Trying to learn the path the Lemuel Dyer would have taken as it traveled from Portsmouth to New Orleans in late Feb - early March 1848. Have found a newspaper article showing the ship arrived in New Orleans on March 7, 1848 after traveling 26 days from Portland, Maine. Also a different article states that David R Shackford (Listed as Daniel in a newspaper article), about age 6 fell off this ship on Feb 27, 1848 while left in the cabin alone. Thanks for any help you can offer or for guiding me to a place I may be able to find more information. Sources Found So Far: "Arrived Yesterday," The Daily Crescent (New Orleans, Louisianna), 7 March 1848; digital images, Library of Congress Chronicling America (http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ : accessed 16 July 2015) "SUDDEN BEREAVEMENT," Troy Daily Whig (Troy, New York), 13 April 1848; digital images, Fulton History (http://fultonhistory.com/ : accessed 16 July 2015). Joanne Shackford Parkes