Virginia Emigrants to Liberia

Data

Individual Type
Age at Emigration	0.0 unknown
Emigration Origin	Petersburg, Dinwiddie Co., Virginia
Emigration Destination	Liberia
Sex	male

Individuals

Lewis Weignwright

Recorded Names

Lewis Weignwright 1

Recorded Ages

not specified

Events

	Petersburg, Dinwiddie Co., Virginia (Origin) Liberia (Destination)	circa 1831 1	View Event Details
ship's passage	Monrovia (Destination) Baltimore, Maryland (Origin)	22 Oct 1831 to 9 Dec 1831 1 2 3 4 5 6	View Event Details

Citations

[1] "Schooner Orion, 22 Oct 1831, Baltimore, Maryland", Subject File, 1792-1964, American Colonization Society Records, Manuscript Div., Library of Congress; digital image, Fold3.com. Microfilm Reel 314 (https://www.fold3.com/image/46670314 : accessed 12 Feb 2021).
[2] "Schooner Orion, 22 Oct 1831, Baltimore, Maryland", Manumissions and Emigrants, Emigration, Record of Emigrants, Maryland State Colonization Society Papers, Maryland Historical Society; digital image, Maryland State Archives. Microfilm Reel 27 (http://mdhistory.msa.maryland.gov/msa_sc5977/scm013250/html/msa_sc5977_scm13250-0339.html : accessed 30 Mar 2021).
[3] Maryland House of Delegates, "Document F. Report of the Colonization Society, in Answer to an Order of the House of Delegates of the Second January, Eighteen Hundred and Forty-Four;: Document A, Emigrants sent from Baltimore by the Maryland Colonization Society; Ship Orion, sailed Nov 1831", Library of Congress, Records of the States of the United States of America: A Microfilm Compilation; digital image, Maryland State Archives. Microfilm Reel MSA SC M 3172 (https://teaching.msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc4800/sc4872/003172/html/m3172-0841.html : accessed 15 Feb 2021).
[4] Maryland House of Delegates, "Document 4. Report of the Committee on the Coloured Population, of Answers of the President of the Colonization Society of Maryland, in Obedience to the Order Adopted by the House of Delegates, on the 4th January, 1841.: Document A, Referred to in the Foregoing Report. Emigrants sent from Baltimore by the Maryland State Colonization Society.; Schooner Orion, sailed Jul 1832"; digital image, Archive.org (https://archive.org/stream/committecoloured00mary#page/16/mode/2up : accessed 16 Feb 2021).
[5] "Departure of the Orion." African Repository and Colonial Journal, Vol. 7, No. 9 (Nov 1831): 285.
[6] "Latest from Liberia." African Repository and Colonial Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Apr 1832): 35.