Finding the Names — Installment 61 (Roll 7, 1836) — FREE

Installment 61 of Finding the Names, Volume One — The Ship Manifests closes Roll 7 of the New Orleans inward manifests (National Archives microfilm M1895, NAID 173896856), transcribing images 1,201–1,273 name by name: 1,234 entries (1,227 named) on 39 manifests, October–December 1836. Roll 7 is complete: 11,003 entries in Installments 51–61, and the project now holds 41,000 entries in all.

Inside: 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.

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Transcribed from the original public records. Where the records disagree — and they often do — the book prints the disagreement rather than tidying it away.