Finding the Names — Installment 67 (Roll 8, 1840) — FREE

Installment 67 of Finding the Names, Volume One — The Ship Manifests. Transcribed by hand from the National Archives' own scans of the original New Orleans inward manifests: Record Group 36, Microfilm Publication M1895, Roll 8 ("Inward Manifests, 1837–1841," NAID 173898130), images 601–720.

252 entries (246 named, 6 unnamed) on 60 manifests, all dated 1840.

Inside: the brig Shamrock's seven children shipped under Maryland term-service oaths — free after a term of years, not slaves for life; the ship Seaman's Eliza with her three little children under the same bargain; the brig Chapman twice, three filings to a sailing; the schooner Alexander's eleven bound for Barataria, not New Orleans; Ellen Hyams, whose mistress died in France, certified home by the United States consul at Havre; Esther's sworn affidavit of her journey to Texas and back; Susanna, whose name the examiner corrected to Louisa; and three little girls who each crossed alone on the schooner Elizabeth.

Contents: the book (80 pages, PDF, large print) — About, art by an enslaved creator, the manifests voyage by voyage, the unnamed, an alphabetical name index with image numbers, and honest notes on gaps and disagreements.

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Every name is transcribed by hand from the original records. Where a manifest and its certificate disagree, both are printed. Nothing is guessed, and nobody is tidied away. Free — please share, so these names can be found.