L’Amitie, a 400-ton ship commanded by Captain Joseph Beltremieux, left France on August 20, 1785.

After 80 days at sea, they arrived on November 8, 1785. There were 270 people (68 families) on board.

While en route, there were 6 deaths after disease spread through the ship (although there were no deaths once they arrived in New Orleans). The number of families increased to 93 due to 24 additional adults, 10 births and 17 marriages.

17 families settled near Galveztown, 3 families went to Attakapas, and 71 families chose to settle along Bayou Lafourche. The ship is also referred to by its Spanish name, The Amistad, by some.

This page contains the list transcribed from the original embarcation passenger list document for L’Amitié. I have tried to keep the format as close to the original as possible except for the fact that the original contains eight pages of a single column of families per page. The information in parentheses has been added by myself to clarify certain details. In the original document as well as in this transcription, they used “idem” to indicate “same”.