Dataset: Philadelphia Migrant Landing Reports 1798-1801 Dataset
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Migration
Naturalization
Alien and Sedition Acts
Haitian Revolution
French Revolution
Refugees
Philadelphia
Immigration
Naturalization Act of 1798
American Studies
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John O’Keefe. “From Legal Rights to Citizens' Rights and Alien Penalties: Migrant Influence, Naturalization, and the Growth of National Power over Foreign Migrants in the Early American Republic.” PhD Diss., George Washington University, 2012. ProQuest (AAT 992875592) John O’Keefe. “Strangers to the Privileges of Citizens: Migrant Influence, Naturalization, and the Growth of National Power over Foreign Migrants in the Early American Republic.” Unpublished Manuscript, last modified July 23, 2019. Microsoft Word File
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This dataset contains the compulsory registrations of noncitizens (“aliens”) mandated by the Naturalization Act of 1798, part of the package of laws passed that comprised the Alien and Sedition Acts. The documents included are a group of registrations from the federal court district based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, identified in the National Archives as “Landing Reports of Aliens.” In addition, the dataset includes naturalization data, drawn from two books of collected naturalization data: P. William Filby’s Philadelphia Naturalization Records, and Jefferson Moaks’s The Minor Courts of Philadelphia. This dataset is part of a larger database I have created for my research, studying migration and citizenship in the early American republic.
This dataset is a part of the Magazine of American Datasets (MEAD). To view more of the collection, visit https://repository.upenn.edu/exhibits/orgunit/mead.
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Please refer to the documentation file for information about the dataset.