Finding the Names — Installment 100 (Roll 12, 1849) — FREE

The one-hundredth installment of Finding the Names — the New Orleans inward slave manifests transcribed name by name from the National Archives' own scans (Microfilm Publication M1895, Records of the U.S. Customs Service, Record Group 36).

Roll 12, images 481–600: 489 entries (486 named, 3 unnamed) on 61 manifests, August to November 1849.

Image 481 answers the last book's watch: it is the steamer Globe's certificate, "being One in number," closing Ellen's packet. The brig John A. Lancaster's manifest was torn in a gale on 20th Sept — her eleven men and boys were landed by written permission, Jack Stump, aged 8, among them. On the ship Charles, Cato, 65, and Matilda, 45, cross with children down to Ulysses, 9 months, under an oath interlined for sales "by order of Montgomery County Court." The barque Virginian's certificate swears "Sixty Seven Slaves" against 65 written lines — No. 21 skipped, No. 52 erased to the word "Black," and Robert Gates, 17, pencilled "left Sick." Betty Holmes's child is rowed unnamed because the brig Union's certificate counts 18 against 17 lines; Charlotte's child on the Cyane stands in her mother's notes because her certificate's "Thirty nine" counts the lines exactly. And on the Palmetto, a woman's line stands complete in every detail — Female, 28, 5 feet 5, Yellow — with her name scribbled out stroke by stroke, against a certificate saying "eight."

Every name is transcribed by hand from the original public records — no index, database, or published book is copied — so descendants can find their people. Where a manifest and its certificate disagree, both readings are printed.

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— Okey and Susan Barker, Trails End