Finding the Names — Installment 94 (Roll 11, 1847) — FREE

Finding the Names — Installment 94

New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1847

Roll 11, images 1081–1200

778 more entries, transcribed name by name from the National Archives' own scans of the original coastwise slave manifests filed at New Orleans — 775 of them named — on 63 manifests. The autumn of 1847: the Baltimore ships came down heavy, and the little Gulf packets kept their steady trickle. With this installment the whole project passes sixty thousand entries.

Inside this installment:

• The barque Kirkwood's 169 people on one Baltimore sailing — Donovan's 142 and Rodbird's 27 — her great list reassembled from overlapping photographs, sheet over sheet. Entry 74's name runs off the foot of one photograph entirely; on the fuller sheet she is Amey Webb, 16.

• The barque Phoenix's 154 people in a single voyage: 65 embarked at Richmond, where the permission's count takes in three folded children, and 92 more at Norfolk, where four folded children stay in their mothers' lines only.

• The barque W. H. D. C. Wright's five: entries 9–13 crossed out in heavy strokes by Inspector John Lester at Baltimore — written on the manifest, examined, marked off, and never sailed, though the certificate still counts "13 in number."

• Clara Gibson, an infant, dead on the passage on the E. H. Chapin; and William Rollins, 22, dead on the same hull's later sailing, the inspector's exception dated Christmas Day.

• Margarete, age 2, on the schooner Alicia's manifest and inside her permission's count — and the inspector's endorsement: "the Child not on Board."

• Jenny, 17, and Mary, 14, shipped from the Mouth of the Rio Grande on papers certified by an acting military collector of the American occupation.

• Peter of Lavaca, aged 10 on his table, while the inspector who stood in front of him wrote that the child "is only Seven years old."

• Abner, 27, classed "Griff," shipped outward — New Orleans to Vera Cruz, in the middle of a war.

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 778 entries is included with the book.

This is Installment 94 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 1–10 are complete; Roll 11 is under way, with only its short final stretch to go. The whole project now stands at 60,582 entries. Free forever — please pass it on.

— Okey and Susan Barker, Trails End