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• 1827-11-02, Nancy, Health (Childbirth)
  Nancy gave birth to her daughter Lysa Ann on November 2, 1827. The birth is recorded in Francis Neale's register of baptisms, marriages, and burials at St. Thomas Manor for 1827-1832. She was enslaved by an individual designated as "G. Brant" in the register.
• 1856-05, Unnamed enslaved girl, Health (Medical Treatment)
  An unnamed enslaved girl of approximately 10-11 years of age, was severely beaten by University of Virginia student and lodger at Lucy Terrell's boarding house, N.B. Noland. Her injuries were so severe as to require attendance by an unnamed physician. Partial transcript: "whilst the family was at dinner, he went to the back door of Miss Terrell's residence & called the girl, who went to the door, and being seised by him was knocked down & kicked & beaten so severely as to be for a time insensible, and to require the attendance of a Physician afterwards
• 1856-05, Unnamed enslaved girl, Violence (Physical Assault)
  An unnamed enslaved girl of approximately 10-11 years of age, while staying at the boardinghouse of hotel keeper Lucy Terrell, was severely beaten by University of Virginia student and lodger at Terrell's boarding house, Noble Beveridge Noland. At the May 2, 1856 faculty meeting Noland states that this was in response to impertinence and, while he regrets the severity of the punishment, he cannot promise he wouldn't do something similar again. The faculty rules that he withdraw from the University. The next day he sends a longer letter of apology to the faculty and they reverse that decision and let him off with nothing more than a reprimand.
• 1839-02-24, Fielding, Resistance
  Fielding, an enslaved man owned by University of Virginia professor Charles Bonnycastle, intervened when two University of Virginia students, Franklin English and Madison McAfee, attempted to disperse a group of free Black people, including two people who were having a fight. Fielding attempted to prevent them from doing so, using both a stick and a stone. English and McAfee, along with several other University of Virginia students, beat Fielding severely (see related event). Fielding continued resisting and fighting back, as the crowd chased him to several different locations. The University of Virginia faculty committee took no action against the students involved.
• 1839-02-24, Fielding, Violence (Physical Assault)
  Fielding, an enslaved man owned by University of Virginia professor Charles Bonnycastle, was severely beaten by several University of Virginia students, including Franklin English, Madison McAfee, Calvin Jones, Benjamin Johnson, and John H. Harrison. According to the testimonies of several witnesses, all of whom were white, English and McAffee were attempting to disperse a group of free Black people, including two people who were having a fight, and Fielding attempted to prevent them from doing so, using both a stick and a stone (see related event). In retaliation they beat him severely, chasing him to several different locations until Charles Bonnycastle intervened to stop them. The faculty committee decided to leave the matter to the courts and take no action against the students.
• 1829-06-24, Unnamed enslaved woman, Physical violence: Sexual assault
  An unnamed enslaved woman owned by University of Virginia professor Gessner Harrison was the attempted target of sexual assault by University of Virginia student William Garland Carr. Carr and two other students, Robert W. Walton and William K. Morgan, were out at night and very intoxicated. They stopped at Harrison’s home, and Harrison overheard Carr knocking at the cellar door and making indecent propositions to the unnamed woman. Carr asserts that he was just trying to get her to give him some supper. The faculty resolves that Carr should be dismissed from the University, but his application for readmission is accepted on September 7, 1829. Transcript: “Dr. Harrison then informed the Faculty that a disturbing noise was made last night by a number of persons who appeared to be returning from Charlottesville...It was after 12 oclock - there was a knocking at his cellar door & heard indecent propositions made to a female servant...Wm. G. Carr next appeared before the Faculty. Being informed by the Chairman of the charges alledged against him; says he has nothing to say; made no disturbing noise, struck no door - went to Dr. Harrison's house to get something to eat; had another reason for going there which he will not disclose; by knocking at the door he wished to call the attention of a female residing there, who had been in the habit of furnishing him with suppers. Will not say he had been drinking, nor answer any question put to him with regard to drinking, nor will he say whether or not he was intoxicated - Being asked if he had any thing to say in explanation of the charge of intoxication - will not answer the question, not admitting at the same time the truth of the charges; it was between 12 and 1 when ** he knocked at Dr. Harrison's door - admits he made some noise. did sing was not intoxicated when Dr. H. saw him - retired to rest soon after... It appearing from the admission of Wm G. Carr & other evidence, that he had been drinking last night at a tavern in Charlottesville, that he was one of a riotous party, and was himself disorderly; that he was further guilty of indecent conduct in endeavoring to get access to a female servant in a pavilion of one of the professors - Resolved, therefore, that the said Wm. G. Carr be dismissed from the University”
• Mrs. Woodson
  Mrs. Woodson was a boarder at Lucy Terrell's boarding house in May of 1856. At that time she was the enslaver of a 10-11 year old girl who was assaulted during their stay. Mrs. Woodson appears in the May 2, 1856 Minutes of the Faculty of the University of Virginia.
