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Lexington — Passenger Manifest (Roster)

Source: U.S. Customs passenger list/manifest, District & Port of New-Orleans. Ship Lexington, master Edward (Edw.) Stone, from Havre (Le Havre), sworn ~Feb 1855 ("2[4]th Feby 1855"). Scans: LAM259_41-0630.jpg … -0635.jpg (6 pages). No labeled colonists*.jpg copies exist for this ship.

Correction to prior notes / CATALOG: the Lexington sailed from Le Havre (not Belgium). Route: Le Havre → New Orleans, Feb 1855 — same port/destination as the Nuremberg, a different ship/voyage.

Total: the numbered list runs to roughly #267, but the manifest is only cleanly legible through about #255; the final page (0635) fades to near-blank after the first two entries, so #256–~267 are illegible on this scan.

Method / reliability note — READ THIS

This is the lowest-confidence of the three ship rosters. The scan is faint with heavy bleed-through/staining across the page gutters, and the manifest uses units-only numbering (only the ones digit is written, with sporadic "20 / 30 / … / 250" tens markers), so row numbers are reconstructed by counting from the anchored tens markers and page tops (verified: 0633 starts #148, 0634 #201, 0635 #254). Surnames and most given names — especially the German/Bavarian child rows on pages 0630–0632 — are best-effort guesses, flagged [?]. Treat every name here as a lead to re-verify at higher resolution, not a fact.

Columns on the manifest: No · Names · Age (Years/Months) · Sex · Occupation · Country to which they severally belong · Country of intended habitation · Died on the voyage. Occupation is almost always "Farmer"; intended habitation almost always "United States." Origins seen: Bade (Baden), Hesse, Bavaria, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Saxon, America. Below, indented rows (— ) share the surname/family of the head above (ditto); ✗ = X-mark (usually a voyage death).

Colony-relevance summary (read these first)

The majority are German (Baden/Hesse/Bavaria) farming families. The colony-relevant French/Swiss/Belgian passengers cluster near the end, on page 0634 (#227–253) and the start of 0635 — exactly the profile of a Le Havre colony contingent:

• French (page 0634): Dubaillet[?] (#227, family of 6), Esmond[?] (#234, family), Raisant[?] Alexandre (#240), Barbet[?] Joseph (#241), Loray[?] Adolph (#243), Deutsch[?]/Dietsch David (#244), Crespel[?] Victor (#246), Schäfer[?] Étienne (#248), Trebant[?] Jean (#252), Charvail[?] Friedrich (#253); plus Pepin[?] Pierre (#254, "France").
• Swiss: #251 Guy, Gabriel — origin "Switzerland" (clear).
• ✓ Nussbaumer — VERIFIED (high-res re-read, Jul 2026): #242 Nusbaumer, Rupert (42) and #245 Nusbaumer, Jacques (28). At 2–4× crop the surname is clearly Nusbaumer (the "Renk-" alternative is out) and the forename clearly Rupert — open-minim u + p descender, no b ascender, so not "Robert". #245 is Jacob Nussbaumer, the Swiss butcher who later led the move to East Dallas; #242 is his father (Pratt: "Rupert Nussbaumer, forty-eight," of canton Soleure; Cordillot's notice calls him "Robert," b. ~1807). The manifest's age 42 is the outlier against Pratt's 48 / Cordillot's ~1807. No family cluster: the two men travel alone in a run of unaccompanied adults — per Pratt the wife and two children stayed in Paris. Full adjudication: src/findings.md (Nussbaumer finding).
• Belgian / Swiss origins also appear mid-list (e.g. page 0633 shows a "Belgium / Switzerland / France" origin cluster around #163–170).

Cross-check all heads against COLONISTS.md / Cordillot / Santerre before promoting any to a finding.

Passenger list (best-effort)

Page 0630 (#1–41)

Page 0631 (≈#42–94)

Numbering reconstructed (tens markers 70/80/90 visible). German Baden/Bavaria families; child-row names low confidence.

Page 0632 (≈#95–147)

Page 0633 (#148–200)

Page 0634 (#201–253) — the colony French/Swiss block

Page 0635 (#254–~267) — fades to illegible

Observations / cross-reference leads

• Le Havre origin (not Belgium) puts the Lexington on the same route as the Nuremberg; both are candidate colony charters arriving New Orleans, Feb 1855.
• The French/Swiss colony contingent is the page-0634 tail (#227–253) — Dubaillet, Esmond, Raisant, Barbet, Loray, Crespel, Schäfer families + Guy (Switzerland). This is the block worth a careful high-res second pass.
• ✓ SHIP IDENTIFIED as the Cousin group's vessel (Jul 2026): Wolski ch. XVII names the Lexington as the ship of "the colonists sent from Antwerp" — he met Cousin, "commander of the 34 first colonists," at the New Orleans gangplank ~22 Feb. 1855. The colony cluster #227–254 IS that group (28 legible entries ≈ 34; block edges uncertain — some members may sit earlier in the list). Wolski's "Antwerp" vs this manifest's "from Havre" is noted, unresolved. See the Lexington/Cousin finding in src/findings.md.
• ✓ The two "-baumer" surnames (#242, #245) are verified as Nusbaumer (Jul 2026 high-res pass): #245 "Jacques, 28" is Jacob Nussbaumer's arrival record, #242 "Rupert, 42" his father — corroborated by Pratt (Houston camp scene, "Rupert Nussbaumer, forty-eight… his twenty-six year old son, Jacques") and Cordillot's "Robert" notice (embarked Le Havre January 1855). See src/findings.md.
• Reliability is materially lower than the Nuremberg/Uriel rosters (faint scan, units-only numbering, illegible final page). The German Baden/Hesse/Bavaria bulk (#1–~225) should be re-read before any individual name is used; the numbering of pages 0631–0632 is reconstructed and approximate.
• A higher-resolution source scan (or the original DeGolyer/DHS image) would materially improve this transcription, especially the faded page 0635.

Manifest scans

p. 0630 · p. 0631 · p. 0632 · p. 0633 · p. 0634 · p. 0635