Finding the Names — Complete Set (Guide + Installments 1–105) — FREE

One free download with everything so far: the companion guide plus every installment of Volume One — the New Orleans inward slave manifests, transcribed name by name from the National Archives' own scans (Microfilm Publication M1895, Records of the U.S. Customs Service, Record Group 36). Each installment is a separate PDF inside the ZIP, exactly as published, and the cumulative CSV holds every entry in one searchable list. We transcribe these records by hand from the original public records — no index, database, or published book is copied — so descendants can find their people. FREE, now and always; please share it.

What's inside:

1. Finding the Names: A Free Guide to the Public Records of America's Slave Trade — the 48-page companion guide: where the records are, how to read them, and how to trace a family forward from them.

2. Installment 1 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1807 & 1819: 296 entries transcribed name by name from Roll 1, images 16–129 (the brig Planter's permission says 73 people, only 71 names can be read; a child who died aboard the Calypso; Squires and Polly, who ran away).

3. Installment 2 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1819: 760 entries from Roll 1, images 130–249 (the sloop Altezeera wrecked on Abaco — 19 drowned of 47; the Calypso's list says 148 but the inspector certified 151 aboard; a child born aboard the Angelina).

4. Installment 3 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1819–1820: 264 entries from Roll 1, images 250–369 (Hetty, 45, and her infant travelled FREE, her certificate of freedom seen by the inspector; Dinah with Flora, Anna, and the twins Thomas and Benjamin, 12 months old).

5. Installment 4 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1819–1820: 268 entries from Roll 1, images 370–489 (Mary, 26, who "denies her being a slave"; Charles Moody, who "says he is entitled to freedom").

6. Installment 5 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1820: 293 entries from Roll 1, images 490–609 (the Greyhound family — Marie and her children, taken to Havana for the widow's health and brought home; the Margaret Wright puzzle of two lists sharing 38 names).

7. Installment 6 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1820–1821: 290 entries from Roll 1, images 610–729 (on the Chatsworth, Henry was not on board — Henrietta was found answering in his place; Cesar, erased at the Norfolk collector's office).

8. Installment 7 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1821: 370 entries from Roll 1, images 730–849 (Joe, 9, held back while proof was demanded; Dick, condemned in federal court as illegally imported and sold by the U.S. Marshal; the Cosmopolite five who sailed on the Milo instead — all but Marta).

9. Installment 8 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1821: 562 entries from Roll 1, images 850–969 (Elizabeth, age 1, died on the Brazillian's passage; the indentured children Patsy Ash, 11, and John Runlet, 16; a man named George Washington, 26).

10. Installment 9 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1821: 1,061 entries from Roll 1, images 970–1089 (the Brice family, taken off the Emilie at Baltimore by a chief judge's order; Palmira, taken to Nantes as a nurse under a mayor's passport and brought back; Mima, 9, who died on the Sampson).

11. Installment 10 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1821: 528 entries from Roll 1, images 1090–1151 — ROLL 1 COMPLETE (the Arethusa's 160-person general manifest; Romulus and Remus, both 40, among the men brought overland from Georgia).

12. Installment 11 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1822: 504 entries from Roll 2, images 1–120 (Monday and Hannah, who "could not talk English," held back as suspected illegally imported Africans; Wm Randolph, whose freedom was due in 1839).

13. Installment 12 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1822: 722 entries from Roll 2, images 121–240 (the Arethusa's two child deaths — Levin, 4 months, and Martha, 5; the baby the manifest called Martha whose mother said her name was Matilda).

14. Installment 13 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1822: 529 entries from Roll 2, images 241–360 (the brig Aurilla taken by pirates, who carried off one of the 73 people aboard — nowhere named in these papers; Maria, left behind in prison).

15. Installment 14 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1822: 364 entries from Roll 2, images 361–480 (Polly Gray, who bought her own daughters Mary Ann and Louisa in Washington and carried them free to New Orleans to their father, Toby Gray, a free man).

16. Installment 15 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1822: 1,169 entries from Roll 2, images 481–600 (Samuel Berry and Mary Myers, free people who sailed on the Balloon to join their enslaved spouses; the Galigo's inspection war over her 151).

17. Installment 16 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1822: 1,343 entries from Roll 2, images 601–720 (Simon — the man the pirates took from the Aurilla — named at last; Isaac, who "calls himself 53," and Sarah, who "calls herself 54").

18. Installment 17 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1822: 742 entries from Roll 2, images 721–840 — ROLL 2 COMPLETE (Milly, 16, left home sick; the Robert Burns' Value column, with 29 people priced in the notes as the clerks wrote it; Levin, 10, brought back in an open boat).

19. Installment 18 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1823–1825: 586 entries from Roll 3, images 1–120 (Jacob, 17, who fell overboard and drowned a day from New Orleans; the James Monroe's 149 who were 163, fourteen of them infants on "& Infant" lines).

20. Installment 19 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1823–1825: 194 entries from Roll 3, images 121–240 (Margaret Cole, 45, "Herself Shipper," a free woman whose forms the clerks rewrote by hand; the man on the Harriet counted only as "One," never named; Mattiky, 12, missing).

21. Installment 20 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1823–1825: 352 entries from Roll 3, images 241–360 (Papote, 42, who "died of Grief, in consequence of being separated from her husband" — the captain's words, kept by the inspector; Lucy Boyer, who shipped herself and her children free).

22. Installment 21 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1823–1825: 385 entries from Roll 3, images 361–480 ("Nathan and Beckey Missing" on Woolfolk's Intelligence; Ned, "In double Irons for Bad behaviour"; Fine, 24, sent to New Orleans "to git cure of a disease").

23. Installment 22 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1824: 418 entries from Roll 3, images 481–600 (Meady and John missing from the James Monroe, two strangers in their places; Maria, 12, classed "White"; the Norfolk manifest of "One Hundred Persons" the filming lost eight of).

24. Installment 23 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1824–1825: 416 entries from Roll 3, images 601–720 (Eliza and her son Jacques gone to France under a governor's passport; Kelley missing from the Orbit, Henry Williams "two many"; Dennis, 3 months old, died on the passage).

25. Installment 24 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1825: 343 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 3, images 721–840 (Charles, Augustin, and Sophia, carried to New Orleans as prisoners and sent to gaol; the Gannet's two Sams; 'Ann or Dinah' and her child William; Jane Dane, landed under a manifest for a ship she never sailed on; the Express's effaced baby).

26. Installment 25 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1825: 1,146 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 3, images 841–961, completing Roll 3 (Clarissa, the Express's last name, landed sick at Savannah and missing at the Balize; Clemence, taken to France and brought home; Riley, who died on the passage; the Lady Monroe's erased No. 74; Letitia and Rebecca Hampton, put back ashore at Norfolk).

27. Installment 26 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1826: 168 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 4, images 1–120 (the Algerine filed twice for one sailing; Laman's two men, Edward and Philip, found later in the filming; Harry, 19, whose residence is entered as "Unknown"; a man actually named Robinson Cruzoe; Esther, 10, travelling alone).

