Finding the Names — Installment 91 (Roll 11, 1847) — FREE

Finding the Names — Installment 91: New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1847. Roll 11, images 721–840: 1,038 more entries (1,028 named) on 63 documents, transcribed name by name from the original records at the National Archives (Record Group 36, Microfilm Publication M1895, Roll 11, NAID 173892418).

This book opens by closing the last book's open page: the Savannah oath and permission for the barque John Benson, "consisting of one Slave" — Henry, 14, whose table ended Installment 90. The brig General Pinckney left Baltimore under three manifests sworn the same day — Slatter's 83, Campbell's 32, Williams's 24, some 137 people under Maryland term-service oaths. On Williams's sheet a single line reads "Two Infant Twins," standing here on the one line the clerk gave them. William, 22, stands on the steam ship Galveston's table while her captain told the New Orleans inspector the boy was free and not on board. At the U.S. consulate in Tampico, five men — Mingo, Batest, Nelson, Jim and Bill, a widow's steamer crewmen — were shipped home on the brig Millaudon under a consul's sworn declaration, the only shipping record they have. The brig Zoe's three Baltimore filings carried 116 people south under term-service law, her second sheet mothers with infants family by family. Nancy Epps's child exists in the record only because a clerk overwrote the Parthian's permission total to 168. Five people on the Petersburg Parthian — Joe Tyler, Lewis Carter, Matthew Lyons, Alexander Brandon, Rosana Wrenn — were written on, then struck off: "were not shipped."

Free, like every installment — please share it. Where a manifest and its certificate disagree, we print both. First names are usually all the manifests give; an enslaver's surname is a clue for searching, not proof of the family's own name. Frontispiece: Harriet Powers' Bible Quilt (1885–86), sewn after emancipation — public domain, Smithsonian.

— Okey and Susan Barker, Trails End