Finding the Names, Vol. One, Installment 17 — New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1822 (Concluded)

Installment 17 of Finding the Names, Volume One — 742 more entries transcribed name by name from the original New Orleans ship manifests at the National Archives (Microfilm M1895, Roll 2, images 721–840). 242 pages, large print. FREE — please share it so families can find their people. With this installment, Roll 2 is complete: 5,373 entries across Installments 11–17, and the project passes 10,000 names recovered.

The Arethusa's people were all landed at New Orleans on 27 July 1822 — except one. The permit reads: "Permit the Slaves on board the Brig Arethusa to be landed except Louise a Female for whom there is no manifest." Louise — no age, no height, no shipper anywhere — was held back, and that one sentence is her whole trace in the record. She is in this book.

Also in these pages: Milly, 16, left home sick in Richmond — the Robert Burns' inspector found "all on board except Milly," and that same manifest carries a rare Value column, the enslavers' own dollar prices beside the names; the Intelligence's unnamed baby, remembered by three separate papers as the child who died at sea; Levin, 10, brought back from Port Christian in an open boat; ships full of children — the Gleaner's 74, mostly aged 1 to 16, and the Ceres' twenty, eighteen of them children; and Lucy Johnson, 13, one of the very few people in these manifests entered with a full surname, travelling alone from Providence.

Counting this installment, the Finding the Names project has recovered 10,065 entries from the New Orleans manifests, every one free. The companion guide and the Complete Set (Installments 1–17 in one download) are also free in this store.