28. Installment 27 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1826: 547 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 4, images 121–240 (the Brandy-Wine's dead passenger and her unnamed extra; Fanny and her baby Anna, who ran away; the James Monroe's missing eleven — her certificate claims 85, her six manifests name 74; Horace, 8, and Bob, 14, shipped alone).

29. Installment 28 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1826–1827: 557 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 4, images 241–360 (the Governor Strong's hidden three — a birth and two infants never on her list of 82; Delia and Harriet of the Arctic, who "say that they are not Slaves for life," and James, a boy not on the list who "says that he is free"; Eliza Cox, 12, and Ann, 12, each travelling entirely alone).

30. Installment 29 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1827: 150 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 4, images 361–480 (the Shepherdess ten — nine children shipped under an oath saying they ARE entitled to freedom after a term of service; Woolfolk's fourteen, their "for sale" clause struck through and rewritten for Natchez "to be held to service or labour"; the Alligator's unnamed newborn and her list's "female instead of a Male"; Lovey, shipped but never named in the landing endorsement).

31. Installment 30 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1827: 361 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 4, images 481–600 (Auguste, 12, taken to Texas under a mayor's declaration made expressly so he could be brought back — and brought back, the return certificate says, in his master's company; the Columbia's two people whose Names column was left entirely blank; Rossetta, about 5, a "little White Girl" on no table at all; the Ajax's 123; the Trafalgar's term-service families and a birth at sea).

32. Installment 31 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1826–1827: 694 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 4, images 601–666, completing Roll 4 (Pallydone, whose oath — with "not" written in above the line — says he is NOT held to service, while the certificate on the same papers calls him "the said Slave"; Joseph Washington, the Hope and Polly's hundredth person, who has no row of his own; the Fair Star's two men described in full and never named; the States' 116, bound for Natchez).

33. Installment 32 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1827–1828: 378 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 5, images 1–120, opening the 1828 roll (Carter, 22, whose class entry reads "Free mulatto" on a slave manifest, with four dittoed entries below him; a shipment of nothing but children, seven of them, consigned toward Natchez; the Onyade's ten from Baltimore, eight of them children down to Sandy, aged 2; the Jefferson's rare full surnames).

34. Installment 33 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1827–1828: 867 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 5, images 121–240 (the Jefferson's last entry: an infant aged "2 Weeks," born on board and dead before the examination; the Columbia's endorsement — "Lucys child not on board, put on shore at City Point" — while Lucy sailed on; Betty, 16, who "ran away in Charleston before the Vessel sailed"; the James Monroe's permission total of 173, matched exactly).

35. Installment 34 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1828: 467 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 5, images 241–360 (Membey Wilson's infant, whose name entry reads only "Dead"; Gen. Wade Hampton's 52, certified untouched by the "Insurrection of 1822"; the Lafayette's four sheets totaling exactly her permission's fifty; the United States' master swearing to "two deaths" he never names).

36. Installment 35 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1828: 977 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 5, images 361–480 (the United States' two deaths named at last — Greene, 21, "Washed overboard," and Philip, 60, "Died on the Passage" — as her sheets complete exactly her permit's 192; Hatcher's five names struck out beyond reading on the Ajax; Eliza, 12, crossed through as "reported to be Sold"; a Woolfolk filing consigned to the Governor of Louisiana).

37. Installment 36 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1828: 685 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 5, images 481–600 (the United States' second sailing, and Lucy's infant entered twice under two names and two sexes; the Dumfries' child who exists only in her master's oath — "except one Child born on board"; Harriet, 26, shipped from New York with her residence in the Attakapas; Matilda, excepted by one inspector and cleared by another the next day).

38. Installment 37 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1828: 829 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 5, images 601–720 (Moses of the Eagle, found — entry No. 3, 23, his death at sea now joined to his full description; the United States' third sailing, 201 people from Alexandria, Armfield shipping to Isaac Franklin, the inspector correcting the sheet in pencil — "Nancy No. 120 is a yellow girl"; Jack, sent to the Bay to visit his wife and recover from dengue fever; the Dumfries' two free men travelling as attendant and cook).

39. Installment 38 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1828: 791 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 5, images 721–840 (the Jefferson completed across the seam at exactly her permission's 168; the Columbia's numbering skipping No. 47, so 193 people where every official said 194 — and her two deaths crossed out with their dates; seven of Eaton's 61 annotated "left in Mobile," which is why the inspector counted 54; the Landon family, shipped out to the Bay of St. Louis and brought back together).

40. Installment 39 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1828–1829: 822 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 5, images 841–906, completing Roll 5 (the Ajax's twelve sheets totaling exactly her permission's 197 — with Jess and Randal, who ran away at Norfolk and never sailed; Joe, 19, and Caroline, 10, struck off the Cannon because they "were sold in Mobile after this clearance was given"; ten people on Woolfolk's Orleans Packet sheet surviving only as fragments at a damage patch's edge; the Sarah's 148 and the Neptune's 123, both exact).

41. Installment 40 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1828–1829: 411 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 6, images 1–120, opening the 1829–1831 roll (the Henry Clay families travelling under their own surnames — Sephus, Stanley, Guy, Human; Catharine, who died on the passage and whose name survives only in the inspector's endorsement, beside a child who was born; Harry, 32, left behind at Charleston because he was "so unwell he could not be shipped"; Lidy's infant, who exists only in her certificate's arithmetic).

42. Installment 41 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1829: 705 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 6, images 121–240 (the Transport's 184 out of Norfolk, reconciling to the person once Bowlin, left sick on shore, is set aside; Patsy, 11, "died at Sea" on Franklin & Armfield's own brig Comet; Spencer McLean, 23, marked simply "lost" on Woolfolk's Magnolia, whose men ride under full surnames; Henry, 11, struck through — "One being Sold after clearance").

43. Installment 42 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1829: 817 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 6, images 241–360 (the Gold Hunter's 207 rows against her clerk's "Two hundred & Three," and her two disagreeing death reports — Sam in the table, Tom in the endorsement; the Aurora's drowned woman, the word "drowned" lying beside Phillis, 16, and Edward, 9; the Arctic's and Catharine's term-service families under full surnames; Dick, 27, "Died at Sea March 1st"; Moses, "No such man on board").

44. Installment 43 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1829: 886 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 6, images 361–480 (Alexandria's 141 on the United States, nearly all under full surnames, her foot total exact; the Comet again, 89, with two infants named John Henry, both nine months old; the Lafayette's 190 on six manifests in one hull; the Topaz's 43 term-service people bound for Natchez, her clerk ticking Male for every one; Celia, 16, who "had a child on board").

45. Installment 44 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1829–1830: 810 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 6, images 481–600 (the Transport's three irreconcilable counts — 122 named, 133 certified, 173 claimed — and Christien, 13, classed simply "Landed"; the Ilsley's 106, with Ransom and William found aboard but "not described on the List" and one child born on board; Eliza, 12 months, of whom the inspector wrote "no such Child on Board"; Maria and Lewis of the Atlas, both missing at the examination; the Ajax's two sailings, 195 and 67).

