 Founder John Carroll died December 3, 1815, at age eighty, and in his will he left Georgetown four-hundred pounds sterling, which marked the beginning of Georgetown's endowment.In 1830, construction of an infirmary in the new Gervase Building brought the first hospital beds to Georgetown.In 1838, school presidents Thomas F. Mulledy and William McSherry organized the sale of 272 slaves from a Jesuit-owned tobacco plantation in Maryland to a plantation in Maringouin, Louisiana, and funds from that sale were used to repay debts from recent school expansion.