The Ship Chile (1827)
- Item sets
- Diaspora
- Name
- The Ship Chile (1827)
- Description
- One of three ships that carried Manx emigrants to Ohio in 1827. The Chile was chartered by the Corletts of Orrisdale and carried about thirty-six passengers. The Corletts were a long-established Manx family — when they chartered a ship to Ohio, a family that had farmed Orrisdale for generations was uprooting itself.
- Date
- 1827
- Origin / Destination
- Isle of Man to Ohio
- Period
- Emigration and Diaspora
- Type
- Emigration Ship
- Source
- Manuscript research; Moore
- Book Chapter
- Chapter 17 — What They Carried