Finding the Names — Volume One, Installment 44: New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1829–1830 (Roll 6, Images 481–600) — FREE

Installment 44 of Finding the Names — Volume One: The Ship Manifests. 810 more entries (804 named, 6 unnamed) on 65 manifests, transcribed name by name from Roll 6 of the National Archives' New Orleans inward manifests (images 481–600), December 1829 into the spring of 1830. FREE — please share it, so descendants can find their people.

The schooner Transport opens the installment with a counting dispute in three voices. Her ten shippers' sheets out of Norfolk name 122 people, every sheet matching its own printed certificate exactly — yet the foot line of the largest sheet claims "One hundred & Seventy three (persons) in all," and the collector's permission certifies 133. All three figures stand in these pages, as written. On that same sheet, Christien (Kity), 13, has her class entered as one word — "Landed" — with a cross in the margin beside her line: she appears to have been put ashore rather than carried on to New Orleans.

The brig Ilsley of Richmond fills the longest sheet in the installment — 106 people in all, its table photographed across four overlapping frames. The examiners found three people aboard who were not on the list at all: "Ransom & William — Men and Julia a Girl," and at New Orleans a second hand added: "More one child born on board." That child has no name anywhere but in that line.

The schooner General Marion carries a child who was not there. Eliza, 12 months, stands on the list with X's crossed beside her name, and the Balize inspector wrote across the foot: "Correct, with the exception of +Eliza+ some Mistake — no such Child on Board." The brig Atlas loses two of her three single passengers the same way: Maria, 30, endorsed "(one slave not found on board)," and Lewis, 14, "not on Board 19th April 1830." The papers give no explanation for any of them.

Also in these pages: the Ajax's two sailings — 195 people in January and 67 in March, the March sheets totaling exactly her clearance's "Sixty Seven"; the James Monroe's 140 on five sheets, among them Grape, consigned "to himself"; Perry Dutton, 29, held only "to Service and Labour" under Pennsylvania law; the Sun's certificate authorising "Two in number" while her manifest names three women; Charles, 5, and Felix, one month old, shipped alone; and a boy of 14 named Captain, carried from New Orleans to Havana.

Every entry gives the name as written, sex, age, height, class as written, shipper or owner, and residence, vessel by vessel, with an alphabetical index. Where a manifest and its certificate disagree, both readings are printed — disagreements and all. The free guide and the Complete Set download hold the guide and every installment so far in one file.