The register, ship by ship
The sailings of 1783
188 sailings carried the 3,009 people in the register out of New York between April 23 and November 30, 1783. Press play to watch them go: each dot is a ship, sized by the number of people aboard.
The British fleet took the people in the register to a dozen places. Most went to Port Roseway, where the town of Shelburne was being laid out and Black settlers founded Birchtown across the harbour; the rest to Port Mouton, to Annapolis Royal and the Saint John River on the Bay of Fundy, to Halifax and Fort Cumberland, to Quebec, to Abaco and Cat Island in the Bahamas, and, with the German regiments going home, to Spithead, the Downs, Ostend and Bremerlehe. The largest sailings were the naval transport L’Abondance in July and again in November, the Clinton in August, the Ranger and the Nesbitt in November.
The register gives no dates for its entries. The dates shown here are placed by register order between five dated inspections (April 23, July 31, September 22, November 19 and November 30) and are approximate to within a week or two; crossing times are assumed. Ships that carried some of the twenty-nine from around Franklin Township are marked with a gold ring on the map and a dot in the list.
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Tap a row to jump the map to that sailing.
Which ships went where
Each ribbon joins a vessel to a port, as wide as the number of people it carried. The fourteen busiest vessels are named; the other 99 are grouped. Hover a ribbon for the count.