46. Installment 45 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1830: 467 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 6, images 601–720 (the Shenandoah's 120 out of Alexandria — Milly Eldridge, Dorcas Williams, and Tom left on shore, Gustavus and Betty shipped in their places, so 117 sailed under her permission; one Mobile filing under two vessel names — Mt Vernon on the manifest, Olive Branch on its certificate — carrying Phoebe, her infant, and Catharine; the Transport's Norfolk permission for 83 against 69 named on her filmed sheets; Edmond of the Eugenia, struck through and marked “Absent” while the certificate still says four).

47. Installment 46 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1830–1831: 953 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 6, images 721–840 (the Ajax's 163 lines less her four struck-through names making exactly her permission's 159; Bill of the Gulnare, "reported to have fallen overboard & drowned"; the United States' 171 from Alexandria, exact; the Lafayette's 168, exact, with Jennings dead on the passage; the Walter E Hyer's margin prices, two $400 sums each covering two people; Mary of the Mobile, declared a runaway by her own captain; and G. W. Morgan's letter — no manifest at all — carrying Fortune, Kitty, and her daughter).

48. Installment 47 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1831: 695 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 6, images 841–960 (the Bourne's tangle — her sheets name 176, her permission says 114, and her examination sheet reports nine more aboard on bills of lading and names four, William, Stephen, Tom, and Sally, who stand on no sheet; the James Monroe's 151 = her 112 here plus the annexed 39 in Installment 46; the Ajax again, 119 of her permission's 190 on the sheets filmed here; Armfield's Lafayette surviving only from entry 31, Dick relanded; the boy entered only as "Boy" whom the examiner named Ben; Nelly, seven weeks old, her height entered as "in arms"; Celia, 12, landed at Petit Coquille).

49. Installment 48 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1831: 411 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 6, images 961–1,080 (the Betsey's packet — her docket claims 135, her sheets name 134, the missing one being the No. 12 line her clerk never wrote; the Brunswick's four, who stand on no manifest at all — Mary, Ann, Kitty, and Charles, "so ill" on arrival that a letter begged they be landed at once for their preservation; Angeline, 19, on a single handwritten arrival note; the United States' 44 of her permission's 145 on the sheets filmed here; the Reform's sworn-to manifest that appears nowhere in these images).

50. Installment 49 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1831: 1,220 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 6, images 1,081–1,200 (the Ship Brunswick's table FOUND — 149 names, and the four people entered from a letter in Installment 48 stand on it under their full names: Charles Willinhus, Mary Lewis — with her daughter Sarah, 2, whom the letter never mentions — Ann Smith, and Kitty Johnson; the brig United States' missing sheet, 101 names, completing her permission's 145 to the person; the Industry's 135 exactly, against her permission's 134; the Ann & Leah's five struck-through Normans and Harriet Cornish's baby, born the night before the examination and entered nowhere on the manifest; Edmund who "answers to Manda Jane"; Rachel, expected on the Signal and not on board).

51. Installment 50 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1831: 424 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 6, images 1,201–1,226, COMPLETING ROLL 6 (the Bourne again — 145 people, her permission's count overwritten; Alford Valentine, 15, named by the examination as the one who died on the passage; Patience, described by the manifest as a woman of 23½ and by both examinations as a girl of about thirteen; the Ajax's 116 of her permission's 183, with Eliza, "not on board — Some Mistake in making out the List"; the Tribune's three disagreeing numbers — 131 named, 162 and 182 in her two permissions; and the roll's own end targets, "ROLL 9 / END" and "Roll 6 of 30 — End of Roll, Please Rewind").

52. Installment 51 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1832: 805 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 7, images 1–120, OPENING ROLL 7 (the Tribune's 222 on one voyage in two filings, Norfolk 88 and Alexandria 134, both exact; Franklin & Armfield's Lafayette, 119, exact to the person; Locke, "reported to have died in the River above the Balize," and Charles, endorsed simply "Dead"; the Ariel's permissions saying 27 over 29 people, with Rachael and her child struck through and Charles, 26, shipped in their place; the Julia's term-service people, "not to be sold for Five Years"; the Mary Ann's infant, whose name was written and then heavily obliterated; the Virginian's papers dated 1851 throughout, on an 1832 roll).

53. Installment 52 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1832: 548 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 7, images 121–240 (the brig Ajax packet left open in Installment 51 CLOSED to the person — 31 + 9 + 9 + 23 numbered entries = her certificate's 72 exactly, a clerk's pencil tally on the sheet itself reading "49 / 23 / 72," and the whole consignment forwarded to Opelousas; a third Ajax packet reconciling at "Fifty nine Slaves"; two Ariel manifests whose captain said the people aboard "was for the Governor of the State of Louisiana"; John Johnson of the Hercules, who had absconded, shipped himself as a freeman from Baltimore, and was brought back "to be delivered to his owner"; Minna of the Nianza, who absconded before her ship ever sailed; Harvey, 5, alone on the mail stage and boat; the Schooner Mobile's boy of 14 whose table never gives him a name).

54. Installment 53 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1832–1833: 498 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 7, images 241–360 (the Schooner Sabine's papers — five people, Mack, Lewis, James, Honore and Jane, ran from a Louisiana plantation in May 1832, took a boat down the Mississippi meaning Mobile, were blown ashore in Texas, and declared at Brazoria, in Mexico, that they wished to be returned; only three came home on the bill of lading, the inspector marking Lewis and James "not on board"; the Renown's 74 from Alexandria under full surnames, bound for Natchez via New Orleans; the Dwight's 69 handwritten at Mobile; the Tribune's 93 exact, her certificate authorising Natchez "via Norfolk" while her people landed at New Orleans; the examiners' corrections — "Henry" who is a female named Harvey, "Samuel, who is called Isaac," and Mary who "should be Misey"; the Halcyon certificate from Installment 52 found at image 241, closing that packet).

55. Installment 54 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1833–1834: 902 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 7, images 361–480 (the brig Ariel twice, both exact — December's 139 with a marginal "Dead" beside Elizabeth and her child Mary, and October's 205 with Joe Whitehurst dead on the passage and Tom Doyle not found on board; the brig Uncas twice — 128 and 105, the examiner correcting "a Mistake of Henry — instead of Ellen Butler"; the Hope's missing certificate from Installment 53 found at image 361; the Dimon's unmanifested man — "he says his name is Susthes, is about forty years old" — and her own manifest surviving only from entry 27; Mary Ann "not on board," Emily "Not found on board," Sarah "taken away by the Owner"; the Hope sheet with entry number 13 used twice and one line, "Job," with no particulars at all).

56. Installment 55 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1834–1835: 714 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 7, images 481–600 (the brig Orion's four irreconcilable counts — 130 people on her table, 119 on her certificate, 64 permitted to land, 44 counted aboard — and George, a passenger's servant left off her manifest "accidentally"; the Eliza Davidson's 120 across three sheets against her clearance's "One hundred & Eighteen & one since added"; the examiners handing names back — "Isaac is called Israel," "Joe is called Tom," George described Yellow on paper and found Black in person; Thornton on the table but not on board; the Ajax's last three "not on board by some mistake"; the Emblem's 44 names, five struck through, her certificate's "thirty nine" being exactly what remains; an Everett sheet entering men as "Jack or Simon," "Henry or Ben," "Peter or Sam"; the Atlantic's children whose stature is entered only as "uncertain"; and the filming's own seam — the "ROLL 10 — END" target at image 520, old Roll 11 opening at 523).

