New Hampshire Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

The major port of entry to New England is Boston. The Family History Library and the National Archives have passenger lists for the years 1820 to March 1874, and 1883 to 1935. Incomplete passenger lists for Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from 1820 to 1861 are available in ''Copies of Lists of Passengers Arriving at Miscellaneous Ports on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and at Ports on the Great Lakes, 1820–1873'', published by the United States Bureau of Customs. See the "[[United States Emigration and Immigration|Emigration and Immigration]]" section of the United States Research Outline (30972) for references to the passenger lists of Boston and other ports.  

'''Colonial Immigration'''. Names of colonial immigrants listed in published sources are indexed in P. William Filby’s Passenger and Immigration Lists Index. See the "[[United States Emigration and Immigration|Emigration and Immigration]]" section of the United States Research Outline (30972) for this source and more detailed information on U.S. immigration sources.  

Many people came to New Hampshire via Canada. Lists are available for those who crossed the Canadian border between 1895 and 1954. Lists of passengers crossing the Canadian border to the United States, including New Hampshire, were collected at St. Albans, Vermont, and are called Manifest of Passengers Arriving in the St. Albans, Vermont District. This collection includes records from all over Canada and the northern United States. These are the records compiled by U.S. immigration officials who inspected travelers at all Canadian seaports, major cities, and emigration stations and at U.S. train arrival stations in all border states from Maine to Washington. These lists may include the name of the passenger, date and port or station of entry, literacy, last residence, previous visits to the United States, place of birth, and names of relatives in the United States and Canada. For a full description of the two sets of records and four indexes, see the "[[United States Emigration and Immigration|Emigration and Immigration]]" section of the United States Research Outline (30972).