Immigrant Ships
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Br. Ship Arkwright

Name of Vessel: Br. Ship Arkwright
Destination: New York
Date of Arrival: October 31, 1831
I, James Birnie 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 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 Br. Ship Arkwright, Birnie* whereof I am Master, from Dundee. So help me God. James Birnie. Sworn to, the 31 Oct. 1831 Before me, (signature cannot be read).

List or Manifest of all the Passengers taken on board the Br Ship Arkwright where Birnie is Master, from Dundee. Burthen 414 ?Register Tons.

Columns represent: Names, Age (Columns for Years and Months), Sex, Occupation, The Country to which they severally belong, The Country in which they intend to become inhabitants, and My footnote number for this entry which corresponds to the footnotes section following the list.

    
   
1* James D????           31    _ Male      Merchant   Great Britain  NYork       
2* James OGILV??         20    _ Male      Merchant   Great Britain  NYork       
3* John BELE or BELL     22    _ Male      Merchant   Great Britain  NYork       
4  James MAUL            30    _ Male      Farmer     Great Britain  NYork    
5* And??? MITCHELL       27    _ Male      Farm??     Great Britain  NYork       
6* George BRAID          26    _ Male      Jo????     Great Britain  NYork       
7* Mrs. G. BRAID         21    _ Female    Jo????     Great Britain  NYork       
8* John RAN?IN           43 ?? _ Male      Farmer     Rhode Island   NYork       
    
(Signed) James Birnie    
    
   
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. 

In the first paragraph of the manifest the captain accidentally added his name    
after the ships name when he should not have.  

I have eliminated the column from the manifest which lists the passengers who 
died on the voyage since there were no passengers who died. 

1    Last name could be Durno, Dwuso,  or Durns.
2    The last name appears to be Ogilvie or Ogilvci.
3    The last name could be Bell or Bele.
5    The occupation appears to be Farmer.
6-7  The Braid's names were joined with a bracket and their occupation appears
     to be Joiner.
8    The last name appears to be Rankin and he was the only person with anything
     in the Age (months) column (It may be 10 but there was an underline in the
     column like on the other passengers listings)

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 15.