Finding the Names — Volume One, Installment 35: New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1828 (Roll 5, Images 361–480) — FREE

Installment 35 of Finding the Names — Volume One: The Ship Manifests. The fourth installment of Roll 5 — the 1828 manifests.

977 more entries transcribed name by name from the original New Orleans inward slave manifests — Roll 5, images 361–480, National Archives Microfilm Publication M1895, Records of the U.S. Customs Service (Record Group 36). The series now holds 19,071 entries.

Every entry gives the person's name exactly as the clerk wrote it (or records honestly that no name survives), with sex, age, height, the clerk's class/colour column, the shipper or owner, the vessel, the master, the ports, and the date — plus the inspectors' endorsements, where the human stories live:

• The two deaths have names now — Greene, 21, "Washed overboard," and Philip, 60, "Died on the Passage." The Brig United States' master had sworn to "two deaths" and named nobody; her remaining sheets finish her sailing at exactly her permit's 192.

• Hatcher's obliterated five — five names on the Brig Ajax struck out beyond reading; only "Caleb" and the end of "—lia" survive. Her permit totals 165: exactly her 170 entries minus the five struck out.

• Eliza, 12 — crossed through on the Pocahontas with the inspector's note "Eliza reported to be Sold," yet still counted in her certificate's twenty-one.

• Consigned to the Governor — Austin Woolfolk's 26-person filing, 17 of them children, consigned to Henry Johnson Esqr, Governor of Louisiana.

• Matilda and Sarah — aboard the Elizabeth but on no list anywhere; they exist only in the inspector's margin notes. Now they exist in the book too.

Nine entries have no name — five of them the Ajax's obliterated names, the rest unnamed infants. Where the papers disagree, both readings are printed. Nothing is guessed.

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The frontispiece is Phillis Wheatley's 1773 portrait, attributed to the enslaved Boston artist Scipio Moorhead (Library of Congress).

Transcribed by hand from the National Archives' own scans. No index, database, or published book was copied. A companion name-list CSV for this installment, and the free guide 'Finding the Names: A Free Guide to the Public Records of America's Slave Trade,' are in our store; the Complete Set download holds the guide and every installment so far in one file.