57. Installment 56 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1834–1835: 1,808 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 7, images 601–720 — the largest installment yet (the brig Uncas twice — February's 154 with a 155th entry struck through in full, and April's 202 exact, her endorsement reading "one Death & one Birth," Jab Sams dead in the table and the newborn never named; the brig Ariel's 251 transcribed against her permission's "two hundred forty persons"; the Tribune's 162 exact everywhere; the Virginia's 111 named on two sheets against her permission's "71 Slaves"; the Louisiana's 150 surviving her clerk's skipped and doubled numbers; Eliza, 11, "Dead" on the Ajax; "Polly's Child Dead" on the Ariel; Isaac of the Delight not on board at either examination; Peter of Petersburg, whose whole manifest is one collector's certificate — "The Negro Peter on board answers the above Description"; Fanny Johnson's height entered as "11 ft 11¾ in"; Hanah of the Emeline, aged "6 days").

58. Installment 57 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1835: 617 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 7, images 721–840 (William of the ship Hyperion — a FREE man of color, a New Orleans resident travelling home after leaving two children at school in Baltimore, his manifest's printed purpose clause struck through and rewritten by hand to say so; the brig Ariel's 127 exact, the count saved by an entry hidden under her sheet's fold; the Virginia's Peter — "not on the List," found the same day by the same examiner as Installment 56's Peter of Petersburg, the cross-reference printed without claiming they are one man; the Favorite's 12 against her certificate's sixteen; a child born on the Tribune's passage, on no manifest line; the brig America's seven shippers' manifests for one sailing, every count agreeing; Charlotte who "answers the name of Charity"; and Jacob Wiley struck through on the Shakespeare, replaced with Betty).

59. Installment 58 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1835–1836: 2,032 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 7, images 841–960 — the largest installment yet (two brigs named Isaac Franklin weeks apart — December's table numbers 171 against her clearance's "one hundred and twenty one," a fifty-person gap; the Tribune's 170 against her certificate's "One hundred and twenty"; the Miles King's "twenty one" against her 71; the Orion's six deaths — "Six, old & young, died on the passage" — and her 113 counted entries describing 120 people; Sally's child who "fell over board" from the Adelaide; Fanny Chandler dead on the Hunter; Charles Wright "stated as a male who is a female, called Charlotte Wright"; Henry Calvert corrected to Jenny Calvert; Reno Henson, whom one officer could not find on board and another reported only misstated; a child born on the Tribune's passage; Dublin Bazel at 6 ft 9 in).

60. Installment 59 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1835–1836: 1,366 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 7, images 961–1,080 (the Ajax's 209 people against her permission's 207, and her passage's "one dead & two Births," none named; Maria Willis dead on the Ariel; John and Lucy "not on board" the Arabian; Christy Stewart "taken on shore by the Shipper"; Dick of the Tantivy, whose manifest was mislaid; the Pilgrim's seven, whose names stand outside the photograph's frame; the Avice's erased first entry and the St. Mark clerk's own explanation of it, on two images the Archives' server would not release to ordinary download; the Emigrant's 36 under one Maryland owner, with Jack Sampson, 70, and Grace, 71; the "Withdrawn" Virginia).

61. Installment 60 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1836: 479 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 7, images 1,081–1,200 (Dick of the Tantivy entered at last, from his bill of lading and Captain Dunham's sworn act — his manifest was mislaid, and the margin records him on board and found correct; Robert, about 17, found aboard the America but standing in no table, his only record an inspector's exception; the brig Chapman's 24, of whom only Jim, 30, was ever passed — the owner's son-in-law took the other 23 off the vessel while the master was in the Custom House, and a City Court affidavit says so; the Louisiana's 96 rows against her permission's 92, three entries scribbled out beyond reading; Jane of the Arabian "not shipped"; John of the Arkansas entered at "8 feet," his inspector endorsing "found Correct Excepting in Height"; Deborah's child born on the Two Sisters' passage; Monarchy Johnson on the Tribune).

62. Installment 61 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1836: 1,234 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 7, images 1,201–1,273 — the last of the roll (the Tribune's marked deaths corrected by Inspector McFarlane: "No 114 Benjamin Gray not dead as Marked X above — but 113 James Wood dead"; Eliza Turner, one month old, her sex column carrying the word "Dead"; Robert, aged one, "died at Sea" on the Metamora, whose 102 lines, 98-certificate and surveyor's note settle only together; the Uncas's 181 nearly all under full surnames, shipped by John Armfield; the Isaac Franklin's 254 exact, with two men both entered as Henry Jefferson; the Liverpool ship Caledonia's unnamed girl, ordered held aboard; the Ajax's "Ben a cripple," "Big Ben" and "Hot Head Ben"; Hardtimes on the Chapman). Roll 7 is complete: 11,003 entries in Installments 51–61.

63. Installment 62 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1836–1838: 134 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 8, images 1–120 — the first of the roll (the ship Georgian's three disagreeing papers: four men on her table, "Three in number" on her certificate, and Inspector Scovill, who boarded three times and found "no Slaves on board," then examined and passed the same men the same day; Isabel of the Arabian, her name blotted out and recovered from the endorsement "Not Put on Board"; Aurelia, 14, of the Nashville, whose boarding officer found no Negro on board; George and Masalee, landed at the mouth of Pearl River and never brought to New Orleans; Sidney's separate one-man manifest for the Hortensia; the Merchant's five with no ages or heights at all; an infant entered by the clerk himself as "No Name an Infant").

64. Installment 63 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1838–1839: 270 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 8, images 121–240 (the Adelaide three times under full surnames — 29 people named exactly, Peyton Carter, Davy Lawson and Emily Lewis among them; the Glasgow, whose New Orleans endorsement is dated 1 May 1838 while her Baltimore oath is dated 11 October 1838, dates that cannot both belong to one sailing; the R. H. Douglass, Baltimore to Savannah yet filed at New Orleans, her certificate counting "Six" entries that describe seven people; Dinah of the Homer, her age written out "Seventy"; Abraham and Grandison of the Montgomery, their residence given simply as "Army"; Pompey, 14, whose stature was entered as "Boy"; Nancy, "3 Months old an infant").

65. Installment 64 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1838–1839: 1,599 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 8, images 241–360 (the schooner Sarah's 86 from Tampa Bay, their residence entered as "Prisoner of War"; the Roger Williams — 24 on her papers, "There is thirty Slaves on board" wrote the examiner; the Hark Away's 197, her clerk tallying "Dead. 1" and "Dead. 2." in the margin, the dead never named; the Isaac Franklin's blotted-out names and Thomas Brooks, taken back on shore; Kitty Washington's infant, "Died in passage").

