Passenger Arrivals At The Port of New York 1820-1829 Genealogy Book

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Passenger Arrivals At  The Port of New York
1820-1829
Volumes totaling
1501
pages. Books  are in excellent condition. Just  what you need for genealogy research. Per the publisher;
An Act of Congress passed on 2 March 1819, called An Act to Regulate  Passenger Ships and Vessels, required masters of ships arriving at American  ports from abroad to submit a list of all ships' passengers to the Collector of  the customs district in which the ship arrived. These lists-- Customs Passenger  Lists--were collected at all ports of entry from 1820 onwards, and they mark the  beginning of official U.S. immigration records. The Act called for a strict  enumeration or listing of all ships' passengers--cabin and steerage passengers,  immigrants and non-immigrants--and was thus the mechanism for an epic  documentation. Well into the 1890s, Customs Passenger Lists furnish proof of the  arrival in the United States of nearly twenty million persons. With the single  exception of federal census records they are the largest, the most continuous,  and the most uniform body of records of the entire century.
Under the 1819 Act, ships' masters were required to deliver a list, or  manifest, indicating each passenger's name, age, sex, occupation, and the  country to which he belonged, the country which he intended to inhabit, the name  of his ship, his port of embarkation, and the date of his arrival. The lists  were kept under the authority of the collectors of the customs at the various  ports of entry and were subsequently deposited with the Immigration and  Naturalization Service. Eventually they were acquired by the National Archives  in Washington, D.C., where they were sorted and arranged by port, date, and  ship, and then microfilmed.
Arranged chronologically by port of entry and only partially indexed,  these Customs Passengers Lists are somewhat hard to use, even for the early  years at the port of New York, where, for example, the existing National  Archives index is based on a card index to copies of the original passenger  lists rather than an index to the original lists themselves. This new  compilation by Mrs. Bentley, however, goes a long way to rectifying this  situation, as it is a direct transcription of the original microfilmed lists  (National Archives Microfilm #237) for the port of New York during the time  period 1820 through 1829.
The majority of the passengers arriving in New York at this time were of  British or Irish origin (occasionally listed by place of nativity rather than  country to which they belonged), and proof of their arrival can be found in no  other immigration records of the period. Indeed, this publication is itself  utterly unique, and it is not available on CD or in any printed form but this.  Here, then, in this one encyclopedic volume are the names of 85,454 passengers  with their age, sex, occupation, origin, etc., and the names of the 6,247 ships  that brought them to New York. (As a matter of interest, the book contains a  separate list of ships with the names of ship masters, ports of embarkation, and  dates of arrival.)
Until now these passenger lists have been virtually inaccessible, and no  other publication has offered information on this particular group of  immigrants. Anyone interested in early 19th-century records, therefore, could do  no better than to begin his research here.
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