Ship Passenger and Immigration Lists


The Brig Luna

30 September 1823

Arrival at the Port of New York; master Knox

(name, age, sex, occupation, country to which they belong, country to which they intend becoming inhabitants)

1. Danell (Darrell?), John, 24, M, attorney, Bermuda, Bermuda
2. Peniston, Anthony J, 24, M, merchant, Bermuda, Bermuda
3. Tucker, Eliz. & children, 35, F, ____, Bermuda, Bermuda

(Source: "Passengers who arrived in the United States September 1821 - December 1823", p299, 1969.

The diary of the Honourable John Harvey Darrell, (1796-1887), Chief Justice of Bermuda recounts this voyage and provides the following information:
"It was almost sunset on Monday the 7th July 1823 when we passed the forts at St George's Bermuda in the Brig "Luna" & a few minutes afterwards the pilot took his leave of us with the usual wishes for our prosperous voyage to the port of our destination in the Chesapeake... I had fellow passengers Mr Anthony Peniston, Mrs Elizabeth Tucker and her daughter Miss Mary Byrd Tucker. Our Captain ... was Robert Knox of Scarborough in Yorkshire. In his youth he had been a midshipman in the Royal Navy serving in India, but tiring of waiting for promotion he quitted that service & entered the East India Company's who employed him as a nautical surveyor on the Coromandel & Malabar Coasts."
"On the 16th of July at night we struck soundings on the coast of Virginia; next morning the pilot boarded us at sea & it was noon when we first saw land- Hog Island... at midnight of the 17th we passed the Capes of Virginia... we were obliged to anchor in Hampton Roads on the morning of the 18th of July." "I landed at Norfolk in the afternoon but finding the steam boat in which Mrs Tucker & I were to go to Richmond just about to start & that there would be no other conveyance for several days, had little opportunity to look through the town... It was about 4 o'clock in the afternoon when we left Norfolk in teh steam boat & taking up my fellow passengers from the "Luna" in Hampton Roads, proceeded up the James River."
(reference: Bermuda Historical Quarterly, Vol XIX, No 1, 1962).