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Ship Lydia

Cuba, Unspecified Port to New Orleans
June 13, 1788

PORT OF NEW ORLEANS
Papeles Procedentes de Isla Cuba (The Cuban Papers) Transcribed from Legajo (Bundle) 201, Folios 739 & 758 Originals housed in the General Archives, Seville, Spain Documents dealing with persons in the Carribean and the what is now the continental United States.
A List of Passengers on Board the Ship Lydia Commanded by Capt. Joseph Zeny Bound to New Orleans upon the Kings Account Philadelphia, June 13th 1788
Name Age Occupation or Destination (if shown) 
  1. Garret Rapalje               58                             (To reside in this city, New Orleans)
  2. Bazelell Howe                33                             (To reside in this city, New Orleans)
  3. James Brewster               32                             (Going to) Attakapas
  4. John Reed                    26                             (Going to) Attakapas
  5. Jacques Rapalje              34                             (To reside in this city, New Orleans)
  6. George Cooper                       Hatter(Hat Maker)
  7. William Wycoff                                              (Going to) Attakapas
  8. John Dick                    47
  9. John O'Brien                 22                             (To reside in this city, New Orleans)
 10. Michael Duffy                27                             (To reside in this city, New Orleans)
 11. Edward Patterson             22                             (To reside in this city, New Orleans)
 12. Peter Blanchard              37
 13. John Vanerder                22     Carpenter
 14. Mary Blanchard               32
 15. Peggy Blanchard              14
 16. Peter Blanchard              11
 17. Nancy Butler                 39
 18. Ann Butler                   14
 19. Joseph Butler                11
 20  Betsy Butler                  7
 21. Adam Stander                 55                             (To reside in this city, New Orleans)
 22. Caty Stander                 56
 23. Cathrine Stander             16
 24. Mark Car                     45
 25. Margaret Car                 32
 26. Pheby Car                    18
 27. George Car                    8
 28. John Car                      5
 29. Antony Car                    1 1/2
 30. James Higgins                38
 31. Sarah Higgins                28
 32. Thomas Higgins               11
 33. John Higgins                  8
 34. Kilnah Higgins                3
 35. Caty Higgins                  1
 36. Gasper Inglehart             50
 37. Margaret Inglehart           50
 38. James Sticker                47
 39. Ann Sticker                  37
 40. Margaret Sticker             16
 41. Caty Sticker                 14
 42. Laurence Sticker             12
 43. George Sticker               10
 44. Peter Sticker                 8
 45. Ann Sticker                   6
 46. Polly Sticker                 1
 47. William Rumble               46     Baker
 48. Clare Rumble                 38
 49. John Keller                  36     Baker
 50. Hannah Kelar                 28
 51. Jeracia Kelar                 9
 52. Elizabeth Morisdan           35                            (Going to the) German Coast
 53. Christenah Morisdan          11                            (Costa de los Allemanes)
 54. David Reynolds               25     Mason
 55. Ann Reynolds                 25
 56. Elizabeth Reynolds            3
 57. Francis Read                 29                             Hospital for the Infirmed
 58. Mary Read                    25
 59. John Murphy                  26
 60. Margaret Murphy              26
 61. John Hipp (Hiss)             36     Tailor
 62. Cathrine Hipp                36
 63. Cathrine Hipp                13
 64. Elizabeth Hipp               10
 65. Susannah Hipp                 8
 66. Hester Hipp                   6
 67. John Hipp                     5
 68. Mariah Hipp                   3
 69. Peter Hipp                    1 1/2
 70. John Bushee                  50
 71. Peter Bushee                 14
 72. James Loudon                 27
 73. Elizabeth Loudon             25
 74. William Loudon                2
 75. Mary Newkirk                 13
 76. Thomas Cavil                 27     Painter & Window Maker
 77. Mary Cavil                   24
 78. William Cavil                   1/2
 79. George Burns                 30
 80. Ann Burns                    28
 81. Martin Gill                  35                              Hospital for the Infirmed
 82. Mary Gill                    32
 83. Samuel Chapen                       Carpenter
 84. John Clark                   29     Carpenter
 85. George Schulfield            22
 86. Charles Leifler              28     Distiller(Liquor Maker)
 87. Paul Glasgow                 27                              (Going  to) Natchez
 88. Thomas Darrow                36
 89. Jerry Lyons                  24     Carpenter
 90. John Jordon                  23
 91. John Conner Senr.            38
 92. Thomas Brannon               23
 93. John Conner                  27
 94. John Docarthy                38
 95. John McGlocklan(McLaughlin)  24     Barrel Maker
 96. William Burns                21     Mason
 97. William Sutherland           29     Carpenter
 98. Stephen Fitzgerald           27     Carpenter
 99. Thomas Kane                  33
100. Michael Riley                18     Member of the Regiment
101. Henry Young                  56
102. Elizabeth Young              45
103. Henry Young                  19
104. John Young                   10
105. James Dailey                 46
106. Mary Dailey                  16
107. George Dailey                21
108. John Cane                    30
109. Charles Baker                34     Member of the Regiment
110. William Halpin               21
110. John Rees                    38
111. Michael Welch                28
112. Dennis Kennedy               38     Carpenter
113. David Godden                 19
114. Thomas Shay                   3
115. Bridget Shay                 23     Seamtress
116. Edward Gafney                37
117. Mary Gafney                  23
118. John Humble                  34
119. Andrew Kirk                  45
120. John Cassady                 23                             (Going to) Opelousas
121. Thomas Berry                 31
122. Thomas Ray                   24
123. Patrick Welch                19     Mason
124. John Moulton                 21     Member of the Regiment
125. Edward McDaid                21
126. negro - Jack                 17
127. negro - Bob                  10
128. negro - Phillis              26
129. negro - Jack Shover           9

     [signed]  Joseph Zeny
Correspondence added 7-27-2005:

Thanks to the research of Stephen A. White, who is *the*Acadian genealogist located at Moncton University in New Brunswick, we know those people had been exiled from their land in Nova Scotia by the British in 1755 to Philadelphia. They were Acadians. Researchers lost track of them until finding them on this list. When the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1763, wherever the Acadians were in exile, they were free to go wherever they wanted. In this case, these people went to Louisiana.

The Butler surname was actually BOUDROT. Nancy was really Anne Blanchard who had married Micehl Boudrot in Philadelphia in 1772. Betsy was their daughter Elizabeth and so on it goes.

This is a great find. Thank you for posting this information.

I am an Acadian researcher and my web site is:
 www.acadian-home.org

Best regards,

Lucie LeBlanc Consentino
Acadian Ancestral Home
Societe Promotion Grand-Pre
CEA - Moncton University

Contributed and transcribed by Houston Tracy, Jr for the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild.
1 Jun 1999


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