Passenger Arrivals At The Port of New York 1830-32 New Hardbound Genealogy Book

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Passenger Arrivals At The Port of New York
1830-1832
Hardbound volume  totaling
1160
pages. Book is in excellent condition. Just what you need for genealogy research. Per the publisher;
Starting in 1820, ships' passenger lists were collected by U.S. Customs  officials at all ports of entry. Well into the 1890s, these lists--Customs  Passenger Lists--furnish proof of the arrival in the United States of nearly  twenty million persons. With the exception of federal census records, they are  the largest and most continuous body of records of the entire century. Listing  each passenger by name, age, sex, occupation, the country 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 customs at  the various ports of entry, later deposited with the Immigration and  Naturalization Service, and finally given to the National Archives, where they  were sorted and arranged by port, date, and ship, and then microfilmed.
The microfilm version of the Customs Passenger Lists for the port of New  York--by far the busiest port of entry in the U.S.--consists of both original  passenger lists and copies of those lists, depending on which list was most  suitable for microfilming. This new compilation by Mrs. Bentley, a sequel to her  recent book covering the period 1820-1829, is a direct transcription of the  original microfilmed lists (National Archives Microfilm #237) for the port of  New York for the period 1830 through 1832.
In this one encyclopedic volume are the names--in alphabetical order--of  65,000 passengers with their age, sex, occupation, place of origin, etc., and  the names of the 1,700 ships that brought them to New York. Also included is 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, available only through a somewhat incomplete card index maintained  by the National Archives.
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