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1820 - 1954: Rhode Island Passenger Lists available on NARA microfilm

1820-1872: passenger lists for Providence and Bristol/Warren are Customs Passenger Lists held at the Rhode Island Historical Society. Many are missing from the National Archives microfilm for the same period of coverage.

How to Find Ancestors on Ships Passenger Lists to Rhode Island

1. Search online ships passenger lists.

• Ships Passenger List Arriving in Rhode Island (ISTG)
• Shipwrecks and Ships of Gloucester, Massachusetts Bay Colony 1860 (includes Rhode Island disasters)
• Atlantic Ports, Gulf Coasts, and Great Lakes Passenger Lists, Roll 1: 1820-1871 Roll 2: 1820-1873 Roll 4: 1820-1870 Roll 5: 1820-1873 Roll 6: 1820-1863 Roll 7: 1820-1835 Roll 8: 1845-1849 [$] [$] Originally published by the National Archives as Copies of Lists of Passengers Arriving at Miscellaneous Ports on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and Ports on the Great Lakes, 1820-63 includes passenger lists from Bristol and Warren, Rhode Island (1820-71)
• Miscellaneous Atlantic Ports Passenger Lists, 1893-1945 includes passenger lists to Providence, Rhode Island [$]
• Search Ships Sailing to New England: Custom Search Engine allows you to search multiple Internet sites for Passenger Lists of ships going to New England (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island & Vermont)

What's Available at NARA for Ships Passenger Lists to Rhode Island

• Bristol and Warren, Rhode Island, 1820-71
• Newport, Rhode Island, 1820-1857
• Providence, Rhode Island, 1820-1867, 1911-1954
• Warren, Rhode Island, 1820-1871

Search NARA Microfilm for Ships Passenger Lists to Rhode Island Ports of Arrival 1820-1954