66. Installment 65 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1838–1839: 329 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 8, images 361–480 (the brig Chapman's five filings on one sailing, Wm Davison's household of seventeen among them; the Genl Wayne, mustered "After a Chase of ten Miles"; Lloyd, who deserted the Hope in the Savannah River; "John Gibson or William Craftee," one man under two names; the Bunker Hill's certificate "Thirty five" over a table of nineteen; Ben of the Uncas, classed "Queen").

67. Installment 66 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1836–1840: 839 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 8, images 481–600 (the Katharine Jackson's 118 of 1836, five landed back at Alexandria and never sailed; Hope H. Slatter's 109 on the barque Sol Suttis, held under Maryland term-service oaths; the three banished from Baltimore on the Uncas, free after a term of years; the Ganniclefft's three girls under the same bargain; Jim, pursued into the Republic of Texas and recovered; "Old Henry," a woman on the Rio Grande).

68. Installment 67 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1840: 252 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 8, images 601–720 (the Shamrock's seven children under Maryland term-service oaths; the brig Chapman twice, three filings to a sailing; the Alexander's eleven bound for Barataria, not New Orleans; Ellen Hyams, whose mistress died in France, certified home by the consul at Havre; Esther's affidavit of her Texas journey; Susanna, whose name the examiner corrected to Louisa; three little girls who each crossed alone on the Elizabeth).

69. Installment 68 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1839–1841: 899 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 8, images 721–840 (Elisha Talbott, 18, whose manifest is endorsed "Died — Mustered at Balize"; Emanuel Coyle, marked with the inspector's single word "dead"; the Creole's 152 numbered entries that are really 155 people; the Bostonian's table of 35 against her certificate's "63 in number"; the brig Orleans's one enormous composite manifest of fourteen shippers, photographed in overlapping sections; the Gladiator's 82 from St. Marks; Moses and Drayton, landed before New Orleans and never inspected there).

70. Installment 69 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1840–1841: 474 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 8, images 841–960 (John, about 13, shipped by the Army quartermaster at Cedar Keys because there was no custom house there; the Saratoga's five, removed after her clearance while her certificate still counts "Six"; Robert Jones, who died on the Orleans's passage; George, Jane, and Matilda, landed at the mouth of Pearl River and never brought to New Orleans; Zeline alias Felix, 15, alone on the Slatter barque under another spelling).

71. Installment 70 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1840–1842: 234 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 8, images 961–1,080 (the Long Island's fifty from Richmond against her certificate's "Forty nine" — Delphia Jordan not shipped; the Tippecanoe's three same-day term-service pairs; Mobile's bare list of twenty-three with no vessel named; Henry S. Putzera's certificate with the number blank and his table nowhere in the filming; women carried to Havana as body servants under an oath that still says "bring him back").

72. Installment 71 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1841: 483 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 8, images 1,081–1,116, completing Roll 8 (the brig Creole's two filings of her one famous voyage — Richmond's 53 lines and Norfolk's 84 numbered lines, the clerk's pencilled tally joining them at 135, Madison Washington at entry 25, and the inspectors' arrival notes finding only four people aboard against one filing and one against the other, the rest free at Nassau; the Angora's 79 and her infant Juliet, who died on the passage; Lavinia, sent home on a consul's sworn declaration, her only shipping record).

73. Installment 72 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1841–1842: 258 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 9, images 1–120, opening Roll 9 (the brig Creole sailing twice more, five months after her famous rising — 17 from Richmond, 15 of them shipped by Robert Lumpkin again, and two from Norfolk; Sam of the Barton, sent to the Custom House because an inspector judged him 'not a Mulattoe — but in my opinion — a White Man'; Thompson, David, Henry and Charles, put aboard the U.S. schooner Essex in a Cedar Keys letter, while the examiner counted six aboard; Josephine and Peggy, found aboard the Vesta with no manifest of their own; and the infant Joseph Gorham, struck through in his schooner's papers — 'died on board before clearing Vessel').

74. Installment 73 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1841–1842: 573 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 9, images 121–240 (the brig Wm H. Tallman's 97, six of them X-marked by her inspector as not corresponding 'by name & Sex'; Markus of the Chapman, who absconded at Charleston and was 'detected and brought back on board'; the brig Orleans's 65 numbered people and her three uncounted infants; the schooner Maria's eleven standing twice — once on her table, once in an affidavit sworn for a lost clearance, the two papers disagreeing on nearly every age; the Tippecanoe's 34 under full surnames, sworn for life where Ben on the same vessel rides under a term).

75. Installment 74 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1841–1843: 428 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 9, images 241–360 (Hope H. Slatter's two shipments — the Tippecanoe's 67 and the Burlington's 77, families under full surnames; the infant Henry, left behind in an inspector's footnote while Ruth, Delia and John sailed; the Forthian's 59 against her certificate's 'fifty eight' — Jane Cox's child rides unnumbered in her line; the Charley's John and Henry, 'not on board'; two strays from 1843 filed among the 1842 papers).

76. Installment 75 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1841–1843: 318 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 9, images 361–480 (the U.S. Schooner Essex again — Captain Wolf carrying an Army doctor's household of six out of Tampa Bay; the Parthian twice in two days under one master, 44 from Richmond and 48 from Petersburg, her numbering never counting Mary Elizabeth's child; Dan of the Van Buren, watched arriving in March and sailing out again in April; Rosa of the Badger, her line struck through — 'absconded before the vessel sailed'; the Ajax's Davis group under full names, Hudson Estes and Richard Deloache among them).

77. Installment 76 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1840–1844: 928 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 9, images 481–600 (the barque Bachelor's 162 in one filing — Charles, who ran away before she left Norfolk, and Mary Ann Diggs, 'not sent on Board' sick, a Mary Ann Diggs standing on the Orleans three weeks later; Ben Murry, 8, the Orleans's 152nd name, who never came aboard; Austen and Cicero, a consul's servants brought home from Galveston on a sworn affidavit; Denis, landed from Havana under a special order in 1840; David S. Terry shipping from Galveston with his residence entered as 'California' in 1843).

78. Installment 77 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1843: 900 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 9, images 601–721, COMPLETING ROLL 9 (3,405 entries in Installments 72–77) (the Parthian's 104 — reconciling exactly once Charlotte Denniss's child is counted — and 50 more under the same master four days later; the Scotia's 98 under three manifests on one sailing, Slatter's 73 nearly all under full names; Cary Hill, who did not answer at the muster, while a boy of his exact description answered as Jefferson Wright; Isabella Wilson, 10, endorsed 'was not shipped' though her certificate counted her).

79. Installment 78 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1842–1844: 557 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 10, images 1–120, OPENING ROLL 10 (the steamer Creole out of Pensacola with the master's own two men; the Cincinnati's 28 from Mobile, nearly all small children, on a sheet where the clerk swapped his sex and colour columns; the brig Sabine's 20, every one under a full surname; the barque Bachelor twice — 71 found of her Richmond certificate's 72, and 127 from Petersburg, among them John Williams, who died on the passage, and Louisa Clarke, certified never on board; Kitty Snowden, 20, with her baby daughter, also named Kitty, 2 months).

