Things you should know to help with your DNA connections

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• The 1838 sale by the Jesuit priests was not the first, it was the biggest

• Georgetown’s Jesuits sold dozens of slaves in 1817 then again to Florissant, Mo., in 1835. They sent slaves to St. Louis and Kentucky in the years that followed. They manumitted slaves in southern Maryland before 1838. Slaves who were never sold lived on campus and in Maryland well after the sale.

• The 19th U.S.C.T. was recruited primarily from Maryland's Eastern Shore and southern counties, and was organized at Benedict Maryland in December of 1863.,,,The remainder of the regiment embarked for Brazos, Texas on June 5th, 1865 via steamship.  Once in Texas the regiment moved to Brownsville, where it remained until the end of it's term of service in January of 1867.