Finding the Names — Volume One, Installment 25: New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1825 (Roll 3, Images 841–961) — FREE

Installment 25 of Finding the Names — Volume One: The Ship Manifests.

1,146 more entries transcribed name by name from the original New Orleans inward slave manifests — Roll 3, images 841–961 (the "Misc. Unarranged, 1825" file and the end of the roll), National Archives Microfilm Publication M1895, Records of the U.S. Customs Service (Record Group 36). With this installment Roll 3 is complete: 3,840 entries across Installments 18–25, and 13,905 entries in the series so far.

Every entry gives the person's name exactly as the clerk wrote it (or records honestly that no name was written), with sex, age, height, the clerk's class/colour column, the shipper or owner, the vessel, the master, the ports, and the date — plus the inspectors' endorsements, which is where the human stories live:

• Clarissa, No. 59 — the last name on Woolfolk's Sloop Express: landed at Savannah "on a/c of Sickness," and reported missing when the ship was mustered at the Balize. Installment 24's manifest ran off the sheet at No. 56; this installment prints the final three names, and corrects the master's name to James Kelley from the Alexandria papers.

• Clemence, 17 — described by two small scars, one at each temple, so she could be taken to France as a personal attendant and lawfully brought home; she returned from Bordeaux.

• Riley — a small boy who died on the Eliza Ann's passage; the table says he was 4, the inspector's certificate says 7. Both readings are printed.

• The Lady Monroe's erased No. 74 — struck through and scribbled out, which is why the certificate authorises only "seventy seven"; and Commander Perry, aged 9.

• Letitia, 20, and her daughter Rebecca Hampton, 8 months — put back ashore at Norfolk after clearance and never sailed; beside Tom, 27, one marginal word: "deserted."

• Bob, about 14 — arrived on the Schooner Virginia "exchanged for Bill," a listed man he replaced.

• Babies entered only as "Sarah Anne her child" and "Margaret Anne her child" — their mothers were not on the ship.

• The Robert Burns' Valuation column — $250 to $550, recorded in each person's notes as written, and her No. 57, whose name column holds only the word "unnamed."

Where the papers disagree — and they often do — both readings are printed, disagreements and all. Nothing is guessed.

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The frontispiece is the 1773 portrait of Phillis Wheatley, attributed to Scipio Moorhead — art by an enslaved artist, public domain.

Transcribed by hand from the National Archives' own scans. No index, database, or published book was copied. A companion name-list CSV for this installment, and the free guide 'Finding the Names: A Free Guide to the Public Records of America's Slave Trade,' are in our store; the Complete Set download holds the guide and every installment so far in one file.