• Socrates Maupin
  Socrates Maupin was born in Albemarle County, Virginia on 12 November 1808. He graduated from Washington College in 1828 and received his medical diploma from the University of Virginia two years later. After spending an additional three years at Virginia, Maupin earned an M.A. degree. He accepted the chair of ancient languages at Hampden-Sydney College where he spent just two years before relocating to Richmond where he established his own classical and mathematical school. At the request of Dr. Augustus L. Warner, Maupin joined the original faculty of the Medical Department of Hampden-Sydney College as professor of chemistry and pharmacy medica. He became Dean of the medical department when Warner died in 1847. In 1853, Maupin accepted the professorship of chemistry and materia medica at the University of Virginia. The following year he became dean of the faculty and served until 1870. Maupin married Sallie Hays Traverse Washington and was the father of six children. In October of 1871 Maupin sustained a fatal head injury from a fall he sustained from a runway carriage. He died on 19 October and was buried in the University of Virginia cemetery. Description taken from the biographical note in the finding aid for the Socrates Maupin Collection at Virginia Commonwealth University. https://archives.library.vcu.edu/repositories/3/resources/53
• Lucy Terrell
  Lucy Terrell was a hotel keeper at the University of Virginia from 1837-1860. She appears in the Faculty Meeting Minutes of the University of Virginia, the Journals of the Chairman of the Faculty, the University catalogs, and the John Staige Davis papers.
• Noble Beveridge Noland
  Noble Beveridge Noland was a student at the University of Virginia from 1855-1857. He appears in in the Faculty Meeting Minutes of the University of Virginia, Journals of the Chairman of the Faculty, and University catalogs during that time period.
• Jesse Lewis Heiskell
  Jesse Lewis Heiskell appears in the March 2, 1839 University of Virginia Faculty Meeting Minutes, and the Journals of the Chairman of the Faculty.
• Hezekiah Perry
  Hezekiah Perry appears in the March 2, 1839 University of Virginia Faculty Meeting Minutes, and the Journals of the Chairman of the Faculty.
• Garrison
  Garrison appears in the March 2, 1839 University of Virginia Faculty Meeting Minutes, and the Journals of the Chairman of the Faculty.
• George Wythe Randolph
  George Wythe Randolph was a Virginia lawyer, planter, politician and Confederate general. After representing the City of Richmond during the Virginia Secession Convention in 1861, during eight months in 1862 he was the Confederate States Secretary of War during the American Civil War, then served in the Virginia Senate representing the City of Richmond until the war's end.
• John H. Harrison
  John H. Harrison was a University of Virginia student from 1837-1839. He appears in the March 2, 1839 University of Virginia Faculty Meeting Minutes, and the Journals of the Chairman of the Faculty.
• Benjamin Johnson
  Benjamin Johnson appears in the March 2, 1839 University of Virginia Faculty Meeting Minutes, and the Journals of the Chairman of the Faculty.
• Calvin Jones
  Calvin Jones was a University of Virginia student from 1835-1838. He appears in the March 2, 1839 University of Virginia Faculty Meeting Minutes, and the Journals of the Chairman of the Faculty.
• Madison McAfee
  Madison McAfee was a University of Virginia student from 1838-1840. He appears in the March 2, 1839 University of Virginia Faculty Meeting Minutes, and the Journals of the Chairman of the Faculty.
• Franklin English
  Franklin English was a University of Virginia student from 1837-1839. He appears in the March 2, 1839 University of Virginia Faculty Meeting Minutes, and the Journals of the Chairman of the Faculty.
• Charles Bonnycastle
  Charles Bonnycastle was a University of Virginia professor from 1825-1840, and Chairman of the Faculty from 1833-1835. He appears in the Faculty Meeting Minutes, the Journals of the Chairman of the Faculty, and the University Catalog.
• Fielding
  Fielding as a man enslaved by University of Virginia professor Charles Bonnycastle. He appears in the March 2, 1839 University of Virginia Faculty Meeting Minutes, and the Journals of the Chairman of the Faculty.
• William K. Morgan
  William K. Morgan was a University of Virginia student 1828-1829.
• Robert W. Walton
  Robert W. Walton was a University of Virginia student from 1828-1830.
• Robley Dunglison
  Robley Dunglison was a University of Virginia Faculty member from 1825-1832.
• William Garland Carr
  William Garland Carr was a University of Virginia student from 1828-1833.
• Gessner Harrison
  Gessner Harrison was a University of Virginia faculty member from 1828-1859.
