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Uriel — Passenger Manifest (Roster)

Source: U.S. Customs passenger list/manifest (New York bond format — references the Chamberlain of the city and Mayor, per the N.Y. State law of 5 May 1847). Ship Uriel, American, master James G. Foster, sailed from Antwerp, report of passengers sworn the 21st[?] day of February 1855. Scans: LAM259_41-0623.jpg … -0628.jpg (6 pages); duplicate labeled copies colonists1.jpg (= 0627, #142–179) and colonists2.jpg (= 0628, #180–211 + tally).

Correction to prior notes / CATALOG: this manifest is the Antwerp → New York leg (sworn at New York, N.Y. bond format), not "Le Havre → New Orleans, Feb 24." The two are reconcilable as one voyage with a New York call that continued on to New Orleans — the passenger [[colas]] (himself on this ship, see below) describes a 64-day crossing ending at New Orleans, where the colonists disembarked. The Antwerp departure is itself a colony signal — SCEAT was Brussels-incorporated, and the manifest carries several Belgian and French families (below).

Tally (foot of 0628): passengers split by class (Cabin / Steerage; figures faint — Steerage ≈182[?]) totaling "208 all told." The numbered list, however, runs to #211 — the ~3-person difference matches the "dies"/✗ voyage-death marks (e.g. #7 Bertha "dies 3 Feb", #51 Leander, #67 Louise). So ~211 embarked, 208 arrived.

Method / reliability note

Handwritten cursive, base-resolution best-effort pass. Numbering is verified from a dedicated number-column crop of every page; surnames, residences, and many child given-names are not — flagged [?]. The Uriel hand is denser and fainter than the Nuremberg manifest, so per-name reliability is lower; treat individual readings as leads to confirm, not facts. Columns on the manifest: No · Name · Age · Country of Birth · Last Legal Residence · Country Claiming Allegiance · Occupation & Remarks (no sex column). Below, Origin merges birth-country + residence; ditto (do/d°/″) means same as the family head above. Occupations are in English and are the most legible non-name field.

Colony-relevance summary (read these first)

The bulk are German/Prussian emigrant families (residences Achern, Darmstadt, Coblentz, Cologne, Nassau, Baden, Bonn). Embedded among them — and consistent with SCEAT's Antwerp/Brussels base — are the non-German heads most likely tied to La Reunion recruitment:

• Belgian — the Destination column splits them in two (confirmed against the rootsweb Belgian-extract, which preserves the destination field our scan merged away; see the cross-reference block below):
• Bound for Texas — the colony party (from Louvain): #194 Michel (Gardener), #195–197 Derleischonver (three joiners), #198 de Smidh (Farmer; corrects our scan misread "Louis St. Smardt[?]"). These five carry an explicit "Texas" remark — the true Belgian colony contingent.
• Bound for USA — NOT colonists (from "Watervlitt" = Watervliet/Waterloo): #42–47 Deborneure family, #48 Phillips, #49–51 & #58 Camerbeck. Our earlier flagging of #42 Debormeure and #58 "Van Ca[m]erbeck" as candidate colonists is refuted — their destination is the USA, not the colony (and there is no "Van"; the German labels on #48–49 were also wrong — both Belgian).
• French, Texas-bound: #193 (Stauzen[?]/Blaisat[?], Vienne, Farmer) also carries the "Texas" remark; #168 Collas is the [[colas]] author (see below).
• French: #168 Collas (27, res. Saône-et-Loire, Professor of languages; re-read corrects earlier "Cordier[?]" → "Collas"), #169 Claudius[?]/Clandus[?] (17, Farmer; earlier "Clairvaux[?]"), #170 Perpina[?] (42, Farmer; earlier "Pepini[?]"), #193 Blaisat[?]/Stauzen[?] (res. Vienne). #168 is the likely author of the [[colas]] letter — see [[findings]].
• Swiss: #2 Barth[?] family (canton Aargau).
• Trade profile matches the colony's skilled-labor character: farmer, brewer, baker, blacksmith, mason, carpenter, cooper, shoemaker, tailor, dressmaker, milliner, weaver, watchmaker.

Cross-check all heads against COLONISTS.md / Santerre / Cordillot before treating any as confirmed colonists; the ship is a mixed emigrant carrier, not a colony charter.

Passenger list

Indented rows (— ) = same family/surname as the head above (ditto). † = died on voyage; ✗ = X-mark on the manifest (usually a death).

Page 0623 (#1–22)

Page 0624 (#23–61)

Page 0625 (#62–100)

Page 0626 (#101–141)

Child-row given-names on this page are the least certain in the document.

Page 0627 (#142–179) — labeled copy colonists1.jpg

Page 0628 (#180–211) — labeled copy colonists2.jpg

Foot of manifest: class breakdown (Cabin / Steerage ≈182[?]) → "208 all told." Signed by master James G. Foster; bonding officer Wm H. Sleight[?].

Cross-reference: rootsweb Belgian extract (independent transcription)

Source: "Uriel — from Antwerp; to New Orleans Feb. 24, 1855," Belgians in the American Civil War emigrant-ship index, sites.rootsweb.com/~belgintheamcivwar/Emigrants Ships/ships 1855/18550224-Uriel.html (a Belgium-origin-only extract of the same manifest; typed, so more legible than our base-res scan pass, but only the ~16 Belgian rows). Its value: it preserves the Destination column our transcription merged into "Origin," which resolves who was colony-bound. All rows are Origin = Belgium.

Takeaways: (1) the Uriel's Belgian colony party is the five Louvain artisans #194–198 (gardener + three joiners + farmer), all marked Texas; (2) the #42–58 "Watervlitt" (Watervliet/Waterloo) Belgians — Deborneure, Phillips, Camerbeck — were bound for the USA and are not La Reunion colonists, correcting the colony-relevance guesses above; (3) the Savardan/Cordillot names for the "Cousin dozen" (Cousin, Haeck, Goetseels, De Guelle, Sauzeau) are absent from this Belgian extract — they do not cross-map to a manifest row, an open gap carried in [[findings]].

Observations / cross-reference leads

• Antwerp departure is the strongest colony signal: SCEAT was Brussels-based, and the manifest carries Belgian (#42, #58, #194) and French (#168–170, #193) heads amid a German/Prussian majority. Whether the German families are colonists or co-incidental emigrants on the same charter needs individual cross-check.
• #168 Collas (re-read from "Cordier[?]") is the likely author of the [[colas]] letter; the evidence and caveats are in [[findings]], not duplicated here.
• Date / route reconciliation: manifest sworn 21 Feb 1855 at New York (Antwerp → New York leg) vs. the "New Orleans" arrival in [[colas]] and old project notes — reconciled as a single voyage with a New York call continuing to New Orleans (Colas's 64-day crossing). The manifest is authoritative for the passenger list; the New Orleans landing is authoritative for the colonists' disembarkation.
• 211 listed vs. "208 all told" — reconcile the ~3 voyage deaths (#7, #51, #67, and the "dies" marks on 0626) against any colony mortality records.
• Per-name readings on this manifest are lower-confidence than Nuremberg; a high-zoom second pass is warranted before any name is promoted to a finding. The single-adult block on pages 0627–0628 (#162–203) has had that pass (cropped, autocontrasted, upscaled from the 2800×3440 scans), yielding the #168 Collas reading and the #200–203 Burckhardt corrections above; the family-row given names elsewhere have not.

Manifest scans

p. 0623 · p. 0624 · p. 0625 · p. 0626 · p. 0627 · p. 0628