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Brig Andromache
I Elias Fornham do solemnly, sincerely and truly Swear that the following List or Manifest of Passengers, subscribed with my name, and now delivered by me to the Collector of the Customs for the District of New-York, contains to the best of my knowledge and belief a just and true account of all the Passengers received on board the Brig Andromache whereof I am master from Leith. So help me God. Signd/ Elias Fornham Sworn to, the 7 Feby 1820 Before me, ?*n Kearney DC*
LIST OR MANIFEST of all the Passengers taken on board the Brig Andromache whereof Elias Fornham is master from Leith. Burthen one hundred and fifty five 89/95 tons.
Columns represent: Names; Age (Years); Sex; Occupation; "The country to which they severally belong."*
1 William Wallace 33 Male Attorney Great Britain 2* Alex^r H Shaw 21 Male Gentleman Great Britain 3* W^m Duncan 28 Male Merchant Great Britain 4 Morris H Tache 22 Male Merchant United States Signd/ Elias Fornham Transcriber's Notes: * indicates an error made by the original recorder or is used to call your attention to additional information in the transcriber's notes. ? indicates letters that could not be read, due to quality of original document. ^ Indicates letters are omitted and the following letter is superscripted. All words were spelled as they were originally written. * ?*n Kearney DC* - "?" might be a "J" * "DC" may mean "Deputy Collector". * Three additional columns, "Months" (a sub-heading under "Age"), "The country in which they intend to become inhabitants." and "Died on the Voyage.", are not listed above as there were no entries. Passengers were not numbered. Numbers added by formatter for ease in researching. 2 The "r" in "Alexr" was written as superscript. 3 The "m" in "Wm" was written as superscript.
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 1.
Transcribed by Norman Hommes for the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild6 May 1999
Reviewed by Mary Beth Arthur a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
19 October 2004
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