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The Jesuits acquired large tracts of property to establish mission residences on plantations that produced tobacco and financially supported their work. These properties with their dates of establishment include: St. Inigoes (1637), St. Thomas Manor (1649), Newtown (1668), Bohemia (1704), White Marsh (1728), and St. Joseph’s Church (1765).
Thomas Hughes
History of the Society of Jesus in North America: Colonial and Federal
Cleveland: Burrows Brothers, 1907