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From: Eldon Jensen <>
Subject: [HANDCART-L] HANDCART -- Ship's list
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 20:10:23 -0700

While searching for some information I came across this wonderful ship's
list. I don't think that we have seen it on our list before, so here it
is. This is a wonderful list to have on hand.

Terri
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Andrew Jenson, Encyclopedic History of the Church…, p.576
In November, 1841, by instructions from the First Presidency of the Church,
New Orleans was made the port of entry for saints emigrating from foreign
lands, from whence they were to proceed up the Mississippi River to St.
Louis, Mo., and on to Nauvoo, Ill. After the saints had been expelled from
Nauvoo, New Orleans still continued to be the port of entry until 1855,
when the route was changed and the saints were landed at the eastern ports
of New York, Philadelphia and Boston. From 1841 to 1855, 17,463 immigrating
saints arrived at the port of New Orleans in 79 companies, in charge of
experienced Elders, and also a number of individuals, and small families,
accompanying returning missionaries, who are not included in the above
enumeration, [p.577] landed at New Orleans. Several companies of
missionaries going to Europe also sailed from the port of New Orleans. The
first ship which arrived at New Orleans with saints from Great Britain was
the “Isaac Newton”, which sailed from Liverpool Oct. 14, 1840, and arrived
at New Orleans Dec. 21, 1840. Following are the names of other ships
carrying emigrants from Europe which made New Orleans their port entry: In
1841 the “Sheffield,” one unnamed, “Echo,” “Alesto,” “Rochester,” “Tyrean”
and “Chaos;” in 1842, “Tremont,” “Hope,” “John Cummins,” “Hanover,”
“Sidney,” “Medford,” “Henry” and “Emerald;” in 1843, “Swanton,”
“Yorkshire,” “Claiborne,” “Metoka,” and “Champion;” in 1844, “Fanny,”
“Isaac Allerton,” “Swanton, “Glasgow” and “Norfolk;” in 1845, “Palmyra,” an
unnamed ship, and “Oregon;” in 1846, “Liverpool;” in 1848, “Carnatic,”
“Sailor Prince” (lst trip), “Erin’s Queen,” “Sailor Prince” (2nd trip) and
“Lord Sandon;” in 1849, “Zetland,” “Ashland,” “Henry Ware,” “Buena Vista,”
“Hartley, “Emblem,” “James Pennell,” “Berlin” and “Zetland;” in 1850,
“Argo,” “Josiah Bradlee,” “Hartley, “North Atlantic,” “James Pennell” and
“Joseph Badger;” in 1851, “Ellen,” “George W. Bourne,” “Ellen Maria,” and
“Olympus;” in 1852, Kennebec, “Ellen Maria,” “Rockaway” and “Italy;” in
1853, “Forest Monarch,” “Ellen Maria, “Golconda,” “Jersey,” “Elvira Owen,”
“International,” “Falcon,” “Camillus” and “Page;” in 1854, “Jesse Munn,”
“Benjamin Adams, “Golconda,” “Windemere,” “Old England, “John M. Wood,”
“Germanicus,” “Marchfield,” “Clara Wheeler” (lst trip), and “Clara Wheeler”
(2nd trip), and “Liverpool,” and in 1855, “Rockaway,” “James Nesmith,”
“Neva” and “Charles Buck.”

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