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Box 62

 Container

Contains 28 Results:

Slavery, Payment Correspondence Related to 1838 Sale (3 of 3), 1858 - 1859

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 21
Identifier: 119_40_5
Scope and Contents Letters regarding the settlement of obligations from Johnson's estate and negotiate new terms of payment with Thompson: Lancaster to T.J. Semmes, February 16, 1859 Thos. J. Semmes to Lancaster, February 25, 1859 Documents related to settlement with Thompson: Statement of interest on notes paid by Henry Johnson, [1858] [Lancaster] to Mulledy, March 1, 1859 Lancaster to Semmes, March 11, 1859 Lancaster to Thompson, March 11,...
Dates: 1858 - 1859
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / GTM-000119, Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus / 2. Records of the Procurator / 2.1 Subject Files

Slavery, Mortgages Related to 1838 Sale, 1844 - 1851

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 22
Identifier: 119_40_5
Scope and Contents Related to mortgages that financed 1838 purchase of enslaved people from Maryland Province:Georgetown College account with E.J. Forstall (attorney representing Province v. Henry Johnson), New Orleans, September 4, 1844Brander Williams to Francis Verspre, S.J., April 9, 1844Petition by Jesse Batey for release from mortgage, [1851]Henry Johnson to Charles Lancaster, S.J., January 28, 1851**Former finding aid locations: 119_40_5;...
Dates: 1844 - 1851
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / GTM-000119, Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus / 2. Records of the Procurator / 2.1 Subject Files

Slavery, Notes on Mortgages and Names of Enslaved People Related to 1838 Sale, undated

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 23
Identifier: 119_40_6
Scope and Contents Notes about enslaved people paid on mortgages: 9 documents**Former finding aid locations: 119_40_6; 112R2** Materials on Slavery This folder contains materials related to Jesuit slaveholding and to the 1838 sale of approximately 300 enslaved individuals.List of slaves remaining on Estate and exchanged, no date [GSA56]"Only slaves transported to Louisiana out of the 84 slaves lot." undated [GSA380]...
Dates: undated
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / GTM-000119, Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus / 2. Records of the Procurator / 2.1 Subject Files

Slavery, Assorted Correspondence, 1830 - 1864

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 24
Identifier: 119_40_10
Scope and Contents

Other documents related to slavery:

    Bishop Spalding, Louisville, to Provincial, March 21, 1830 (112W12)



Materials on Slavery

This folder contains materials related to Jesuit slaveholding and to the 1838 sale of approximately 300 enslaved individuals.

Dates: 1830 - 1864
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / GTM-000119, Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus / 2. Records of the Procurator / 2.1 Subject Files

Slavery, Colonization - Liberia, 1834

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 25
Identifier: 119_13_4
Scope and Contents

Correspondence (Oct. 17, 1834) describes conditions in Liberia and addresses the emancipation and possible migration of enslaved peopled in America to Liberia

**Former finding aid locations: 119_13_4; 17R1**



Materials on Slavery

This folder contains materials related to Jesuit slaveholding.

The Liberia Option [GSA36]

Dates: 1834
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / GTM-000119, Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus / 2. Records of the Procurator / 2.1 Subject Files

Slavery, Letter from Thomas Brown, 1833

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 26
Identifier: 119_40_5
Scope and Contents

Letter from Thomas Brown, an enslaved person transferred from Maryland to Missouri to work with Peter Verhaegen, S.J. Requesting to purchase freedom of his wife: Thomas Brown to [William McSherry??], October 21, 1833

**Former finding aid locations: 119_40_5; 112B1**



Materials on Slavery

This folder contains materials related to Jesuit slaveholding.

Thomas Brown letter, 1833 [GSA34]

Dates: 1833
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / GTM-000119, Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus / 2. Records of the Procurator / 2.1 Subject Files

Slavery and Indentured Servitude, 1803 - 1824

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 27
Identifier: 119_26_7
Scope and Contents Documents pertaining to indentured servants as well as to the sale and manumission of enslaved individuals. Items include: Indenture (1812) between Benedict Greenwell and Francis Neale, S.J., allows Greenwell's sons [Wilfred and Cornelius, indentured servants] to apprentice a trade under Fr. Neale. Document also attests to manumission in 1824 of Cornelius Greenwell; Papers pertaining to sale of enslaved woman and her child by Dorothy Digges (1803); Papers (1816)...
Dates: 1803 - 1824
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / GTM-000119, Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus / 2. Records of the Procurator / 2.1 Subject Files

Tax Bills and Receipts, 1872 - 1930

 File — Box: 62, Folder: 28
Identifier: 119_90_5
Scope and Contents

Tax bills related to properties in Southern Maryland and Pennsylvania, 1923-1930

**Former finding aid locations: 119_90_50.1; 418**

Dates: 1872 - 1930
Found in: Georgetown University Manuscripts / GTM-000119, Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus / 2. Records of the Procurator / 2.1 Subject Files