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The date stated on the ship's passenger list is the date used for arrival. The table also shows the number of passengers for each voyage. The number of steerage passengers and cabin passengers is shown for voyages where the passenger list identified the two passenger classes. The June 3 to July 14, 1848 voyage was made from Liverpool, England. [7]
Passengers Abeona (1811 ship) 324 or 331 James Pritchard 166 Albury (1804 ship) 338 to 342 Cunningham 166 Amphitrite [1] 274 Martin (or Davidson) 60 Aurora (1808 ship) 468 or 471 Thomas Pearson 344 Belle Alliance (1817 ship) [2] 637 Rolfe (or Roulff) 307 Brilliant (1814 ship) 330 or 332 William Bothwell 144 Cambrian: Brownrigg Canada (1811 ship)
1820: 9,638,453: 33.13% 1830: 12,866,020: 33.49% ... including ship passenger lists, were kept for immigration. ... The census of 1850 was the first in which place of ...
Starting in 1820, some federal records, including ship passenger lists, were kept for immigration purposes, and a gradual increase in immigration was recorded. More complete immigration records provide data on immigration after 1830. Though conducted since 1790, the census of 1850 was the first in which place of birth was asked specifically.
The Steerage Act of 1819, also called the Manifest of Immigrants Act, was an Act passed by the United States federal government on March 2, 1819, effective January 1, 1820. Its full name is An Act regulating passenger ships and vessels.
M. ^ The passengers would have been aware of serious risks, but were determined to go. In the 1840s, over 40% of American children died by the age of five. [189] N. ^ In the California State Census of 1852, Emily Combs, then the youngest daughter of Abraham and Olivia Coombs, is shown as age 6, born in San Francisco, and living in Napa
Area filled in prior to 1820. The docks of the Black Ball Line are in the upper part of the figure. The Black Ball Line (originally known as the Wright, Thompson, Marshall, & Thompson Line , then as the Old Line ) was a passenger line founded by a group of New York Quaker merchants headed by Jeremiah Thompson , and included Isaac Wright & Son ...
Merchant ships fill San Francisco harbor in 1850 or 1851. In 1852, the lighthouse board established and published first Light List and Notice to Mariners. In 1854, Andrew Furuseth was born in Norway, and Western river engineers form a "fraternal organization" that is a precursor to MEBA.