Finding the Names — Installment 95 (Roll 11, 1847) — FREE

Finding the Names — Installment 95

New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1847

Roll 11, images 1201–1237

44 more entries, transcribed name by name from the National Archives' own scans of the original coastwise slave manifests filed at New Orleans — every one of them named — on 17 manifests. The last pages of Roll 11: the little Gulf and Florida packets of December 1847, closing out the year and the roll together.

Inside this installment:

• Primus Carter, 30, heading the schooner Commodore's Charleston manifest — "not present" pencilled beside his name, and Inspector Didier Dreux's endorsement: "examined and found correct with exception of Primus who was missing."

• The schooner Tallahassee's 21 people from St. Marks, examined together at New Orleans on 29 December 1847 — Morris, 60 years old and a full six feet tall; a young man entered under the name "Servant," 19; two little girls both named Sarah, aged 4 and 7; and the infant Florida, six months old, named for the coast she was carried away from.

• The steamer Palmetto's four — Sarey, 35, Abbey, 36, Josephine, 9, and Gorgee, 35 — whose residence is entered simply as "Palmetto": they lived aboard the steamer herself, were shipped by her own master, and were examined on Christmas Day.

• Hannah, 16, and Mary, 12, shipped from St. Marks on a certificate signed on Christmas Day; and Bachy, 14, shipped entirely alone from Charleston.

• Judy, 30, shipped outward — New Orleans toward Texas on the schooner A. L. Scranton — her papers filed among the inward manifests; and William, 26, the roll's last named person, whose table and oath cannot agree on who owned him.

• The roll's own ending, transcribed in the book: the "ROLL 17 / END" target and the National Archives' end-of-roll card — Microfilm Publication M1895, Roll 11 of 30.

Every entry gives the name exactly as written, with sex, age, height, class as written, shipper/owner, and residence, plus the Roll 11 image number so anyone can check the entry against the original scan at the National Archives. Where a manifest and its certificate disagree, both readings are printed — nothing is guessed, and nobody is tidied away.

The free name-list CSV of all 44 entries is included with the book.

This is Installment 95 of Finding the Names, a free series transcribing the public records of America's coastwise slave trade, port by port and name by name, so descendants can find their people. Rolls 1–11 are now complete — Roll 11 alone holds 6,175 entries in Installments 85–95. The whole project now stands at 60,626 entries. Free forever — please pass it on.

— Okey and Susan Barker, Trails End