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[1802 Dr St. Thomas's Manor in acct with Cash]
[1803]
[Jan]
26     To cash from Henny for 3 barrels corn @ $2   6.00  2.5.0
April 22    To Cash recd for sale of negro Constant, property of N.L. Sewall's estate  101.10.0

[opposite folio 1802 Contra Cr.]
[1803]
[Jan]
10    By do to do (the Taylor C. Layman) for making a servant's great coat  0.12.6
April 22  By Do [cash] to Mrs. Dorothy Digges for negro woman Jenny & her child  85.0.0

Rectangular Research Data

• Enslaved owned by priests (Jesuits): 1151

• Enslaved owned by others: 49

• Free Black people: 36

• Priests: 62

• White lay people: 118

People

Perry GreenWood

In 1790, purchases Nell and her son, Perry for 4 Pounds.

Patrick Barnes

• Blacksmith.
• Puts his family's freedom in motion in 1792.
• Begins paying on his wife Mary and children Isaac & Hannah in 1793.
• Purchases his own freedom in 1797.

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three Buildings, a miserable Dwelling House & much worse for some Negroes, & a House to cure tobacco in. The dwelling House was nothing but a few Boards riven from Oak Trees, not sawed Plank, & these nailed together to keep out some of ye coldest air: not one Brick or stone about it, no plastering & no chimney, but a little stole in ye Roof to let out ye smoak. In this I lived till ye Winter, when I got it plastered to keep of ye cold, & build a Brick Chimney, ye Bricks I was obliged to buy & cart about 5 Mile.

– Joseph Mosley, SJ

March 1765, St. Joseph's

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Men & working boys -- One Winter suit consisting of one woolen jacket & breeches (or, trowsers, at option of Master): one pair yarn stockings; one pair shoes. -- Two shirts -- one pair linen trowsers, for summer.

Women & working girls -- One woolen short gown and petticoat, for winter -- one linen petticoat, for summer -- two shifts -- one pair shoes -- one pair yarn stockings every other year; & feeting, alternately.

Children -- As necessity requires.

N.B. Blankets, when necessary

-- Francis Beeston, SJ

1791, Bohemia Manor

Mobberly's 1815 Estimates

Mobberly's Rations

One peck of meal a little heaped was always allowed each labourer per week and a half peck to children. Old people who were passed labour were allowed as much per week as a labourer. One peck per week was always found to be a plenty, and some of them did not use it all. What they did not use was preserved for the raising of poultry.

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The dimensions of a Negroe's patch in the future shall be 100 yards long, & 40 yards wide from the fence of the field, to which it joins. If he be a married man, & his wife live on this Plantation, he shall be allowed a patch 200 yds. in length, & 40 ^yds.^ in breadth from the fence of the adjoining field. If a ^married^ man has a patch of these last dimensions; his wife shall have no separate patch. No boy, nor girl shall be entitled to a patch til he or she is a full hand, with respect to work. -- The patches shall be made only in such places, as the Master shall appoint. -- If any one transgress these rules; he shall, without fail, lose his patch ^& all title to any for the future.

-- Francis Beeston, SJ

1792, Bohemia Manor

Common Remedies Encountered by the Enslaved

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On my return, I found that our family here had meet with severe chastisements. - a young married woman had died, five men were confined with sickness as also six women, and five children. To two of these women I give the holy oils last night, their exit from this world is daily expected. Our quarters are condemned & must be destroyed by fire in the beginning of spring. - our prospects are dreadful and I am obliged to have recourse to the ordinary means to carry on business in the family. That is the hireing of slaves. I have hired three, nor will these supply our loses.-
    I am forced to employ all I can to obtain timber for the building of Negroe quarters…

– Conrad Anker

-- Francis Neale, SJ

January 1827, St. Inigoes