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A list of ships arriving in Bermuda from 1515 to 1684 was published in Volume 1 of Lefroy's Memorials of the Discovery and Early Settlement of the Bermudas or Somers Islands, 1515-1687 (1877):721-742. Digital version at Google Books - free.

Many ships that sailed from Bristol, England to Bermuda are described in: Bristol, Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade to America 1698-1807 (4 vols.) FS Library British Books 942.41/B2 B4b v. 38-39, 42, 47. All four volumes are available for free online at the Bristol Record Society website.

A list of persons seeking passports to travel from New York to Bermuda and other West Indian destinations for the year 1812 survives at the National Archives and Records Administration (Washington, D.C.) and has been published:

• Scott, Kenneth. British Aliens in the United States During the War of 1812. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979, 382-383. FS Library Collection 973 W4s; digital version at Ancestry ($).