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Bonded Passengers to America
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REVIEWS
societies. Nonetheless, our rich inheritance.
the book may illuminate,
refresh and inspire.
and remind
us of
PETERH. NASH
Universit?> of’ Wutcrloo
PETER WILSON COLDHAM, Bon&d
Passengers to America (Baltimore: Genealogical 1983. 3 ~01s. Pp. 1,426. $75.00) MICHAEL H. TEPPER(Ed.), Passenger Arrivals at the Port qf’ Baltimore, /82&1834 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1982. Pp. xxiii + 768. $38.50) Publishing
Company,
Bonded Passengers is a useful collection of historical information, most of it published for the first time. It is really nine volumes printed in three: two of those nine were previously published as English Convicts in Colonial America (1974 and 1976). Mr Coldham has added six more lists (each a separate volume) and a prefatory essay entitled ‘History of Transportation, 161551775, published as volume 1. Altogether, this series is the largest collection of names of immigrants to the American colonies up to the time of the American Revolution; about 50,000 men, women, and children. It is extremely easy to use. Each list or volume covers an English judicial district, or circuit. The names of everyone sentenced to transportation from that district is then arranged alphabetically. Beside the name, we have the date of sentencing, the name of the ship of transport, sometimes a description of the crime for which the sentence was pronounced, and sometimes the place of arrival in the colonies. Volume 5. Western Circuit: 1664-1775 includes the political rebels of 1685. The lists are valuable for both demographers and genealogists, and Coldham’s opening essay on the history of transportation is a mine of information, with superb reference materials. Records from the Assize Courts, and State Papers, as well as uncalendared transportation bonds, landing certificates, and many other lesser-known documents form the basis of the lists. The record grew more voluminous after 1718, when the Assize Courts were empowered to sentence the guilty to transportation for all but the most serious and slight offences. Taken as a whole, these volumes should remain a standard reference source for future scholarship. Passenger Arrivals is similar to Bonded Passengers, and equally important. It is the first of a series of lists condensed from the Federal Government’s Customs Passenger Lists. The series will concentrate on the five major ports through which European immigrants poured into the United States during the nineteenth century: Baltimore, Boston. New Orleans, New York, and Philadelphia. The list is arranged alphabetically by last name of the passenger; then follows their age, sex, occupation, and country of citizenship, the country that they intend to inhabit, the name of the ship that brought them, and the date of their arrival. While families are thus not always listed together it is fairly easy to reconstruct family units. The series promises to open up a major source of American history during the nineteenth century. About 50,000 immigrants into Baltimore from 1820 to 1834 are contained in this one volume alone. Passenger arrival records have been little used because they have been only partially indexed. These volumes will make accessible one of the largest and continuous group of records of nineteenth-century America, and one which is absolutely vital to any study of immigration to America during that period. Uiniversit>* qf’ Mq’land,
Baltirrme
J. P. DICKENSON,Brazil (Longman:
GARY L. BROWNE
Country
London
and New York,
1982. Pp. xii + 219. f6.95)
The author starts with a brief description of the main elements of the natural and then turns to the pre-colonial Indian population. The second part describes the main activities of the colonial period such as the cultivation exploration of Brazil’s interior, the work of missionaries. the mining of
environment of the book of sugar, the gold and the
REVIEWS
societies. Nonetheless, our rich inheritance.
the book may illuminate,
refresh and inspire.
and remind
us of
PETERH. NASH
Universit?> of’ Wutcrloo
PETER WILSON COLDHAM, Bon&d
Passengers to America (Baltimore: Genealogical 1983. 3 ~01s. Pp. 1,426. $75.00) MICHAEL H. TEPPER(Ed.), Passenger Arrivals at the Port qf’ Baltimore, /82&1834 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1982. Pp. xxiii + 768. $38.50) Publishing
Company,
Bonded Passengers is a useful collection of historical information, most of it published for the first time. It is really nine volumes printed in three: two of those nine were previously published as English Convicts in Colonial America (1974 and 1976). Mr Coldham has added six more lists (each a separate volume) and a prefatory essay entitled ‘History of Transportation, 161551775, published as volume 1. Altogether, this series is the largest collection of names of immigrants to the American colonies up to the time of the American Revolution; about 50,000 men, women, and children. It is extremely easy to use. Each list or volume covers an English judicial district, or circuit. The names of everyone sentenced to transportation from that district is then arranged alphabetically. Beside the name, we have the date of sentencing, the name of the ship of transport, sometimes a description of the crime for which the sentence was pronounced, and sometimes the place of arrival in the colonies. Volume 5. Western Circuit: 1664-1775 includes the political rebels of 1685. The lists are valuable for both demographers and genealogists, and Coldham’s opening essay on the history of transportation is a mine of information, with superb reference materials. Records from the Assize Courts, and State Papers, as well as uncalendared transportation bonds, landing certificates, and many other lesser-known documents form the basis of the lists. The record grew more voluminous after 1718, when the Assize Courts were empowered to sentence the guilty to transportation for all but the most serious and slight offences. Taken as a whole, these volumes should remain a standard reference source for future scholarship. Passenger Arrivals is similar to Bonded Passengers, and equally important. It is the first of a series of lists condensed from the Federal Government’s Customs Passenger Lists. The series will concentrate on the five major ports through which European immigrants poured into the United States during the nineteenth century: Baltimore, Boston. New Orleans, New York, and Philadelphia. The list is arranged alphabetically by last name of the passenger; then follows their age, sex, occupation, and country of citizenship, the country that they intend to inhabit, the name of the ship that brought them, and the date of their arrival. While families are thus not always listed together it is fairly easy to reconstruct family units. The series promises to open up a major source of American history during the nineteenth century. About 50,000 immigrants into Baltimore from 1820 to 1834 are contained in this one volume alone. Passenger arrival records have been little used because they have been only partially indexed. These volumes will make accessible one of the largest and continuous group of records of nineteenth-century America, and one which is absolutely vital to any study of immigration to America during that period. Uiniversit>* qf’ Mq’land,
Baltirrme
J. P. DICKENSON,Brazil (Longman:
GARY L. BROWNE
Country
London
and New York,
1982. Pp. xii + 219. f6.95)
The author starts with a brief description of the main elements of the natural and then turns to the pre-colonial Indian population. The second part describes the main activities of the colonial period such as the cultivation exploration of Brazil’s interior, the work of missionaries. the mining of
environment of the book of sugar, the gold and the