TO THE

UNITED STATES,

EXHIBITING THE

NUMBER, SEX, AGE, OCCUPATION, AND COUNTRY OF BIRTH,

OF

PASSENGERS ARRIVING IN THE UNITED STATES

BY SEA FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES, FROM SEPTEMBER 30, 1819, TO
DECEMBER 31, 1855;

COMPILED ENTIRELY FROM OFFICIAL DATA:

WITH

AN INTRODUCTORY REVIEW OF THE PROGRESS AND EXTENT OF
IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES PRIOR TO 1819,

AND AN APPENDIX CONTAINING THE

NATURALIZATION AND PASSENGER LAWS

OF THE UNITED STATES, AND EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE
SEVERAL STATES RELATIVE TO IMMIGRANTS, THE IMPORTA-
TION OF PAUPERS, CONVICTS, LUNATICS, ETC.

BY WILLIAM J. BROMWELL,

OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

REDFIELD,

34 BEEKMAN STREET, NEW YORK.

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Tinch 10, 1928

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856,

BY WILLIAM J. BROMWELL,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States in and for the District of Columbia.

SAVAGE & M°CREA, STEREOTYPERS,

13 Chambers Street, N. Y.

B. H.S.
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PREFACE.

To the citizens of the United States the following History of Immigration is respectfully submitted, in the belief that it will prove to them an acceptable offering, since, by the aid of the facts contained therein, they may accurately determine the elements which have contributed to the unexampled growth of the American Republic.

As to the question of the good or bad effect resulting to this country from immigration, the author earnestly disclaims the desire to promulgate any opinion which he may entertain; he has, in the compilation of this history, embodied facts only: and, he leaves it to the enlightened understanding of the people of the United States to arrive at just conclusions from the premises therein presented. The Statements contained in it have been compiled, entirely, from official documents :

First, and chiefly, from the Annual Reports on Immigration prepared at the Department of State, and by the Secretary communicated to Congress in compliance with a requirement of the Passenger Act of March 2, 1819.

Secondly, from Passenger Abstracts transmitted to the Secretary of State by Collectors of the Customs, and on file in the Department, yet not embraced in the Annual Reports on Immigration, because not received until those Reports had been completed and laid before Congress.

Thirdly, from such custom-house records as furnished immigration statistics never communicated to the Secretary, or which, if ever communicated, are now missing from the files of the Department.

The facts thus accumulated, and exhibited in the tables which follow, contain all the available official information of importance. in possession of the country relative to its immigration.