From:

Annual report and membership list of the German Society of New York City for 1868

[translated from the original German]

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I. Immigration

Statistical overview of German immigration in the harbor of New York

  1868 1867 1866
     Ships Germans       Ships Germans       Ships Germans   
Antwerpen 6 193 29 5569 19 2149
Bremen 119 47.777 148 54,053 118 43,032
Glasgow 37 518 3 36 3 50
Hamburg 72 34.016 71 29,457 88 35,894
Havre 11 1663 48 9584 48 8532
Havre via London 20 4311 13 3060 18 4662
Liverpool 178 14378 90 12248 171 12038
London 26 733 38 1040 29 1669
Rotterdam 6 188 12 228
various Harbors 31 926 21 594 18 586
  500 104.515 467 115,829 524 108,840

Total Immigration in the year 1868: 211,359 persons

In the year 1865 there landed 82,894Germans
" 1864 " " 53,929 "
" 1863 " " 38,263 "
" 1862 " " 24,172 "
" 1861 " " 27,218 "
" 1860 " " 37,946 "
" 1859 " " 27,858 "
" 1858 " " 31,874 "
" 1857 " " 86,859 "

B. Total immigration in the harbor of New York

1868
211,359
1867
241,854
1866
233,717
1865
200,009
1864
185,208
1863
155,223
1862
76,700
1861
67,248
1860
107,802
1859
79,858
1858
78,859
 

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