[Genealib] 1819-1820 US Passenger List Free Online

[Kemp, Tom]

1819/1820 U.S. Passenger List Now Online 

 

GenealogyBank.com has put a digital copy of the complete 1819-1820 U.S.
Passenger List, free and online at: www.genealogybank.com/free

 

This is an exact digital copy of the original document that was
published by the Federal Government in 1821*. It covers the arrivals in
35 ports in 14 states and the District of Columbia. 

 

GenealogyBank is pleased to provide this free and valuable research tool
to genealogists. It is an excellent example of the types of genealogical
records preserved at GenealogyBank  that you can use to fill in the
details of your family tree. A typical entry gives the passenger's name,
age, where they were coming from, and their destination, the name of the
ship, ship's captain and the port. Some entries also include additional
notes.  

 

This published passenger list gives the names of all passengers arriving
in the US between October 1819 and September 1820. It includes not only
immigrants coming to the U.S. but also a large number of U.S. citizens
who were traveling by ship from one part of the country to another. 

 

For example Alfred Spooner, age 32, a farmer from Vermont and D. McCall,
age 33, a merchant from North Carolina were both listed as traveling on
the Brig Forest that was going to Mississippi. 

 

Entries also tell of births and deaths at sea. Eugenia Virginia Stark
and Charles Julius Wittell were two German children born at sea.
Christiana Yauch was not so lucky. She is recorded as having died at sea
while coming to America from Germany. 

 

Robert Crookshanks age 60, a merchant from St. John, New Brunswick is
listed as "on a visit" to Portland, Maine coming over on the Schooner
Recover. Francis Mitchell, age 28, a West Indies planter from St. Croix
is listed as going to Ireland on the Schooner Edward and stopping at the
port of New York. 

 

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* Letter from the Secretary of State, with a transcript of the list of
passengers who arrived in the United States from the 1st of October,
1819, to the 30th September, 1820. February 18, 1821. Printed by order
of the Senate of the United States. Washington, DC: U.S. Congress.
Senate, 1821. Serial Set Vol. No. 45, Session Vol. No.4. 16th Congress,
2nd Session. S.Doc. 118. 288p.

 

 

Tom 

 

Thomas Jay Kemp

Director, Genealogy Products

NewsBank Inc. 

www.NewsBank.com 

www.GenealogyBank.com 

 

TKemp at NewsBank.com 

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