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Great Lakes Passenger ListsPart of the Michigan Family History Network |
The earliest records that are available on microfilm are scant for the Great Lakes when it comes to passenger lists. In 1820 the government hired people to keep records at ports of ships coming in.
These were the Customs Department Agents. Each ship was supposed to register their cargo and other data and pay any fees. Some records do exist of a Great Lakes Port but so few that this time period
is the hardest time to search for records. Customs officers kept records according to their needs and understandings and so some records have been found in the local areas that they served.
Microform
Copies of lists of passengers arriving at miscellaneous ports on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and at ports on the Great Lakes, 1820-1873
The US National Archives series. The problem with this set of films is that
there exists only two port on the 16 rolls that contains a Great Lakes port and for only one year for each! They have been highlighted below and are on the same roll of film.
Providence, R. I. 1850-1867 Richmond, Va. 1820-1844 **Rochester, N.Y. 1866** Sag Harbor, N. Y. 1829-1834 St. Augustine, Fla. 1821-1870 St. Johns, Fla. 1865 Salem, Mass. 1865-1866 **Sandusky, Ohio 1820** Savanah, Ga. 1820-1868 Saybrook, Conn. 1820 Waldeboro, Maine 1820-1833 Washington, N. C. 1820-1848
Order Numbers if your situation fits.
FHL Film 830246
NARA No. M575-16
FHL = LDS Family History Center NARA = National Archives and Records Administration
Dutch and German passenger lists, 1846-1856
Authors Prins, Edward (Main Author) - On microfilm
Contains unindexed collection of passenger lists of ships arriving at various ports from New York to New Orleans containing names of those who helped settle the Holland Colony in Michigan.
FHL Film No. 1307611 Item 9
FHL = LDS Family History Center
Emigration records from the German Eifel region, 1834-1911 : with major emphasis on those emigrants whose final destinations were Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan
Freund, Hanns Egon (Main Author)
FHL Film 795922 Item 7
FHL = LDS Family History Center
A New York passenger list of 359 German immigrants who left from Liverpool, England aboard the S.S. Henry Clay--July 13, 1852 : including possible places of origin and settlement in
Wisconsin
Author: Wendling, John
Includes indexes to German passengers and wives' maiden names listed in the Koblenz archives and S.S. Henry Clay passengers not listed in the Koblenz archives record.
FHL Film 1697699 Item 5
Passage to America, 1851-1869 : The Records of Richard Elliott, Passenger Agent, Detroit, Michigan
The account ledger of Mr. Elliott lists all passengers (mostly emigrants from Great Britain and Europe) ticketed for the years mentioned, including both passages to and from Detroit,
and includes both the names of the person paying for the ticket and the passenger(s), the fee, port of departure, and destination. 6100 passengers are found here, with another 100 named as paying for the passage. Ages of some children are here. For example, on 2 August 1859, [J?} B. Redhead of Lapeer paid the passage from Liverpool for Charles Watson, Mary Watson, two children under 4, and one infant ($105). On 6 June 1866 William Armstrong paid for passage from Detroit to Liverpool and back for himself and James and Alexander? Robertson ($218).
...This is an extremely valuable record for Detroit, during a time of heavy migration, and we are thankful to have it now available in print. Good illustrations are here, also.
(note: We need to find out about passenger agents. If you know if they were privately hired or commissioned by the government, please write.)
If anymore resources are found for this time period they will be posted here.
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