Ship Brooklyn

Migration Stories Path Description: This is the first of a series of migration paths described for collaborative research.

Aug 08, 2026

Map: **New York** from: “Universal Atlas: Comprising Separate Maps of All the Principal Empires, Kingdoms & States Throughout the World and Forming a Distinct Atlas of the United States” by Jeremiah Greenleaf, 1849. Source: davidrumsey.com

Migration Path as Described by Kyla Bayang

New York to California 1847. Become part of this journey of exploration about the passengers who sailed on the Ship Brooklyn. Here we can celebrate their lives and get to know each other. I hope to honor the researchers that have done so much work before us by studying their findings and collecting them all together for easy access.
The goal is to help each other search and possibly expand the available resources, search for new information or artifacts, and create an online remembrance of the experience of the 1846 Ship Brooklyn journey, and collaboratively explore questions that have been left unanswered.