Finding the Names — Installment 64 (Roll 8, 1838–1839) — FREE

Finding the Names — Installment 64 continues the transcription of the original New Orleans inward slave manifests held by the National Archives (Record Group 36, Roll 8, NAID 173898130, "Inward Manifests, 1837–1841"), images 241 through 360. Every name has been typed out by hand from the original handwritten manifests — 1,599 entries (1,594 named) on 68 manifests, exactly as written, including the clerks' mistakes, blotted-out names, and contradictions, which are printed honestly rather than tidied away.

Inside: the schooner Sarah out of Tampa Bay — 86 people shipped by Maj. J. B. Brant with the residence column headed, in the clerk's own hand, "Prisoner of War," a Seminole War removal of whole families (Old Peter, 75; Siena, 70), her certificate saying "Eighty five" against 86 lines on her sheets; the barque Roger Williams, whose manifest and certificate agree on 24 while the Balize examiner wrote across her sheet, "There is thirty Slaves on board"; the Hark Away's 197, her muster clerk tallying "Dead. 1" and "Dead. 2." in the margin — the two who died are never named; the Isaac Franklin's damaged December sheet, three names blotted out entirely and Thomas Brooks struck through, his certificate explaining he "was taken on shore by the Shipper before clearing the Vessel"; Kitty Washington's infant, who "Died in passage"; and the Adelaide's boy Lester, whom the examiner renamed on the verso: "Sylvester — A Male Not A female."

This download is the complete Installment 64 book (PDF, 385 pages, large print) with a voyage-by-voyage transcription, an alphabetical name index, and frontispiece artwork. New to the project? Start with the free guide, "Finding the Names: A Free Guide to the Public Records of America's Slave Trade": https://payhip.com/b/Ok8x9 — and the Complete Set (guide + every installment so far, one download): https://payhip.com/b/Aopbl

Please share this freely. These records name people who were treated as cargo; every name recovered is a thread a descendant may follow home. No prices appear in these manifests, and no names have been invented — where the record is silent or contradicts itself, the book says so.

— Okey and Susan Barker, Trails End