Finding the Names — Installment 93 (Roll 11, 1847) — FREE

Finding the Names — Installment 93

New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1847

Roll 11, images 961–1080

392 more entries, transcribed name by name from the National Archives' own scans of the original coastwise slave manifests filed at New Orleans — every one of them named, on 60 manifests. This installment crosses the film's own halfway seam: at image 1022 stands the divider for old Roll 17, "Inward Slave Manifests, July–Dec 1847."

Inside this installment:

• The brig Baltimore's missing certificate: Installment 92 closed on that packet's oath, and we hoped the collector's certificate would stand at image 961. It does not — it appears nowhere in these 120 images, and the gap is printed as it lies.

• The Yacht table (image 1010) whose first three lines are struck through in every column, while her Galveston certificate still counts "Four in number" and the New Orleans inspector endorsed the sheet "Examined & found Correct." Only Josephine, 11, classed "Sambo," stands uncancelled.

• The barque Parthian's 55 people from Richmond, nearly everyone carrying a full surname — Harriet Allen, Peter Aldridge, the Judah family, Pleasant Gaines and Pleasant Barkley.

• Hope H. Slatter's Pioneer filing of 52 Maryland term slaves, among them Samuel Slatter, carrying the shipper's own surname; and Margaret, 13, a term slave shipped entirely alone from Baltimore.

• Charly, 14, marked "sick" with a pencilled "did not come" on the bark Convoy, and Ben, 23, excepted by name on the same hull weeks later.

• Allen, 19, standing on the schooner Equity's table while the landing inspector certified only the other two.

• Anthony, whose age is written out in full — "Sixty" — on a permission describing the whole manifest as "One Negro Man."

• The steam ship Galveston's 21 table lines against her certificate's "Twenty in number."

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 392 entries is included with the book.

This is Installment 93 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. The whole project now stands at 59,804 entries. Free forever — please pass it on.

— Okey and Susan Barker, Trails End