map [1847 copy] of four tracts...

Scope and Contents Land records and other papers:Items include the following: Articles of agreement (1746) between Henry Neale and Patrick Sutton; Articles of agreement (1752) between Patrick Sutton and Ferdinand Farmer, S.J.; Account books (1743) of rent paid for church lots no. 146 and 147; Indenture (1756) between Alexander Stockslegor and Nicholas Shyor; Letter (Apr. 5, 1849) from Fr. Steinbacher to Jacob Weaver, John Schaff, David Hook and John Wayne against an article in the Philadelphia...

Scope and Contents Land and legal records with correspondence: tenant contracts arrange chronologicall (105V10); Letters between Bally and Lancaster describe sales of lands. Within this set, there is a letter requesting a middle-aged "colored woman" to replace the servant of the residence who needed to take care mother and was expected to become a Franciscan nun. (10V 1/2)Twelve letters (1864-71) of Augustine Bally, S.J., to Charles C. Lancaster, S.J.; Note (1867) concerns sale of woodland on...

Scope and Contents Land and legal records related to Goshenhoppen: Indenture (1858) between Jacob & Mary Smith and Jacob P. Smith, M.D. for four lots in Oxford; Indenture (1823) between Mathew Timmins and David O'Hara; Indenture (1785) between Wendell Keller and Jacob Pellentz and Trustees of the Corporation of Roman Catholic Clergymen; Indenture (1839) between Philip Reikard and Nicholas Steinbacher, S.J.; Draught of a tract in Richmond, Pennsylvania.**Former finding aid locations: 119_34_5.2;...

Scope and Contents Land and legal records: Letter (Sept. 12, 1881) from R.W. Brady, S.J. to C.C. Lancaster, S.J.; Letters (Nov. 14/ Dec. 8, 1885) from M. Hayes, S.J., to Fr. Provincial; Copy of draught of Jacob Menges land in Jackson, Pennsylvania; Three letters (1903-1908) from D.C. Smith to Joseph Zwinge, S.J.; Letter (Jan. 4, 1904) from D.C. Smith to Thomas A. Whelan; Letter (Jan. 19, 1904) from John A. Chester, S.J., to Fr. Zwinge; Plat and survey of tract in Jackson, Penn. by D.C. Smith...