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*'''1841:''' [http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/mimmigrant03.htm Immigrants to Jamaica part 3] at Jamaican Family Search Genealogy Research Library
*'''1841:''' [http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/mimmigrant03.htm Immigrants to Jamaica part 3] at Jamaican Family Search Genealogy Research Library
*'''1865-1894''' [http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/gleaner.htm Gleaner] Newspaper excerpts include passengers arriving and departing by ship in Jamaica
*'''1865-1894''' [http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/gleaner.htm Gleaner] Newspaper excerpts include passengers arriving and departing by ship in Jamaica
=== English Immigrants  ===
Galenson published a list of more than 50 English indentured servants shipped to the Caribbean, and to a lesser extent, North American colonies:
*Galenson, David. "Servants Bound for Antigua 1752-56," ''The Genealogists' Magazine,'' Vol. 19, No. 8 (December 1978): 277-279. {{FHL|434342|item}} 942 B2gm v. 19 (1977-1979); these immigrants are included in the free online [http://www.pricegen.com/immigrantservants/search/simple.php/search/simpleResults.php?keywords=Galenson Immigrant Servants Database].
[[Jamaica Probate Records]] help identify the immigrant origins of many English settlers.
==== English Ships  ====
''Lloyd's Register of Shipping'' identifies ships leaving England, their masters, ports of departure, and destinations. They survive as early as 1764 and are being put online at [http://www.lr.org/en/research-and-innovation/historical-information/lloyds-register-of-ships-online/ Lloyd's Register of Ships Online] - free.
Many ships that sailed from Bristol, England to Jamaica are described in: ''Bristol, Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade to America 1698-1807'' (4 vols.) {{FHL|504033|item|disp=FHL British Books 942.41/B2 B4b v. 38-39, 42, 47}}. All four volumes are available for free online at the [http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/History/bristolrecordsociety/publications.htm Bristol Record Society website].
British Naval Office Shipping Lists, 1678-1825, have been digitized by [http://www.britishonlinearchives.co.uk/collection.php?cid=9781851173181&pid=&did=&cat=&sid=BOABRAW&date_option=equal British Online Archives] (site requires subscription). Names of passengers are not included.


=== American Immigrants  ===
=== American Immigrants  ===
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