Finding the Names, Volume One, Installment 11: New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1822 — Roll 2 Begins

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The eleventh installment of Finding the Names, Volume One — our name-by-name transcription of the slave ship manifests filed at the port of New Orleans, taken directly from the original records at the National Archives — and the first installment drawn from Roll 2 of the microfilm, the inward manifests of 1822.

In this installment: 504 entries (497 of them named) on 58 manifests and documents, Roll 2 images 1–120 — voyages from Norfolk, Baltimore, Mobile, Charleston, Pensacola, and Savannah in December 1821 and the first weeks of 1822. 151 pages, 6x9, large print.

What the papers themselves say: Two people were held back from landing. Monday, 35, and Hannah, 35, came on the sloop Susan out of Savannah, unable to speak English; the New Orleans inspector wrote that they "have the appearance of New Negroes from the Coast," and the Collector's permit reads: "Permit the Slaves named & described in the annexed Manifest to be landed except Monday & Hannah." A young man travels under an oath altered by hand: Wm Randolph, 21, whose shipper's form has the printed word "not" struck out so it reads that he IS entitled to freedom in 1839, if he remains in Louisiana. The ship Georgiana is filed twice — her Norfolk shippers' small manifests and her 141-person general manifest — and her master's arrival oath corrects a child's name: the boy written "Isaac Hemsley" was, he swore, Jacob Hemsley. Two men were sold for terms of years by court order — Sam for four and a half years, Richard for twenty-two. And nine of the Cumberland's nineteen people carry full surnames, shipped by Cox & Noble of Huntsville, Alabama.

Art frontispiece: The Westwood Children, about 1807, by Joshua Johnson — born into slavery in Baltimore, manumitted in 1782, the earliest known African American professional painter in the United States. National Gallery of Art; public domain.

Every word was transcribed by hand from the National Archives' own scans: Records of the U.S. Customs Service, Record Group 36, Microfilm Publication M1895, Roll 2 (NAID 173909810). No index and no other book was copied. Names are spelled exactly as the clerks wrote them; uncertain readings are marked [?]. Roll 1 is complete in this store (Installments 1–10), and the Complete Set now holds the guide and all eleven installments in one free download.

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— Okey and Susan Barker, Trails End, Tiger Mountain, Oklahoma