80. Installment 79 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1844: 442 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 10, images 121–240 (the barque Parthian's 81 from Norfolk, her sheet photographed twice, the second photograph carrying her oath — "Eighty one Persons" — with two infants written small on their mothers' lines; the Tippecanoe's three filings for one sailing, Rosetta Harrison and Mary Anne Yeates struck through and marked "Not sent"; the Victorine's 60 from Baltimore, mostly under full surnames, Judy Cooper the younger aged four weeks; Henry, 75, crossing alone on the Sun Dale; eleven Jacksons consigned to Washington Jackson & Co.).

81. Installment 80 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1844–1845: 871 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 10, images 241–360 (the barque Phoenix's two December consignments, both examined at New Orleans on Christmas Day; the brig Orleans examined at the Balize on Christmas Eve, "all in good health," one of her tables photographed across two images and counted once, five names reading differently between the photographs; the brig Josephine's one voyage in four filings — two infants born on her passage and one died, none named; the barque Parthian's 136, her first 21 entries one Wood family, entry No. 40's name blotted out in ink, "White" written against Louisa Stambach and her daughter; the brig Dimon's six filings counting people who were "left behind").

82. Installment 81 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1844–1845: 779 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 10, images 361–480 (the barque Phoenix three times — her Norfolk sheet photographed twice and transcribed once; the brig Josephine twice more, fifty people with no name repeated between the filings; the brig Victorine's eighty in four filings, Slatter's table with its sex column left entirely blank; the brig Kirkwood's two March 1844 term-service manifests filed among the 1845 papers, mothers bracketed with their babies; the schooner Swallow's four, "found correct — but they are not landed," no reason given; the infant Samison Cary, dead three days after the Baltimore oath; the barque Bachellor's 39 numbered lines against her permission's forty-four, the missing five children folded into their mothers' lines; the barque Parthian twice in April — 65 from Richmond, her last five entries children entered only as "Child," and 51 from Norfolk).

83. Installment 82 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1845: 657 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 10, images 481–600 (the brig Kirkwood's one sailing filled out — Rodbird 23, Slatter 60 with two Charlotte Collinses distinguished "1st" and "2d," Donovan 39 with the infant Amelia Jones struck through and numbered "0"; the barque Home's 88 under four Baltimore manifests in one week, term-service oaths throughout; the brig Orleans's table photographed three times, transcribed once; the Lancaster's two men "Taken off in James River," her permission's fifty against the Balize tally of 49; a Madison Washington, 21, on a Richmond steamer's list — the Creole leader's name at an age that does not fit him, printed without claiming him, Thomas Jefferson on the line below; Kitty's son, born on the Brazos's passage and named nowhere; the summer trickle — three small children shipped by Mrs S. W. Moore on the Waccamaw).

84. Installment 83 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1845: 819 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 10, images 601–720 (the brig Victorine’s May sailing completed — Slatter 41 and Rodbird 23 joining Donovan’s 27, the collector’s certificate saying 28 against the table’s 23, both printed; the brig Kirkwood’s 79 photographed across two overlapping sheets, her second sheet opening on a boy entered as Chief Justice Marshall; Romeo, 6, and Della, 4, relanded at St. Marks and found “not on Board” at New Orleans; the barque Paoli’s 62 against her certificate’s 61, “one being born on the Passage”; the brig Hayne’s one sailing in five filings; the barque Phoenix’s 134 reconciled exactly, five children entered only as “& Child” given their lines; Captain Wilson’s own servants Reuben and Harry shipped on three sailings of the schooner Star; Minder and her three unnamed children on the Lois, shipped by the master himself).

85. Installment 84 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1845: 408 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 10, images 721–783, COMPLETING ROLL 10 (4,533 entries in Installments 78–84) (the Lucy Ann’s one Charleston sailing in seven filings, the clerks split on whether she was brig or schooner; Jack and Betsy with three little girls, their residence entered as “on board”; the Lancaster’s 150 counted at the Balize on Christmas Day, thirteen of them children who stand on no numbered line; the Parthian’s 126 with her clerk’s own cross-referenced children; Lydia, 74, shipped alone and inspected on New Year’s Eve; Henry Royer, a term-service man shipped south anyway; and the roll’s end targets).

86. Installment 85 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1845–1846: 689 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 11, images 1–120, OPENING ROLL 11 (the brig Victorine’s 97 loaded at Baltimore under three manifests, her boarding officer finding 95; the barque Bachelor’s Petersburg permission one short at “Seventy Six,” and Elvira Clarke, 17, entered in full but certified “not shipped”; three Galveston sworn affidavits carrying whole named lists with no tables — the Capers six, recovered after fifteen years in Texas and shipped home for a dead man’s heirs, Neblett’s 46 “on their way home,” Purnell’s eleven counting Mitty’s child; and Cato, who absconded before the brig Chapman went to sea — her permit counted eleven, ten landed).

87. Installment 86 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1846: 582 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 11, images 121–240 (the Hayne permit’s answer — Vina’s child counted in nobody’s number, the paper counting “Two Slaves”; the Genl Pinkney’s 80 shipped south under Maryland term-service oaths; the Victorine’s second Baltimore sailing, 62 under the same three shippers; the Genl Worth’s two small girls whose inspector found two boys, James and Charles, answering to their descriptions; Jacob, whose whole record is one inspector’s certificate; and Lucy, crossed from Galveston on a Republic of Texas oath weeks after Texas stopped being one).

88. Installment 87 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1846: 546 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 11, images 241–360 (the barque Bachelor filed as three different ships in five days — Bachelor, Bacheller, Bachelar — 104 people under Hiram Horton, garbled by one clerk into “Niram Norton”; the John A. Lancaster’s seven blank lines, her officer certifying “the Number Complete although there is Seven not Named on it”; a second Parthian whose permission leaves room for only three of four folded children, printed unresolved; Ann’s two children on the Eufala, counted by the inspector who examined “the four Slaves”; Stephen Turner, 30 on paper and “apparently about Forty” in person).

89. Installment 88 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1846: 224 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 11, images 361–480 (Eliza’s Galveston certificate, awaited since Installment 87, opens the book — “being One in number”; another Lucy, whose certificate’s “Three” betrays two children folded into her line; the Vail family of nine, down to Moses, 3, at 2 ft 10 in; July and Hester, shipped by S. R. Mallory, the Collector of Key West, signing their permit in his own office; Andrew, 14, left at Charleston “on account of Sickness”; and the Bell’s eight, shipped by David May, who signed his oath with an X).

90. Installment 89 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1846–1847: 715 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 11, images 481–600 (the Victorine’s New Year’s Eve — three filings sworn at Baltimore on 31 December 1846 under Captain Hobbs; Donovan’s Kirkwood 84, mostly teenagers, with a boy entered under the given name “Colonel”; Miriam, 16, and Alin, 11, “could not be found on Board” at New Orleans; Jane Cox, marked X and “not shipped” by the deputy collector’s own footnote; Dianh Spriggs’s four-month-old, who exists only inside her mother’s line because the collector left the total blank).

