NYS register, online: mortality statistics, Irish immigrants
Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2013 3:24 pm
Found in Duckduckgo.com search results today on a different topic, three editions of a New York State Register with interesting ads and general information, as well as names of officials throughout the state, organized by locality.
Here is a text version of most of the screenshot having mortality statistics:
p. 229
Bill of Mortality.
Showing the number of deaths in the city of New-York during the year 1842.
From the report of the City Inspector, Dr. John H. Griscom, it appears, the number of interments during the year, exclusive of the premature and still births, was 8,475, being 56 less than in the preceding year. The deaths by consumption amounted to 1,339, being in the proportion of 1 to (5,114 of of the whole. Of those 1,339, 719 only where native of the United States, the remaining 620 being foreigners, a proportion out of all reason when the comparative numbers of the two classes are considered.
The places of nativity of the persons interred were as follows:
United Slates 6,222
British provinces 30
West Indies 26
Ireland 1,250
Great Britain 413
Germany 226
France 54
Other parts of Europe 51
Africa 2
Born at sea 2
Here is an ad pertinent to Irish immigration:
POMEROY & CO.'s EXPRESS,
FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF SPECIE, BANK NOTES, PACKAGES & PARCELS OF GOODS.
Messrs. Pomeroy & Co. have made arrangements with the Western and Eastern Railroad, Steam Boat and Packet Boat Companies,to run Expresses between Albany and Buffalo and Albany and New-York; and are now prepared to receive and forward merchandise of all kinds, to the following places, viz:
New-York, Boston, Philadelphia, Albany, Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago, and intermediate places, and Canada.
GENERAL EMIGRATION AGENCY
They are also fully prepared to bring out Emigrants from all parts of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and deliver the same, with their luggage and ____, either at New-York, or at any point in the United States or Canada, on the most favorable terms, and at fixed prices.
POMEROY & CO., No. 2 Wall-street, New-York.
POMEROY &. CO., No. 5 Exchange, Albany.
From:
The New York State register. 1843. Author, publisher: Disturnell; Holly, editor.
http://audio22.archive.org/stream/newyo ... t_djvu.txt
Later such registers:
1845: http://audio22.archive.org/details/newy ... 00hollrich
1858: http://audio22.archive.org/details/dist ... ewyo00dist
Disturnell also published an 1846 guidebook detailing routes from major Eastern U.S. ports to other points typically used by immigrants, including a stage line from Troy NY to Montreal, convenient when a water route was not available in winter. In the Internet Archive, all such books by a publisher like Disturnell are reached by clicking on the first-listed (left side) format of a publication, which brings up a blue link for the publisher, which when clicked then brings up all the publisher's books in the Internet Archive, all accessible online.
posted by Sharon Carberry
Here is a text version of most of the screenshot having mortality statistics:
p. 229
Bill of Mortality.
Showing the number of deaths in the city of New-York during the year 1842.
From the report of the City Inspector, Dr. John H. Griscom, it appears, the number of interments during the year, exclusive of the premature and still births, was 8,475, being 56 less than in the preceding year. The deaths by consumption amounted to 1,339, being in the proportion of 1 to (5,114 of of the whole. Of those 1,339, 719 only where native of the United States, the remaining 620 being foreigners, a proportion out of all reason when the comparative numbers of the two classes are considered.
The places of nativity of the persons interred were as follows:
United Slates 6,222
British provinces 30
West Indies 26
Ireland 1,250
Great Britain 413
Germany 226
France 54
Other parts of Europe 51
Africa 2
Born at sea 2
Here is an ad pertinent to Irish immigration:
POMEROY & CO.'s EXPRESS,
FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF SPECIE, BANK NOTES, PACKAGES & PARCELS OF GOODS.
Messrs. Pomeroy & Co. have made arrangements with the Western and Eastern Railroad, Steam Boat and Packet Boat Companies,to run Expresses between Albany and Buffalo and Albany and New-York; and are now prepared to receive and forward merchandise of all kinds, to the following places, viz:
New-York, Boston, Philadelphia, Albany, Buffalo, Detroit, Chicago, and intermediate places, and Canada.
GENERAL EMIGRATION AGENCY
They are also fully prepared to bring out Emigrants from all parts of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and deliver the same, with their luggage and ____, either at New-York, or at any point in the United States or Canada, on the most favorable terms, and at fixed prices.
POMEROY & CO., No. 2 Wall-street, New-York.
POMEROY &. CO., No. 5 Exchange, Albany.
From:
The New York State register. 1843. Author, publisher: Disturnell; Holly, editor.
http://audio22.archive.org/stream/newyo ... t_djvu.txt
Later such registers:
1845: http://audio22.archive.org/details/newy ... 00hollrich
1858: http://audio22.archive.org/details/dist ... ewyo00dist
Disturnell also published an 1846 guidebook detailing routes from major Eastern U.S. ports to other points typically used by immigrants, including a stage line from Troy NY to Montreal, convenient when a water route was not available in winter. In the Internet Archive, all such books by a publisher like Disturnell are reached by clicking on the first-listed (left side) format of a publication, which brings up a blue link for the publisher, which when clicked then brings up all the publisher's books in the Internet Archive, all accessible online.
posted by Sharon Carberry
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