Virginia Emigrants to Liberia

Data

Location Type	town
Located In	Louisiana

Locations

New Orleans, Louisiana

Events

ship's passage		Jan 1832 to 18 Feb 1832 1	View Event Details
ship's passage		Apr 1833 to unknown 2	View Event Details
	Thornton Kenney (emigrant)	circa 1835 3 a	View Event Details
ship's passage	Thornton Kenney (emigrant)	4 Mar 1835 to 1 May 1835 3 4	View Event Details
ship's passage		May 1835 to 9 Aug 1835 5 6	View Event Details
ship's passage		26 Apr 1836 to unknown 7 8	View Event Details
ship's passage		May 1838 to unknown 9	View Event Details
ship's passage		13 Jun 1841 to unknown 10	View Event Details
ship's passage		9 May 1843 to unknown 11 12	View Event Details
ship's passage		9 Mar 1844 to unknown 13	View Event Details
ship's passage		24 Jan 1846 to unknown 14	View Event Details
ship's passage		7 Jan 1847 to unknown 15	View Event Details
ship's passage		7 Jan 1848 to unknown 16	View Event Details
ship's passage		22 Jan 1849 to unknown 17	View Event Details
ship's passage		20 Apr 1849 to unknown 18	View Event Details
ship's passage		15 Mar 1850 to unknown 19	View Event Details
ship's passage		13 Feb 1851 to unknown 20	View Event Details
ship's passage		31 Jan 1852 to unknown 21	View Event Details
ship's passage		31 Dec 1852 to unknown 22 23	View Event Details
ship's passage		27 Apr 1859 to unknown 24	View Event Details

Notes

[a]
Thornton Kenney was originally from Virginia. Moved west and held various jobs along the Mississippi River. Bob Vernon has extensively researched the free Kenney family in Virginia.

Citations

[1] "Latest from Liberia." African Repository and Colonial Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Apr 1832): 43.
[2] "Brig Ajax, Apr 1833, New Orleans, Louisiana", 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/46670421 : accessed 17 Feb 2021).
[3] "Brig Rover, 4 Mar 1835, New Orleans, Louisiana", 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/46669692 : accessed 6 Mar 2021).
[4] "Report of the Managers to the American Colonizations Society, at Its Ninteenth Annual Meeting." African Repository and Colonial Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Jan 1836): 15.
[5] "Brig Louisiana, 30 May 1835, New Orleans, Louisiana", 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/46669697 : accessed 6 Mar 2021).
[6] "Report of the Managers to the American Colonizations Society, at Its Ninteenth Annual Meeting." African Repository and Colonial Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Jan 1836): 16.
[7] "Schooner Swift, 26 Apr 1836, New Orleans, Louisiana", 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/46669697 : accessed 6 Mar 2021).
[8] "Expedition to Liberia." African Repository and Colonial Journal, Vol. 12, No. 6 (Jun 1836): 197.
[9] "Expedition from N. Orleans." African Repository and Colonial Journal, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Mar 1838): 93.
[10] "Barque Union, 13 May 1841, New Orleans, Louisiana", 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/46669730 : accessed 7 Mar 2021).
[11] "Barque Renown, 17 Jun 1843, Norfolk, Virginia", 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/46669750 : accessed 7 Mar 2021).
[12] "Twenty-seventh Annual Report of the American Colonization Society." African Repository and Colonial Journal, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Feb 1844): 33.
[13] "Brig Lime Rock, 9 Mar 1844, New Orleans, Louisiana", 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/46669756 : accessed 7 Mar 2021).
[14] "Barque Rothchild, 24 Jan 1846, New Orleans, Louisiana", 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/46669785 : accessed 15 Mar 2021).
[15] "Schooner Mary Wilkes, 7 Jan 1847, New Orleans, Louisiana", 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/46669790 : accessed 15 Mar 2021).
[16] "Barque Nehemiah Rich, 7 Jan 1848, New Orleans, Louisiana", 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/46669795 : accessed 15 Mar 2021).
[17] "Barque Laura, 22 Jan 1849, New Orleans, Louisiana", 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/46669823 : accessed 15 Mar 2021).
[18] "Barque Clintonia Wright, 20 Apr 1849, New Orleans, Louisiana", 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/46669836 : accessed 15 Mar 2021).
[19] "Schooner D.C. Foster, 15 Mar 1850, New Orleans, Louisiana", 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/46669872 : accessed 18 Mar 2021).
[20] "Brig Alida, 13 Feb 1851, New Orleans, Louisiana", 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/46669886 : accessed 18 Mar 2021).
[21] "Brig Julia Ford, 31 Jan 1852, New Orleans, Louisiana", 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/46669934 : accessed 19 Mar 2021).
[22] "Brig Zebra, 31 Dec 1852, New Orleans, Louisiana", 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/46669971 : accessed 19 Mar 2021).
[23] H. J. Roberts MD (Monrovia, Liberia) to (n.p.), letter, Sep 1853; "Incoming Correspondence, Letters from Liberia, 1833-1917"; American Colonization Society Records, Manuscript Div., Library of Congress, digital image, Fold3.com, Microfilm Reel 155; (https://www.fold3.com/image/44487536: accessed 9 Mar 2021).
[24] "Emigration of Forty -one Emigrants to Liberia from New Orleans" African Repository, Vol. 35, No. 6 (Jun 1859): 174.