91. Installment 90 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1846–1847: 816 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 11, images 601–720 (the Richmond Parthian completed across the seam — 62 + 13 = her permission’s “Seventy five Slaves,” and entry 62’s surname recovered: Charles Young; the Hermitage’s three same-day Baltimore manifests, 87 people on one hull; Robinson Crusoe, 20, shipped from Petersburg on the Phoenix; Tom Green and Louisa Johnson marked with an X and the single word “Dead”; Molly, 12, added to the Walton’s manifest after clearance by the deputy collector’s own hand; Edwin, 18, certified at New Orleans as “not on board”).

92. Installment 91 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1847: 1,038 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 11, images 721–840 (the John Benson's Savannah papers close Henry's packet from the last book — "consisting of one Slave"; the General Pinckney's three Baltimore manifests sworn the same day, 137 people under term-service oaths; William, 22, standing on the Galveston's table while her captain told the inspector the boy was free and not on board; the Tampico five — Mingo, Batest, Nelson, Jim and Bill, a widow's steamer crewmen shipped home on a consul's sworn word; the Zoe's 116 under term-service law, her second sheet mothers with infants family by family; Nancy Epps's child, who exists in the record only because a clerk overwrote her permission's total to 168).

93. Installment 92 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1847: 351 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 11, images 841–960 (Ellen, her age written out "Ninety," shipped alone from Port Cavallo on an 82-ton schooner and examined in person at New Orleans; the brig Quinny's last line — "Three Children or Infants," counted in her fourteen and named nowhere; Lewis, 28, "lost overboard a few days after the Brig was cleared at Wilmington"; Kitty, 30, and her five children on the little Emma, their residence "On board" for every one; "Guiny," her name in quotation marks; Jack, 30, whose residence is entered as Pennsylvania).

94. Installment 93 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1847: 392 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 11, images 961–1080 (the brig Baltimore's missing certificate — it stands nowhere in these 120 images, and the gap is printed as it lies; the Yacht table whose first three lines are struck through in every column while her certificate still counts "Four in number" and only Josephine, 11, stands uncancelled; the Parthian's 55 from Richmond, nearly everyone carrying a full surname; Charly, 14, marked "sick" and "did not come," and Ben, 23, excepted by name on the same hull; Margaret, 13, a Maryland term slave shipped entirely alone; Allen, 19, standing on his table while the inspector certified only the other two).

95. Installment 94 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1847: 778 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 11, images 1081–1200 (the Kirkwood's 169 on one Baltimore sailing, her great list reassembled from overlapping photographs — entry 74's name runs off one sheet entirely and reads Amey Webb on the fuller one; the Phoenix's 154 in a single voyage, Richmond's three folded children counted, Norfolk's four not; the Wright's five, crossed out by Inspector Lester at Baltimore and never sailed, though her certificate still counts thirteen; Clara Gibson, an infant, and William Rollins, 22, both dead on the passage; Margarete, 2, on the manifest and in the count, and "the Child not on Board").

96. Installment 95 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1847: 44 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 11, images 1201–1237, COMPLETING ROLL 11 (6,175 entries in Installments 85–95) (Primus Carter, 30, heading his Charleston manifest with "not present" pencilled beside his name, the inspector endorsing "found correct with exception of Primus who was missing"; the Tallahassee's 21 from St. Marks examined together on 29 December — Morris, 60 and six feet tall, a young man entered as "Servant," two little Sarahs, and the infant Florida, six months old; the Palmetto's four, whose residence is entered as the steamer herself, examined on Christmas Day; Judy, 30, an outward stray toward Texas filed among the inward papers; and William, 26, the roll's last named person, his two papers disagreeing on who owned him — then the ROLL 17 END target and the Archives' own end-of-roll card).

97. Installment 96 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1848: 273 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 12, images 1–120, OPENING ROLL 12 (Patsy and Lulu of the little schooner Martha, who lived "On Board" her — the boarding officer's note reads "I have Inspected Lulu — Patsay I have not seen"; Susan, 50, shipped alone under a term-service oath; the brig Union twice — 46 in May, and 72 in October under full surnames, among them Rachael, whose infant died on the passage, and eight people on a badly faded sheet who stand as [illegible] until a clearer photograph can be found; Charly, about 36, whose whole record is one deputy collector's certificate from Brazos St. Jago; Jane and her four unnamed children; Winney Barker, 47, carrying a full surname of her own; little Wilmina, 4, crossing alone, her owner's name read three ways — Glass, Buss, Wass).

98. Installment 97 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1848: 753 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 12, images 121–240 (the answer to Installment 96's open question stands at the very first paper of this book — the brig Union's Baltimore certificate, "being 15 in number," examined "by calling each and all by Name," so Rachael's infant is NOT separately counted and no correction is owed; the barque Elizabeth's 133 on one hull in one day under three manifests, her Campbell certificate counting "45 in number" — a total reached only by counting three infants folded into their mothers' lines, all three rowed unnamed; William Sidders, 28, with "Died" written beside his name on the Union's next sailing; Mary and Joseph of the steamship Galveston, papered at Galveston but never put aboard; Nanny, 10, classed "nearly White," crossing alone; a man entered as "Nat or Nathan"; the Saranac's seven children with no names, ages or heights at all).

99. Installment 98 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1848–1849: 504 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 12, images 241–360 (the Ketch Commerce's Charleston certificate opens the book and closes Tom's packet from Installment 97 — "consisting of 1. (One Male Slave)," the man reported died in the passage; the barque Cyane's 166 on one hull under two manifests, Richmond 65 and Norfolk 101; the brig Union twice more — Campbell's certificate counting "42 in number" against 36 written lines, the six folded children rowed unnamed, and Felix Saucer, 24, reported died on the passage; Rachel, found on board at the Balize with no clearance and no manifest line — the captain's own purchase in Alabama — rowed from the boarding officer's endorsement, the Mobile certificate's "five in number" against four table lines being her arithmetic; the Palmetto's "10 Children" entered as one collective line under a certificate that leaves its number blank, rowed as ten unnamed rows; Daniel, two months old, on his own numbered line; Alice Hannan and her son George, surnames in full).

100. Installment 99 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1849: 337 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 12, images 361–480 (a quieter stretch of small Texas, Florida and Charleston packets; three packets closed across the book's edges — the Henry A Barling's certificate at image 391 agreeing "14 in number" with her table at 390, Sam's Jeff Davis certificate at 421, the Yacht's certificate at 451 closing Martin and Harriett's table at 450 with its number left blank; Rashealt, 14, alone on the Yacht's manifest and endorsed "Not found on Board" at New Orleans; the barque Bachelor's 83 numbered lines against the boarding officer's "82 in number all told," one person unaccounted for; David, 26, of the schooner American, whom the inspector boarded twice on the night of July 4th without finding, then "since found the Boy"; Lucy's infant and Hannah's child rowed unnamed by their certificates' arithmetic; Phoebe, 73; Tobitha, 13, alone, her shipper resident in Marietta, Ohio; a boy of seven whose only name is the clerk's ditto, "do").

