Finding the Names — Installment 66 (Roll 8, 1836–1840) — FREE

Installment 66 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 481–600.

839 entries (828 named, 11 unnamed) on 57 manifests, with the papers running from November 1836 to December 1840.

Inside: the ship Katharine Jackson's 1836 Alexandria manifest of 118 — five of them landed back at Alexandria and never sailed; Hope H. Slatter's 109 numbered entries on the barque Sol Suttis, held under Maryland term-service oaths; the three people banished by a Baltimore court on the brig Uncas, entitled to their freedom after a term of years; the brig Ganniclefft's three girls under the same bargain; Jim, pursued into the Republic of Texas and recovered; a woman entered as "Old Henry"; and the counts that quarrel, printed both ways.

Contents: the book (206 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.