• White Marsh
  "Inherited from James Carroll in 1729, White Marsh sits near the head of the Patuxent River, roughly 18 miles from Washington, D.C. and 22 miles from Baltimore. The original bequest included land in both Prince George's and Anne Arundel counties. It is the nearly 2,000 acres in Prince George's county that became known as White Marsh. As the individual recipient of the bequest, George Thorold, SJ, is thought to have taken up residence on the property in 1741. His work there was continued by a number of successors after his death in 1742. In 1764, John Lewis, SJ, took up oversight of the estate. He was assisted by John Ashton, SJ, who lived there until 1801. In the 1760s and for fifty years afterward, White Marsh was the home to many more enslaved people than any other Jesuit plantation. In 1783, the estate served as the meeting site for the priests who eventually formed the Corporation for Roman Catholic Clergymen." -- Sharon M. Leon, "Jesuit Estates," Jesuit Plantation Project, http://jesuitplantationproject.org/s/jpp/page/estates.
• Bohemia Manor
  "Located in the northern part of the Eastern Shore at the Little Bohemia River in Cecil County, Bohemia Manor came into Jesuit hands in part through a bequest and in part through an outright purchase. Originally claimed by Mary Ann and Margaret O'Daniel in 1680, the survey and deed process for the land was not completed before the two sisters died. They bequeathed their 300 acres to Thomas Mansell, SJ, and William Douglass, SJ. Mansell completed the survey and claim process for the land and contiguous vacant areas in 1706, and then purchased a number of adjourning tracts, increasing the size of the estate to roughly 2,000 acres. The plantation and its facilities served as the first Catholic outpost outside of the Jesuit farms in Southern Maryland. The Manor originally had a log house where Mansell lived until his death in 1723. The following year Thomas Hogdson, SJ, erected a brick house and church on the estate. Bohemia hosted a Catholic school started by Thomas Pulton, SJ, in 1745 or 1746. Though it only functioned for a decade at most, it proved to be a precursor to Georgetown College. Intended to provide an affordable education to Catholic boys who would go on to St. Olmers, the Academy at Bohemia included future Jesuit John Archbishop Carroll among its alumni" -- Sharon M. Leon, "Jesuit Estates," Jesuit Plantation Project, http://jesuitplantationproject.org/s/jpp/page/estates
• St. Thomas Manor
  Established in 1642, St. Thomas Manor is the oldest, continuously-operated Jesuit community in the world. St. Ignatius Church on Chapel Point is its pastoral seat. Consisting of more than 4,400 acres of land, the Jesuits exploited enslaved labor to operate a tobacco plantation and leased a substantial portion to tenant farmers.
• Esther
  Esther appears in Francis neale's 1827-1932 St. Thomas register as the godmother of a girl named Lysa Ann. At the time, she was enslaved by Mr. Diegs.
• G. Brant
  G. Brant is listed in Francis Neale's 1827-1832 St. Thomas register as the owner of several enslaved people.
• Thomas
  Thomas appears in the records of St. Thomas Manor in the 1820s. In 1827, he is listed in a register of baptisms as the father of Lysa Ann. At the time, he was enslaved by someone listed in the register as "G. Brant."
• Nancy
  Nancy appears in the records of St. Thomas Manor in the 1820s. In 1827, she is listed in a register of baptisms as the mother of Lysa Ann. At the time, she was enslaved by someone listed in the register as "G. Brant."
• 1827-12-09, Lysa Ann, Religious (Baptism)
  Lysa Ann was baptized by Francis Neale at St. Thomas Manor on November 2, 1827. The event is recorded in Francis Neale's register of baptisms, marriages, and burials at St. Thomas for 1827-1832. Her parents, both enslaved by an individual designated as "G. Brant" in the register, are Nancy and Thomas; her godmother is listed as Esther (enslaved by Mr. Diegs).
• 1827-11-02, Lysa Ann, Life-course (Birth)
  Lysa Ann was born on November 2nd, 1827. The birth is recorded in Francis Neale's register of baptisms, marriages, and burials at St. Thomas for 1827-1832. Her parents, both enslaved by an individual designated as "G. Brant" in the register, are Nancy and Thomas.
• Lysa Ann
  Lysa Ann was born into slavery at or near St. Thomas Manor in 1827. Her parents were Nancy and Thomas.
• 1814-01-30, Isaac, Freedom status transaction (Sale)
  Following his capture and jailing in Baltimore, Isaac was sold by Rev. Neale to a man in Hartford County.
• 1814-01-30, Isaac, Violence (Jailing)
  Isaac, an enslaved man who ran away from Georgetown College on January 29th, 1814, was captured the following day in Baltimore and jailed.
• 1814-01-29, Isaac, Resistance (Freedom seeking)
  Isaac ran away from Georgetown College on January 29, 1814. The event is mentioned briefly in John McElroy's diary. It is also documented in a runaway advertisement that was published in the Daily National Intelligencer on February 1, 1814 by John McElroy. The ad includes descriptions of Isaac's age, appearance, height, and clothing.