101. Installment 100 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1849: 489 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 12, images 481–600 (the Globe's certificate at image 481 closing Ellen's one-person packet, "being One in number"; the brig John A. Lancaster's manifest torn in a gale on 20th Sept, her eleven landed by written permission, Jack Stump aged 8 among them; Cato, 65, and Matilda, 45, on the ship Charles with children down to Ulysses, 9 months, under an oath interlined for sales "by order of Montgomery County Court"; the barque Virginian's certificate swearing "Sixty Seven Slaves" against 65 written lines — No. 21 skipped, No. 52 erased to the word "Black," Robert Gates, 17, pencilled "left Sick"; Betty Holmes's child rowed unnamed because the Union's certificate counts 18 against 17 lines, while Charlotte's child on the Cyane stands in her mother's notes because her certificate's "Thirty nine" counts the lines exactly; the Palmetto's ninth line complete in every detail but her name scribbled out, against a certificate saying "eight"; two outward strays printed as they stand; Louisa, 11, alone from Galveston; Elsey, 60, alone).

102. Installment 101 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1849–1850: 606 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 12, images 601–720 (the Cyane question answered on the first page: image 601 is her Norfolk filing, 32 people, not one name shared with the Petersburg 39 of image 600 — 71 different people on one hull, both filings inspected at New Orleans on 11 December 1849; the Cyane again out of Richmond, 114 numbered lines plus two folded infants rowed unnamed on her certificate's "One hundred and sixteen," though the clerk's footnote numbers the mothers' lines 81 and 106 where the written "& Child" lines stand at 66 and 105 — all printed as it lies; Jack Kelly, 30, "Left sick in norfolk," the one man the boarding officer excepted; the barque Elizabeth's two Baltimore filings, 22 and 43, under Maryland's term-service oath, Eliza Smith's child rowed unnamed because the certificate counts 23 against 22 written lines; Sandy, 21, alone from Savannah, on a brig her table calls Moxey and her certificate calls Moses — both readings printed; the Harriet & Martha's "& Two Children" rowed as two children on her certificate's Six; Jane, 38, certified "not onboard" yet still counted in her Four; the word about Bina, 35, scratched out of the inspector's exception; Lucy, 75; Tiva, 27, with her six children; Claudia's family of nine ending with a baby entered only as "One Infant"; and the steamer Beacon's packet left open at the book's end — watch image 721).

103. Installment 102 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1849–1850: 612 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 12, images 721–840 (the Beacon watch answered on the first page — image 721 is her closing certificate, "being Nine in number," exactly Claudia's nine; the Beacon again, her table representing seven people — Clara, Rich, Fanny and her two children, Rose and her child — against a certificate whose overwritten count word reads "Three"; Bob, 17, who was drowned the morning of his inspection on the Fashion; Lucy, 8, George, 6, and Emanuel, a year and a half, shipped entirely alone; the barque Virginian twice — Richmond's certificate counting "Ninety Seven Slaves exclusive of two children," both children rowed, against Norfolk's "Eighty Four Persons" that follows her clerk's skipped numbering over 83 written lines and four folded children; Elizabeth, 19, of the Gov. Anderson, aboard "with her child — & also a negro man — that are not cleared at Key West & have no papers," the child and the man rowed from the master's endorsement; Goodson's twenty-seven Montgomery people written two to a line; the headerless McGogan table of eighteen against its certificate's thirteen; the Bro Marys' "Nineteen" altered to "Fifteen" by the deputy collector's own hand; the brig Union's nine against her boarding officer's fourteen found on board; and the Virginian's Norfolk thirty closing the book, the Newsome boys at its foot — watch image 841).

104. Installment 103 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1850: 349 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 12, images 841–960 (the Virginian watch answered on the first page — images 841–842 are her Richmond companion filing, 61 people under David Currie, not one name shared with the Norfolk thirty of image 840; the brig Union watch NOT answered — no second Union manifest stands in these pages, and the boarding officer's fourteen against her papers' nine stays unexplained; the barque Cyane twice — Richmond's "One hundred and Six" exact against her 106 lines, Norfolk's "Forty two Persons" over 43 lines and three folded children, 46 people in all; Amanda's two children rowed from the Genl Hamer's certificate counting "4 in number" against her two written lines; Dycey, 40, landed at Pensacola on the way while her certificate still counts "Four"; two Joes on one Saranac sailing — Joe, 35, the examiner's exception, and Joe, 4, "Inspected & found Correct"; Lucy, 11, and George, 14, each alone on a separate manifest for the same Portland sailing; George, 18, the schooner's own cook, residence "On board"; and Mary Foster, 30, alone on a later Virginian filing, shipped by the master himself).

105. Installment 104 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1850: 285 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 12, images 961–1080 — every one of them named, not an unnamed row in the book (the brig Union watch NOT answered again — no second Union manifest stands in these pages either, and Knight's fourteen against her papers' nine keeps its five men, with only the roll's last 29 images left to hide in; four men rowed from their owners' sworn affidavits — Moe, Stephen, Billy and George, brought back from the California gold country on the steamship Alabama because California was free soil, George having gone to Sacramento "by the Plains" in April 1849 and returned by sea a year and a half later; the schooner Wm Chesnut's November packet read whole — her difficult table hand and her Key West certificate are one packet, George Curry, 18, her own man, residence "On board"; boarding officer Knight himself counting the G C Gibbs's four at Pass a Loutre, and agreeing with her lines; the Narragansett's two Baltimore filings, 32 and 17, the Holland family among them and Eliza's surname struck through from Blackstone to Jackson; Jane Henny's child, aged 2 on her line, standing in her mother's notes because the certificate counts the thirteen lines exactly; Nancy, 28, with Toby, Patsy, Carter and the infant Nelson; and Mary, 10, examined by name on Christmas Eve, her certificate standing past the book's edge — watch image 1081).

106. Installment 105 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1850: 191 more entries transcribed name by name from Roll 12, images 1081–1109, COMPLETING ROLL 12 (4,399 entries in Installments 96–105) (the Harriet & Martha watch answered on the first page — image 1081 is Mary's certificate, "consisting of One female Slave"; the brig Union watch closes with the roll UNANSWERED — no second Union manifest stands anywhere in Roll 12's 1,109 images, and Knight's five extra men stay unexplained; the Virginian's seventy out of Richmond, four children folded into their mothers' lines under her certificate's exact "Seventy"; the John C Calhoun's ninety-three Maryland term slaves under full surnames, her inspector's split of seventy-five males and eighteen females settling her last entry, Emmerson Wilmington, 28 — the last named person on the roll; George, 27, brought back from California on the Alabama with both a table and an affidavit; the Palmetto's twelve, one Georgia household down to Louisa and Fanny, both 2 years old and 2 feet tall, and a boy of 14 whose name the clerk never wrote; and the roll's own end targets — "Roll 12 of 30, End of Roll, Please Rewind").

107. The complete cumulative name list (CSV) — every entry from Installments 1–105: 65,025 entries.

Every name is transcribed by hand from the National Archives' own scans of the original manifests. Where a manifest and its certificate disagree, both readings are printed in the books, disagreements and all — nothing is guessed, and nobody is tidied away.

Rolls 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 are complete (Installments 1–105). The work continues through the remaining inward rolls, the outward rolls, and the other ports, and this set is updated free at this same link with every new installment.

— Okey and Susan Barker, Trails End