Manchester lost at sea list, 1895 town history
Dataset ID: manchester-lost-at-sea-1895   Version: 1.0.0   Released: 2026-10-05
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- History of the Town of Manchester, Essex County, Massachusetts, 1645-1895 (D. F. Lamson (Manchester: published by the town, 1895); digitized by the Internet Archive)
  Original: https://archive.org/details/historyoftownofm00lams/
  Terms: https://help.archive.org/help/rights/
  Rights class: public_domain. Published 1895; public domain in the United States.
  Required credit: D. F. Lamson, History of the Town of Manchester (1895), via the Internet Archive
  Not covered by our policy: Nothing restricted; we do not claim the Internet Archive scan as ours.
  Retrieved 2026-10-04; rights reviewed 2026-10-05

ABOUT
A line-by-line transcription of the list of Manchester people lost at sea printed in D. F. Lamson's 1895 History of the Town of Manchester, with the printed page for every entry.

Geographic coverage: Manchester-by-the-Sea (as listed by the town history; residence is not stated for each person)
Time coverage: Entries dated 1717 to 1890s as printed
Update frequency: Fixed historical source; corrected when an error is found

METHODOLOGY
Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of the 1895 book, printed pages 359 to 361, and checked against the page images. Each line keeps the name, date and note exactly as printed. Two group entries (five others; ten others) are kept as printed and count more than one person. Corrections are logged with the original transcription.

LIMITATIONS
- An entry is a line in an 1895 book, not a verified death record. Individual entries are not independently corroborated.
- The list does not give residence, age or full crews, and the author warned it was incomplete.
- The number of entries is not the number of unique people; a few names repeat.

DEFINITIONS
- people_represented: How many people the printed line stands for; 1 for a single name.
- note: A note printed with the entry, or a transcriber's caveat about it (for example a repeated name). Corrections are listed in correction_note.
- date_precision: year, range (for example 1749 or 1750) or unknown, as printed.

MISSING VALUES
Missing values are empty cells in CSV and XLSX and null in JSON. 'None' as text never means missing.

FILES AND FIELDS
manchester-lost-at-sea-1895__entries.csv (131 rows)
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   printed_page (integer)
   scan_page (integer)
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   verification (string): verified | single_source | conflict | unverified (see methodology)
   correction_note (string)
   review_state (string): approved = released by the editor; preview = shown only on the preview site for review
manchester-lost-at-sea-1895__sources.csv (1 rows)
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